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Andraž Tori

Zemanta CTO
Zemanta / Outbrain

Andraž is a technologist and an entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded Zemanta which was one of the first Slovenian start-ups. There he helped to develop an advanced programmatic advertising solution. Zemanta bids on billions of requests per day in order to buy native advertising space on behalf of brands. Zemanta was acquired by Outbrain in 2018. Before that, Andraž co-founded a slovenian cybercenter Kiberpipa and was a presenter on Slovenian National Television.

Talks

  • Programmatic advertising - or who decides what ads I'll see?

    Did you ever wonder how the news site decides which ad to show you? Enter the world of "Real Time Bidding" where your each page view is auctioned to the highest bidder to provide ads. How does technology work at low level? Who sends what data to whom? How are millions of ads evaluated in under 10ms, at 250k requests/second.