Automated Trading Debate

Elsa Bezhani

Head of Commercial Innovation, The Telegraph

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Amir Malik

Digital Marketing Expert, Accenture Interactive

Amir Malik is a digital marketing expert, specialising in martech and adtech services, and data-driven advertising for Accenture Interactive. He began his career in digital advertising working for Google, focusing on real time optimisation for search advertising. He then joined Microsoft to improve the business's search response optimisation platform for marketers. After working for these two technology companies, he ran the commercial and digital transformation programme at the Daily Mail Group and devised an aggressive programmatic strategy focusing on data acquisition and performance marketing.

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Beatrice Lindvall

Global Media Director, Danone

Beatrice Lindvall is Global Media Director at Danone. She has 10+ years of experience of client side media including roles at Procter & Gamble, Heineken, Johnson & Johnson and most recently Danone. Beatrice joined Danone to strengthen the media function and drive their digital transformation. Prior to joining Danone Beatrice worked in the media strategy, planning and buying space for over ten years, where she has held various roles from being responsible for digital transformation, shaping an integrated communications planning approach as well as establishing completely new media organizations. From her background in both marketing and procurement, Beatrice has a passion for developing internal capabilities, driving transformation and seamlessly combining business needs with media strategy to deliver tangible business results. Beatrice holds MSc. in engineering and management of computer science. She is regularly an attendee as speaker and jury memeber at for instance Global Festival of Media and AdWeek.

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Liam Brennan

Global Director of Innovation, MediaCom

Liam is Global Director of Innovation at MediaCom, where he is helping develop business & digital transformation agendas with some of MediaCom’s largest clients through the use data, technology and start-ups. More recently, Liam has been developing the MediaCom BLINK offering – a new strategic initiative designed to help clients harness the marketing innovation opportunity technology offers. Over the past two years, the BLINK team has showcased over 200 tech companies and start-ups to MediaCom clients and worked on over 50 live projects. Liam has previously led the digital strategy for brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, Adidas Group, ASOS, Red Bull and Airbnb.

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Julia Smith

Founder, Digital Trading Consultancy

Julia Smith is Founder of Digital Trading Consultancy and her clients include Impact, Channel Factory, Cavai, Appetite Creative & The 614 Group. She specialises in brand safety, fraud prevention, conversational advertising, performance marketing, ethical trading and programmatic advertising. She started her career in digital advertising at Dennis Publishing 24 years ago and has been at the heart of the changing digital media landscape ever since. Julia has held major commercial roles both agency and media side including Associated Newspapers, The Mirror Group Newspapers, Dennis Publishing, Harvest Digital, IAB, Nexus Business Media and UPC Media. Julia was Head of IASH, the largest council within the IAB representing digital networks and sales houses. It was in this role that Julia was nominated for the Greatest Individual Contribution Award at the New Media Age Awards 2010. In 2016, Julia was voted by the industry as being in the top 5 Digital Trading Leaders 2016 at The Drum Digital Trading Awards. Julia also works with The 614 Group team on the Brand Safety Summit Series in London and New York. The 614 Group has become an authoritative source within the digital community around issues of brand safety, fraud, viewability, ad operations, and yield management. Known as 'The Voice' Julia is a regular media commentator and often invited to speak at major conferences on issues surrounding brand safety and digital ad trading.

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Paul Dimmock

Programmatic Lead, News UK

Paul is the programmatic sales & strategy lead for News UK, home of The Sun & The Times. Paul's main responsibilities include driving premium programmatic sales across the agency operating companies & their affiliated agencies; improving yield across OMP inventory, shifting to premium or direct means wherever possible; and creating & implementing News UK's overarching programmatic strategy for digital sales team to execute in-market.

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Lara Izlan

Director, Advertising Data, ITV

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Wayne Blodwell

Founder and CEO, The Programmatic Advisory

Wayne was one of the earliest users of programmatic technologies in the UK and has since held various positions which have helped brands leverage the increasing importance of programmatic. He founded The Programmatic Advisory in 2016 to take this to the next level with a completely non-conflicted consulting service. Wayne is a current member of the Drum Digerati (the top 100 most influential people in advertising in the UK) and has been short-listed for Digital Trading Leader of the Year twice. Wayne is responsible for the day-to-day running of The Programmatic Advisory as well as working with clients on projects to develop their programmatic capabilities globally. Wayne enjoys the fact that there isn’t a one-size-fits-solution for programmatic for brands and publishers, and loves creating strategically robust solutions based on what’s right for the client.

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Steven Scaffardi

Head of Events, Mediatel Events

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Jon Walsh

Managing Partner, Blockchain Rookie

Jon Walsh is an international speaker, educator and strategist on Blockchain as an enabler for transforming business models. Jon specialises in enterprise scale business model transformation projects where Blockchain technology enables business models, strategies and efficiencies which previously were not considered possible. Jon is a partner at Blockchain Rookies, and former advisor to two Blockchain adtech startups. He has had a 20+ year career as an entrepreneur and angel investor covering multiple aspects of digital media and adtech including premium brand sales, mobile, video, programmatic, in-image and international. Jon is a published author, contributing to the successful Understanding Digital Media series of books, as well as being a regular contributor to CIty AM and CoinRivet.com on the topics of Blockchain and cryptocurrency, Jon’s breadth of experience gives him a unique perspective when providing actionable insights and strategic direction.

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Paula Bacariza

Director Business Development, Xandr

In the role of Director, Business Development at Xandr (formally AppNexus), Paula leads the New Business team for Northern Europe and is responsible for the commercial strategy and growth of the company across the region. Prior to this, Paula was Commercial Director at Rockabox (Scoota) where she was responsible for the commercial activity across all digital products, increasing the company’s platform reach by 500% in the last quarter of 2014. Paula previously worked at News International as International Digital Trader where she was solely responsible for all international commercial activity, looking after all revenue and management of all overseas teams.

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Craig Tuck

Managing Director, Ozone Audience, The Ozone Project

Craig is the CRO of The Ozone Project with over 20 years of experience within the media sector across press, cinema and digital - from pureplay to adtech. He is responsible for positioning the platform as a compelling, market leading proposition for agencies and brands in the UK to reach premium audiences in brand safe, fraud free, premium environments. Craig is passionate about generating advertiser value through high attention channels that real people engage with, whilst helping find a way to sustain the creation of those environments, and ultimately maintain a free information economy.

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Cadi Jones

Commercial Director EMEA, Beeswax

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Peter Jacobs

Client Partner, Dentsu Aegis

Peter Jacobs is a Client Partner in Dentsu Aegis Network's global programmatic team, responsible for overseeing central activation, strategy and product management. A keen gamer and supporter of brands who are looking to be innovative.

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Polly Nash

Head of Digital Media, William Hill

Polly Nash is a performance marketing expert heading the Digital Media team at William Hill. Her main focus is predominately on Programmatic, Display and in-app display. Polly started her career in paid search working for PayPal and Apple, before moving to Betsson and taking on a wider Biddable media role. She then joined William Hill where she has built a team of programmatic specialists and devised a programmatic and display strategy assessing various operating models to support the underlying vision.

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Silke Zetzsche

Head of Commercial Partnerships, A Million Ads

Silke started out her career in digital planning and buying at one of the top global media agencies. There she started to be passionate about digital strategy, commercials and the use of data and its effect on creativity. Prior to A Million Ads she was one of the first to launch connected TV video advertising in the UK market. Silke is a believer in creative AdTech and that it is possible to create ads at scale which consumers love. Outside of her professional environment she loves spending time with her family, especially with her awesome 4 year old daughter Alex!

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Lewis Sherlock

VP, Sales, Bidstack

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Adam Lynch

Senior Manager, Advertising Sales and Operations, Formula 1

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Kay Taylor

Global Innovation and Partnerships Manager, Mindshare Worldwide

Kay Taylor is Global Innovation and Partnerships Manager at Mindshare Worldwide, specialising in media innovation across all clients. Kay’s career started at Publicis Media where she worked across the group’s agencies, advising teams and brands on how and when best to use the huge opportunity that mobile provided. As mobile became a staple for all media plans, Kay moved into another future facing role at Publicis in their Futures team. In 2018 she left to take on a Global role at Mindshare focusing on a broader range of innovation opportunities. Kay consults global brands on behalf of Mindshare, including Unilever, Booking.com, Nike and General Mills, to help them to decode the latest marketing innovations from voice apps to Artificial Intelligence to esports.

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Anne Coghlan

Senior Product Line Manager EMEA, Xandr

As Senior Product Manager, Xandr (formally AppNexus), Anne is responsible for product development and commercialisation of delivery products within the recently launched Xandr Invest Platform, rebranded and developed from the AppNexus Programmable Platform (APP), the industry’s first programmable Demand Side Platform (DSP). Launching her technology career in 2013 as Technology Consultant for Accenture, Anne led a 17-member system integration test team through major transformation projects for this global media communications company. Since joining AppNexus (now Xandr) in 2014, Anne has also served in a services role where she supported programmatic partners on both the sell and buy-sides of the real-time advertising marketplace. Outside of her role, Anne is a member of the IAB UK Ad Tech Advisory Group and has led advanced programmatic workshops to educate and inform newer members of the industry. She also mentors some of the next generation of digital talent through her association with WhiteHat apprentice. Anne was recognised for her work in 2018 when she was named one of The Drum’s 50 under 30 women of outstanding talent across the ad tech industry.

Articles from Anne Coghlan