Advertising Week New York 2026

Lynda Clarizio

Co-Founding Partner

The 98

Yicong Liu

Director

CVC Capital Partners

Rich McDermott

Managing Director

Rosenblatt

Join us for an illuminating discussion on the Private Equity view of the state of the media and advertising deal market, current investment themes, and AI’s impact on the industry with leading investors moderated by Richard McDermott, Managing Director of Rosenblatt’s Media and Advertising Investment Banking group.

Debra Aho Williamson

Founder and Chief Analyst

Sonata Insights

Colin Petrie-Norris

CEO

Fairground AI

Tom Rogers

Executive Chairman, Founder of CNBC

Fountain 0

Barton Crockett

MD, Senior Research Analyst

Rosenblatt

Momentum is building for genAI movies and TV. This session will talk to leaders of this. Tom Rogers -- Founder of CNBC, former CEO of TiVo – is Executive Chairman of Fountain 0, whose Dreams of Violets premiered at Tribeca. Colin Petrie-Norris was Co-Founder of Xumo and is now CEO of Fairground, the first 24/7 AI FAST channel. Debra Aho Williamson, Founder and Chief Analyst of digital ad-focused Sonata Insights, was a judge at this year’s Seattle AI Film Festival.