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A content strategy and media executive specializing in content solutions across social, digital, video, print, SEO, research and e-commerce, Jacquie is a branded content/revenue generation expert driving engagement, results, and cultivating C-level relationships. In her current role as EVP Strategy & Revenue, AZURE Media, she delivers on revenue goals via innovative cross-platform solutions across advertising, events, marketing and audience development. 

Previously as EVP Social & Emerging Platforms and VP Group Publisher SJC Media and TC Media she oversaw brands including FASHION, ELLE Canada, Canadian Living, and Style at Home, and was formerly VP Content Solutions Rogers Media. A recognized leader in marketing solutions and media innovation, Jacquie is past Chair of The Content Council (New York) and is a Board Member for the National Media Awards Foundation (Canada) and a Co-Founder of Global Voices, an international collective of content marketers. A frequent speaker across North America and Europe, having created award-winning programs for a wide range of top-tier clients.

Senior Strategy Advisor at ProRata.ai, Annelies is a perceptive and dynamic leader with deep experience in building businesses, driving profitability, and expanding into new markets. She previously served as VP of Global Commerce Partnerships at Meta, launched Europe’s first streaming service at ITV, and led the digital transformation of The Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Annelies has held board roles with TMG (Telegraaf Media Groep), Netherlands America Foundation (NAF), SOFI Health, NBTC, and others. She holds an MSc from the University of Groningen and speaks six languages.

Kevin Anderson is a seasoned media innovator with 30+ years in journalism, digital strategy, and product development. Formerly Director of App Strategy at Pugpig and a digital leader at the BBC and Guardian, he now drives WAN-IFRA’s high-impact initiatives, helping publishers navigate digital transformation, AI, and revenue diversification. A passionate advocate for sustainable journalism, he holds degrees in journalism and innovation leadership.

Mark Howard is the Chief Operating Officer of TIME, where he oversees operations across the company’s print, digital, technology, consumer marketing, e-commerce, AI, licensing, and finance divisions.

With more than 25 years of experience in the media and technology sectors, Mark most recently served as Chief Business Officer at OpenWeb, where he directed data products and solutions, business development, and strategic partnerships. Prior to that, he was Chief Advertising and Partnerships Officer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC), where he managed revenue operations across PMC’s media portfolio. At PMC, he also led a corporate industry thought leadership team, advancing the company's influence through research, events, and strategic initiatives. Additionally, he spearheaded the launch of a first-party data studio, creating innovative data solutions and personalized audience experiences.

Earlier in his career, Mark served as Chief Revenue Officer at Forbes from 2013 to 2020, leading the company’s digital and print platforms, live events, custom content, advertising, licensing, and business intelligence. During his tenure, he successfully expanded Forbes into new revenue streams, including live events and branded products.

Mark has also held senior leadership roles at various media and ad tech companies, gaining deep expertise in data analytics, product development, marketing technology, and advertising. Renowned for his ability to build and lead high-performing teams, he is a strategic innovator with a track record of fostering partnerships, driving business growth, and shaping industry conversations.

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.

Louise is a multi-award-winning marketer and publishing leader with over 12 years' experience in B2C and B2B roles in consumer insight, education and magazine media, spanning start-ups through to medium-sized businesses. As Publisher of Nat Geo Kids and Nat Geo Little Kids magazines, she leads a cross-functional team covering marketing, customer experience, editorial, production and retail for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand markets. Louise specialises in building and scaling audience-led brands, with a strong focus on long-term, sustainable growth through product innovation, audience engagement and value-driven partnerships.

Işık Şimşek is a Turkish media executive and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in publishing, media and brand building. Throughout her career, she has held senior leadership roles across some of the world’s most influential international media brands in Turkey, including ELLE, L’Officiel, Grazia and Marie Claire.

She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Heepimiz, a women-founded next-generation media company established to rethink the traditional publishing model and build a new ecosystem at the intersection of media, content, community, events and investment.

Today, Heepimiz publishes InStyle Türkiye, InStyle Home Türkiye and Travel + Leisure Türkiye and is expanding its portfolio with new international media partnerships and markets, including the GCC region.

Şimşek is also the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of InStyle Türkiye and Publisher of Travel + Leisure Türkiye. Her work focuses on building sustainable new business models for premium media brands and exploring how established global titles can evolve through local entrepreneurship, community and new revenue streams.

Ahu Serter is an international leader, investor, and transformation strategist who has built her career reinventing established systems across industries. Her work is grounded in one conviction: meaningful transformation happens when long-term vision is matched with ownership, capital, and the courage to execute.

Among the many roles she holds, two best define her work.

Serter founded Fark Labs to act as the “Chief Opportunity Officer” for corporations—a global transformation engine that identifies where future value is emerging and converts it into action. Operating at the intersection of industry, deep technology, venture capital, and corporate innovation, Fark Labs helps established companies move beyond their existing businesses, discover new growth domains, and build the capabilities required to compete in them. By combining strategic foresight, venture investing, corporate venture building, startup collaboration, and ecosystem partnerships, it connects entrepreneurial speed and imagination with the expertise, assets, market access, and scale of corporations. Its ultimate purpose is to help companies become opportunity-seeking organisations capable of systematically discovering, validating, investing in, and scaling what comes next.

A pioneer of gender-lens investing in Türkiye, Serter also founded the Arya Women Investment Platform in 2013 to move the conversation beyond representation and toward financial power and ownership. Today, Arya brings together a $20 million private investment fund, an accredited angel investor network, and a global community of more than 550 members across four continents. Its thesis is commercial as much as societal: gender-balanced leadership drives stronger innovation, better decisions, and more durable value.

Serter also leads her family business, Fark Holding, a global automotive and industrial manufacturing group operating across Europe, MENA, and Asia.

She is now applying this transformation mindset to media through Heepimiz, a next-generation, women-led media and ownership platform. Heepimiz is founded on the belief that women should not remain merely the audiences and consumers of media; they must also become its owners, investors, decision-makers, and agenda-setters. Combining trusted international publishing brands with original content, community, commerce, technology, and investment, Heepimiz aims to build a durable media model for the female economy—one that converts influence into ownership and audience engagement into measurable economic power.

At FIPP, Serter brings a perspective connecting the Congress’s defining themes: trust, AI-driven transformation, audience ownership, monetisation, and long-term durability. She sees media not as a legacy industry to be protected, but as an essential system to be redesigned around credibility, participation, ownership, and shared economic value.

Serter serves on the boards of TÜSİAD, TAYSAD, and Enpara and is President of Türkiye’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative. She has been recognised among Fortune Türkiye’s “50 Most Powerful Women” and received the Entrepreneur of the Year award in the United States in the over-$100-million revenue category.

Charlotte Cijffers is Chief Digital Officer at ITP Media Group, where she leads digital strategy, audience growth, product innovation and monetisation across some of the region’s most influential media brands, including Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Esquire Middle East, T: The New York Times Style Magazine MENA, Complex MENA and many others. Based in Dubai, she works across editorial, commercial and technology to build future-facing media brands for the MENA market, with a focus on AI, audience development, subscriptions, and digital transformation. Previously, she held roles in the UK at Dazed Media, Rolling Stone and ITV.