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Ivans makes insurance’s paperwork somebody else’s problem
An insurance policy can travel through several companies and still need a human to type it twice. Ivans has built a business around making that second pair of hands unnecessary.
Latif Khalil Spent Decades Making Data Behave. Then His Company Became Part of the System.
Before interoperability became a boardroom word, Khalil was building the unfashionable machinery underneath it. InteropX turned that long apprenticeship into a company - and a 2026 acquisition into its next chapter.
Adsquare
Adsquare is a Berlin-based location intelligence company that turns real-world movement and behaviour into audience data marketers can use to plan, target, optimize and measure advertising campaigns. Founded in 2012, its mobile-first data exchange connects location, app-usage, demographic and offline signals to leading DSPs, SSPs and CDPs, powering geocontextual, proximity and audience targeting across mobile, online and digital out-of-home (DOOH). The platform is built privacy-first around consent-based signals and serves thousands of advertisers and dozens of platform partners across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Tom Laband
Tom Laband is the co-founder and CEO of Adsquare, a Berlin-born location-intelligence company he started in 2012 with Sebastian Doerfel and Fritz Richter. Adsquare runs a neutral data exchange that turns consented location signals into audience data for programmatic advertising, and Laband has spent more than a decade arguing that location is a durable, privacy-compliant alternative to the crumbling world of online identifiers. A University of Mannheim graduate who cut his teeth in early European mobile advertising at YOC and Sevenval, he now splits his attention between the company's Berlin engineering base and its commercial push in New York.
Ben Lorica
Ben Lorica is a machine learning researcher, media entrepreneur, and conference architect who spent over a decade as Chief Data Scientist at O'Reilly Media before launching Gradient Flow, his independent newsletter and research platform that Coursera ranked among the top 10 sites for data scientists. Known for the @bigdata Twitter handle he registered before 'big data' was a thing, he chairs The AI Conference, the AI Agent Conference, Ray Summit, NLP Summit, and Data+AI Summit while hosting The Data Exchange - a 342-episode podcast in the top 0.5% globally. He coined the PARK Stack (PyTorch, AI Frontier Models, Ray, Kubernetes) as the production AI infrastructure standard for the current era.