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Diaa
Abdallah
VP, Engineering, ZMS
Zalando
Diaa is the VP of Engineering at Zalando Marketing Services (ZMS), where he leads a 130-person organisation spanning engineering, science, and product teams focused on retail media and advertising technology. With over a decade of leadership experience across optimisation, targeting, and ad tech, he oversees the technology powering Zalando’s retail media platform, helping brands across Europe reach the right audiences through sponsored brands, sponsored collections, and sponsored products. Based in Berlin, Diaa plays a key role in scaling one of Europe’s leading retail media organisations.
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15 September 2026 15:30 - 16:00
Architecting agentic AI for advertising at scale
For the past decade, AdTech was dominated by predictive machine learning optimizing click-through rates, personalizing recommendations, and managing programmatic bids. But the landscape is experiencing a seismic shift. We are moving from predictive models to agentic AI: autonomous systems capable of reasoning, generating creative assets, structuring complex campaigns, and interacting directly with advertisers. In this session, Diaa will unpack his journey building these agentic advertising products at two of the world's largest e-commerce platforms: Amazon and Zalando. As the VP of Tech for Zalando Marketing Services, he will share the architectural challenges of shifting from traditional ML pipelines to LLM-driven autonomous agents. We will explore how to build systems that don't just predict what a user wants, but actively execute complex, multi-step marketing strategies while maintaining brand safety, strict latency requirements, and massive scale. Finally, we will look at where the AdTech industry is heading and what it means for the engineers building the next generation of e-commerce.