Featured Speakers

Rex Briggs

Chief AI Officer, Claritas
Co-Author, The AI Conundrum

Caleb Briggs

Co-Author, The AI Conundrum

Kate Scott-Dawkins

Global President, Business Intelligence, GroupM

Prof. Rachel Kennedy

Associate Director (Product Development), Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science

AUDIENCEXSCIENCE 2025 ACCEPTED INDUSTRY PAPERS

The ARF and Board of Curators have thoroughly reviewed research submissions during an industry-wide call for content and have selected the most pivotal work to be presented at AUDIENCExSCIENCE.

AI: NEW USE CASES IN ADVERTISING

Building the Business Case for AI

Seven marketers, 17 campaigns, and how to rethink personalization.

Vas Bakopoulos

SVP, MMA Global

Vas Bakopoulos

SVP, MMA Global

Rex Briggs

Author, Award-winning marketing ROI researcher

How to Train AI to Go Deep

AI can be trained to grasp genuine emotions.

Dirk Ziems

Founding Partner, Concept m AI

Steffen Schmidt, Ph.D.

Founding Partner & Managing Director, Concept m AI

Send In the Clones

Measuring the performance of human and AI-generated voices in audio advertisements.

Steve Keller

Sonic Strategy Director, Studio Resonate/XM Media

Nick Fletcher

Senior Manager, Studio Resonate/XM Media

ATTENTION: ROLE IN AD EFFECTIVENESS

Ads Don't Bother Viewers, Bad Experiences Do

Issues in streaming environments diminish the viewer experience.

Andrea Busch

Sr. Manager of Insights, Comcast Advertising

Daniel Bulgrin

Director of Research Operations & Insights, MediaScience

Attention and Brand Lift

Advertising during emotionally charged events.

Nicole Jones

Chief Media Commercial Lead, Kantar

Siddarth Subramaniam

VP, Media Client Service, Kantar

Deepak Varma

Head of Neuroscience Insights, NA, Kantar

Attention is Not Attention is Not Attention

It’s certainly not emotion.

Matthew Cottle

VP, NA Lead BASES Advertising, NIQ

Beyond Clicks and Conversions

The world’s largest attention and outcome study.

Anders Lithner

CEO, Brand Metrics

Mike Follett

Managing Director, Lumen Research

Havas Media Network

How B2B Brands Can Win Audience Attention

Which advertising tactics matter, and which don’t?

Steven Bellman, Ph.D.

Marketing Science Lead, The Ehrenberg-Bass Institute

Phillip Lomax

EVP, Business Development, MediaScience

The B2B Institute at LinkedIn

Director & Co-Founder,

DIVERSITY: DEI EQUALITY & AUTHENTHIC REPRESENTATION

Breaking Barriers: The Role of Advertising in Normalizing Disability

How brands can change the world and have a win for their brands.        

Georgina Phillips

COO, Luma

Priya Addams Williams

Lead, Shift 20 Initiative

SETTING RECORDS Straight

7 Myths (And Truths) Brands Need to Know About the Women’s Sports Fanbase.

Mary Kate Callen

SVP, Audience Impact & Intelligence, Paramount Advertising

Sophia Ingram Ross

Director, Paramount Advertising

Unlocking Advertising Potential

Inclusive representation through a data-driven approach.            

Erika Digirolamo

Sr. Director, Global Media & Analytics, Circana

Yeimy Garcia Smith

SVP, Global Measurement Strategy, Circana

Yeimy Garcia Smith

SVP, Global Measurement Strategy, Circana

DIVERSITY: MARKETING TO MULTICULTURAL AUDIENCES

Identifying Language preferences in US Hispanic/Spanish-Speaking Households
Leveraging media consumption across the digital ecosystem.

Sergey Fogelson

VP, Head of Data Science, TelevisaUnivision

Pouya Tehrani

Director, of Data Science, Graph & Insights, TelevisaUnivision

The Art and Science of Multicultural Representation

Achieve authentic, multicultural representation that will drive the bottom line.

Kara Manatt

EVP, Intelligence, MAGNA Global

Dana Sparber

VP, Insights & Measurement, NBCUniversial

The Power of Moments

A data-driven guide to crafting impactful campaigns.

Alexis Harris

Research & Insights Manager, TikTok

IMPRESSION QUALITY: CODIFYING ATTENTION METRICS

Impression Quality Based on Sales, Brain Resonance, and Attention

Resonance is the best predictor of sales effects, and attention is valuable in planning cross media.

Kym Frank

SVP, Sales Research Insights & Strategy, FOX Corp

Bill Harvey

Executive Chairman, Bill Harvey Consulting

Michael Platt

Director, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative

Into the Wild

How video advertising works in the real world.

Olaf Schlesiger

Head of Research, Screenforce

Stefan Schönherr

EVP, Brand & Media, Eye Square

The Evolution of Quality

Creating a custom effectiveness score for actionability.

Souptik Datta

Sr. Director, Data & Analytics Services, GroupM

Michael Siewart

Sr. Director, Data Driven Media, Colgate-Palmolive Company

MARKETING EFFECTIVENESS MEASUREMENT: NEW APPROACHES

Experimental Marketing Measurement

How Coca-Cola pre-tests, measures and optimizes impact

Gabe Gales

Director, Global Media & Communications Effectiveness, Coca-Cola

Dara St. Louis

EVP & Founding Partner, Reach3 Insights

Innovations in Cross-Screen Incremental Outcome Measurement

Using ML techniques that doesn’t require experiments.

Greg Faletto

Intermediate Data Scientist, VideoAmp

Keith Landry

Sr. Principal Data Scientist, VideoAmp

Katy Mitchell

Director of Product, VideoAmp

Return On Media

Streaming video services generation better business outcomes using paid and owned together.

Rameez Tase

Co-Founder and President, Antenna

Jaewon Royce Choi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Larry DeGaris

Executive Director, Medill Spiegel Research Center, Northwestern University

OMNICHANNEL: CUSTOMER JOURNEYS BEYOND THE SCREEN

The Untapped Opportunity of Omnichannel

The benefits of an omnichannel, audience-first approach for brands and consumers.

Holly Riedlinger

Principal Consultant, PA Consulting

Melissa Hunter

Sr. Director, Research & Insights, The Trade Desk

Catie Birmingham

Sr. Manager, Research & Insights, The Trade Desk

PRIVACY: APPROACHES TO AUDIENCE TARGETING

Advancing Cross-Channel Measurement

A privacy-centric, incremental model.         

Lauren Littlejohn

Director, Data Science & Research, Kroger Precision Marketing

A New Audience Perspective

D/Cipher connects major drug brand to audiences navigating Type 2 Diabetes in key moments of need.               

Ieva Matulaitis-Kunca

VP, Research & Insights, Dotdash Meredith

Privacy First, Cookies Second

The new advertising challenge.

Lizzie Chapman

VP, Technology Partnerships & Channels, NextRoll

RETAIL MEDIA NETWORKS: MAKING INTELLIGENT DECISIONS

Enhancing Position Auctions in Retail Media

An improved retail media auction approach to increase advertiser and retailer revenues.         

Carl Mela

Finch Foundation Professor, Duke University

Jason Pratt

General Manager, Koddi

Optimizing Retail Media Networks

A unified approach to omnichannel ROI measurement and integration. 

Bharath Gaddam

Co-Founder, Data POEM

Unlocking the Brand-Building Potential of Retail Media

Beyond performance marketing.

Chris Kelly

CEO, Upwave

Jon Stewart

EVP, Customer Success and Analytics, Upwave

STREAMING: CHANGING TV

Cross-Platform Audience Deduplication for All

Bayesian deduplication methodology powers cross-platform reach measurement.

Rouzbeh Gerami

SVP, Data Science, Nielsen

Remy Spoentgen

Director, Data Science, Nielsen

From Power On to Power Off

Understanding the streaming TV experience.          

Prayushi Amin

Associate Director, MAGNA Global

Amy Casale MacKenzie

Sr. Manager, Ad Measurement, Roku

Quantifying the Netflix Effect

How the streaming giant has changed the content calculus.

Brian Hughes

Director, Data Communications, Nielsen

Board of Curators

AUDIENCExSCIENCE’s Board of Curators lends their insight and expertise to determine which submissions, entered during an industry-wide call for content, will be presented at the conference.   This committee includes all of the ARF’s member constituents — Research, Marketers, Media, Agency, and Association/Academics. 

 

Tracy Adams, Ph.D.
Advertising Research Foundation

Masa Aida
Applecart

Vassilis Bakopoulos
MMA

Aarti Bhaskaran
Snap

Terrie Brennan
Beatgrid

Colin Campbell
Journal of Advertising Research

Josh Chasin
Knot Simpler, Inc.

Shari Cleary

Tina DeSarno
MarketCast

Paul Donato
Advertising Research Foundation

Mike Follett
Lumen Research

Justin Fromm
Samsung Ads

Bharath Gaddam
DataPoem

Rouzbeh Gerami
Nielsen

Chip Godfrey
Analytic Partners

Vijoy Gopalakrishnan
Circana

Abhi Gupta
Google

Lisa Herdman
RPA

Helen Katz
Publicis Media

Tameka Kee
Coalition of Innovative Media Measurement

Taylor Locke
TVision

Jay Mattlin
Advertising Research Foundation

Carl Mela, Ph.D.
Duke University

Steven Millman
Dynata

Claudia Oberlin
Ipsos

Kara Pellegrino
PepsiCo

Lisa Pezzuto
Dotdash Meredith

Amy Rask, Ph.D.
MediaScience

Eric Sherman
GSTV

Aaron Slotnick
TransUnion

Keith Smith, Ph.D.
Marketing Science Institute (MSI)

Sunil Soman
Blue Moon Media Research

Alyson Sprague
Wondery

Horst Stipp, Ph.D.
Advertising Research Foundation

Rachel Sweet
St. Jude

Earl Taylor
Marketing Science Institute (MSI)

Michael Vinson
Comscore

Jon Watts
Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement

Jaclyn Williams
TikTok

Leslie Wood, Ph.D.

Matt Voda

Optimine

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Monica Wood

Herbalife

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