Speaker Bio: Steven Liss is the Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAds.ai, an AI-native advertising platform focused on improving how ads are targeted, generated, and delivered across the open web using generative AI. Prior to OpenAds, Steven co-founded Polis, where he built large-scale voter outreach and messaging systems, giving him an early grounding in audience targeting, persuasion, and campaign optimization. Earlier in his career, he worked across product development and software engineering roles, applying computer science to marketplace and collective-action problems. Steven studied Political Economy at Princeton University and frequently writes about AI, media, advertising, and the changing economics of digital discovery.
Company Description: OpenAds was founded in 2022 and the company helps advertisers use generative AI for contextually-targeted ad creative and inserts them into chatbot/LLM environments. The company’s technology is designed to improve contextual targeting, creative generation, and monetization by matching ad creative to the surrounding content or user intent in real time.