The conversations that will define
what digital media does next
Toronto: October 21 & 22, 2026 • New York City: December 1, 2026
Digital Day Camp is where senior and emerging leaders in digital media come together to turn market uncertainty into sharper decisions. This fall, DDC returns to Toronto and launches in New York.
Choose the day built for your role
What is Digital Day Camp?
The local digital media conversations the industry needs now
Digital Day Camp started in Canada because that’s where the need first became impossible to ignore.
Senior leaders on the buy side and sell side were showing up at industry events to speak, get swarmed, and leave. They were treated like the content, the prospect, or the mentor, but rarely like attendees with their own need to learn, compare notes, and work through what’s changing with real peers.
Digital Day Camp was built to change that.
Today, DDC is expanding beyond its Canadian roots with the same core belief: every major media market needs a better container for the strategic industry conversations standard conferences don’t make room for.
Signal loss, measurement pressure, AI, CTV, omnichannel strategy, economic uncertainty, and changing consumer behavior are reshaping how publishers, platforms, agencies, brands, and technology partners work together. But those shifts don’t land the same way everywhere.
Canada needs the Canadian version of that conversation.
New York needs the New York version of that conversation.
And as Digital Day Camp grows, the mission stays the same: bring the right leaders together in a format that is practical, interactive, peer-led, and built around the market they actually operate in.
Hosted by David U.K. and Rob Beeler, Digital Day Camp breaks with convention. Sponsors help make the day possible, but they’re there to participate, not pitch. The format keeps people leaning forward through facilitated conversations, breakout discussions, and natural movement across the day, so the value comes from what people say to each other, not what’s projected at them from a stage.
What to expect at each Digital Day Camp
Digital Day Camp is designed around local market needs, which means the format may look different depending on the city:
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In Toronto, Digital Day Camp spans two days because the Canadian digital media market needs space for both senior leadership alignment and practical operator-level translation.
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In New York, Digital Day Camp is launching with the original flagship format: a one-day leadership experience for senior decision-makers.
Toronto: the two-day DDC experience
DDC Leadership: Day 1
Senior decision-makers come together for the 30,000-foot conversations: what’s changing, what matters now, where the market is headed, and what leaders need to align around next.
This day is built for CEOs, CROs, SVPs, VPs, publisher and agency leaders, brand-side decision-makers, and ad tech executives who are shaping direction across the Canadian digital media market.
DDC Next: Day 2
Rising leaders, directors, managers, team leads, and hands-on teams closer to the work come together to go deeper.
This day focuses on strategy, execution, practical problem-solving, and the day-to-day decisions that turn leadership direction into real progress.
Together, the Toronto format gives the people setting direction and the people carrying it forward a shared understanding of what needs to change next, and how to begin making that change real.
New York: the one-day DDC Leadership experience
Digital Day Camp’s first foray into New York City brings the original leadership-focused format to one of the most important digital media markets in the world.
This is a one-day experience for VP-level and above leaders across publishers, agencies, brands, and ad tech. It’s built for people who need time with real peers to compare what they’re seeing, pressure-test where the market is headed, and talk through the decisions that require senior-level alignment.
The day is local by design. It brings the New York digital media community together around the conversations that matter in this market, with the same lean-forward format that made DDC different from the beginning.
You should expect facilitated discussion, interactive breakouts, strong peer participation, and enough movement across the day to create the hallway conversations people usually hope a conference will deliver by accident.
Why DDC works
Digital Day Camp works because it treats senior attention like it matters.
The people who attend don’t need another stage-heavy event, another vendor gauntlet, or another room where they’re expected to teach more than they learn. They need a day that earns their time.
DDC is built for that kind of day: high-level, highly curated, grounded in the local market, and designed for people who want to leave with a clearer sense of what’s changing, what matters, and what comes next.
Active International- VP, Digital and Emerging Media
"A must attend for Canadian publishers and any vendor who takes the Canadian market seriously"
Featured Speakers from Spring Toronto 2026
A speaker lineup built from the people the industry pays attention to
Digital Day Camp has featured senior executives, revenue leaders, media operators, technology specialists, and market-shaping voices from across Canadian digital media. The strength of the event is reflected in the caliber of people in the room: leaders with real responsibility, real perspective, and a direct role in where the market goes next.
October 2026 DDC Leadership Speakers
Brad Jeffrey
Agency Partnerships Lead
Google
Gautham Ram Pingali
Chief Media Officer
WPP
Dhruv Arora
Sr. Head of Agency, and Digital
Bell Media
Allison Ballantyne
CEO
T&P Group
Hisham Ghostine
VP Business Partnership and Chief Revenue Officer
CBC/Radio-Canada
Noah Vardon
Group Executive Vice President
Omnicom Media Canada
Kieran Miles
Chief Growth Officer
WPP Media
Nimal Amitirigala
President
Grace Foods Canada Inc.
Joycelyn David
Chief Executive Officer
AVC
Naomi Zhao
President
Eastward Media
Lindsey Talbot
President
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Chimi Beaumont (née Nwagbara)
SVP Media Solutions
WPP Media
Eleanor Bothwell
Manager Media Performance and Strategy
SkipTheDishes
Vitaly Pecherskiy
CEO and Co-founder
StackAdapt
Erin McGrath
Head of Customer Engagement
SkipTheDishes
Urva Muhammad
Director Consumer Engagement & eCommerce,
Reckitt
October 2026 DDC Next Speakers
Sarah Thompson
Executive Managing Director
Glassroom
Raj Shoan
Executive Director
Friends of Canadian Media
Matthew Gray
Director of Public Policy & Media Partnerships
Torstar Corporation
Scott Lanaway
Founder & Partner
Titan ONE Inc.
Nikki Stone
Founder & Business Futures Architect
YQ
Madison Weir
Corporate Sales and Special Projects Manager
Stratus Vineyards
Robbie Abrams
Group Director, WPP Open
WPP Media
Thomas Mendler
Head of Digital Marketing
twenty6two International & Cadence Impressions
Bobby Sahni
Partner & Co-Founder
Ethnicity Matters
Tracy Day
Director, Growth and Partnerships
MediaTonik
Andrea Stodart
Vice President Brand Marketing
Betty
Kelly Miller
Managing Director + Podcast Host
Cairns Oneil
Kalin Kotzev
Sr. Ad Tech Account Executive
Amazon Ads
Annik Pierre
Vice President, Client Services & Partnerships
Eastward Media
Japneet Singh
Director DE&I Strategy
Starcom
Barry Marcus
Senior Vice President and Sales Leader
Environics Analytics
Sudhir Gupta
Group Director Tech & Solutions
WPP Media
Corey Ross
President
Lighthouse Immersive
Paulo Salomaorsa
Founder, CEO
King Ursa
Tania Goecke
Global VP Marketing - Brands with Purpose and Global Asset Activation
Grupo Bimbo
Boris Cho
Vice President, Growth and Marketing
ChangeMakers
Co-ChairMarketing
NABS Canada Board of Directors
Daniel Mekinda
Executive Vice President
WPP Media
Jeff Hersh
Chief Operating Officer
New Metric Media
Melissa Savage
Director, Media
Blue Rewards
Claire Plaxton
Senior Manager, Advanced Advertising Solutions
Rogers Sports & Media
October 2026 Sponsors
October 2026 Attending Companies
Digital Day Camp has welcomed companies from across the Canadian digital media ecosystem, including leading publishers, agencies, brands, platforms, ad tech companies, and industry partners. That breadth is what makes the room valuable: the event brings together the organizations setting direction, building solutions, buying media, selling media, and making the market work.
Who Needs Another Water Bottle...
This Spring alone, we raised $15,600.00 for NABS, the National Advertising Benevolent Society. This registered Canadian charity provides financial aid, career coaching, and wellness support for professionals in media, marketing, and communications—100% funded by the generosity of our industry. We are proud to support NABS and our industry.
“Digital Day Camp has created one of the most successful third-party fundraisers for NABS over the past three years. The idea is simple: in the name of sustainability, ask sponsors to switch out swag bags for a donation to the charity. The result? Hundreds of industry colleagues have been able to access emergency Financial, Career and Wellness resources when they’ve needed them most. We want to say a huge THANK YOU to the team at Digital Day Camp for proving that industry events can be meaningful both in content AND in community impact."
-Libby Begg,
Director, Communications
NABS/BEC
