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Gabby Cohen, Head of Brand Marketing at Harry’s, discusses how CMOs are likely to be looking to tap into pent-up consumer demand this summer as vaccines are distributed more widely – and that marketers have the perfect opportunity to play a role in bringing back branded experiences.

Bob Lord, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Ecosystems and Blockchain at IBM, discusses how the advertising industry must come to grips with the fact that digital ad targeting as we’ve known it is vanishing – and why he’s actually okay with testing Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) alternative.

YouTube Ad’s Nicky Rettke, Director of Product Management, discusses how YouTube is working with retailers to develop ads that feature highly personalized lists of products for sale – even as its parent company is leaning away from supporting highly targeted ad messaging across the web.

TIME President, Keith Grossman, broaches how the news industry is being forced to rethink how best to get information out to a public that is divided on politics, as well as public health. Additionally, Cyrus Krohn, Senior Vice President, Business Development at consumer intelligence research platform, CivicScience, shares how his company is helping publishers adjust to being in the first-party data business, while preparing for future privacy regulations.

Lisa Valentino, Executive Vice President, Client and Brand Solutions at Disney Advertising Sales, doesn’t think the TV upfront is dead, but Disney – owner of traditional TV networks like ABC and ESPN – is pushing further than ever into programmatic ad selling and data in a way that would have been unimaginable a few years ago.

According to Sandie Hawkins, GM of US Global Business Solutions at TikTok, as ratings for linear TV shows decline, the social video platform is delivering TV-sized audiences “every single day”. We talked to Hawkins about why she thinks that TikTok’s reach, coupled with the emotional response so many creator videos generate, should position the company to compete for TV ad budgets soon.

Pinterest’s Chief Revenue Officer, Jon Kaplan, discusses the company’s evolution from serving as a platform built mostly for product discovery to becoming a full-fledged shopping vehicle – and how over time that may encroach on Amazon’s territory.

David Jones, Founder and CEO of You & Mr Jones believes the traditional ad agency model is in serious trouble, as evidenced by the recent massive drops in valuation among the world’s largest ad agency holding giants – even if these companies are claiming publicly that their recent performance dips are a temporary result of the pandemic.

Aaron Braxton, Vice President, Head of Business Intelligence at Complex Networks talks about how even as his company is eyeing industry-wide attempts at replacing the cookie, such as the Trade Desk’s Unified ID initiative, publishers need to start taking audience intelligence into their own hands.

Adweek’s Programmatic Editor, Ronan Shields discusses the many enormous changes set to rock digital advertising in 2021 and beyond – and how the biggest tech companies are looking to shape the web in their image.