Saiful Ahmed is SVP, Brand Suitability at Omnicom Media.

Imrati Anand is Group Agency Partnerships Lead at TikTok, where she works with leading agencies to help brands unlock the platform’s creative, cultural and commercial potential. Her career spans major technology platforms including TikTok and Snap, where she has advised agency groups including Publicis, Omnicom, Dentsu and WPP. Recognized as a 2026 WACL Talent Award winner, Imrati brings deep expertise in agency partnerships, social media and innovative brand experiences, alongside a strong track record of connecting platform capabilities with the needs of advertisers and agencies.

Jennifer Ballou is a senior partnerships and portfolio marketing leader at Mondelēz International⁠, where she leads cross-portfolio partnerships and experiential marketing strategies across brands including Oreo, Ritz, Sour Patch Kids, and Chips Ahoy!.
Known for building scalable fandom ecosystems that connect culture, commerce, and community, Jennifer develops integrated platforms that bring brands into the moments consumers care about most — from sports and entertainment to live experiences and retail activation. Her work spans partnerships with organizations including the NCAA, National Basketball Association, Disney, and Fanatics, helping evolve Mondelēz International’s approach to modern fandom through NIL, experiential storytelling, and connected consumer engagement.
Jennifer is particularly focused on the future of women’s sports and the opportunity for brands to move beyond sponsorship into meaningful cultural participation that drives both business growth and long-term consumer relevance

Alice Brady is Chief Strategy Officer at Responsible Marketing Advisory, where she helps brands navigate complex marketing challenges and transform their marketing to create responsible practice and business growth. A senior strategist with global leadership experience, Alice has advised FTSE100 businesses across marketing, media, digital transformation, commerce and social. Today, she focuses on helping brands build more effective, trusted and responsible approaches to contemporary marketing.

Hakim Charles is the founder of Vellum Intelligence, a UK-based regulatory technology startup helping legal, policy and compliance teams navigate UK and EU digital regulation. Its products include Vellum Search, a primary source research and monitoring platform, and human-reviewed intelligence briefs.  Hakim’s background includes government affairs, regulatory affairs and policy development at X/xAI and Meta

Bailey Chatwin is Director, Client Management at Influential, part of Publicis Groupe, working at the intersection of brands, creators and the rapidly evolving creator economy. Over more than six years with Captiv8 and Influential, Bailey has worked with major enterprise brands including American Express and Unilever, while building deep relationships across creator and talent communities. Her experience spans client leadership, creative strategy, operations and strategic partnerships, giving her a broad perspective on how brands can build effective, scalable and responsible creator programs.

Dan leads Strategic Partnerships across EMEA at Pixis, working with global brands and agencies to adopt AI in their performance media. With a background spanning paid social, client strategy and enterprise partnerships, his focus is the balance every marketer is currently wrestling with: helping brands move fast on AI without losing control.

Mollie Garza is CEO & Founder of MJGrowth Consulting.

Michelle has built a 20-year international career across London, Sydney, and Singapore, leading transformational growth for some of the world's largest brands.
 
Now based in London, she is Global Connected Media Lead for Haleon, leading a team of more than 800 people across 92 markets.
 
With foundations in strategy and extensive experience spanning media, creative and PR, Michelle brings a uniquely integrated perspective to client leadership.

She is passionate about bringing together talent, data, technology and creativity through the Publicis Power of One model to help clients drive sustainable growth in an increasingly connected world.

Darren is a GTM and revenue growth leader who's spent 20+ years building AdTech and SaaS businesses from scratch across EMEA and APAC. He's currently a Partner at Grace and Co, specialising in media sales, having previously spent 2.5 years launching Zitcha, a retail media platform, into EMEA, including six months on secondment within two retailers, getting hands-on with the retail media landscape from the inside, helping them get ready to sell  their RMN's to agencies.

Over his career he's launched new markets and categories for the likes of Shuttlerock, Nugit and iClick Interactive, and worked at established global organisations including Yahoo and Publicis. He's an active member of the IAB EMEA Retail Media Committee and a regular voice on stages and podcasts talking retail media, programmatic and everything in between

Shelina Janmohamed works at the intersection of brands, society and the individual, helping organisations create growth, innovation and brand trust through deep understanding of audiences and cultural contexts. She created the Consumer Equality framework at Ogilvy/WPP and has spent two decades leading change with global clients across advertising, health equity and media accountability. She is a Non-Executive Director of IMPRESS, the UK's Royal Charter press regulator, and the author of five books including Generation M.

Kristina Kaganer is an independent advisor and a strategist who knows the code. At Publicis Media she built the clean-room framework and came up with Publicis Warehouse. She now takes AI products from idea to shipped. Previously at Coty, AB InBev and MediaVest.

Silas is the Global Head of Media at Haleon (previously GSK Consumer Healthcare). In this role, he focuses on directing media investment toward areas that create impact, driving adoption, and scaling global priorities and programs across markets. His responsibilities include integrating media effectiveness into market-level strategies and managing commercial relationships with key partners.

Prior to this role, Silas served as Global Head of Media Operations and APAC Head of Media for GSK Consumer Healthcare, where he led initiatives across AdTech, data, audience planning, agency transformation, media technology platforms, and effectiveness measurement.

Before joining GSK Consumer Healthcare, Silas was McDonald’s Global Media Lead, based in Singapore, where he led the development of the company’s global media function and drove continued media and digital transformation across the organization.

Previously, Silas served as Global Engagement Team Lead for McDonald’s London and Singapore teams, managing subject matter experts across media, social, CRM, marketing, and merchandising. He also held the role of Digital Media Lead within McDonald’s Singapore Centre of Excellence, focused on data-backed media solutions, innovation, partnerships, and market enablement.

Before McDonald’s, Silas spent four years at OMD Singapore managing McDonald’s regional media business, leading digital media transformation initiatives including increased digital investment, programmatic adoption, data-driven media practices, and strategic partnerships with platforms including Google and Facebook.

Earlier in his career, Silas held agency roles at Mindshare, UM, and Ogilvy in London and New York.

Ben is the AdTech & Data Partnerships Lead for Ocado Ads, where he shapes the technology and data strategy for one of the UK’s fastest-scaling Retail Media Networks. With over a decade of experience in the sector, including five years at dunnhumby, he has developed retail media propositions with innovation at their core whilst being uniquely positioned at the forefront of the rise of first-party data.

Sarah partners with organisations to help them maximise the value of media and
content through smarter strategy, stronger operating models, better measurement
and effective partnerships.
She is a recognised global marketing leader with more than 25 years' experience
across media, marketing and communications, including serving as VP Global Media
at Unilever.

Through her career she has led large international teams through some of the
industry's most significant shifts, from the rise of digital media to the rapid evolution
of AI, data, technology and retail media.
Renown for making the complex simple, she combines strategic thinking with practical
execution, helping businesses unlock growth while balancing long-term brand building
with commercial performance.

Her experience spans media and communications, brand strategy, digital marketing,
e-commerce and measurement across a diverse range of industries and markets.
An active industry leader, Sarah serves as Vice Chair of ISBA, championing a more
responsible and effective digital media ecosystem. Her contributions have been
recognised with The Drum Digital Trading Leader Award, and she was named a
Cosmopolitan Icon of the Advertising Industry.

Lucia Mastromauro is an advertising industry expert and advisor with extensive experience helping brands navigate the evolving intersection of media, technology and commerce. Most recently Vice President of Advertising at Deliveroo, she has held senior leadership roles across organisations including Google, eBay, Adform and Acceleration.

Throughout her career, Lucia has worked closely with brands, agencies and technology platforms to improve marketing effectiveness, measurement and accountability. She brings a commercially grounded perspective to brand safety, examining how advertisers can protect trust and reputation while continuing to embrace innovation, new channels and emerging technologies.

Cynthia Mutede is a marketing and brand growth leader with over a decade of experience driving commercial success for global consumer brands across the UK and Europe. Her career has been shaped by identifying growth opportunities, translating cultural insights into business strategy, and building brands that resonate with diverse consumer audiences.

Cynthia has played a pivotal role in the European expansion of both Dr Teal's and Cantu, driving commercial growth through strategic marketing initiatives, culturally relevant campaigns, and high-impact partnerships. This work has accelerated brand growth, strengthened market positions, and deepened consumer engagement across multiple markets. Her passion lies at the intersection of culture, commerce, and innovation, helping brands remain relevant and thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.

With experience spanning Nestlé, The Nature's Bounty Co., and PDC Brands, Cynthia brings expertise in brand strategy, innovation, consumer insights, and go-to-market execution. She is passionate about purpose-led growth, inclusive marketing, and building brands that create meaningful consumer connections while delivering long-term commercial value. Outside of work, her love of sport reinforces her belief in the power of community, performance and resilience principles that also shape my approach to leadership and brand building.

Rob is the principal provider of operational, strategic and tactical counsel for solutions for better digital advertising infrastructure and opportunities for revenue growth to some of the worlds largest companies.  Rob publishes a regular monthly column for Marketing Land and his thought leadership has been featured in AdAge, AdWeek, Mediapost, AdExchanger, Business Insider and MyersBizNet.While at The 614 Group, Rob has led strategic engagements for clients such as Condé Nast, Interpublic / Mediabrands, IBM Watson, TAG, and Panasonic and has worked to recruit a world class board of advisors and a team of consultants who properly represent the brand and make customer satisfaction a core value.He has extensive experience in digital media and is a distinguished leader in the Ad Tech industry.  Among his many accomplishments, Rob has served as Board Member and Executive Advisor to the IAB on International Affairs, as the CFO/COO and President of the global advertising network CPXi.

Ollie brings over a decade of experience driving advertising success for some of the world’s largest brands. He has led high-performing sales teams across EMEA and North America, developing innovative strategies that deliver measurable business growth. Over the past five years, Ollie has specialised in helping clients take greater control of their digital media investments through in-housing, enabling them to build more efficient, transparent, and data-driven marketing operations.

At CMI Media Group, Theo leads a team of analysts driving engagement strategy across more than 10 global pharmaceutical accounts. His responsibilities encompass the full analytics and data science life cycle, from campaign analysis and optimizations to market research projects determining the impact of paid media activity on HCP behavioral change.  Over an eight-year media analytics career rising from junior analyst to manager, he has paired hands-on expertise with an advanced academic foundation, holding an MA in Applied Computing for the Humanities and the Social Sciences from King’s College London. A recognized industry voice, Theo was published in MediaCat magazine in 2024 and consistently earns 4-out-of-5 client satisfaction ratings from major OUS pharmaceutical brands.

Tash is the Chief of Media, Strategy and AI at Jellyfish part of Brandtech Group. She leads a global team of 600 talented practitioners, developing next gen agentic capabilities and ushering in the age of AI marketing. She was most recently recognised on the Women in Leadership Power List '26 and made the Campaign Tech Leader of the Year Shortlist '26. Her work on iconic brands like Nike, Heineken and Red Bull has charted a career interlinked with the evolutions in sports & sports marketing.