Join us as we welcome everyone and open the summit by going over key trends and challenges in the industry.

The TV landscape has been undergoing a seismic shift away from traditional age-and-gender-based buying to the type of audience-based buying that is a default in digital. Although this shift has been going on for years, it still feels very much in process. In this session, hear Michelle Capasso, partner, director of media services at Connelly Partners speak to what progress has been made, to what ends, what work still needs to be done, and what roadblocks need to be overcome with particular importance placed on the gap in targeting capabilities vs. actual scale to find audiences in this budding space.

Looking to maximize your media spend with CTV? Join this session to discover how CTV is outpacing traditional channels, and bust some common CTV myths.

As TV networks have stood up standalone ad-supported streamers, connected TV platforms and smart TV makers step up their own ad sales efforts and other publishers and streaming platforms move into the connected TV market, advertisers have an array of options for reaching audiences on the TV screen. In this session, hear from Bharad Ramesh, executive director, research & investment analytics at GroupM share how advertisers are navigating the crowded ad-supported streaming market.

The marketplace has spoken: for programmatic CTV to reach its fullest potential, there needs to be a stronger drive for clarity, insight and transparency. What can buyers and publishers do to make this happen, and what new technologies and innovations will enable this? In this presentation PubMatic’s Senior Director of Product Marketing, Julio Acosta, will showcase the exciting strategies that can help publishers drive greater demand and give buyers greater confidence about the CTV content they advertise alongside. You’ll hear how technologies such as content object targeting can bridge the gap between the current advantages of linear TV and the promise of CTV. The future of CTV will be programmatic; in this session, we’ll explore what can make it more effective and transparent for everyone.

Connected TV platforms like Amazon and Samsung are aggregating OTT inventory to offer scale, but for advertisers, buying directly from publishers and TV networks can be cheaper with more transparency into where the ads appear. In this session hear Brad Stockton, svp, US national video innovation at dentsu international walk us through their partnerships with both platforms and publishers.

In a quickly evolving advertising landscape, traditional demo-based buying is no longer sufficient. Heading into upfront season, it’s time to pivot away from age and gender targeting and adopt a more targeted TV strategy – data-driven linear (DDL). Data-driven linear offers greater precision and improved performance for the largest line item on every marketer’s plan. In this session, we will cover what you need to know about data-driven linear from why it’s better than demo to how technology simplifies DDL buying and activating audiences with new data currencies.

As the streaming landscape has widened to encompass more targeting options than linear TV, the way in which these efforts are evaluated and measured has changed. In this session, hear from Nicole Whitesel, evp, advanced TV, client success at Publicis Media as she shares to what extent the industry has moved away from the traditional age-and-gender-evaluations, the state of cross-platform measurement and attribution, how technologies like ACR factor in, and what work still needs to be done.

Linear is over. Well, linear thinking, that is. As the video landscape continues to blur, so do watching behaviors. People are no longer just watching TV, they’re on social, they’re searching and they’re gaming. In this blended, multimedia environment, we need to think about the consumer mindset and start treating all video – from TV and streaming to social and in-feed – as equal inputs. A winning video strategy today marries timely performance media tactics with timeless brand building creative. Join this session to hear from, Tina Allan, global head of data science & connections at FCB Global and David Tucker, CSO of MAGNA Global as they explore everything from how marketers should be linking SEM and creative [think: Coinbase QR code Super Bowl ad], to measuring uplift after it runs, to frequency capping and sequential storytelling to cure the oversaturated consumer.

Tune in for the final round-up of the most important themes and trends of the event.