Speaking
Zach speaks on streaming strategy, AVOD and FAST monetization, CTV advertising, the streaming data stack, data-driven product decision-making, and audience experience at industry conferences including StreamTV and OTT.X.
Industry conference presence
Zach participates in leading streaming media industry conferences, appearing on panels focused on the business, technology, and strategy of streaming and digital entertainment.
One of the streaming industry’s leading executive conferences, bringing together product, distribution, advertising, and technology leaders across the CTV, AVOD, FAST, and streaming landscape. Zach has participated in StreamTV panels covering streaming monetization, audience experience, and data strategy.
The Over-the-Top industry association’s event series, connecting leaders across streaming video delivery, distribution, platform technology, and business strategy. Zach has appeared at OTT.X events discussing streaming product strategy, AVOD/FAST monetization, and data-driven decision-making for streaming platforms.
What I speak on
Practical, operator-level perspective on the business and technology of streaming — drawn from hands-on experience building and scaling one of the largest AVOD platforms in the U.S.
How to build sustainable ad-supported monetization systems that generate revenue without degrading the audience experience. The tension between ad load and viewer retention, programmatic strategy, and what it actually takes to run a scaled AVOD business.
Connected television as an advertising medium and a product platform. CTV-specific ad formats, audience targeting, measurement, attribution, and how streaming product decisions shape ad inventory quality and value.
What a mature streaming data infrastructure looks like: instrumentation, pipelines, audience segmentation, real-time and batch analytics, and how to build a data organization that actually informs product and business decisions — not just generates reports.
How streaming teams use data to make better product, programming, and monetization decisions. Moving from gut-driven to signal-driven decision loops without losing the editorial and creative judgment that makes great streaming products.
Free streaming is a value exchange: viewers give attention, the platform provides content and monetizes it. How to design that exchange so both sides win — and what breaks down when product and monetization teams optimize independently.
ML-driven personalization as a practical product layer — not an AI marketing claim. How to build recommendation systems that produce measurable results in viewing time, engagement, and content utilization on a streaming platform.
How to think about product strategy for a streaming platform: device coverage, content discovery, monetization integration, audience KPIs, and the unique constraints of building consumer products where the content changes constantly and the competition is always one click away.
Lessons from helping a broadcast television network build and scale a streaming business — the product, data, and organizational challenges of operating in both worlds simultaneously.
How product leaders operate at the intersection of engineering, data, design, editorial, ad sales, and executive stakeholders in a media organization — and what it takes to build alignment across functions with fundamentally different incentives.
What I bring to a panel
Most streaming industry conversations happen between people who operate on one side of the business — either the technology side or the content side, either the advertising side or the product side. Zach has worked across all of them.
His perspective is practical and operator-level: what actually happens when you try to implement FAST strategy at scale, what the streaming data stack looks like from the inside, how AVOD monetization decisions get made when product and ad sales want different things, and what it takes to build a personalization system that produces real results rather than just impressive demos.
He speaks from experience building and running these systems — not consulting on them or writing about them.
Speaking inquiries
Reach out via LinkedIn for panel invitations, conference appearances, and speaking opportunities.