This Year's Sponsors

Active International, the Corporate Trade leader for four decades, enables companies to maximize the value they receive for assets, increase their return on ad spend, and generate funding for unbudgeted expenses. Independent, with an unrivaled vantage point of the media industry, we help large and small brands and agencies achieve a higher ROI; leveraging incremental value in the same quality properties and services they already purchase.

ICON’s History: Since 1986 ICON has pioneered many of the innovations in corporate barter and media investment that are now industry standards. Today, ICON operates across markets worldwide. From a privately owned start up to nearly 20 years under Omnicom and a return to a private company again in 2021, we have always combined financial strength with an entrepreneurial spirit to drive innovations like our patented cash solution. About ICON: Despite running smooth supply chain operations, most companies still experience some amount of excess inventory or surplus assets. While many companies dispose of these underperforming assets through liquidation, they only realize 10–40% of book value. Through corporate barter, companies can realize 100% of the book value. Companies come to ICON because one or more of their assets has lost some (or, in some cases, nearly all) of their market value. What We Do: ICON acquires the assets, paying substantially more than what is achievable in the open market. In exchange, companies buy media through ICON over time at their existing rates, quality and specs. How it Works: We invest directly with media providers, securing inventory at a lower cost through forward commitments. When you buy media from us at your standard rates and specs, the difference between your rate and our cost basis becomes a financial benefit returned to your marketing budget – delivered upfront or as media is purchased. The result: more reach, more impact, and the ability to advance strategic priorities faster.

Thavron Solutions turns technology spend into strategic value.

We are an independent consulting and technology firm built by practitioners and data scientists who understand that effective IT Financial Management is about more than tracking costs – it is about understanding how technology creates value for the business. We help Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, NGOs, and regional enterprises bring clarity to complex technology environments, connect technology investment to business outcomes, and make better decisions with data.

Our expertise spans IT Financial Management (ITFM), Technology Business Management (TBM), Enterprise Shared Service Business Management (ESS) and FinOps, helping organizations strengthen financial governance, improve cost transparency, optimize technology and service investments, and build lasting capabilities.

As technology evolves, so does the economics behind it. Thavron brings its FinOps expertise into AI and GenAI, helping organizations understand and manage the rapidly changing costs of AI – from consumption and forecasting to GPU and token governance, optimization, and the economics of AI workloads.

We also see significant potential in Tokenomics and emerging technology economics, exploring how established principles of financial management, consumption, cost, and value can be applied to new technology-driven economic models.

From assessment and strategy through implementation, optimization, and ongoing advisory, we work alongside our clients to turn complex data into actionable insight, technology costs into informed decisions, and financial management into a strategic advantage. Our goal is not simply to deliver a recommendation, but to build lasting capability within your organization that continues to create value long after the engagement ends.

Practitioners, not theorists. Real expertise. Measurable value.

UnitedHealthcare serves 48.5 million people through a full range of health benefits
designed to connect them with quality, affordable care — medical, dental, vision, hearing
and more — when and where they need it. We support people at every stage of life, from
their earliest days to their working years and through retirement.

UnitedHealthcare is made up of our 3 business segments:

Employer & Individual
27.6M people served through employer- sponsored plans as well as 1.4M people served through individual plans purchased in health care marketplaces.

Medicare & Retirement
11.8M seniors and others eligible for Medicare, including 7.6M people in Medicare Advantage plans.

Community & State
6.8M people in 30+ states served through Medicaid, including approximately 1.7M people eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.