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Andrés is an editor who nearly 20 years ago decided to found Spainmedia, a publishing group through which he confidently invested in print media during the height of the digital revolution. His entrepreneurial vision led him to establish and manage the Spanish editions of Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar for Hearst. This project came after 20 years working as a journalist, during which he was involved in both the launch and closure of the newspapers El Independiente and El Sol. He also brought the Rolling Stone magazine to Spain, serving as its director during its early years. At Spainmedia, he also published the first European edition of The New York Times Magazine.

He has been the editor and director of Forbes Spain for the past twelve years. Alongside his representation for Forbes, he also created TAPAS magazine. TAPAS received Spain’s National Gastronomy Award, and he is currently a member of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy.

In December of last year, he launched Forbes House, the first private Forbes club in the world.

He sits on the Board of Trustees of both the Teatro Real and the Liceu, and serves as President of ARI (the Association of Magazine Publishers). Andres is an ambassador for the Ibiza Preservation Foundation.

He has received the Eisenhower Foundation Award for Best Editor and the Dircomfidencial Award for Best Talent.

He is the author of the first biography of Camarón de la Isla, titled Se Rompió El Quejío. He also directs and edits Nautik: The Life Aquatic Magazine.

Nowadays, Andres serves as the President of ARI, the Association of Print Magazines.

Dr. Jon Roberts is Chief Innovation Officer and has been with People Inc. since 2013. He previously held roles as President, Health & Finance where he oversaw strategy for Verywell, Health, Parents, Investopedia and The Balance. He also held various senior leadership roles including Head of Data Science, where he derived insights from more than 20 years of Internet data across thousands of topics. Prior to joining People Inc., Jon spent 10 years as a theoretical physicist focused on making dark matter predictions for the hadron collider at CERN, and cosmic ray predictions for the AMS detector on the International Space Station. He also worked on the Pierre Auger telescope in Argentina.Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. at the University of Southampton and his M.A. from the University of Oxford.

Christian Van Thillo was born in Antwerp (Belgium) on March 25th 1962. He obtained his law degree, cum laude, in 1986 from the Catholic University of Leuven. He graduated from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1989. He began his media career in 1989 when he joined the management team at De Persgroep. Under his leadership as CEO, which began in 1990, the company experienced significant growth and became the largest media company in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2020, the company was renamed DPG Media and he took on the role of Executive Chairman.

Christian was a member of the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann A.G., Europe's largest media company, from 2002 to 2005. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Belgium, from 2003 until 2008. Since 2015, Christian is the Chairman of the European Publishers Council. He lives in Belgium with his spouse, Nathalie, and their daughter, June.

Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: The Global Media Business Weekly and organiser of the 'Monetising B2B' conference. He is a former journalist who has been CEO of media, news and information companies in the UK, EU and AsiaPacific, including for Axel Springer, RELX, Future, Hearst, EMAP and ACP. He was an adviser on education to successive UK governments and was awarded the CBE by the late Queen Elizabeth.

President - INNOVATION Media Consulting Group in London - one the world's leading news media consultancies.

He has worked with and advised hundreds of media companies on every continent directing transformative projects. He also serves on the Advisory Board of several media groups. 

He is also a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. 

He has been listed as one of 'The World's Leading Innovators' in Journalism and Media' by Journalism UK. Mr. Señor is a highly-sought commentator on the media industry, speaking at global forums and quoted frequently in leading publications such as The Economist and The Financial Times.  

He is co-editor of two annuals books; Innovation in News Media and Innovation in Media, written on behalf of WAN-IFRA and the FIPP respectively. Altogether he has edited 32 books. 

He worked for seven years as a war and conflict reporter for PBS's NewsHour. He then became a presenter for EBN-Wall Street Journal TV and CNBC Europe. And he served as London correspondent of International Herald Tribune Television then owned by The New York Times and The Washington Post. 

His work has been nominated for an EMMY and his television programme, Media Report, was voted by viewers as Europe’s Best Business Programme. 

He continues to work as a live event and television host and presenter. He has hosted the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for 14 years, Reinvention Festival for a decade, and dozens of public speaking engagements every year as a keynote speaker or moderator. 

In addition to his passion for the media business, he is a campaigner for disabilities via means of fundraising expeditions to the ends of the earth. 

He has skied unsupported to the North Pole, crossed the Western Sahara, trekked the Amazon, and organised the first-ever expedition to the South Pole of a team with physical disabilities.

A Spanish national, he was born and raised in Barcelona and educated in Europe and New York. He is conversant in six languages.

Innovation’s Senior Consultant, Lucio has considerable experience in content creation and executive leadership in media organisations, from editorial to CEO-level roles. He started his career in his native Brazil before holding several editorial and executive roles at the BBC, including BBC News and BBC World Service, where he pioneered the introduction of multimedia operations by BBC language services and was a member of the World Service’s executive board. He also led teams responsible for broadcast and digital services both for the UK and international audiences. With Innovation Media, he has worked with several media organisations around the world on their editorial, digital and commercial transformation.

I help organisations make clearer strategic decisions about content, audiences, and priorities by connecting editorial ambition with audience insight, product strategy, and business reality. At the BBC World Service, I led the implementation and scaling of the user needs framework, turning audience research into a practical editorial model now widely used across the industry. Since 2020, I have advised organisations including Condé Nast, Yahoo, Globo, and Ringier, working with boards and executive teams across editorial, product, and data.

Erika Heilman is Group Publisher and Senior Vice President at Harvard Business Review, where she leads HBR’s commercial business, overseeing subscriptions, advertising, book publishing, licensing, events, and product development. Previously, Erika served as Deputy Publisher and Vice President, where she helped shape the organization’s commercial strategy and growth. She also serves as Publisher of HBR Press, the company’s book publishing arm, and is a member of HBR’s IP Strategy Council, Strategic Partnerships Team, and AI Monetization Task Force.

Prior to joining HBR, Erika was Co-Founder and Publisher of Bibliomotion, a nonfiction publisher specializing in business and parenting titles that was acquired by Taylor & Francis/Informa in 2016. Earlier in her career, she held editorial roles at Nicholas Brealey Publishing, Peterson’s, and John Wiley & Sons.

Kerin O'Connor is founder and CEO of Atlas, a strategic consultancy for subscription and membership businesses. Atlas works with B2C, D2C and B2B media companies across the UK, Europe and North America. Its advice is rooted in actionable, practical, and profitable recommendations -spanning areas like cohort intelligence, value architecture and marketing strategy. The Atlas mission is to help make clients' subscribers worth more. Kerin was previously the long-standing chief executive of The Week at Dennis Publishing, where he led sustained subscription and circulation growth. He is based in London.

Enric Pastor is the co-founder and editorial director of MANERA Magazine, an independent publication focused on architecture, interiors and design, with editions in Spain, Mexico and the Benelux. Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest Spain for seven years, where he led its editorial transformation and digital growth.

As a journalist, curator and author, his work explores how design shapes the way we live, connecting architecture with culture, craftsmanship and everyday life. He regularly develops editorial and cultural projects with international brands, and focuses on design, publishing and storytelling.

Carolina's career is guided by the conviction that words build bridges, curiosity builds sensitivity and magazines build communities. She has written for ELLE Magazine and El Pais and worked for several years in corporate communications. Now, as digital editor of MANERA, she blends those three convictions in order to expand the universe of the magazine by delivering quality content throughout multiple formats. She believes in the transformative power of spaces when they are designed with respect and common sense, with a trained eye and a keen intuition. She likes, above all, wooden kitchens and walls covered by a handpainted wallpaper or lined with a good bookshelf.

Evelien Reich is an experienced media professional and as the Editor-in-Chief of MANERA Benelux, she places the region’s vibrant design and interior ecosystem into the broader context of the global design conversation. Alongside her work in independent print publishing, she shares her expertise as a guest lecturer at design schools, including Design Academy Eindhoven, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Kylie McCoy is Vice President of Brand Partnerships and Solutions at Newsweek, where she leads marketing across the company's editorial platforms, commercial programs, and global events. Her remit includes brand positioning, audience strategy, and go-to-market execution, bringing editorial authority and commercial strategy together within a single marketing function. She shapes the strategy behind Newsweek's editorial franchises, flagship events, and global partnerships, developing integrated programs for Fortune 500 brands across healthcare, AI, finance, and technology.

Kylie holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she is a guest lecturer. She is a former on-air broadcast journalist and continues to produce independent long-form reporting, including recent field work in Cameroon on global kidney disease. 

Käthe Lemon is the president and co-owner of RedPoint Media Group, one of the largest independent publishers in Western Canada. RedPoint is the publisher of Calgary’s city lifestyle magazines, Avenue and The Scene. Through RPM Content Studio, the company also creates award-winning custom publications, content-driven events and digital content on behalf of clients primarily in the charitable sector. 

Prior to being named president, Lemon was the Editor of Avenue magazine for 15 years. During that time the magazine was named Magazine of the Year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Associations and won multiple awards for excellence in writing, photography and design at the provincial, national and international level. Lemon was named Alberta Editor of the Year in 2011. In 2025, Lemon was recognized with the Achievement in Publishing Award from AMPA.Much like Avenue, Lemon is a relentless supporter of Calgary and works to celebrate the city’s many success stories and push the city to be even better.She is also currently the chair of the International Regional Magazine Association.

Amanda Wigginton is a commercial strategy and audience insight specialist focused on  turning customer knowledge into tangible, long-term business growth. Through her independent consultancy, she works across B2B and B2C sectors - helping brands, agencies, and publishers interpret and unlock commercial value through deep audience understanding, actionable data strategies, and company-wide transformation.

Alongside this, Amanda serves as insight specialist for PPA Magnetic, representing UK publishers, and helping to shape future industry measurement solutions, and prove advertising ROI. Previously the Group Customer Strategy Director at TI Media, she has a proven track record of helping organisations make data work for their bottom line.

Cyndi Stivers manages the Curation team at TED, a global event and digital content producer. She began her career in hot-type newspapers, and has since shepherded media startups and reinvigorated venerable brands on nearly every platform, including magazines, television, radio, and online.

Stivers led the establishment of Time Out in North America (1995-2005), and taught the first digital-magazine workshop at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. While on the board of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), she spearheaded adoption of the industry's first internet-publishing guidelines.

She graduated from Barnard College (while working full-time as a reporter at the New York Post) and served 14 years as a Barnard Trustee, much of it leading the committee on governance. She is on the board of KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative) and also advises Report for America, the Sustainable Media Center, and others who are determined to help journalism thrive, despite the headwinds.

Guy Tasaka is an American media executive with 40 years in newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and streaming — including product leadership at major media tech companies. He is currently the technology columnist for Editor and Publisher, specializing in translating frontier technology into media business models and working products.

He worked on the original nytimes.com and was the original internet strategist for the newspaper, and has since built a string of firsts: the first e-reader newspaper/magazine distribution outside Amazon, early local paywalls, paid local mobile apps, and among the first connected-TV/FAST channels. His current focus is agentic AI.

Guy is founder and managing partner of Tasaka Digital, a strategy consultancy helping publishers navigate AI. His career spans B2B publishing (Macworld, Ziff-Davis), The New York Times, Gatehouse/Gannett, and media-tech leaders LibreDigital and WideOrbit.

His current work: a portfolio of open-source, agent-first media infrastructure — software built assuming an AI agent is the operator, not a human with a dashboard. The goal is capacity, not cost-cutting: giving independent and special-interest publishers capabilities — product, analytics, ad ops — they could never afford to staff.

Anne Marie O’Keefe currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Mansueto Ventures. Previously, O’Keefe was V.P., Consumer Marketing at Mansueto Ventures, where she was responsible for driving growth across Inc. and Fast Company‘s subscription, recognition, and event products portfolio. Before Mansueto Ventures, O’Keefe held various positions in consumer marketing at Scientific American, Radar Magazine, InterMedia Outdoors, and more. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Marist College.

Käthe Lemon is the president and co-owner of RedPoint Media Group, one of the largest independent publishers in Western Canada. RedPoint is the publisher of Calgary’s city lifestyle magazines, Avenue and The Scene. Through RPM Content Studio, the company also creates award-winning custom publications, content-driven events and digital content on behalf of clients primarily in the charitable sector. 

Prior to being named president, Lemon was the Editor of Avenue magazine for 15 years. During that time the magazine was named Magazine of the Year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Associations and won multiple awards for excellence in writing, photography and design at the provincial, national and international level. Lemon was named Alberta Editor of the Year in 2011. In 2025, Lemon was recognized with the Achievement in Publishing Award from AMPA.Much like Avenue, Lemon is a relentless supporter of Calgary and works to celebrate the city’s many success stories and push the city to be even better.She is also currently the chair of the International Regional Magazine Association.

Adam White is the Founder and CEO of Front Office Sports (FOS), the leading multiplatform media and news organization covering the business of sports. 

He founded FOS in 2014, while still in college. In 2024, RedBird IMI, the investment platform led by Jeff Zucker, took a majority stake in the company. Today, FOS delivers more than 200 million social impressions, 35 million newsletter opens, 30 million video views, and 2.5 million page views each month. 

Adam also oversees Front Office Sports Studios, a television, film, digital, and brand studio driven by a passion for bold, premium storytelling that captures greatness in motion. 

For his contributions to sports media, White has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in the sports category, as well as a University of Miami 30 Under 30.

White received his B.S. in Sport Administration from the University of Miami and lives in New York City.

Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: The Global Media Business Weekly and organiser of the 'Monetising B2B' conference. He is a former journalist who has been CEO of media, news and information companies in the UK, EU and AsiaPacific, including for Axel Springer, RELX, Future, Hearst, EMAP and ACP. He was an adviser on education to successive UK governments and was awarded the CBE by the late Queen Elizabeth.

Georgie Holt is the CEO and Co-Founder of FlightStory, a media and investment company building the future of media for the creator age with entrepreneur Steven Bartlett.

FlightStory builds and scales creator-led media brands, partnering with creators to develop global IP, grow audiences and expand their platforms across content, products and communities. The company is home to The Diary of a CEO, reaching over 80 million people each month and more than 20 million YouTube subscribers.

Previously Holt served as Managing Director at Acast across the UK and US, helping lead the business through its IPO. She was recognised by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most important figures in podcasting.

Andrés is an editor who nearly 20 years ago decided to found Spainmedia, a publishing group through which he confidently invested in print media during the height of the digital revolution. His entrepreneurial vision led him to establish and manage the Spanish editions of Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar for Hearst. This project came after 20 years working as a journalist, during which he was involved in both the launch and closure of the newspapers El Independiente and El Sol. He also brought the Rolling Stone magazine to Spain, serving as its director during its early years. At Spainmedia, he also published the first European edition of The New York Times Magazine.

He has been the editor and director of Forbes Spain for the past twelve years. Alongside his representation for Forbes, he also created TAPAS magazine. TAPAS received Spain’s National Gastronomy Award, and he is currently a member of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy.

In December of last year, he launched Forbes House, the first private Forbes club in the world.

He sits on the Board of Trustees of both the Teatro Real and the Liceu, and serves as President of ARI (the Association of Magazine Publishers). Andres is an ambassador for the Ibiza Preservation Foundation.

He has received the Eisenhower Foundation Award for Best Editor and the Dircomfidencial Award for Best Talent.

He is the author of the first biography of Camarón de la Isla, titled Se Rompió El Quejío. He also directs and edits Nautik: The Life Aquatic Magazine.

Nowadays, Andres serves as the President of ARI, the Association of Print Magazines.

Dr. Jon Roberts is Chief Innovation Officer and has been with People Inc. since 2013. He previously held roles as President, Health & Finance where he oversaw strategy for Verywell, Health, Parents, Investopedia and The Balance. He also held various senior leadership roles including Head of Data Science, where he derived insights from more than 20 years of Internet data across thousands of topics. Prior to joining People Inc., Jon spent 10 years as a theoretical physicist focused on making dark matter predictions for the hadron collider at CERN, and cosmic ray predictions for the AMS detector on the International Space Station. He also worked on the Pierre Auger telescope in Argentina.Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. at the University of Southampton and his M.A. from the University of Oxford.

Christian Van Thillo was born in Antwerp (Belgium) on March 25th 1962. He obtained his law degree, cum laude, in 1986 from the Catholic University of Leuven. He graduated from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1989. He began his media career in 1989 when he joined the management team at De Persgroep. Under his leadership as CEO, which began in 1990, the company experienced significant growth and became the largest media company in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2020, the company was renamed DPG Media and he took on the role of Executive Chairman.

Christian was a member of the Supervisory Board of Bertelsmann A.G., Europe's largest media company, from 2002 to 2005. He also served on the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Belgium, from 2003 until 2008. Since 2015, Christian is the Chairman of the European Publishers Council. He lives in Belgium with his spouse, Nathalie, and their daughter, June.

Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: The Global Media Business Weekly and organiser of the 'Monetising B2B' conference. He is a former journalist who has been CEO of media, news and information companies in the UK, EU and AsiaPacific, including for Axel Springer, RELX, Future, Hearst, EMAP and ACP. He was an adviser on education to successive UK governments and was awarded the CBE by the late Queen Elizabeth.

President - INNOVATION Media Consulting Group in London - one the world's leading news media consultancies.

He has worked with and advised hundreds of media companies on every continent directing transformative projects. He also serves on the Advisory Board of several media groups. 

He is also a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford. 

He has been listed as one of 'The World's Leading Innovators' in Journalism and Media' by Journalism UK. Mr. Señor is a highly-sought commentator on the media industry, speaking at global forums and quoted frequently in leading publications such as The Economist and The Financial Times.  

He is co-editor of two annuals books; Innovation in News Media and Innovation in Media, written on behalf of WAN-IFRA and the FIPP respectively. Altogether he has edited 32 books. 

He worked for seven years as a war and conflict reporter for PBS's NewsHour. He then became a presenter for EBN-Wall Street Journal TV and CNBC Europe. And he served as London correspondent of International Herald Tribune Television then owned by The New York Times and The Washington Post. 

His work has been nominated for an EMMY and his television programme, Media Report, was voted by viewers as Europe’s Best Business Programme. 

He continues to work as a live event and television host and presenter. He has hosted the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for 14 years, Reinvention Festival for a decade, and dozens of public speaking engagements every year as a keynote speaker or moderator. 

In addition to his passion for the media business, he is a campaigner for disabilities via means of fundraising expeditions to the ends of the earth. 

He has skied unsupported to the North Pole, crossed the Western Sahara, trekked the Amazon, and organised the first-ever expedition to the South Pole of a team with physical disabilities.

A Spanish national, he was born and raised in Barcelona and educated in Europe and New York. He is conversant in six languages.

Innovation’s Senior Consultant, Lucio has considerable experience in content creation and executive leadership in media organisations, from editorial to CEO-level roles. He started his career in his native Brazil before holding several editorial and executive roles at the BBC, including BBC News and BBC World Service, where he pioneered the introduction of multimedia operations by BBC language services and was a member of the World Service’s executive board. He also led teams responsible for broadcast and digital services both for the UK and international audiences. With Innovation Media, he has worked with several media organisations around the world on their editorial, digital and commercial transformation.

I help organisations make clearer strategic decisions about content, audiences, and priorities by connecting editorial ambition with audience insight, product strategy, and business reality. At the BBC World Service, I led the implementation and scaling of the user needs framework, turning audience research into a practical editorial model now widely used across the industry. Since 2020, I have advised organisations including Condé Nast, Yahoo, Globo, and Ringier, working with boards and executive teams across editorial, product, and data.

Erika Heilman is Group Publisher and Senior Vice President at Harvard Business Review, where she leads HBR’s commercial business, overseeing subscriptions, advertising, book publishing, licensing, events, and product development. Previously, Erika served as Deputy Publisher and Vice President, where she helped shape the organization’s commercial strategy and growth. She also serves as Publisher of HBR Press, the company’s book publishing arm, and is a member of HBR’s IP Strategy Council, Strategic Partnerships Team, and AI Monetization Task Force.

Prior to joining HBR, Erika was Co-Founder and Publisher of Bibliomotion, a nonfiction publisher specializing in business and parenting titles that was acquired by Taylor & Francis/Informa in 2016. Earlier in her career, she held editorial roles at Nicholas Brealey Publishing, Peterson’s, and John Wiley & Sons.

Enric Pastor is the co-founder and editorial director of MANERA Magazine, an independent publication focused on architecture, interiors and design, with editions in Spain, Mexico and the Benelux. Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Digest Spain for seven years, where he led its editorial transformation and digital growth.

As a journalist, curator and author, his work explores how design shapes the way we live, connecting architecture with culture, craftsmanship and everyday life. He regularly develops editorial and cultural projects with international brands, and focuses on design, publishing and storytelling.

Carolina's career is guided by the conviction that words build bridges, curiosity builds sensitivity and magazines build communities. She has written for ELLE Magazine and El Pais and worked for several years in corporate communications. Now, as digital editor of MANERA, she blends those three convictions in order to expand the universe of the magazine by delivering quality content throughout multiple formats. She believes in the transformative power of spaces when they are designed with respect and common sense, with a trained eye and a keen intuition. She likes, above all, wooden kitchens and walls covered by a handpainted wallpaper or lined with a good bookshelf.

Evelien Reich is an experienced media professional and as the Editor-in-Chief of MANERA Benelux, she places the region’s vibrant design and interior ecosystem into the broader context of the global design conversation. Alongside her work in independent print publishing, she shares her expertise as a guest lecturer at design schools, including Design Academy Eindhoven, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Kylie McCoy is Vice President of Brand Partnerships and Solutions at Newsweek, where she leads marketing across the company's editorial platforms, commercial programs, and global events. Her remit includes brand positioning, audience strategy, and go-to-market execution, bringing editorial authority and commercial strategy together within a single marketing function. She shapes the strategy behind Newsweek's editorial franchises, flagship events, and global partnerships, developing integrated programs for Fortune 500 brands across healthcare, AI, finance, and technology.

Kylie holds a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she is a guest lecturer. She is a former on-air broadcast journalist and continues to produce independent long-form reporting, including recent field work in Cameroon on global kidney disease. 

Käthe Lemon is the president and co-owner of RedPoint Media Group, one of the largest independent publishers in Western Canada. RedPoint is the publisher of Calgary’s city lifestyle magazines, Avenue and The Scene. Through RPM Content Studio, the company also creates award-winning custom publications, content-driven events and digital content on behalf of clients primarily in the charitable sector. 

Prior to being named president, Lemon was the Editor of Avenue magazine for 15 years. During that time the magazine was named Magazine of the Year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Associations and won multiple awards for excellence in writing, photography and design at the provincial, national and international level. Lemon was named Alberta Editor of the Year in 2011. In 2025, Lemon was recognized with the Achievement in Publishing Award from AMPA.Much like Avenue, Lemon is a relentless supporter of Calgary and works to celebrate the city’s many success stories and push the city to be even better.She is also currently the chair of the International Regional Magazine Association.

Amanda Wigginton is a commercial strategy and audience insight specialist focused on  turning customer knowledge into tangible, long-term business growth. Through her independent consultancy, she works across B2B and B2C sectors - helping brands, agencies, and publishers interpret and unlock commercial value through deep audience understanding, actionable data strategies, and company-wide transformation.

Alongside this, Amanda serves as insight specialist for PPA Magnetic, representing UK publishers, and helping to shape future industry measurement solutions, and prove advertising ROI. Previously the Group Customer Strategy Director at TI Media, she has a proven track record of helping organisations make data work for their bottom line.

Cyndi Stivers manages the Curation team at TED, a global event and digital content producer. She began her career in hot-type newspapers, and has since shepherded media startups and reinvigorated venerable brands on nearly every platform, including magazines, television, radio, and online.

Stivers led the establishment of Time Out in North America (1995-2005), and taught the first digital-magazine workshop at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. While on the board of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), she spearheaded adoption of the industry's first internet-publishing guidelines.

She graduated from Barnard College (while working full-time as a reporter at the New York Post) and served 14 years as a Barnard Trustee, much of it leading the committee on governance. She is on the board of KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative) and also advises Report for America, the Sustainable Media Center, and others who are determined to help journalism thrive, despite the headwinds.

Guy Tasaka is an American media executive with 40 years in newspapers, magazines, broadcast, and streaming — including product leadership at major media tech companies. He is currently the technology columnist for Editor and Publisher, specializing in translating frontier technology into media business models and working products.

He worked on the original nytimes.com and was the original internet strategist for the newspaper, and has since built a string of firsts: the first e-reader newspaper/magazine distribution outside Amazon, early local paywalls, paid local mobile apps, and among the first connected-TV/FAST channels. His current focus is agentic AI.

Guy is founder and managing partner of Tasaka Digital, a strategy consultancy helping publishers navigate AI. His career spans B2B publishing (Macworld, Ziff-Davis), The New York Times, Gatehouse/Gannett, and media-tech leaders LibreDigital and WideOrbit.

His current work: a portfolio of open-source, agent-first media infrastructure — software built assuming an AI agent is the operator, not a human with a dashboard. The goal is capacity, not cost-cutting: giving independent and special-interest publishers capabilities — product, analytics, ad ops — they could never afford to staff.

Anne Marie O’Keefe currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Mansueto Ventures. Previously, O’Keefe was V.P., Consumer Marketing at Mansueto Ventures, where she was responsible for driving growth across Inc. and Fast Company‘s subscription, recognition, and event products portfolio. Before Mansueto Ventures, O’Keefe held various positions in consumer marketing at Scientific American, Radar Magazine, InterMedia Outdoors, and more. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Marist College.

Adam White is the Founder and CEO of Front Office Sports (FOS), the leading multiplatform media and news organization covering the business of sports. 

He founded FOS in 2014, while still in college. In 2024, RedBird IMI, the investment platform led by Jeff Zucker, took a majority stake in the company. Today, FOS delivers more than 200 million social impressions, 35 million newsletter opens, 30 million video views, and 2.5 million page views each month. 

Adam also oversees Front Office Sports Studios, a television, film, digital, and brand studio driven by a passion for bold, premium storytelling that captures greatness in motion. 

For his contributions to sports media, White has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 in the sports category, as well as a University of Miami 30 Under 30.

White received his B.S. in Sport Administration from the University of Miami and lives in New York City.

Georgie Holt is the CEO and Co-Founder of FlightStory, a media and investment company building the future of media for the creator age with entrepreneur Steven Bartlett.

FlightStory builds and scales creator-led media brands, partnering with creators to develop global IP, grow audiences and expand their platforms across content, products and communities. The company is home to The Diary of a CEO, reaching over 80 million people each month and more than 20 million YouTube subscribers.

Previously Holt served as Managing Director at Acast across the UK and US, helping lead the business through its IPO. She was recognised by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the most important figures in podcasting.

Kerin O'Connor is founder and CEO of Atlas, a strategic consultancy for subscription and membership businesses. Atlas works with B2C, D2C and B2B media companies across the UK, Europe and North America. Its advice is rooted in actionable, practical, and profitable recommendations -spanning areas like cohort intelligence, value architecture and marketing strategy. The Atlas mission is to help make clients' subscribers worth more. Kerin was previously the long-standing chief executive of The Week at Dennis Publishing, where he led sustained subscription and circulation growth. He is based in London.