Join us on October 21, 2021
Expand your knowledge, engage with others and be inspired to create experiences that drive growth and user trust. Register for free!
Why join?
Interact with a diverse group of knowledgeable individuals passionate about ad blocking. Learn from some of the most influential people in the industry and see first-hand the cutting-edge advances happening in the world of ad blocking.
The explosive growth of ad blockers has forced publishers and advertisers to listen seriously to consumer demands and reform some of their most aggressive ad practices. Learn how to contribute to the ad-blocking community from the best in the game at this industry-wide developer event. Contribute to the discussion on the future of ad blocking, from machine learning to VR/AR, embedded devices, and more.
What to do?
- Meet the developers behind some of the most successful ad-blocking apps in the world.
- Learn what’s on the cutting edge in the world of ad blocking.
- Help transform the advertising industry to be held more accountable to consumers.
- Pitch your ideas for VR, machine learning, and AI in ad blocking. Help shape ad blocking for the future!
When?
October 21, 2021
Where?
online event, more details to come soon
Speakers
Ad Blocker Dev Summit brings together key industry players for engaging and interactive discussions on the latest advancements in various areas of ad blocking including circumvention, machine learning, privacy and security, and more.
Speakers for this year’s Summit include:
Jutta Horstmann
Chief Operating Officer, eyeo
Andrey Meshkov
CTO and Co-founder, Adguard
Humera Minhas
Machine Learning Engineering Lead, eyeo
Rob Wu
Software Engineer (Firefox Add-Ons Team), Mozilla
Brendan Butterworth
Independent Technology Consultant
Rotem Dar
Director of Media Operations, eyeo
Brian Kardell
Developer Advocate, Igalia
Byungwoo Lee
Developer, Igalia
Peter Lowe
Domain Intelligence Lead, DNSFilter
Parinitha Hirehal
AI Product Manager, eyeo
Hieu Le
Ph.D Student, University of California, Irvine
Eric Zeng
Ph.D Candidate, University of Washington
Yana Dimova
Ph.D, Student, imec-DistriNet Research Group, KU Leuven
Ryan Brown ('fanboy')
Filterlist Engineer, Brave
Abdul Haddi Amjad
Ph.D Student, Virginia Tech
Josh Karlin
Tech Lead & Eng. Manager, Google
Sandra Siby
Ph.D Student, EPFL, Switzerland
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami
Ph.D Candidate, University of California, Davis
Wai Hei Ngan
Researcher and undergraduate student, University of California, Davis
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Andrea Giammarchi
Developer, eyeo
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Shwetank Dixit
VP Core Technology, eyeo
Schedule
The schedule for the day is the following:
| Time Slot | Speaker | Topic |
| 12:30 - 13:00 CET 06:30 - 07:00 EDT 03:30 - 04:00 PDT |
Jutta Horstmann COO, eyeo |
Opening Keynote |
| 13:00 - 13:30 CET 07:00 - 07:30 EDT 04:00 - 04:30 PDT |
Andrey Meshkov CTO and Co-founder, Adguard |
DNS: Content Blocking At Scale |
| 13:30 - 14:00 CET 07:00 - 07:30 EDT 04:30 - 05:00 PDT |
Rotem Dar Director of Media Operations, eyeo |
Users, Privacy and the Web Economy - where do we go from here? |
| 14:00 - 14:30 CET 08:00 - 08:30 EDT 05:00 - 05:30 PDT |
Yana Dimova Ph.D, Student, imec-DistriNet Research Group, KU Leuven |
Circumvention of tracking protections by means of CNAME-based tracking |
| 14:30 - 14:45 CET 08:30 - 08:45 EDT 05:30 - 05:45 PDT |
Ryan Brown (‘fanboy’) Filterlist Engineer, Brave |
Easylist optimizations |
| 14:45 - 15:30 CET | BREAK | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 CET 09:30 - 10:30 EDT 06:30 - 07:30 PDT |
Humera Minhas Machine Learning Engineering Lead, eyeo Parinitha Hirehal AI product Manager, eyeo |
Project Moonshot - Experimentation with Machine learning based Ad blocking |
| 16:30 - 17:00 CET 10:30 - 11:00 EDT 07:30 - 08:00 PDT |
Rob Wu Software Engineer (Firefox Add-Ons Team) Mozilla |
The Near Future of Content Blockers in Firefox |
| 17:00 - 17:30 CET 11:00 - 11:30 EDT 08:00 - 08:30 PDT |
Sandra Siby Ph.D Student, EPFL, Switzerland |
WebGraph: Capturing Advertising and Tracking Information Flows for Robust Blocking |
| 17:30 - 18:00 CET 11:30 - 12:00 EDT 08:30 - 09:00 PDT |
Kai Recke General Counsel, eyeo |
Browsers under attack! – German Courts might limit W3C compliant User Agents |
| 18:00 - 18:30 CET | BREAK | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 CET 12:30 - 13:30 EDT 09:30 - 10:30 PDT |
Brian Kardell Developer Advocate, Igalia Byungwoo Lee Developer, Igalia Shwetank Dixit VP - Core Technology, eyeo Andrea Giammarchi Developer, eyeo |
CSS :has() - The story so far and the path ahead |
| 19:30 - 20:00 CET 13:30 - 14:00 EDT 10:30 - 11:00 PDT |
Brendan Butterworth Independent Technology Consultant |
Paths to Scalable Trust and Control for Digital Advertising |
| 20:00 - 20:30 CET 14:00 - 14:30 EDT 11:00 - 11:30 PDT |
Peter Lowe Security Researcher, DNSFilter |
Fingerprinting DB and user awareness |
| 20:30 - 20:45 CET 14:30 - 14:45 EDT 11:30 - 11:45 PDT |
Hieu Le Ph.D Student, University of California, Irvine |
Towards Automatic Generating and Testing of Filter Rules |
| 20:45 - 21:00 CET 14:45 - 15:00 EDT 11:45 - 12:00 PDT |
Wai Hei Ngan Ph.D Candidate, University of California, Davis |
Is ML-based browser fingerprinting detection robust to obfuscation? |
| 21:00 - 21:30 CET 15:00 - 15:30 EDT 12:00 - 12:30 PDT |
Abdul Haddi Amjad Ph.D Student, Virginia Tech |
TrackerSift: Untangling Mixed Tracking and Functional Web Resources |
| 21:30 - 22:00 CET 15:30 - 16:00 EDT 12:30 - 13:00 PDT |
Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami Ph.D Candidate, University of California, Davis |
FP-Radar: Early Detection of New Browser Fingerprinting Techniques |
| 22:00 - 22:30 CET 16:00 - 16:30 EDT 13:00 - 13:30 PDT |
Eric Zeng Ph.D Candidate, University of Washington |
Characterizing and Measuring "Bad" Ad Content on the Internet |
| 22:30 - 23:00 CET 16:30 - 17:00 EDT 13:30 - 14:00 PDT |
Josh Karlin Tech Lead & Eng. Manager, Google |
Chrome's Ad Tagging and Interventions |
| 23:00 - 23:15 CET 17:00 - 17:15 EDT 14:00 - 14:15 PDT |
Shwetank Dixit VP Core Technology, eyeo |
Wrap up and closing thoughts |
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