As an actor Richard Armitage has appeared in many film, television and stage productions and has recently become a published author for the first time with the publication of the acclaimed thriller Geneva (Audible / Faber & Faber). Currently Richard can be seen starring in the global number one Netflix programme Obsession. Opposite Charlie Murphy & Indira Varma.

After his breakout role as John Thornton in the BBC drama ‘North & South’, Richard gained momentum on UK shows including ‘Spooks’ and ‘Robin Hood.’ He achieved international recognition with his performance in the 2011 box office smash ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ opposite Chris Evans and Hugo Weaving, before following it up with his iconic performance as ‘Thorin’ in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit’ trilogy, which has grossed over $1 billion to date.

Richard’s more recent TV work includes Bryan Fuller’s reimagining of ‘Hannibal’ as Francis Dolarhyde and no fewer than three Harlan Corben thrillers for Netflix ‘Stay Close’, The Stranger’ and the forthcoming ‘Fool Me Once’ which he is currently filming in Manchester.

Richard can be seen in the third season of EPIX’s espionage drama, ‘Berlin Station’ opposite Richard Jenkins and Rhys Ifans. He also appeared as the lead villain in Gary Ross’ movie ‘Ocean’s Eight’ alongside Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, and Mindy Kaling. Richard also starred in ‘Pilgrimage’ opposite Tom Holland and Jon Bernthal as well as ‘Brain On Fire’ (directed by Gerard Barrett) opposite Chloe Grace Moretz.

In the theatre world, Richard appeared in Ian Rickson’s interpretation of ‘Uncle Vanya’ starring opposite Toby Jones. Richard also delivered a critically acclaimed performance as the lead of Arthur Miller’s modern drama, ‘The Crucible,’ at the Old Vic Theatre. He was nominated for an Olivier Award for his performance. Off Broadway Richard appeared in the play, ‘Love, Love, Love’ directed by Michael Mayer.

John has over 30 years experience in B2B Media. John has a wealth of experience in paywalls and meters, lead generation, ABM, online and hybrid events and content strategies, ad and martech, and continuous payment models.

He has been the Chief Digital Officer at William Reed since June 2020 and is responsible for driving digital transformation across the business. Previously, John was Managing Director of Sloop Media, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) at Infopro Digital and Incisive Media.

Award-winning creative Helen Bazuaye is a writer, trusted ED&I specialist, workshop facilitator, and creator of consumer and branded print and digital content for national publications and global brands.

Helen fell in love with multi-hyphenate working a year after leaving advertising agency Publicis UK (where she helped set up and chaired their inclusion and diversity group, and was global editor-in-chief of IKEA’s customer loyalty title), and starting Creative Grace, her solopreneur enterprise. Creative Grace is an adventure in doing things differently and making a difference. It makes it possible to pool talent in unexpected ways and collaborate to create work that engages, delivers results and builds community and connection. Working with new teams and long-term partners like Curve, a creative leadership organisation, global inclusion consultancy Creative Equals, and publishers Axon, Helen has delivered work for a roster of clients and brands in retail, interiors, banking and marketing, including John Lewis, the BBC, Ocado, Global, Mr Porter, Dunelm, Philips, HSBC and ICAEW.

Rebekah’s love of content and storytelling was apparent right at the beginning of her career, when she was the first non Oxbridge candidate to be selected from 36,000 applicants for Carlton TV’s prestigious Graduate Training Scheme. Since then, her career has spanned some of the UK’s most respected brands as a digital and content specialist, pioneering new opportunities for brands. From launching Times Online, turning Digital Spy and RadioTimes.com into profitable businesses and growing Elle UK’s revenues substantially, she has helped many big brands realise their digital destinies. Rebekah’s passion for insight and cultural change has allowed her to predict and lead where brands need to go next; taking a reluctant Heat Magazine online (and making it profitable year one), launching all of the BBC’s Magazines onto mobile and bringing commerce, content and consumer together through AI for Tesco. Rebekah is currently Managing Director at Gfinity Digital Media, a network of websites for gamers and geeks with a 100m monthly reach.

Adam Binnie is Affiliate Operations Editor of Bauer Media's commercial content team developing and maintaining best practice for the affiliates business strategy in both the UK and International territories. Prior to that he was a journalist for more than ten years – covering news and product reviews for some of the largest and most loved magazines and websites in the country. He loves anything with wheels, whether it's cars, motorbikes, mountain bikes or Lego.

Katrina Broster is an accomplished media and publishing industry professional with a rich career spanning several prestigious publications including The Telegraph, The Independent, Future PLC, and most recently The FT. With a profound passion for subscriptions, Katrina's experience encompasses the full spectrum of performance marketing channels across owned, earned, and paid-for platforms. She is renowned for her audience-centric and content-led acquisition strategies that consistently deliver outstanding results. Katrina's expertise also extends to marketing performance, where she specializes in leveraging evolving marketing technologies and data management practices to enhance overall marketing effectiveness and impact. Notably, she has played a pivotal role in spearheading digital transformations in preparation for a post-cookie world.

Katrina Broster, Marketing Performance & Technology Director at the Financial Times, has leveraged her extensive experience in the media and publishing industry, including roles at The Telegraph, The Independent, and Future PLC. She's a subscription enthusiast known for her innovative audience-first acquisition strategies. Katrina excels in optimising marketing effectiveness by harnessing evolving technologies and data management practices, while leading digital transformations as we approach the post-cookie era.

Jim is founder of Ground and Air, the coaching, development and insights business. With a background in talent search he has founded and ran businesses in London and Sydney and operated in APAC, EMEA, and the US, leading external hiring initiatives for global media brands and tech businesses, as well as coaching and developing leaders and their teams. His work has afforded him a unique perspective into how founders, C-suites, and hi-potentials operate and think. Jim coaches across a range of industries including media & advertising, sports & esports, entertainment and banking. Ground and Air’s team includes master coaches, development experts, performance psychologists, physiologists, sleep experts and data specialists from the worlds of business and elite sports. Leading the adoption of Flow Science to support optimal and sustainable human performance is central to Ground and Air’s offering. Jim’s qualifications include: BSc Honours in Sports Science - Loughborough University; Cognitive Emotive Behaviour Coach; Flow Science and Emotional Intelligence Specialist; NLP Master Practitioner; accredited in a range of assessment tools including VoicePrint, ECR, FirstBeat Rest & Recovery, High Performance Trait Indicator, Advance qualified in The Grief Recovery Method.

Tom Bureau is Executive Chairman of Immediate Media Co and CEO of Burda International. Tom has more than 25 years’ experience of running world-class digital content and cross-platform media companies.

He was co-founder and CEO of Silicon Media Group in 1998, which was sold to CNET Networks, after which he ran CNET’s European business.

In 2008 Tom joined digital-media platform company Magicalia as CEO, working with Exponent Private Equity, and co-founded Immediate Media Co in November 2011, merging Magicalia with Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines. Immediate, the special interest content and platform company, is home to some of the UK’s best- loved and market-leading brands, including Radio Times, BBC Good Food, BBC Gardeners’ World magazine and Nutracheck. Under Tom’s leadership Immediate has consistently grown reach and revenue, through digital innovation, organic growth and M&A activity, with a strategic focus on special interest markets. In 2017 Tom oversaw Immediate's successful sale from Exponent Private Equity to the Hubert Burda Media Company.

Under Burda’s ownership, Immediate has acquired BBC Good Food, Upper Street Events Ltd and River Street Events, adding a specialist interest live events portfolio to its fast- growing media business, and most recently Nutracheck, one of the biggest digital subscription apps in the UK. Immediate now engages over 60 million passionate consumers every month. In 2021, Tom took up the roll of Executive Chairman of Immediate and was appointed CEO of BurdaInternational, the international arm of German based media and tech company Hubert Burda Media. BurdaInternational, currently owns 250 media brands across 14 countries in Europe and Asia, with a focus on content-driven businesses, new technologies and e-commerce. 

Cecilia Campbell is a Swedish media journalist with over 20 years experience reporting on the news publishing industry internationally. She is the CMO of Swedish tech company United Robots, based in Malmö. The United Robots team is effectively driving the news publishing industry's adoption of content automation. The company is unique in the market in that they provide ready-to-publish robot written editorial content specifically for news media. Since Campbell started at the company, United Robots have established themselves as the go-to provider of automated content for newsrooms globally, and the go-to experts on content automation in news industry publications / events.

Previously, Campbell worked for WAN-IFRA World Association of News Publishers, co-leading its reader revenue executive programme as well as running international study tours and workshops. In 2018 she authored the report Engaged Readers Don’t Churn – Retention Lessons for Digital Subscriptions.

Lucie is an award-winning editor and journalist with over 12 years’ experience in the media industry. As well as being a successful editor, presenter and podcast host, Lucie has held a role as Chief Content Officer at Bauer Media, leading creative campaigns between Bauer’s famous audio and publishing brands and commercial partners. She has been at the forefront of era-defining moments in pop culture – growing media brands across multiple platforms. This new position will see her tie together her creativity and commercial knowledge with her extensive award-winning editorial and journalism experience.

Arianna Chatzidakis is HELLO!'s Creative Content Director, leading the strategic ideation and delivery for creative partnerships. She has a history of working on purpose-driven projects, including HELLO!’s 'Workplace Menopause Pledge' and Bauer Media’s 'Where’s My Head At?' mental health campaign, and was most recently named a recipient of the 2022 PPA 30 Under 30 Awards.

Chloe Combi is an author, speaker, consultant, researcher and futurist. She has interviewed over 10,000 members of Gen Z and Gen A, so her work is backed up by a unique combination of qualitative and quantitative research. Her first book, Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives, was a bestseller and her next book is published in 2024. She wrote and hosted the #1 Apple Podcast. You Don't Know Me, which explored the lives of global teenagers. She directed a hit VR series with Meta called Weird Times, which tackled teenage mental health through the medium of VR and they are currently creating S2. She has worked with the globe's biggest brands, spoken at the UN and advised on American Presidential campaign and would like to qualify a futurist is not someone who believes they can predict the future (because no one can), but someone who studies the future via future generations.

Peter Cooke serves as Sales Director, Europe at Vindicia. With over 30 years’ experience, he is responsible for all sales and business development activities throughout Europe for Vindicia’s subscription management and retention SaaS solutions. Prior to Vindicia, Peter was Account Director for Oracle. He has also served in sales and business development positions at Portal Software and Amdocs. Peter holds a BSc degree in Electronics with Computer Science from Swansea University and an Masters degree in Digital Electronics from King’s College London.

An award-winning leader of GAY TIMES’ editorial vision and voice, Lewis has been instrumental in re-positioning the LGBTQ+ media brand as a global, digital-first platform for a new generation. With more than 12 years experience working across multiple platforms including digital, social, print, partnerships and experiential, he continues to champion positive, responsible and effective storytelling for a diverse and inter-generational audience.

As the CEO and presenter of Fully Charged, the world's no.1 clean energy and electric vehicle show, I have a mission to inform, educate, and inspire millions of people around the globe about the benefits and opportunities of cleaner energy and transport. With more than 20 years of experience in this field, I have a unique insight and foresight into the trends, technologies, and challenges that shape the future of energy and mobility. I have also been involved in launching or working on multiple projects and shows that promote clean energy and electric vehicles, such as Fully Charged PLUS, Fully Charged LIVE, Fully Charged PRODUCTIONS, Home Energy Advice Team, Electric Drive-In, and many more. These initiatives have attracted a loyal and engaged audience of over 2.5 million YouTube viewers, 3-5 million episode views per month, over 1 million subscribers, and 100k+ attendees. I have a strong background in start-ups and scale-ups, strategy, content, communications, commercial, project management, media, production, and events, and I have collaborated with various clients and partners, such as Ceres Power, Solar Media, Accelerating Clean Technologies, and the Department of Energy & Climate Change.

John is a senior account management professional, specialising in subscriptions and memberships, with experience of working with multiple clients across B2C, B2B and membership throughout 21 years at Air Business. He is results-driven and digitally-focused, and takes great pride in building and maintaining long-lasting relationships at all levels to deliver the best possible results for all parties. John’s main vocational objectives are to provide high quality account management teams to all the publishers under his remit whilst providing them with a consultancy service on all things that fall under the wider magazine publishing/fulfilment and membership banners.

Chris is the CEO for UK Publishing at Bauer Media. Prior to joining Bauer in April 2020 Chris spent 12 years at News UK and was Managing Director for the TNL publishing businesses, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The TLS, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Times+ and all brand extension businesses.

Sarah Ebner is an award-winning journalist who is currently executive editor and head of newsletters at the FT. She is an expert in newsletters and digital journalism and was the first ever head of newsletters at The Telegraph, where subscriptions from newsletters went up from 5,000 in 2018 to over 30,000 in 2020. Sarah is a former deputy editor of the Jewish Chronicle where she had special responsibility for digital and launched a new website in 2016. It garnered record traffic.

Sarah spent eight years at the Times, where she was the sole female editor on the Times digital sports desk and also set up and ran Times Woman, a weekly email bulletin which showcased the best of the female writers at The Times and Sunday Times. Before that she wrote and edited The Times's hugely successful School Gate blog for five years.

In her career, Sarah has been a news reporter, feature writer, sports reporter, television producer and occasional reporter (she worked on Newsnight). She has also written for nearly every British newspaper!

WeAre8 Founder and CEO Sue Fennessy is a serial tech entrepreneur who is transforming social media in a way that is free from hate, good for the planet, puts money in people’s wallets, and unites 8citizens for collective action and positive impact every day.

Sue has spent the last 30 years creating disruptive media and data businesses in the digital economy across Asia, Europe and North America, and was highlighted by Forbes as a leading innovator in 2017. She was also the Founder and former CEO of the world’s leading media data aggregation business, Standard Media Index, that fuels the decision making of the world’s largest media companies globally.

She is on a mission to inspire, empower, and mobilise a billion people to feel their power to change the world every day.

Stuart has over 25 years experience in B2C media with a track record of building and monetising digital audiences in verticals such as Automotive, TV & Entertainment, Leisure and Lifestyle, parenting and Food.

He was most recently at Future where he led teams responsible for organic search, email and CRM, performance marketing and audience data across brands such as The Week, TechRadar, Marie Claire, and GoCompare.com and with a monthly reach of more than 300m users.

Alix Fox is a multi award-winning writer, broadcaster & sex educator with over 18 years of experience. A script consultant on hit Netflix series Sex Education since its inception, she’s been resident ‘Shagony Aunt’ on The Modern Mann podcast for almost a decade, and has previously presented shows including BBC Radio 1’s Unexpected Fluids, Audible’s KINK!, Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and The Guardian’s Close Encounters. Named Best Sexual Wellbeing Ambassador 2020 in the ETO Awards, and with two ARIA awards for podcasting, she’s currently writing her first book, The Missing Kink, as well as working on documentary projects for BBC Storyville and her own series examining the love lives of elders, Dirty Old Perverts.

Starting out as a section editor on alternative lifestyle mag Bizarre, Alix regularly freelances for titles including Vogue, Fabulous, Stylist, Glamour, Cosmo, Men's Fitness, Kinfolk, The Guardian, The Independent, Time Out, and many more. She's a proud face of HIV Testing Week and The Eve Appeal gynaecological cancer charity; a board member of The Vagina Museum; a TEDx speaker; and a Women of the Future alumnus.

With eight years of experience in commercial radio, Joe Friend has successfully translated his expertise in traditional media to the world of influencer marketing. His ethos is to treat this space as a media space, helping brands and organisations to buy the right audiences.

Joe has since leveraged influencer marketing as one of the most efficient spaces to drive performance and retention for a vast range of publishing brands including The Week, The Week Junior, The Telegraph, The Financial Times and New Scientist.

Ed is a retention and loyalty specialist. Having joined Immediate Media in 2021 he is responsible for engaging with and retaining subscribers across a range of magazines -from Radio Times to BBC Good Food and Gardeners’ World.

With over 25 years experience in subscriptions marketing, Ed has worked across acquisition and retention in both B2B and consumer markets. Prior to joining Immediate Media, Ed worked at Reed Business Information on magazines such as Farmers Weekly, Flight International and New Scientist, to name but a few.

Clayton has over 20 years’ experience working in the fields of health, wellness, and performance with athletes, elite racing drivers and motorsport teams. From 2008 to 2020, he oversaw McLaren’s Human Performance Programme, where he was responsible for combining the mind, body, technology, and data to formulate novel performance systems to help individuals and teams achieve their best. This included operating as Sir Lewis Hamilton’s Driver Performance Coach across the 2010 Formula One Season. Qualifications include: BSc (HONS) - in Physical Education, Sports Science, and Social Sciences - Loughborough University Postgraduate Diploma – Distinction in Applied Sport and Exercise Physiology - St. Mary’s University, Twickenham CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level CHEK Practitioner Level 2 – CHEK Institute Diploma in Sports Therapy and Fitness Training – Premier Global Diploma in Transformational Coaching (ongoing) – Animas

Victoria has over 25 years of experience working as an editorial leader in some of the most high-pressured environments in media, including Features Director at The Telegraph and Associate Editor at Grazia. Over her career she has led digital-first subscription strategies, created and driven campaigns which have changed the law for women in the workplace and managed large teams to produce quality, agenda-setting content for a 24-hour news cycle. Now Head of Content For Weare8 she is combining her skills to spark national conversations that drive change and bring the good back to social media.

With 20 years of marketing experience in publishing, Tony is responsible for leading his teams across 4 divisions and 40 titles at the Mark Allen Group. His focus is on newsstand and personal subscriptions across the Healthcare, Education, B2C Music and Leisure divisions, as well as at leading B2B brand Farmers Weekly, which also adds events and projects to his responsibilities. Previous to his publishing experience, Tony sold advertising at radio stations in the GWR (now Global Radio) group, so Tony has a keen sense of the commercial side of business – he loves a spreadsheet just as much as a great piece of creative.

Rebecca Holman is the digital director for Grazia and previous to this, was editor of The Debrief. She has written about dating, relationships, work, pop culture and feminism for Grazia, Stella, Sunday Times Style, Red and many more, but her career highlight is still the time she interviewed Uri Gellar round the back of a bingo hall and he read her mind.

Felicity Ive is Senior Client Lead at Channel 4, working directly with Marketers to provide thought leadership and best in class, creative work. Felicity has worked on a number of award winning, purpose driven campaigns including ‘Together Against Hate’ with Nationwide Building Society, ‘Hair Power: Me and my Afro’ with Dove and ‘Joy of Black’ with Tesco as part of the Black to Front project.

Peters’ passion for wildlife and conservation led him into the world of media through Creature & Co, publishers of National Geographic Kids magazine for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. For the last 15 years Peter has developed the National Geographic Kids brand launching in new territories and expanding into digital and social to make Nat Geo Kids magazines the biggest selling monthly children’s titles in their markets. Educating people about the worlds social and environmental issues is his expertise and passion and he led Creature to become a mission based business with sustainability at its core.

Marianne is a multi-award-winning editor, writer, podcaster, and brand consultant, with more than 30 years’ experience in women’s lifestyle media. She is co-host of the Apple chart-topping Been There, Done That, Got the Podcast, with stylist Kat Farmer.

Marianne was the editor of the Daily Telegraph Saturday Magazine, relaunching it to reach a new audience and winning a prestigious national Editor of the Year award.

Previously, she reinvented the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine to great acclaim, twice winning national editor awards for expanding the weekly print product into a digital and events brand.

Content Creator, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Jude completed his surgical training in South East London including Guy’s & St Thomas and Kings College Hospitals. He also spent a year doing additional fellowship training in trauma and upper extremity surgery at the University of Toronto.

In addition to his clinical practice, he is a keen speaker, podcaster, photographer and content creator. He shared his journey in Surgery and built communities across Instagram and YouTube. He uses these platforms to share, teach and inspire and has experience of working with New Scientist via a content strategy.

Markus is the linchpin and main figurehead for the Affino dynasty. He's a brilliant business analyst and systems architect who has an uncanny knack of getting right under the skin of things and figuring out how to improve them. He was the original author of the Affino platform back in 1998, and has overseen and witnessed first-hand most of the key technological advances that shape our digital futures.

Jane is the Creative Lead within HearstX and Hearst Connect – working with key commercial clients to create innovative, future-facing partnership moments with the business’s iconic brands. Jane has been at Hearst UK since 2018 and has worked with clients such as L’Oréal, BMW, Schwarzkopf, British Airways and Nike.

Zoe currently works as the sole Creative Treatment Writer at RANKIN. Working alongside the legendary photographer, Zoe's storytelling ability ensures what is captured on-set is nothing less than magic. When she is not writing for the lens, Zoe creates campaigns for agency and editorial clients alike. Over the years she has worked with The British Fashion Council, Rimmel London, Vodafone, Hospice UK and many more.

Professor Lucy Kueng is an expert on strategy, innovation and leadership and focuses on successful responses to the challenges of digitalization. She is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Reuters Institute, Oxford University and Non-Executive Board Member of the NZZ Media Group and formerly of SRG and VIZRT. Lucy works with leading companies worldwide including the BBC, CNN, Schibsted, NRK, Google and Meta. She keynotes frequently at international conferences and is the author of numerous books including Hearts and Minds: Harnessing Leadership, Culture and Talent to Really Go Digital, Going Digital, Innovators in Digital News, Strategic Management in the Media, and Inside the BBC and CNN. She holds a PhD and Habilitation from the University of St Gallen and an MBA from City Business School/Ashridge.

As Senior Director for Marketing and CRM, Seema is responsible for Acquisitions, E-commerce, CRM, and Customer Experience across 14 of Hearst UK’s premium brands. Her remit oversees magazine subscriptions, beauty boxes, holidays and marketplaces.

With over 20 years’ marketing experience, Seema joined Hearst UK in May 2012 with previous positions held at a number of media companies.

Seema is Chair of the PPA Subscriptions Committee, working closely with senior marketing stakeholders to address opportunities and challenges within the media industry.

Julian is a leading content expert, with a proven track record for transforming brands, building teams, and leading them to success. Credited by The Guardian as being the “industry’s first major post integration editor”, he’s worked at the cutting edge of media, technology, and entertainment for the past twenty-five years, creating award-winning content that captures the zeitgeist and diversifies business models for major organisations. Now a Director at Phuzion Media, a tech company that makes traditional media interactive and shoppable, Julian also coaches other business leaders from media, tech, and retail, helping them to focus on personal and organisational growth. He invented and teaches The Business of Media, part of the world renowned MA in Journalism at City University.

Chris Loy is a London-based technology entrepreneur, data scientist, and software leader with extensive experience in the artificial intelligence (AI) domain. As a leading figure in the AI space, Chris has built a strong reputation across the tech industry in London. From 2015 to 2021, Chris served as the CTO and co-founder of Datasine, a cutting-edge AI startup that gained recognition for its innovative solutions. The company's success led to its acquisition by Shutterstock in 2021.In his current role as the Director of AI Services at Shutterstock, Chris is responsible for developing Generative AI products and overseeing the company's AI Delivery Platform. Under his guidance, Shutterstock continues to push the boundaries of AI-powered solutions, driving the company forward as a trailblazer in the industry.

Antonia Mariassy has a diverse background in tech and digital marketing, with experience in UX design, operations and project management, and product ownership. As Lead Product Owner at Swedish tech company United Robots, Antonia navigates products through data research, language template development and customer integration to deliver automated, fact based articles to supplement content for local newsrooms.

Previously, she worked with user experience design at Catena Media, content strategy and production at Nordic Morning Digital Agency for L’Oréal Paris, Nordics, and with the digitization of the Ladbrokes sportsbook at Playtech BGT Sports (Mobenga).

Sarah Marshall leads 5 central audience strategy teams at Condé Nast: content & commerce SEO, technical SEO, social strategy, newsletter strategy and audio growth strategy.

These teams support the brand audience development teams, colocated with the content teams of Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, WIRED, Traveler, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, La Cucina Italiana, Glamour, Allure, Teen Vogue, SELF, Pitchfork, Ars Technica, Tatler, House & Garden and World of Interiors.

Condé Nast's global audience development team spans all 10 O&O markets (US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Mexico & Latin America, India, Taiwan and Japan).

Prior to taking a central channel strategy role in November 2022, Sarah led the Vogue global audience development team. All 10 out of 10 Vogue’s grew in readership in 2022, and Vogue's audience more than doubled in 5 years. Prior to joining what was then Condé Nast International in April 2017, Sarah was the London-based audience development editor for The Wall Street Journal.

Mark McCafferty sets Hearst UK's creative strategy and oversees the Hearst Connect and HearstX team. Mark is responsible for all creative solutions across the business’ 20 brands.

Jim is Managing Director, Western Europe and Nordics at Foundry. Foundry sits at the intersection of media and marketing technology, generating and innovating with data, to understand buyer intent and drive demand for technology marketers. Jim’s teams in London and Stockholm deliver media, events, data, software, and media services solutions to technology clients. Before joining Foundry in 2014, Jim was Group Publishing Director at Incisive Media

Mel is an interim Chief Product Officer and Media Artist. She is a product and technology leader with creative DNA launching digital products across converging worlds - storytelling and commerce. Professionally, Mel leads major digital transformation programmes, reimagining digital customer experiences to reach the widest global audience with inspiration and delight.

In her previous role, she was VP Consumer Product at Condé Nast. She led the digital portfolio across nine brands in 11 markets: Vogue, GQ, Condé Nast Traveller, Architectural Digest, House + Garden, World of Interiors, Allure, SELF, and Glamour.

She was also responsible for the e-Commerce Platform - Retail Media, Storefront, and Affiliate. In her role, she reimagined the Met Gala and Vogue World as a digital livestream experiences, launched Vogue’s new Storefront, Architectural Digest Designer Directory, and Condé Nast Travelers website and booking platform.

Peter has major experience in revenue generation at some of the most iconic magazines in the world, including having served as Chief Revenue Officer of Hearst Magazines’ Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, and Seventeen. He was also SVP, Head of Sales at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Head of Sales at People magazine. Peter’s favorite word in business is "leverage". He is good at understanding assets, identifying opportunities, and building strategies that capitalize on built-in market power. He has been successful at running leading sales organizations by seeing problems from a different perspective and uncovering the leverage points that create demand and declare relevance to the market. Serving as head of sales, he has driven consistent financial results for some of the world’s best-known media brands. He is a problem solver, a dot connector, and a creative partner in the business of building revenue.

Sajeeda Merali joined the PPA as CEO in 2021, with an agenda to transform the way the PPA represents and supports its 300+ UK multi-media business members, consumer magazine publishers, business-to-business data and information providers, customer magazine publishers and smaller independents.

A strategic leader with 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry, Sajeeda has held senior positions with both B2B and consumer-facing organisations, with extensive experience in change management and strategy development.

She joined the PPA from the New Statesman Media Group, where she was Chief Revenue Officer responsible for identifying high-value digital opportunities and launching commercial strategy for new brands in highly competitive markets.

Prior to that, she was the commercial leader of the Insider Publishing Division at Euromoney PLC and has held senior positions at Incisive Media, where she was influential in driving cultural and strategic change. Sajeeda is on the board of the Advertising Association, PLS, FIPP, CAP, PAMCo and ABC. In 2018 she won the WACL Futures Award and continues to be an active member, as well as co-founder of the Amal network, which champions Muslim women in the workplace.

Building on her background in subscription and membership businesses, Madeleine Milne launched Customer-ization.com to advise brands on their customer engagement and community strategies, for promoting and accelerating growth and strengthening resilience when fresh or additional challenges emerge.

Her own direct experience of community-led growth activity spans media, entertainment and professional services. In media, she was tasked with deepening the engagement of readers and subscribers at The Telegraph. At eMusic.com, a digital music service, she launched and grew a community of over 50,000 avid music fans. In professional services, she helped Women on Boards become by far the biggest community player in its sector, doubling the size of membership of currently serving and aspiring non-executives to over 40,000.

Ruth Mortimer is global president of Advertising Week. Formerly managing director, global education and development at Advertising Week, she is in charge with developing the brand's thought leadership agenda and e-learning business and working with the global business directors to develop each region.

She has held a large number of roles in managing content businesses and product development. She was managing partner at award-winning digital marketing training business Econsultancy, where she oversaw product development and thought leadership.

She was also previously director of the Festival of Marketing. She was also formerly content director for Centaur Marketing, which comprises Marketing Week, Econsultancy, Festival of Marketing, Creative Review, Design Week, Celebrity Intelligence, Fashion/Beauty Monitor, Year Ahead and Foresight News. She was formerly editor of Marketing Week magazine and an award winning business columnist. In her freelance career, she has worked with brands such as Channel 4 on identifying new talent.

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a New York Attorney and Solicitor of England & Wales with broad expertise in the financial services industry, writer, public speaker and political commentator featured in mainstream and online media. A political & women’s rights activist, she has taught intersectional feminism to female refugees and asylum seekers; scrutinizes government policies from a gender and diversity inclusion perspective; and co-organises women's marches and social campaigns. She founded the Women in Leadership publication as a platform to drive positive change on topical issues that impact women globally through inspiring personal leadership journeys; and established She@LawTalks to promote women & BAME leadership in the legal profession through universities and secondary schools. An academic enthusiast, she has an Executive MBA (Cambridge); PhD (Birkbeck); LLM (London School of Economics & Political Science); MA (Westminster) and LLB Hons (Buckingham University).

Laurence Mozafari is a multi-award-winning digital editor, journalist, and presenter with over a decade of experience in digital publishing. Currently Editor-in-Chief at Digital Spy, the UK's biggest TV and movies website, he has also been a broadcasting contributor on TV and radio, as well as a podcast host for BBC Sounds. He was previously Editor of Heat magazine's website, and also teaches digital journalism at various universities, including City, University of London and Nottingham Trent. Additionally, Laurence has worked for the likes of NME, FHM, Grazia, and Sky News. He won PPA's 30 Under 30 award in 2019, BSME’s New Editor of the year in 2020, and Editor of the Year - TV, Entertainment and Celebrity in 2022. He has led Digital Spy to win PPA's Digital Content Team of the Year twice, as well as the British Media Awards’ Brand of the Year in 2021.

With 14 years’ experience delivering trend insights and analysis across industries and markets, Jo works closely with Stylus members globally to help them shape and embed trend intelligence and innovation into their businesses. Jo previously spent a decade working in brand strategy and marketing within multi-disciplined creative agencies, delivering innovative and impactful Pan-European marketing collateral for household names from DreamWorks to Nintendo, and helped to launch record-breaking titles such as Call of Duty, 24 & Shrek. Jo regularly lectures at Brunel University London for its Design Innovation & Branding Futures Masters Programme, supporting students in developing their future forecasting and scenario planning studies.

Donna joined Haymarket in 1997, working for ten years as a production editor, before becoming an editor for numerous brands and sectors within Haymarket Business Media (HBM).

After having her first of three daughters, Donna was promoted to an associate publisher, then becoming a publishing director and group director. In 2017, Donna became the deputy managing director for HBM and gained board responsibility for brands including Campaign, PRWeek, Third Sector, Performance Marketing World and C&IT, and all of the live teams putting on conferences, awards and forums.

Alongside her MD responsibilities, Donna is passionate about sustainability and sits on Haymarket’s Global Impact Board.

Matthew joined TikTok in September 2021, and worked with publishers, book retailers and creators to launch the Books category on TikTok Shop in November 2022, as #BookTok grew from strength to strength...now at over 113 billion views! Prior to TikTok Shop, Matthew led the Ecommerce consultancy team at Wavemaker, a WPP Media Agency, and before that he managed the School Books business at Amazon UK. Matthew loves reading anything by Murakami or Atwood.

Tim Pollard is Group Digital Editorial Director at Bauer Media, where he works with digital editors on strategy and best practice. A lifelong motoring journalist, he has had staff jobs at two newspapers, four magazines and eight websites in the consumer and B2B space – including stints at Haymarket Publishing and Microsoft. He was the 2022 chair of the BSME.

Dominic Ponsford is an award-winning journalist specialising in B2B and media. He has more than 20 years experience in journalism and is a former Paul Foot Awards finalist and PPA editor of the year nominee 2022.

Bel Priestley is a 19yr old social media content creator from London. She has an incredible talent of being able to put a smile on all of our faces, and is passionate about helping others in their journey to finding themselves.

Her viral content ranges from funny skits to fashion, beauty and an insight into her life as a transgender girl. Bel has worked with some incredible brands in the past such as Astrid & Miyu, Spotify and NYX Cosmetics to name a few.

Bel has recently been cast in season 2 of the Netflix series Heartstopper, playing Naomi.

Ridhi has been the Head of ED&I at Immediate since March 2021. Over the last 12 months, along with the People team, Ridhi has built and developed a D&I program from the ground up so that our people are valued, welcomed, respected, and heard. She has led the ED&I change agenda for Immediate to ensure that ED&I is the lens through which we make key decisions about recruitment, retention, leadership, development, and content. Prior to this, Ridhi held several PR positions in the media and comms industry including Acting Head of PR at Time Inc. UK.

Victoria has more than 20 years’ experience in B2B media and events and has held a variety of leadership positions at Risk Waters Group, Terrapinn, Incisive Media, and now Stylus, where she spent four years driving growth as COO before being appointed CEO in April 2022. Victoria has a wide range of experience in strategic business development across EMEA, the US and APAC, via product launches, acquisition integration, asset sales and change management. She is passionate about building an inclusive culture and developing high-performing teams, and employs a people-first approach to achieving business goals.

Emma is a senior strategic advisor and Coach in the creative industries. Her work unlocks new ways to reach Gen Z audiences, diversify revenues, develop brands and empower senior leaders. Clients include the V&A, Immediate Media, national broadcasters and publishers. Emma was previously the CEO of Beano Studios, where she transformed the iconic 80-year-old print title into a global digital, data and TV media business. She was also the CEO of Freesat, the ITV Plc and BBC joint venture digital TV platform and prior to that was Chief of Staff to the BBC Director-General, where she launched Freeview. Emma is currently the Chair of World Book Day, which changes children’s lives through a love of reading.

Jackie Scully is exec director of the business and professional division at content marketing agency Think, helping organisations create content and commercial programmes that engage specialist communities. She consults with a number of organisations on their content strategies and also leads of Think’s annual Re:member research, which looks at trends in professional membership communications.

Dmitry Shishkin is an expert in digital transformation in media, content strategy, and innovation in publishing and a self-described 'evangeliser and enforcer' of content user needs. He’s been consulting media and tech companies on how to do content strategy and audience development better, since late 2020. Prior to that, he was Chief Content Officer at Culture Trip, a content-first travel tech startup. Before that, he worked for 21 years at BBC News in London where he was responsible for developing and implementing the BBC’s digital editorial strategy for 41 non-English foreign language news services. Dmitry’s main area of expertise is on the intersection between Editorial, Organisational, Strategy, Data and Product disciplines - how they all fit together for the benefit of users.

Lisa Smosarski is the award-winning Editorial Director of Stylist. As well as engaging over 5 million women editorially through the magazine, website, social media and events each month, Lisa is a board director at The Stylist Group.

Lisa also writes Stylist’s career-focused How To Work column and companion email and hosts the Stylist Network event series. Prior to Stylist, Lisa edited more!, bliss and Smash Hits.

Olivia Solon is a London-based journalist focusing on technology companies. She currently works at Bloomberg as an editor in the EMEA technology team, after almost six years in San Francisco covering tech for titles including NBC News and the Guardian.

Tamsyn Spires became Publisher of Hello! Ltd in June 2018 with a clear brief to deliver growth strategies and to move the business forward in a new digital direction. Her responsibilities include full running of the commercial, marketing and subscription operation. Tamsyn’s extensive experience on cross-platform brands spanning luxury to lifestyle, brings a wealth of knowledge in the importance of data-driven consumer connection and purpose-driven projects. Tamsyn worked at Bauer for 4 years heading up Grazia and The Debrief as the commercial head of the brands. Previously to that Tamsyn was at Hearst Magazines for many years where she held Sales Director positions across numerous titles; Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar and Red.

My SEO career started at the Daily Mail over 15 year ago, working with editors to integrate SEO best practices into newsrooms workflows. I spent 3 years in Canada, working across the Postmedia brands before dipping my toes into the agency world at digital marketing company Reshift Media in Toronto.

On returning to the UK I lead audience development at City AM before moving to The Sun to join the team in London and oversee the expansion of the-sun.com SEO department in NY. I'm co-chair of the AOP Audience Development steering group and after 6.5 years at News UK I've returned to where it all started as Global Head of SEO at MailOnline.

Jake is Operations Lead at LADbible Group, with a focus on social content and distribution strategy. At LADbible Group, one of the world’s leading social publishers, he covers partnerships with social platforms, delivering data & insights, and inter-team optimisation. Previously at Little Dot Studios he has experience with localisation, broadcast media’s shift onto social, livestreams and GFX.

Kelly-Anne Taylor is the host of the Radio Times Podcast and a commissioning editor for the magazine. She’s welcomed the likes of Stephen Fry, Louis Theroux, Dame Emma Thompson, Daniel Radcliffe, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas onto the Radio Times sofa.

Su-Mei Thompson is CEO of Media Trust, a non-profit organisation based in London which works with media industry partners to give charities, under-represented communities and young people a stronger voice.

Su-Mei started her career as a corporate finance lawyer at Linklaters, before spending many years in leading media companies including The Walt Disney Company and the Financial Times. She was a member of the FT’s Global Management Board and Managing Director for Asia, before going on to be Co-Head of Christie’s Asia.

Her career in the non-profit sector began in 2007 when she became CEO of The Women’s Foundation Hong Kong. Under Su-Mei’s leadership, The Women’s Foundation emerged as a leading NGO, known for its innovative and impactful community and mentoring programmes and effective partnerships with multiple stakeholders. Su-Mei also founded the 30% Club’s Hong Kong chapter to advocate for more women on boards and TWF’s Male Allies HeForShe network. At TWF, Su-Mei started to make her mark as a leading advocate for gender equality on the international stage. She co-produced the award-winning documentary “She Objects” and was invited to discuss female media representation at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Meanwhile, her TED talk ”Dying To Be Thin” has attracted over 150,000 views.

Having previously served on Hong Kong’s Equal Opportunities Commission, in 2020, Su-Mei was appointed to the Board of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission - the UK’s national human rights institution. She is also a Supervisory Board member of IMD – the leading business school in Lausanne, a Trustee of the Orwell Foundation, a Member of the English National Opera’s Insights Council and a member of WACL where she served on the Campaign Committee for two years.

A law graduate of Cambridge and Oxford, she was the first woman to make the Dean's List for IMD’s MBA program and was recently named by IMD as one of its 50 MBA Laureates. She was also recognised by Charity Times on International Women’s Day 2022 as one of 15 women leaders making a difference and inspiring other leaders in the charity sector.

Alexandra Tolstoy is a highly adept individual with a passion for travel, with an impressive background in language and literature. After graduating with an MA (Hons) in Russian language and literature, she embarked on a remarkable nine-month journey with three friends, riding 5,000 miles on horse and camel along the Silk Road from Merv in Turkmenistan to Xian in China. This incredible adventure, which involved living in tents in some of the most challenging and remote locations on earth, sparked Alexandra's enduring love for travel.

Over the next decade, Alexandra continued to explore Mongolia, Siberia, Russia, and Central Asia by horse. She presented a BBC2 documentary series on communities that revolve around horses, published a book on her travels, and wrote numerous articles for newspapers and magazines.

Today, Alexandra is a successful interiors stylist, content creator, and mother of three with an online community of over 100,000 followers who share a passion for culture. Her impressive journey and diverse experiences have given her a unique perspective, which she brings to her work as a stylist and content creator.

Working with the media industry for almost 20 years in audience measurement, James has a unique understanding of how audience insights can help drive audience and business growth and inform content strategy. Having previously worked at Kantar, James has also enjoyed many roles at Ipsos where he is currently a Senior Director working on the UKOM endorsed online audience measurement solution – Ipsos iris.

Clare has over 12 years proven success in senior Brand, Marketing and Consumer Engagement roles at leading British Beauty brands. She is currently responsible for the Global Brand, Marketing and Consumer Engagement teams at NEOM Organics London – the leading British Wellbeing brand, recently certified B Corp. NEOM focuses on four pillars of Wellbeing; Better Sleep, Less Stress, More Energy, Mood Boost, with the NEOM community absolutely at the core of the business.

Clare’s brings to the panel extensive experience in Omni-Channel Marketing, spanning luxury Skincare and Wellness, and a wealth of insight into the importance of building 360 digital-first campaigns that centre around community, content and experiences, building fandom and true advocacy for brands.

Amanda is a specialist in the customer strategy, data and insight sector, working with companies to help them to put the customer at the heart of their business to improve decision making and revenue generation.

Amanda has worked in the publishing industry for 25 years and prior to setting up AWC Limited she worked with the leadership team at TI Media as Group Customer Strategy Director. Here Amanda was responsible for data, insight and analytics and ensuring customers were central to the growth strategy across content development, audience growth, marketing and advertising. Amanda has extensive experience across product development, innovation, customer experience, research best practices, and using data for revenue generation.

As a consultant, Amanda works with both B2C and B2B players across product development, business strategy and data transformation. She is also the Audience Measurement consultant for the PPA representing members on the different measurement Boards.

John has had a 50-year career in media, working at magazines, newspapers and digital publications large and small, urban, rural, and global, as a writer, editor, and now a consultant with Katahdin Media Management. We are currently working with magazines and magazine associations in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the U.S., and others. As a consultant with Innovation Media Consulting, John worked with TU Media in Oslo (world's oldest tech magazine); Elevate Dayton (a BIPOC-owned start-up) in Dayton, Ohio; Tatler Asia (Hong Kong high-end multinational media group); ALM (a legal, financial B2B in NYC); Cayman Compass (national daily newspaper); and Vikatan (multi-title media group in Chennai). John was also the author of the “Innovations in Media World Report” for FIPP from 2010 through 2021.

Magda Woods is the co-founder and CEO of flare data, an AI startup. As a serial entrepreneur, her first tech venture, Waive, was acquired by Future plc in 2022. Previously, she served as the Managing Director for Data at Global Data Media and has a track record of managing multi-million dollar investments in AI technologies. Her leadership has been instrumental in driving digital transformation in large-scale newsrooms within both public and private sectors, including BBC, The Telegraph, Channel 4, and New Statesman. She contributes as a member of the Data Science Committee for the Royal Statistical Society in London. She is an engineer and computer scientist from trade and most recently graduated executive MBA at the Bayes Business School.

Nina completed a BSC (Hons) Psychology Degree in Liverpool before undertaking a career in the media industry over 25 years ago. Nina joined New Scientist Media Company as CEO in October 2018, Nina’s experience spans publishing, digital media, and events. Nina has a notable track record in business turnaround and driving transformational growth, she is particularly skilled in digital NPD and recurring revenues. Prior to joining New Scientist, Nina worked at UBM, where her most recent role was Chief Commercial Officer for EMEA.

Dominic Young is the founder of Axate. Previously he was a newspaper executive whose roles as IP Director and Strategy Director within Newscorp included initiation and participation in numerous industry level organisations and projects. These included complex and sometimes contentious rights negotiations on behalf of the media broadly, and industry lobbying around changes in copyright and liability laws. He is an expert on copyright, in particular the interaction between copyright and the internet and how rights function in practice within the media broadly. His current project is focused on media business models and providing the shared infrastructure to enable far more diverse and customer-centric models than are currently deployed.

Alex Zeevalkink joined The Drum in early 2021 as head of digital publishing. Her role is split between overseeing the management of three membership products and delivering a seamless digital experience for their global digital advertising clients and readers alike.

Alex joined The Drum after working at media publisher MBI for five years as digital publisher across a variety of titles. During her last three years at the company, she was part of the team that launched Broadcast Intelligence, a new subscription service featuring various editorial and insights products for the international television industry.

Before that, she worked at Wilmington Plc, where she looked after two titles focused on institutional investors and headed the content teams at their film and television business titles KFTV and The Knowledge.