Peter Bale - VP and General Manager, Digital CNN International 

Peter Bale is the Vice President and General Manager Digital for CNN International, responsible for CNN.com and digital initiatives outside the United States. He joined from Microsoft where he was International Programming Director for MSN. Peter is the former Online Editorial Director of The Times and The Sunday Times, founding managing editor of FTMarketWatch.com and a long-time correspondent and editor for Reuters.

Karla Geci - Head of Strategic Partner Development Facebook  

Karla is the head of strategic partner development for Facebook. She works with broadcasters, media companies and content owners who want to leverage the Facebook Platform to build social applications and experiences on third-party web properties and Facebook Pages. From 2007 to 2009 Karla was director of marketing at Bebo, after spending six years at RealNetworks as European marketing and PR manager.

Nic Newman - Media Consultant Freelance

Nic Newman is a journalist and digital strategist who has played a key role in shaping the BBC’s internet services over more than a decade. He was a founding member of the BBC news website, world editor from 1997 to 2001 and head of product development for BBC News, and led digital teams, developing websites, mobile and interactive TV applications for News, Sport, Weather and Local, most recently as controller, journalism, Future Media and Technology. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Paul Hood - Digital Director Archant  

Paul Hood is Director of Digital for Archant, responsible for developing digital products, audiences and revenues for their London Division.

Before joining Archant, Paul was Head of Digital at Mirror Group Newspapers, where he led the launch of Mirror.co.uk, Mirrorfootball.co.uk and 3am.com.

Paul’s career in media started at Haymarket B2B magazines, followed by an 8 year stint at Emap (now Bauer), where he was involved in building the first digital presence for MotorcycleNews, and led the reinvigoration of Parkers.co.uk; a redesign that won numerous industry awards, and went on to become Emap's most profitable online business.

Robin Dhara - Communications Director TEDx London

Robin finds “interesting people, with interesting stories”. Skilled in seeking out people with a passion and the sense to do things differently, he has been the founder of RedRobin since 2007. As a maverick publicist, his clients include some of the world’s most innovative organisations and brands.

Paul Lomax - CTO Dennis Publishing 

Paul Lomax heads up web product development at Dennis Publishing. Paul joined Dennis as Chief Technology Officer in 2009, and lead the launches of the award winning carbuyer.co.uk and the iPad app for flagship title The Week. He also serves on the board of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP), and chairs their Product Development Committee. Prior to Dennis, Paul spent a year at Manchester-based GMG Regional Media - publishers of the Manchester Evening News at the time - where he was responsible for product development and the media sales teams, and six years at IPC Media in digital publishing and technology roles, where he led the launch of over 50 websites including marieclaire.co.uk and nowmagazine.co.uk. He has also spent some time outside publishing, most recently at London-based e-commerce agency Pod where he led user-experience and technology for sites such as Virgin Holidays and Jigsaw, and at his own Manchester-based agency in the late 90s.

Carla Buzasi - Editor in Chief The Huffington Post UK & AOL UK

Carla Buzasi is Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post UK, the UK edition of the biggest news website in the US. Launched in July 2011, Carla is responsible for all editorial output and standards on the website, overseeing a team of 25 editors and staff writers, along with a pool of over 3000 contributing bloggers, collectively producing hundreds of news articles, blogs and features each week. The Huffington Post UK currently features news, entertainment, celebrity, culture, politics, sport, education and tech sections.

Karl Schneider - Editorial Development Director RBI

Karl Schneider is Editorial Development Director of RBI. His job is to ensure that RBI has the editorial strategies, teams, processes and tools required to create great content that its customers love, in whatever channels it needs to be delivered. Karl has worked for RBI-UK for more than 20 years, in various editorial roles. Prior to taking on his current role he was Executive Editor of New Scientist and before that Editor-in-Chief of Computer Weekly. Before he became a journalist Karl was a research physicist, working on nuclear fusion at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory in Oxfordshire.

Andy Baker - Digital MD EMAP 

Andy is EMAP’s Digital Development Director, and the Managing Director, Public Sector & Environment, which includes the leading subscription health brand, Health Service Journal. He is also a Board Director at EMAP. Andy joined EMAP in mid ‘11 with ten years online experience. He was Group MD, Friends Reunited, the social network, genealogy and dating business, leading it through its £25m sale in ‘10. He was Group Director, Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment, including specialist jobboards GAAPweb, SecsintheCity and TotallyLegal. He has previously worked for UBM and Guardian Media Group. Andy is a graduate of Oxford University and IMD Business School and is a non-exec on Addiply.com, a VC-backed online advertising platform for community publishers.

Duncan Tickell - Commercial Director Immediate Media Co.

Duncan is the commercial director of Immediate Media, the newly-formed company encompassing BBC Magazines, Origin Publishing and Magicalia. Previously, he was for three years Magicalia’s managing director for publishing, following senior roles at VNU/Incisive Media and Dennis Publishing.

Geoff Inns  -  VP and Managing Director UK CBS Interactive

Geoff joined CBS Interactive in 2002 and, before becoming UK MD, served in leadership positions across business development, video, product, games, and consumer tech. Geoff oversees publishing and business operations for CBS Interactive brands in the UK, which extend a 27% reach over the UK online audience.

James Bromley - Former Managing Director MailOnline.com

James was Managing Director of MailOnline for five years, during which time the business grew from being an “also ran” UK webs to become the world’s largest online newspaper, with more than 112million users each month, an incredible 6.5 million daily users and turnover of £40m pa.  It has also opened offices in New York and Los Angeles, has sales people in Australia, Canada and Ireland and has become America’s third largest online newspaper.

Deborah Sherry - Google Partnerships Director, UK and Ireland 

Deborah Sherry has over 18 years experience in the online space. She first started to work with the internet before the web began.  She has been with Google for 5 and half years and is currently Partnerships Director for the UK and Ireland and has also run the division for Southern and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to Google, she spent 7 years in the France Telecom Group, based in the UK but with a remit split across the UK and Europe, running multi-platform portal and advertising businesses and global convergence efforts.  She was Director of the fixed and mobile Orange portals and at Wanadoo UK she was on the Board and the Managing Director of the portal.  She also worked at Samsung, based in Korea, and at Citibank.

Matt McAlister - Head of Digital Guardian Media Group

Matt is GM, New Digital Businesses at Guardian Media Group. He began his online media career in Silicon Valley marketing Internet software in 1994. He then spent nine years at IDG leading the online businesses at The Industry Standard, Macworld and InfoWorld magazines. He joined Yahoo! in 2005 in the platforms division where he led several open strategy initiatives such as RSS, social media and the developer network. In 2008 he joined the Guardian in London to establish the Guardian’s APIs and to accelerate its open journalism ambitions. 

Matt is now building new businesses at the Guardian including n0tice - a mobile publishing platform.

Adam Smith - Client Partner at LBi

Adam is a client partner at global marketing and technology agency LBi, with responsibility for the running and strategic development of a large media-led portfolio as well as the evolution of LBi’s media offering in the UK.

With a media career spanning 16 years at agencies including Mindshare, OMD UK, ZenithOptimedia and CIA Medianetwork, he has extensive experience in communication planning and media delivery across all channels, both on and off line. He has worked on a wide range of clients including Unilever and COI and in that time has led teams to a variety of industry awards including IPA Effectiveness, Media Week, Campaign, Revolution, and Guardian MEGAs.

Hugo Drayton - CEO InSkin Media

Hugo Drayton is CEO at InSkin Media, the media ad technology business. Before ISM, Hugo was CEO of Phorm, the behavioural targeting firm, following 2 years as European Managing Director of Advertising.com.

Hugo worked for 10 years at The Telegraph, as Group Managing Director, and previously Marketing Director. He planned and launched Electronic Telegraph, the UK’s first online newspaper, and was a director at handbag.com, Newsplayer, Stream and Whittard. As International Director at IPC Audiotex, he launched partnerships across Europe.

Hugo’s early career was overseas with Coats Viyella (textiles) where he held Marketing & Sales Director roles in South America and Europe. Hugo is Chairman of the British Skin Foundation.

Phil Clark - Digital and Audience Director UBM

Phil oversees paid content and  product development for UBM  Built Environment, a B2B events, publishing and marketing services business. His 12-strong team combines digital skills such as project management, CMS management, analytics, design and usability with subscriptions marketing, audience development and brand marketing.

Phil has enjoyed an incredibly varied succession of roles in the past decade since beginning his B2B career as a journalist in 2000. These have spanned social media, editing, blogging, events (live and digital) production and digital development. As a result of recently fathering twins and currently refurbishing a Victorian house he drinks a lot of coffee.

Malcolm Coles - Product Director Digital Trinity Mirror

Malcolm is the product director at Trinity Mirror, aiming to deliver market-leading apps, web and mobile sites across the group's national and regional publishing brands. Before that he was an SEO and content strategy consultant. He's also been editor of Which? magazine and Which? Online. You can reach him on twitter at @malcolmcoles.