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09/04/2026

Chicago, we’ll see you soon! 🏙️

AdMedia is excited to attend the Planning & Buying Insider Summit alongside our parent company, Ad.com, a Premier Sponsor of the event.

We’re looking forward to conversations around media strategy, AI, audience targeting, and performance — and what these shifts mean for the future of advertising.

Melissa Anderson, Ryan Sands, and David Ruiz will be there representing AdMedia and Ad.com!

If you’re attending, let’s connect and talk about what’s next.

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Tabitha Hernandez, Director of Retail Search at Publicis Groupe, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “The New Marketing Playbook.”

Marketing is being reshaped by changing consumer expectations, new technologies, evolving media channels, and greater pressure to connect every investment to measurable business outcomes. This conversation will explore the trends defining the industry’s next chapter—from retail media and data strategy to measurement, emerging technology, and the future of customer discovery.

Tabitha is a marketing and growth executive with more than 18 years of experience across growth, media, eCommerce, CRM, demand generation, retail media, and digital transformation. Throughout her career, she has led large-scale marketing investments, built high-performing teams, and scaled global programs across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. Her work focuses on creating data-driven growth strategies, modernizing marketing operations, and connecting marketing investment to revenue, profitability, customer acquisition, and efficiency.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Adam Kmiec, SVP of Enterprise Brand Management at UnitedHealth Group, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “The New Marketing Playbook.”

Marketing is being reshaped by changing consumer expectations, new technologies, evolving media channels, and greater pressure to connect brand investment to measurable business outcomes. This conversation will explore the trends defining the industry’s next chapter—from retail media and data strategy to measurement, emerging technology, and the future of customer discovery.

Adam is a senior marketing, brand, and digital transformation executive with more than two decades of experience driving growth and transformation across healthcare, retail, and CPG. At UnitedHealth Group, he leads enterprise brand strategy, partnering with executive leadership to connect brand, reputation, customer experience, and growth. Previously, Adam held senior leadership roles at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Campbell Soup Company, as well as several leading ad agencies.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Alex B., Digital Marketing Program Manager at TaylorMade Golf Company, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “Creator Commerce: The New Customer Journey.”

Today’s customer journey increasingly begins with creators, communities, influencers, and social commerce. This conversation will explore how brands are building authentic partnerships that drive awareness and engagement while connecting those efforts to measurable business growth.

AJ has led performance marketing at TaylorMade Golf since 2019, overseeing paid media, affiliate, SEO, and partner relationships across platforms including AdMedia, Google, Meta, YouTube, Reddit, and Microsoft. After six years on the agency side, he joined TaylorMade and has helped scale the brand’s digital programs through some of golf’s most dynamic periods, with a focus on efficiency and sustainable growth. He has also been a driving force behind TaylorMade’s incrementality measurement practice and is actively building into emerging areas including AI search and creator commerce.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Amanda Loeffler, Group Director of Paid Search at Wpromote, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “The Modern Agency Partnership: Brand Expectations.”

As brands expect more from their agency partners, the strongest relationships are built on more than ex*****on alone. Today’s agencies are being asked to bring deeper strategic thinking, stronger channel expertise, clearer accountability, and a better understanding of the business outcomes their clients are trying to drive.

Amanda will bring the agency perspective to the conversation, sharing what modern brand-agency partnerships require to stay effective, collaborative, and focused on performance in an increasingly complex marketing environment.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Dr. Lisa Tan, Director of Global Alliance for the Pass Kindness Forward movement, to AdFest 2026 for a special presentation: “Passing Kindness Forward: Human Connection in an AI World.”

As AI transforms the way we work, meaningful human connection remains the foundation of great leadership, strong communities, and lasting brands. Dr. Lisa will share the story behind Puerto Rico’s global kindness movement and the effort that generated more than one million certified acts of kindness in November 2025, culminating in an official world record for the most pledged acts of kindness in five days.

Now, Dr. Lisa and an alliance of global ambassadors are working toward an even bigger goal: inspiring one billion acts of kindness during the kindness season from November 2026 through January 2027.

Her AdFest session will bring that mission directly to the room, inviting attendees to take part in the One Billion Acts of Kindness Pledge and close the event with a shared reminder that even in an increasingly AI-driven world, human connection still matters.

🌴 Join us at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

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09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Maria Matulskaya, Senior Director of Digital Marketing for PHD, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “The Modern Agency Partnership: Brand Expectations.”

As the media landscape becomes more complex, brands are asking more of their agency partners—from stronger strategic thinking and deeper platform expertise to greater accountability around performance, innovation, and business impact.

Maria is a Senior Director of Digital Marketing with 15+ years of experience leading integrated media investment and digital marketing strategy for major brands. Her expertise spans the full digital ecosystem, including paid search, social, programmatic, CTV, digital video, audio, retail media, and emerging platforms. Throughout her career, she has led both brand and performance marketing strategies, connecting media investment decisions to measurable business outcomes. Maria has extensive experience managing complex, large-scale campaigns and partnering with leading media, technology, and data platforms. She is passionate about identifying new opportunities across the rapidly evolving media landscape and translating innovation into practical strategies for brands. Her perspective combines strategic leadership, hands-on digital expertise, and a strong focus on driving growth and maximizing the impact of media investments.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

🎉 We’re excited to welcome Leo Yang, Performance Marketing Manager at Yerba Madre, to AdFest 2026 for the panel “The Power of Brand: Building Trust That Drives Growth.”

As marketers face increasing pressure to prove performance, brand trust remains one of the strongest drivers of long-term growth. This conversation will explore how brands can build meaningful connections, stay relevant across channels, and translate stronger brand relationships into measurable business results.

Leo Yang is a senior growth marketer with over a decade of experience scaling consumer brands and building new customer growth strategies. At Yerba Madre, he helps lead growth across d-comm, retail, and creators, connecting brand-building efforts to measurable business results. Previously, he helped scale Modern Animal through a period of rapid growth and expansion before the veterinary care company was acquired by Chewy. Across both roles, he’s focused on understanding how brands can show up in ways that feel more human, relevant, and connected.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

👏 We’re excited to welcome Frank-Lamont Wade, Director of Performance Marketing at University of Phoenix, to AdFest 2026 for a fireside chat on “Omnichannel Strategies: A Connected Customer Journey.”

Today’s customer journey rarely follows a straight line. Consumers move across search, social, email, content, paid media, and digital experiences—often interacting with a brand multiple times before taking action.
Frank-Lamont will share his perspective on how marketers can build more connected omnichannel strategies, create consistency across touchpoints, and use performance insights to better understand and improve the customer journey.

🌴 Join us for the conversation at AdFest 2026, September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico.

This is the final week to register! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

09/01/2026

📣 We’re excited to welcome Nishtha Jain, Global Search and External Innovation Platform Leader at CSL, to the AdFest 2026 stage as a keynote speaker!

Her keynote, “The Irreplaceable Edge: Why the Next Era of Media and Marketing Belongs to the Boldly Human,” will explore what becomes more valuable—not less—as AI transforms how brands operate, create, connect, and compete.

As technology advances at unprecedented speed, the differentiator won’t simply be who adopts the newest tools first. It will be the distinctly human strengths technology can’t replicate: judgment, creativity, empathy, trust, curiosity, and the courage to lead through uncertainty.

With nearly two decades of experience across AI, digital transformation, innovation, and global enterprise leadership, Nishtha brings a perspective shaped by turning emerging technology into meaningful business and human impact.

This is the final week to register for AdFest 2026.

🌴 Join us September 14–17 at Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve in Puerto Rico! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dKs8R9h9

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