Alex Mahon is the Chief Executive of Channel 4, a publicly owned and commercially funded public service media organisation that creates change through entertainment. Under Alex's leadership, Channel 4 has transformed into a digital-first public media company with the UK's biggest free streaming service and one of the largest social media brands for young people in the UK. During this period, Channel 4's public ownership has been secured, its impact across the nations and regions has grown, and its investment in skills has opened up the sector to those aspiring to a career in television and film.

Alex is a passionate supporter of equitable representation and is committed to championing women's health at work. Prior to Channel 4, she was CEO of Foundry and before that of Shine Group. She has also worked at Talkback Thames, Fremantle Media Group and RTL Group. Alex started her career as a PhD Physicist with a stint at CERN before moving into launching internet businesses. Alex is currently a member of the UK Creative Industries Council and an ambassador for London Tech Week. She is a Non-Executive Board Member of Chanel Inc and has been on the Advisory Board of Salesforce.

As Managing Director, YouTube UK & Ireland, Alison is responsible for working with Government & Policy Makers and partnering with creators, brands and the music industry to ensure that YouTube remains at the forefront of the creator economy.

Alison has spent her career at the intersection of technology and creativity, both in the public sector working for Government departments including MI5 and Foreign office and in advertising agencies before joining Google in 2011 where she led various commercial & creative teams.  In January 2023 Alison joined YouTube as Managing Director, UK & Ireland. Inside and outside of Google, she is a diversity champion, a member of WACL (Women in Advertising & Communications, Leadership), Director of Trans in the City and has played an integral role in the acceleration of women’s football.

As UK Content Vice President, Anne leads the teams across all genres - scripted series, film, unscripted, documentaries and licensed programmes.

Mensah joined Netflix in 2018 and oversees all Netflix UK commissions including BAFTA, Emmy & Golden Globe award-winning Netflix drama The Crown and BAFTA award-winning Netflix series Sex Education.

Prior to this, she was Director of Drama and Sky Studios at Sky UK. Before joining Sky, Anne served as Head of Independent Drama at the BBC as well as Head of Drama for BBC Scotland. Anne has commissioned a wide variety of internationally acclaimed dramas such as BAFTA award-winning Patrick Melrose starring Benedict Cumberbatch for Sky/Showtime and BAFTA and Emmy award-winning Sky/HBO drama, Chernobyl.

Anne is a trustee of Into Film, Vice President of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, trustee of Mission 44, as well as a member of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

Ben Lumsden is an expert in the film, television and games industries. He has spent his career at the intersection of creativity and technology in media and entertainment. For the last six years he led the European film & TV team at Epic Games, supporting projects like Barbie, House of the Dragons, Match of the Day, 1899, and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.

Prior to Epic, Ben worked in virtual production on films and games such as District 9, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla, and Star Citizen.

Caroline O'Neill is an award-winning Disabled Assistant Commissioner working with BBC Daytime and Early Peak. She has over 20-years of TV experience spanning productions such as Joe and John Bishop: Life After Deaf, The Rap Game UK, Disability & Abortion: The Hardest Choice and Living the Cornish Dream. Her current slate includes Escape to the Country, SAS: Capturing the Criminals and Richard Osman's House of Games. Caroline is also co-director of Deaf & Disabled People in TV, who were the recipients of the Grierson Hero of the Year Award 2023.

Mayor of West of England, Dan Norris loves our part of the world. He grew up here and went to school here. He previously worked across the area as an NSPCC trained child protection officer and local MP as well as running his own businesses. For the last thirty years, Dan's home has been near Pensford. He and his cocker spaniel love taking walks in the area!

Dan supports Bristol City whose ups and downs have been the perfect training for politics. His deep local roots mean he knows where we live is a unique and wholly special place. Dan is very proud and hugely ambitious for our area.

Dawn is responsible for developing and leading plans to drive the strategy for commissioning roles at the BBC, working closely with the Senior creative team, along with Indie Relations, Resourcing and Creative Diversity to support a holistic approach to off-screen talent across the Content group. Dawn also works with external partners to support the short and long-term health of skills and culture across the UK's creative industries.

Previously Dawn was at independent producers CPL Productions and Arrow International Media, and has a huge range of experience across the media industry in roles across talent development, commissioning and production, as well as offering training and consultancy to a wide range of companies and bodies across TV and Radio.

Denise Seneviratne is Commissioning Editor, Non-Scripted UK originals for Channel 5 and Paramount+. Reporting to Chief Content Officer Ben Frow, Seneviratne is responsible for expanding Paramount's factual slate.

Amongst her commissions for Channel 5 are Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial; The Yorkshire Ripper's New Victims, Happy Campers, Big Brits Go Large, Inside Tesco: 24/7 and Carpound Cops. She has continually developed the channel's popular Bargain Loving Brits brand to include '…By the Sea' for daytime. More recently, Seneviratne commissioned the ambitious three-part series, Ice Age. Channel 5.

Eli Beaton is Project Lead at the TV Access Project (TAP), an alliance of ten of the UK's biggest broadcasters and streamers who have pledged to work together to create a substantive and permanent structural shift to ensure access provision for Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent talent. Its vision is to see full inclusion by 2030.

Prior to TAP, Eli was Disability Lead at thinkBIGGER! where she had the opportunity to work closely with organisations such as BAFTA & ScreenSkills to develop disability inclusive practices. Glasgow based Eli freelanced as an unscripted TV Producer for ten years and has worked on productions such as Question Time, Ready Steady Cook and Dispatches. Eli was named as a One to Watch at Edinburgh TV Festival 2023 and sits on the Board of Disability Arts Online and the Committee for the Disability in Journalism Forum.

Emily started out as a Producer and Director before becoming Creative Director and then Managing Director at Banijay-owned Darlow Smithson. She left the company in 2020 after doubling its turnover and set up Factual Fiction with her husband Tom, who is a writer, producer and director. Emily has a reputation for originating and delivering genre-crossing ideas like Channel 4 drama 'The Mill', ITV's 'Torvill and Dean' and the BAFTA-winning documentary 'Richard III: The King in the Car Park'. Emily runs Factual Fiction's non-scripted slate and Executive Produced The Greatest Show Never Made for Amazon.

Emily and Tom work hard to bring a sustainable approach to their productions and recently became the UK's first off-grid production company.

Fiona's focus is on launching shows that attract the UK under 35 audience in scripted and unscripted. Her work also involves the social media and off platform journeys that can drive a show's success.

BBC iPlayer is the home of youth skewing titles such as RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Glow Up, The Rap Game UK, I Kissed A Boy as well as scripted shows such as Dreaming Whilst Black, Man Like Mobeen, Normal People, BAFTA winning Mood from Nicole Lecky and the forthcoming Boarders ( ALL3Media ), Kidnapped (BBC Studios) and Good Girls Guide to Murder (Moonage Pictures).

Previously Fiona was Digital Director of BBC News working on BBC News content and partnerships with global platforms such as Facebook, Snap, Apple, Twitter and Jio. In her early career Fiona produced current affairs documentaries internationally including, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Africa and Asia and was also a Commissioning Editor on Channel 4 News in the UK.

Gavin Strange is a Director and Designer for the UK's beloved creative studio Aardman. Working there for over fifteen years, Gavin's creative output ranges from title sequences to channel idents, short films to Christmas ads and everything in-between. He directed the multi-award winning 'Turtle Journey', an emotional and impactful stop-frame short film for Greenpeace about the plight of the oceans.

His work is diverse in nature, but all held together of a common thread of fun and high energy. By night he goes under the alias of 'Jamfactory', indulging in all manner of passion projects, from filmmaking to illustration, music to photography.

Gavin is a keynote speaker and has spoken around the world, from Mexico to Manchester, the Middle East to Munich. After speaking at the Do Lectures in 2016, he wrote the book 'Do Fly', a motivational mantra published by The Do Book Company.

Plimsoll's BAFTA, Academy and Emmy Award-winning team specialize in wildlife, documentary, live and factual entertainment shows and it is a global leader in natural-history programs. Credits include the Emmy Award-winning James Cameron-executive produced and Benedict Cumberbatch - narrated Super/Natural (National Geographic/Disney+), Emmy-nominated Animal (Netflix), Awkafina-narrated A Real Bug's Life (Disney+), Night on Earth (Netflix), Tiny World (AppleTV+), Handmade: Good with Wood (Channel 4), as well as the highly anticipated Arctic Ascent with Alex Honnold (Disney+), among many more.

Before launching the company, Mansfield spent three years in Los Angeles as CEO of Zodiak USA. Prior, as Managing Director of RDF, based in London, credits included Ladette to Lady, Gene Simmons Rock School and Dickinson's Real Deal.

Before that, as Head of Programmes at Granada TV, Mansfield was responsible for the launch of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

Helen is Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment at UKTV, home of channels including Dave, W, Gold and Yesterday. Since joining the multi-channel broadcaster in 2015 as Commissioning Editor, Helen has executive produced shows across the network and has commissioned the award-winning Emma Willis: Delivering Babies and Women On The Force for W, French and Saunders: Funny Women for Gold and Hornby A Model World for Yesterday.

Prior to joining UKTV, Helen was Head of Factual at Gogglebox Entertainment where she executive produced Singing In The Rainforest for Watch and Young War Widows for ITV. Before that, she was Head of Popular Factual at IWC Media executive producing shows such as Location, Location, Location for Channel 4, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green and Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure for Channel 5.

Hilary Rosen leads UKTV’s team of commissioners, overseeing UKTV's growing slate of original content. Hilary has commissioned some of UKTV's biggest successes including BAFTA-winning show Taskmaster and award-winning Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable. While running the Factual and Factual Entertainment slate, she and her team commissioned breakout hits Emma Willis: Delivering Babies, Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over, the double BAFTA-winning Big Zuu's Big Eats, Blackadder: The Lost Pilot, and the Bangers and Cash franchise. As Director of Commissioning, her team has delivered hit shows including The Marlow Murder Club, Annika, Battle in the Box, and At Home with Katherine Ryan. Prior to UKTV Hilary was creative director at Silver River, and a senior executive producer at Lion Television having begun her career in BBC News and Current Affairs at Panorama. Hilary is Chair of the BAFTA Television Committee and is passionate about mentoring women in television.