Bari is the SVP/Co-Head of Pineapple Street Studios. She was awarded Ad Week’s 2021 Podcast Innovator of the year for her work in the tv/film companion podcast space. She’s behind hit podcasts such as The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, Netflix’s BTS: Stranger Things 3, HBO’s The Chernobyl Podcast, HBO’s The Last of Us Podcast, and The Official Succession Podcast.
Jonny Kanagasooriam is Head of Content for BBC Sounds. Responsible for setting on-demand speech & music content strategy for the platform, he works closely with audio commissioners across the BBC, including Speech & Music stations, Nations & Regions, World Service, News, TV, Sport, and Children’s & Education as well as BBC Studios to deliver a content slate that grows both UK listening and BBC’s global reach. Previously he worked for BBC Studios, Dazed Media, McCann London, Wunderman Thompson and is a trustee of The Whitechapel Gallery and The Donmar Warehouse Theatre.
Gwendolin Niehues is a member of the ARD Partnermanagement Audio & Voice, a unit of the German public broadcaster which is responsible for partnerships and distribution of audio and voice products. Within this unit, she specifically focusses on automotive strategy and distribution, ensuring the availability and prominence of ARD’s content in today’s and tomorrow’s cars. Next to her work for the German public broadcaster, Gwen is an active member of the EBU Connected Cars Group, where she cooperates with European colleagues to innovate around the future of public service media content in cars. Before coming to the ARD, Gwen studied and researched in the field of management with a focus on creative industries in the Netherlands, Denmark and the US.
Aled Haydn-Jones joined the BBC in 1998 and has among other jobs been a presenter, a Live Music Event producer, the producer on the Chris Moyles Breakfast Show, an Editor, a Head of Programs – before taking up his present position as Head of BBC Radio 1 in 2020.
Aled Haydn-Jones has an impressive record of supporting innovation and developing new young presenters within the BBC. In 2019 he implemented a presenter search that has provided a valuable springboard for many emerging presenters in national radio with airtime on UK’s biggest youth radio over Christmas. Many of these presenters have gone on to presenter roles across the BBC. He has also played an pivotal role in some of the biggest moments on the station to date overseeing among other things the launch of the hugely successful Radio 1 Breakfast with Greg James as well as supporting new music through Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Big Weekend and Teen Awards.
