Ajinkya Joglekar, Senior Vice President (Marketing), Sling TV

Michael S. Maponga is the CEO/Founder of AfroLandTV, a free streaming platform bringing authentic Black stories to US audiences. AfroLandTV reaches 1M+ monthly active users through its distribution on it's owned & operated platform, Comcast, Roku, Vizio and many more. The company's investors include Comcast NBCUniversal, and Ottera.

Megan Wagoner is a seasoned media technology executive with over 17 years of experience spanning services, software, hardware, and cloud sectors. As Vice President, Media & Entertainment Sales at Endeavor Streaming, Wagoner initiates, develops and manages internal and external relationships within the vertical. As lead of the M&E sales team, she also has direct oversight of the US and LATAM markets. Her ability to build and lead high performance teams, create strong partnerships with clients, and deliver innovative solutions that solve complex business challenges is unparalleled. Before joining Endeavor Streaming, Wagoner served as Regional Vice President of Media & Entertainment for Bitmovin, a global software company providing Live/ VOD encoding, unified players, and analytics solutions for the video streaming market. Prior to Bitmovin, Wagoner held various executive roles at global technology leaders such as Vimond Media Solutions, Imagine Communications (formerly Harris), and Nexstar. Wagoner’s passion for promoting gender diversity and empowering women in the streaming technology industry has earned her numerous industry awards and recognitions, including Most Admired Woman in Tech by Industry Peers for Parks Associates. Wagoner is also the Vice President on the Board of Directors for Women in Streaming Media, a network of over 1000+ members with a mission to increase diversity and provide more visibility to women leaders within the streaming media industry. Megan holds a master’s in business administration from the Warrington College of Business at University of Florida and a bachelor’s degree in communication and journalism from Anderson University.

Charlie Mitchell is Head of Sales, Sports NA/LATAM at Endeavor Streaming, responsible for the organizations North American commercial efforts, working with leagues, teams, and networks on their D2C initiatives. Charlie has spent over two decades working for companies such as LiveArena, IBM Cloud Video, and Ascent Media, providing digital media solutions to leading brands in sports and media, including the NFL, Fox Sports, PGA Tour, and Spectrum Sports.

Ashley Hovey was named Chief Digital Officer, The CW Network, in April 2023. In this role, Ms. Hovey is responsible for overseeing the business strategy and day-to-day operations of the network’s digital operations and OTT streaming platforms. Ms. Hovey joined The CW after spending five years at Roku where she oversaw the Ad Supported business for The Roku Channel (TRC), including both on-demand and FAST channel content, audience engagement, and growth. As Senior Director, TRC AVOD, Ms. Hovey built and led the Kids and Family, FAST, Music, and Espacio Latino businesses, drove overall partner strategy and monetization, and managed the multiplatform offering. Prior to her tenure at Roku, Ms. Hovey was a senior director of advertising strategy and development at Comcast supporting the $2.5B Cable Ad business. Ms. Hovey has also worked for British Telecom and Nielsen in various business development, product and client services roles, including working with Facebook building its ad measurement solutions. Ms. Hovey has a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a B.A. in Classical Languages from Pomona College.

Marc Rashba is currently the Executive Vice President of Partnerships at Cineverse (formerly known as Cinedigm) and oversees the global growth strategy for 25+ OTT channels for FAST, AVOD, SVOD and other OTT platforms as well as managing all 3rd party distribution partnerships. Previously, Marc ran MovieMethod LLC, leading global digital distribution partnerships for a number of major studios, networks and streaming platforms, including the global content leader UK based All3Media, YouTube Channel leader VA Media and a mini major studio. Marc continues to work with content owners in YouTube channel growth and development; OTT, FAST & VOD platform licensing, podcasting, as well as creating loyalty and reward programs for brands looking to tap into the power of movies, music and more. Previously, Marc worked at Sony Pictures for over 16 years in a variety of lead marketing and business roles, from overseeing Breaking Bad and Seinfeld’s successes to most recently as Vice President of Digital Partnerships & Development. Prior to Sony, Marc spent a number of years in the music industry at EMI Music Group in a variety of strategic marketing roles.

Diana Horowitz, Chief Revenue Officer & Co-Chief Operations Officer, Driver Studios

Anne Schelle, Managing Director, Pearl TV

Bill Herman, VP (Advanced Advertising Sales), Spectrum Reach

Julia Moonves serves as the SVP of Advertising Sales and Brand Partnerships at pocket.watch, the leading studio building kids and family entertainment franchises with the most popular digital creators in the world. Julia oversees all media and branded content across pocket.watch’s gaming division, advertising partnerships, and content distribution. Julia plays an integral role in pocket.watch’s diversification and through identifying the fundamental needs of both content creators and brands, she created a multi-disciplinary brand partnerships division that ranges from custom video, to gaming and metaverse integrations to Children's Online Privacy Protection Act-compliant paid media. Through direct conversations with platforms, creators, advertisers and legal experts, Julia ensures not only quality campaigns, but safety for the brands, creators, and most importantly audiences, leading to large programs with major brands reaching Generation Alpha, including Netflix, Paramount, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, Amazon, LEGO and more. More recently, Julia has also taken on a key leadership role in pocket.watch’s content sales and licensing business. Working with large streaming services to develop and package YouTube-native content into curated 11 and 22 minute episodes and series, Julia works to bring the content kids love from their favorite creators to OTT platforms across the world. Julia’s passion around the power of authentic creators with a dedicated fan base, along with her interest in business built from the audience, led her to the world of online content creators. Before joining pocket.watch in 2018, Julia had her own digital media start-up in New York. Prior to that, she was Director of Audience Strategy at Maker Studios through its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company.