2026 AGENDA

CENTERSTAGE | 5TH FLOOR
EXCHANGE 1 & 2 | 4TH FLOOR

MORNING

  • Check in at registration and enjoy breakfast while networking.

  • Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

    Conor McKenna
    Partner, LUMA

  • Marta Martinez
    Managing Director, Google

    Pooja Midha
    EIR, LUMA

  • Benji Shomair
    Head of Monetization, OpenAI

    Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

  • Bruce Buchanan
    CEO & Co-Founder Rokt

    Conor McKenna
    Partner, LUMA

  • Nicolle Pangis
    VP, Advertising, Netflix

    Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

  • Connect and Collaborate.

  • AI is disrupting advertising across creative, content, media, and analytics.
    At this inflection point, what does it take to innovate at scale?

    Shourya Agarwal
    CEO & Founder, Flam

    Daniel Saedi
    Chairman, Minerva

    John Hoctor
    CEO & Co-Founder, Newton Research

    Hari Valiyath
    CBO & Co-Founder, Pixis

    Ramsey McGrory (Moderator)
    Founder, Gallatin Labs

  • CTV Ad Tech has never been more strategic. From performance and ad serving to formats
    and measurement, the rules are being rewritten. Who stands to win?

    Serge Matta
    President, Global Ad Sales, LG Ad Solutions

    Philip Inghelbrecht
    CEO & Co-Founder, Tatari

    Vinny Rinaldi
    VP, Client Strategy & Growth, The Trade Desk

    Scott Young
    CPO & Co-Founder, Transmit Live

    Pooja Midha (Moderator)
    EIR, LUMA

  • As marketers focus on decisioning and outcomes, knowing what actually works becomes paramount.
    Can advances in attribution, incrementality, and measurement finally deliver the answers?

    Armen Adjemian
    CEO & Co-Founder, DISQO

    Alvin Bowles
    Chief Client Officer, Kantar

    Henry Innis
    CEO & Co-Founder, Mutinex

    Peter Naylor
    Chief Client Officer, Nielsen

    Shiv Gupta (Moderator)
    CEO & Founder, U of Digital

  • The rise of supply-side decisioning coincides with AI’s growing ability to optimize inventory and signals at scale.
    As intelligence moves closer to the impression, how will the balance of power between buyers and sellers shift?

    Jim Payne
    CEO, CloudX

    Andy Batkin
    CEO & Founder, Duration Media

    Nikhil Raj
    CEO, Metarouter

    Dave Simon
    CRO, TripleLift

    Ari Paparo (Moderator)
    CEO & Contributor, Marketecture

AFTERNOON

  • As consumers shift from searching and navigating to consuming, reading, and executing on AI-generated
    platforms, the rules for brand discovery, consumer experience, and publisher monetization are being rewritten.

    Alex Sherman
    CEO & Co-Founder, Bluefish

    Brian Stempeck
    CEO & Co-Founder, Evertune AI

    Kirthiga Ready
    CEO & Co-Founder, OptimizeGEO

    Tom Chavez
    CEO & Founder, Kana

    Lou Paskalis (Moderator)
    CEO & Founder, AJL Advisory

  • AI’s greatest impact on advertising may be its ability to improve decisioning and predict outcomes.
    How will this newfound level of intelligence change the marketing and advertising technology stack
    and the dynamics across technology partners?

    Liz Raschke
    Director, Google Marketing Platform Bets, Google

    Alec Haase
    General Manager, Hightouch

    Stephen Yap
    CEO, SQREEM

    Ido Wiesenberg
    CEO & Co-Founder, Voyantis

    Ana Milicevic (Moderator)
    Principal & Co-Founder, Sparrow Advisers

  • As creators become an increasingly powerful force in media and commerce, the lines between content, influence and advertising are blurring. How will technology, AI and new monetization models reshape the creator economy and bring true scalability?

    Jonathan Meyers
    CTO & Co-Founder, Agentio

    Michael Jaconi
    CEO & Founder, Button

    Steven Lammertink
    CEO & Founder, The Cirqle

    Ali Decker Marino
    CEO, Wayward

    Jamie Gutfreund (Moderator)
    CEO & Founder, Creator Vision

  • Commerce media continues to transform advertising by connecting consumer intent, transaction data
    and media activation. Now, with true fragmentation across 100s of new advertising destinations and
    further expansion offsite, who will capture the value across the commerce ecosystem?

    Parbinder Dhariwal
    VP & General Manager, CVS Health

    Tim Lukens
    President, Commerce Media, Fluent

    Chuck Billups
    Head of Sales, Perion

    Craig Galvin
    CRO, Rokt

    Aaron Fetters (Moderator)
    CEO, Transparent Partners

  • Refresh and Network.

  • Andrew Casale
    CEO & President, Index Exchange

    Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

  • Mahi de Silva
    CSO & Co-Founder, Higgsfield

    Conor McKenna
    Partner, LUMA

  • Neil Vogel
    CEO, People Inc.

    Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

  • Carolyn Everson
    Board Member, Disney

    Terry Kawaja
    CEO & Founder, LUMA

  • LUMA announces the most consequential people to shape the Ad Tech ecosystem.

  • Cocktails, Connections, and Expanded Conversations.