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Conference and Expo5-6 March, 2025
Awards6 March, 2025

Agenda 2025 Day 1

#9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
Welcome!

#9: 30 AM - 9:45 AM
Welcome Remarks

#9:45 AM - 10:20 AM
Keynote

9:45 AM - 10:20 AM[Macro-economics] INDIA - In the Intelligence Era!

Internet veterans reveal India’s 2025 growth potential. Learn strategies to position your brand for success.

  • How are we building Tech for India specially beyond Tier 1/rural
  • Upskilling on AI (what is the incentive for companies to do this? If computer literacy was our advantage in the last decade, what is it now?
  • India stack and other govt initiatives to give India a global edge.

#10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Spotlight

The Free Streaming Revolution: Premium Content, Unique audience signals, Measurable outcomes

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Video marketing has become the backbone of modern-age brand building. This keynote will explore key trends in the video advertising landscape and how free ad-supported video streaming is bringing together premium content, extensive reach, and new-age ad-tech. to elevate advertising experiences.

#10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Spotlight
#11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Networking Break / Visit to Expo Hall

#11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Keynote

AI Intervention: Rewriting the Marketing Playbook

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AI is transforming marketing at an unprecedented pace—reshaping customer engagement, content creation, and campaign optimization. But how should marketers approach AI adoption? Should they sprint ahead, embracing LLMs for personalization and automation, or take a measured approach, integrating AI step by step?

In this keynote, we’ll explore the real impact of AI in marketing today and its future potential. Discover what’s possible, the key predictions shaping AI-driven marketing, and how to make the right strategic decisions for your brand. Whether you’re looking to experiment or fully integrate AI into your marketing playbook, this session will help you chart the best course forward.

#12:20 PM - 12:30 PM
Spotlight

How India Communicates - A True Opportunity in Billions of Everyday Hellos

#12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Spotlight

12:30 PM - 12:40 PMThe Future of Programmatic – Leaner Supply Chains and Smarter Marketplaces

As programmatic advertising evolves, the push for greater transparency, efficiency, and smarter decision-making is reshaping the ecosystem. Buyers are demanding leaner supply paths, while publishers and technology partners are adapting to marketplace innovation.

Join Sudipto Das, VP, Advertiser Solutions, APAC, PubMatic, and Karthik Shankar, Head – Digital Investments, GroupM, in an engaging fireside chat at ad:tech New Delhi. This session will explore:… Read More

#12:40 PM - 12:50 PM
Spotlight

12:40 PM - 12:50 PMRole of Transparency in Keeping Campaigns True To Their Objectives

The discussion will explore the importance of transparency in digital advertising measurement and why advertisers must go beyond impressions and clicks to ensure brand safety, fraud prevention, and true campaign effectiveness. It will address common misconceptions, regional challenges, and the need for independent monitoring. The discussion will highlight industry-wide concerns, emphasizing why relying solely on platforms and manual interventions is not enough for ensuring advertising integrity.

#12:50 PM - 1:40 PM
Networking Lunch

#1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Keynote

1:45 PM - 2:15 PMFrom Evolutionary to Revolutionary – An Omnichannel Perspective

A ‘coming of age’ conversation for customer journeys in a world with multiplicity of media and marketing channels and a CMO’s priorities.

CX and user journeys have evolved as consumers now interact with brands over a multiplicity of touchpoints from physical stores, ecommerce, quick commerce and much more… Read More

#2:15 PM - 2:35 PM
Report launch

2:15 PM - 2:35 PMCMO Priorities for 2025 - Unveiling the ad:tech & Tyroo “Drivers of Growth” 2025 Report

This report will lay the groundwork for 2025, highlighting top priorities and challenges of CMOs & Heads of Marketing from India’s top brands. The report will analyse media spends based on efficiencies, highlight emerging technologies/channels and usage and why it holds importance for India’s top leaders of the marketing community.

#2:40 PM- 3:10 PM
Keynote

2:40 PM- 3:10 PM[Artificial Intelligence] Building Trust in a BOT world

With machine-generated content now cluttering the most visible online touchpoints, audiences are likely to be increasingly turned off by content and conversations that are indistinguishable between human and AI – “Shielded by a monitor, you could be anyone.” While automation and AI can work wonders in terms of productivity & growth … Read More

Track 1: Focus Forward - the 2025 ROI strategy

Venue: The Mainstage, Keynote Hall

While knowing your consumer is a good to have, ultimately businesses thrive on revenues and ROI, which need to be accurately measured and attributed. Marketers are focussed on elevating productivity by automating, measuring, and optimizing touch points throughout the consumer journey and marketing funnel, and brining in the right parameters to visualize and act on this is becoming exceeding important in a modern organization.

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3:15 PM- 3:45 PM Advancing with Data – Elevating CX maturity and business growth

Opportunity to decode how data advances CX maturity and overall business growth and contributes actively to yield higher returns. Spotlighting the need to focus on CX capabilities , building first party data at scale, hyper-personalization and future trends that are shaping the future of data driven marketing in an AI driven environment… Read More

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM [Retail Media] Navigating Dynamics Across Channels, Products, and Services

The session can explore how and where Brands see growth coming from in the next 5 years and how they are aligning their marketing strategies for this. From QC, and new product launches, to diverse market strategies,

  • How should brands anticipate and adapt to the evolution on consumer behavior and how people “buy”

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM [New Markets/Opportunities] Building for the new growth markets, Tier 2 & Tier 3

  • How should companies be thinking of building tech that speaks to the cultural and demographic nuances of these markets
  • Is this unorganized sector the new growth hub?…. contd..
  • What does the new media plan for these markets look like?
  • What is the role of AI and Gen AI in building brands beyond Tier 1

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM [Measurement] Video Fundamentals – Navigating the maze of video measurement metrics

From Free Ad-supported videos (FAST) to AVOD, SVOD, 30, 10, to 3 secs, the video space is far from simple. The call for consistent measurement is at a fever pitch, as is the industry is moving towards building consistency here. Meanwhile, each channel & format has its own challenges around metrics, attribution, ad fraud and viewability, with CTV being the latest and most promised channel for affluent audiences…. Read More

Track 3: Selling from Center-stage: The future of D2C, eCommerce and Retail

Venue: Big Ideas Stage, Expo Hall

This track focuses on the emergence of new-age retail & ecommerce strategies, going direct to consumer and how technology is empowering companies to transform the customer journey, optimizing at every touchpoint and overall keeping the customer truly at the center of their business.

 

3:15 PM- 3:45 PM [Retail Media] Is retail media's full potential yet to be realized?

Retail media was a welcome break for marketers stuck in the duopoly, offering a balance between branding and performance. It’s now up to marketers to push for and help create continuity across a wildly fragmented ecosystem of retailers & ecommerce platforms – because the richness of audience insights combined with retailer data is well worth it. This panel will discuss:

  • Future potential of retail media

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3:50 PM - 4:20 PM Beyond Personalization: The Rise of Hyper-Contextualized Ads

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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM [Gen AI] Foundational to Transformative – AI and GenAI’s functions in retail & eCommerce

How is the realm of artificial intelligence bringing big changes to the retail world. From data management to creating innovative customer experiences, this session will explore the possibilities that AI and Gen AI bring to retail.

  • Product development
  • Media planning
  • Measurement
  • LLMs + GPT + SSOT – is this the holy grail?

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM [Martech] Omnichannel & data strategies for D2Cs

How startups are using tech for, and what is the kind of martech stack that they are building which is effective for marketing as well as costs.

  • Precision targeting
  • Personalized marketing campaigns
  • Omnichannel strategies
  • Data analytics and optimization
  • Cost effective solutioning.
Partner Events
(by Invite Only)

1:45 PM – 2:30 PM The Tech Toolkit For TV’s Future

With streaming TV firmly established as a mainstream entertainment choice, technology plays a critical role in enabling publishers to deliver seamless audience experiences, and premium advertising environments for brands.

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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Ad revenue growth with AI & ML – Strategies for success

Transforming tomorrow with cutting edge AI/ML solutions for Today’s business challenges involving pricing rule optimisation, personalisation and yield improvement and much more.

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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Mastering scale & precision: Learn how 10,000+ brands turn our 4 Bn daily impressions into business results


Discover how our unique positioning within the communication space enables brands to connect with high-intent audiences at scale.

Learn directly from Truecaller ads experts how data-driven strategies and innovative ad solutions can help you achieve measurable Reach, Relevance, and Results.

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3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Future of Ads Monetization: Innovations in Format, Automation, and User Personalization

Discover the new product offerings and custom solutions from Google to optimize your Ads Strategy – “Right Ad, Right Time, Right User”.

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3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Retail Matters: The Intersection of Commerce & Curation

Discover how curation is transforming the advertising landscape in this workshop with Magnite. Explore the growing influence of data, particularly commerce media, in driving value creation across the digital media ecosystem.

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5:00 PM - 5:45 PM The Art & Science of Identity: A Mixology Experience

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5:45 PM - 6:00 PM Masterclass : The Power of Identity & Personalization

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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Crafting Connections: Cocktails, Conversations & Networking

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#5:00 PM Onwards
Happy hours

#6:00 PM Onwards
Networking Bash

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