Angela Stengel leads the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Innovation Lab, a team established to predict and understand the changing behaviours that will impact audiences and content. The Innovation Lab pilots new ideas in collaboration with content and technology teams, and has recently focussed on TikTok, influencer talent, the connected car and AI tools for

Sadia Azmat is a British Asian stand-up comedian from London.  She is an American comedy aficionado and has a similar inimitable style of delivering hard punchlines.  Co-creator and presenter of the critically acclaimed, and award winning, BBC Sounds podcast No Country For Young Women, she is also an author and released her debut memoir Sex

Ralph is widely regarded as a global authority on radio and audio creative.  He started his career as an agency writer and started winning awards right away. He formed his audio specialist agency Eardrum in London, and they work with multi-national brands and their agencies turning great ideas into well-crafted gong-magnets, as well

SHARON DASTUR is a forward-thinking and strategic industry pioneer with a passion for music and storytelling through music.  She has transformed brands, created popular culture, and has helped guide the careers of some of the biggest artists in the world including Taylor Swift, Shawn Mendes, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Jonas Brothers,

Martin Liss is an audio entrepreneur with a weakness for innovation, storytelling and digital. He is, among other things, co-owner of podcast360 GmbH and the management consultancy BUSCHMANN LISS. Before that, he was primarily making radio for a good 25 years: as programme director of NRJ / ENERGY in Germany and managing

Nicky Birch runs an innovation team at BBC Sounds, the app that powers all listening to live and on demand audio for the BBC. Her team conduct experiments in how to attract young audiences to Sounds. Nicky has a background in interactive audio projects for smart speakers and before that she was

Grace Zakka is a senior project manager at the European Broadcasting Union with a passion for platforms - specifically public broadcasters' own platforms; 3rd party platforms (aka big tech); and how those worlds collide. Lebanese based in Geneva; a metaverse explorer, novice gamer, and an ex-ad woman.

Kim Ohlsson is development producer at Swedish Radios new department for editorial development. Kim has been leading the reinvention of P3, working with SR:s 25 regional P4-channels in format change and been manager and producer for the leading radio show in Sweden, Ring så spelar vi. In all this cases he has been

Mikkel B. Ottesen used to be the guy who got the DJs their coffee and then became the general manager at the same station years later. He was also the crisp voice of morning news on the radio in Denmark for a period of time. Some know him as a creative leader

Olle Zachrison is News Commissioner at Swedish Radio (SR). He heads SR's work on news strategy for all platforms and commissions news content from SR's 33 news producing newsrooms around Sweden.  Olle is co-founder of the Nordic AI Journalism Network, an industry network with 200+ members from all Nordic countries exchanging ideas on how to