

Welcome to
THE NEXT BIG THING
Our Story
Publisher Perspectives was born from a simple idea:
This industry needed a better room and a broader mix of voices in it.
Not another event packed with recycled panels, polished non-answers, and the same people making the same points in slightly different blazers. A better room means better conversation: sharper, more honest, and far more useful. It happens when you bring together people with different vantage points, lived experience, business models, and opinions on what’s broken, what’s working, and what’s next.
We built Publisher Perspectives for the people actually doing the work: publishers, platforms, agencies, creators, and partners who care more about progress than performance. The operators. The builders. The ones close enough to the day-to-day to know where the friction is, and confident enough to talk about it plainly.
Our events are designed to be candid, practical, and just the right amount of spicy. Less posturing. Fewer sales pitches. More substance. If the open web is going to get healthier, more sustainable, and a little less chaotic, it won’t be because someone added more fluff to a keynote deck. It’ll be because the people building it got in the room, challenged the usual thinking, learned from one another, and decided to do things differently.
A better room. A broader range of perspectives. Better conversations for the people building the open web.
Meet The Team


Dayna Moon
Dayna Moon is the CEO & Founder of Lunar Communications, and a US-based growth operator with 20+ years across brand, agency, publisher, and platform roles—known for tightening the story, building the right partnerships, and making execution click when the product is strong and the opportunity is real. Through Lunar, she advises companies of all stages on revenue acceleration, GTM strategy, and partnership expansion. She also helps lead the Denver chapter of The Women in Programmatic Network and a fellow member on the Different Minds team.

Jon Walsh
Jon has spent 25+ years in digital advertising as an entrepreneur/angel investor and senior executive, building media sales businesses and SSP technology while working closely across both the buy- and sell-side of programmatic. He’s also a published author and community builder—founding a global adtech WhatsApp hub during Covid and later co-founding JobsInAdtech.com, a dedicated jobs board for the industry.

Steven Beckwith
Steven Beckwith is a digital advertising veteran (ex-Yahoo) and the founder of Link Me Consulting, bringing deep industry experience and a builder’s mindset to growth and strategy work. A passionate advocate for inclusion and mental health—and a teammate on the Different Minds project—he champions how diverse thinking can shape the future of advertising (when he’s not cheering on Liverpool FC or hiking the Yorkshire Dales with his Border Collie).