Speakers

Jeff Litvack, Adweek

Jeff is the CEO at Adweek and he's a well-know and highly respected digital leader. In addition to Adweek, he's held digital executive positions at the Robb Report, ALM Media, and the Associated Press.

Alex Bengzon, Nucleus Marketing Solutions

Alex is Director for Programmatic Sales at Nucleus.

Tobias Bennett, LMC

Tobias is the Vice President for revenue at the Local Media Consortium. On behalf of members, he evaluates new revenue opportunities and managers the LMC's revenue relations with Google. Prior to joining the LMC, Tobias managed programmatic revenue at McClatchy.

Dan Peskorse, Invisibly

Dan Peskorse is Vice President of Partnerships for Invisibly, Inc. Dan is a digital advertising and marketing expert having led teams for companies like Lee Enterprises, LivingSocial, and Gannett. His entrepreneurial experience includes founding and successfully exiting an e-commerce business and most recently managing Innovation for Anheuser-Busch before joining Invisibly.

David Brooks, Google

David is Head of News and Local Media in the Global Partnerships Group at Google. David has been in the digital ecosystem for almost two decades and has expertise in online advertising solutions, consumer products, ad serving, and publisher monetization products.

Mark Bullard, Lee Enterprises

Mark is the Director for Digital Business Development at Lee Enterprises. In this role, he primarily focuses on strategic business partnerships and vendor integration while keeping an eye on revenue maximization and yield management across the company. During his newspaper career, he has held various roles from editorial content production, design and digital technology for Lee, Belo, Gannett and privately owned newspapers.

Idalmy Carrera-Colucci, tronc

Idalmy is the Director of Newsroom Digital Strategy at tronc. She's a veteran journalist having served in a variety of news-related roles at Aggrego, Fox News, Cumulus Media, and the Chicago News Cooperative.

Mollie Collins, Boston Globe Media

Mollie is the Manager of Digital Analytics at Boston Globe Media, home to Boston’s oldest and largest daily newspaper. In that role, she translates site and consumer data into organization-wide strategies, including to enable key advancements in the digital subscription business model.

Megan Favat, Google

Megan manages Strategic Partnerships in the News and Local Media Group at Google. In her role she works closely with partners to ensure needs are understood and Google product optimization across partners like the LMC is achieved.

Christian Hendricks, LMC

Christian (Chris) is President of the Local Media Consortium. He's a long-tenured and well know digital leader having spent more than 25 years helping lead McClatchy's digital transformation, and contributing to overall industry digital efforts.

John Jordan, Vendasta

John is the EVP for Partner Development at Vendasta. He is an experienced digital strategist with a demonstrated history of evolving teams toward emerging business initiatives. He joined Vendasta earlier this year after a long digital leadership career at McClatchy.

Matt Keiser, LiveIntent

Matt is CEO & Founder at LiveIntent, a leading email ad tech and people-based-marketing firm. He's also a successful serial entrepreneur in the digital ecosystem.

Desiree Kupietz, Vendasta

Desiree is the Senior Director for Partner Development at Vendasta. She joined the team in March after a successful digital career at McClatchy. She has a demonstrated history of working in the publishing industry and is highly skilled in Digital Strategy, Mobile Advertising, Advertising Sales, and Integrated Marketing.

Josh Mabry, Facebook

Josh leads Facebook's Local News Partnerships team and is responsible for the platform's relationships with local publishers and journalism organizations in the United States. As part of the Facebook Journalism Project, the Partnerships Team is helping publishers build meaningful relationships with the communities they serve on Facebook through training events, strategic partnerships and collaborative product development opportunities.

Jeremy Mims, SpokenLayer

Jeremy heads up strategy and partnerships at SpokenLayer. He works closely with local media to advance efforts in the in-home device space.

Connor Patterson, Stanza

Connor is head of business development and strategy at Stanza. In his role, Connor works tirelessly to introduce Stanza's unique calendaring solution to content and brand publishers around the globe and show them how Stanza improves engagement and drives revenue.

Shawn Reigsecker, Centro

Shawn is CEO & Founder at Centro. Centro is unique in the ad ecosystem as it provides friendly and effective solutions to publishers, agencies and advertisers at the local, national and international level.

Tom Sly, E.W. Scripps

Tom is Vice President for Digital Revenue at E.W. Scripps, interim CEO for the LMC, and an LMC board member. Tom is a season broadcast media executive with a solid track record in digital revenue growth and innovation.

Randy Sabett, Cooley

Randy is Special Counsel at Cooley LLC. He's considered a leader in the legal aspects of General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

Christine Taylor, Hartford Courant

Chrissy is the Vice President of Digital Publishing for the Hartford Courant. She will soon join the Tribune as managing editor, audience. She is a digital innovator and dynamic leader who can help publishers think in new ways about our journalism and audiences.

Eddy Touma, Klangoo

Eddy is CEO & Fnder at Klangoo, a leader in AI-based audience engagement strategies and solutions.

Sylvia Bonilla Zizumbo, Google

Sylvia is a Strategic Partner Lead in the Global Partnerships Group at Google. In her role she works closely with news and local media partners and is responsible for strategy and growth development for existing and new revenue opportunities across mobile, video and programmatic advertising as well as broader Google solutions that support publishers with their overall business goals

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