Michael Beebe is the CEO of Dstillery, a New York-based AI ad targeting company known for its patented ID-free technology. A former Goldman Sachs analyst who spent two decades as an investor at Soros Fund Management, Viking Global, and his own fund Mojave Capital, he joined Dstillery in 2017 as CFO and was named CEO in August 2018. Under his leadership Dstillery pivoted from a demand-side platform into an audience data company betting on privacy-safe, cookie-free targeting.
Konrad Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of Quantcast, the San Francisco audience-intelligence company he started with Paul Sutter in 2006. A London-born computer scientist with a UCL PhD in neural networks, he was building machine-learning systems for banks two decades before AI became a marketing department buzzword. Today he is making the case that advertising, done with better data and smarter models, is what keeps the open internet open.