Jim is a seasoned leader at the intersection of innovation, design, and business. With over 25 years of experience spanning product management, business strategy, and design operations, Jim brings a unique, cross-disciplinary perspective to shaping impactful, human-centered products and services.

Starting at the BBC in 2009, Steph has spent her career to date at the UKs biggest broadcasters moving onto C4 and then ITV where she has been since 2013. Her 15 years’ experience has spanned many disciplines including Media Planning, Rebrands, Project Management, Change Management & now Marketing Technology Capability.

Christine Royston is a visionary global marketing executive with a proven track record of scaling iconic technology brands, architecting go-to-market transformation, and driving category leadership in the enterprise SaaS space. As Chief Marketing Officer at Wrike, Christine leads the company’s worldwide marketing strategy, fueling enterprise growth, brand acceleration, and customer-centric innovation at scale.

As Head of technical operations at All3Media International for 18 years, Claire plays a critical role in optimising operations aspects of television content distribution. Claire designs and implements scalable operational workflows, processes and policies to ensure consistency and efficiency and gold standard customer service, and she identifies operational improvement opportunities, streamlines workflows and drives cost optimisation efficiencies.

Jack Higgins, a seasoned Delivery Lead with deep expertise in Digital Asset Management (DAM), content production, and Quality Assurance. With over 20 years’ experience spanning print, retail, and digital media, he brings a strategic yet practical approach to optimising DAM systems, streamlining workflows, and ensuring global asset delivery at scale.

Eric has been at The Pokémon Company International for 15 years, overseeing EMEA and LATAM content localisation, content fulfilment, brand management and media operations.

Chuck is a distance learning leader with over 30 years of experience developing and leading undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education distance learning programs. He is an expert in online course design, educational technology, faculty development, and program marketing and management. 

Jaron Ghani is a founder and the Innovation Director of Numiko, an award-winning digital agency with a long and rich history working within the GLAM sector. He’s delivered websites and interactive projects for the Science Museum Group, the British Museum, the Wallace Collection, the National Archives and the Royal Armouries.

Professor Gilly Salmon is a pioneer in digital education, learning innovation, and transformation. With a distinguished career across universities and public-private partnerships worldwide, she is the creator of the Five-Stage Model, e-Tivities, and Carpe Diem Learning Design, shaping online and blended learning globally. As a keynote speaker, author, consultant, she continues to advance the future of education, integrating pedagogy with emerging technologies.