Louise Rice

Executive Producer at TouchPress, where she develops apps that consistently remain at the forefront of storytelling innovation. Producer of Disney Animated, Apple’s Best App of 2013. Louise has over thirty years of publishing experience internationally, including Publisher and Merchandise Director for the National Gallery Company, Interim CEO at Lonely Planet, and roles at Rodale Books International, Oxford University Press, and Britannica.

@louise_rice
www.touchpress.com

Alastair Horne

Social Media and Communities Manager for Cambridge University Press’s English Language Teaching division. Alastair is the author of the Media Futures report on the Future of Publishing and has worked in digital publishing for more than a decade. He speaks regularly at publishing events, has taught classes on numerous publishing courses, and writes regularly for industry blogs and journals.

@pressfuturist
www.pressfuturist.com

Eric Drass

Acclaimed artist and curator, working through a range of media including paint, digital installation, and generative experiments that live on the net.

Eric’s work explores themes like artificial intelligence, big data, and the relationship between humans and machines. Sometimes this work is political, frequently it is playful, often it is provocative or transgressive in some way.

@ErocDrahs
shardcore.org

Ed Lake

Deputy editor of Aeon.co, a popular website about nature, culture and ideas, which he helped to found in 2012. Previously he was deputy editor of The Review, a cultural supplement of The National. He has worked in journalism, whether print or online, for more than a decade.

@ejklake
Aeon.co

Dr. Luciana Radut-Gaghi

An associate professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, near Paris, with a distinguished career in academia and communications. Since September 2014, she has coordinated LEMEL, a group of eight teams that conduct research into European online media. Her areas of expertise are journalism, sociology, and political and media discourse. Her book, Diasporas, Exiles, Cosmopolitanism was published earlier this year.

@lradgag
University of Cergy-Pontoise

Chris Helm

Founder of Inkvite, a collaborative social writing platform, which he has nurtured and launched to the Appstore and beyond. Chris also consults to a wide variety of businesses from tech start-ups to collection societies, and builds tech products through the company 76things.

@Inkvite
www.inkvite.me

Seb Emina

Editor-in-chief of The Happy Reader, an international magazine about reading and books by Penguin and Fantastic Man. Released quarterly, or ‘seasonally’, The Happy Reader was launched in November 2014 and is available to subscribers for just the cost of p&p. Seb is the co-author of The Breakfast Bible, a breakfasters’ compendium published by Bloomsbury, and formerly ran the digital operation for Artangel.

@sebemina
thehappyreader.com

Adam Banks

Tech journalist with two decades’ experience writing, editing, designing, teaching, and more, including esteemed positions at Computer Buyer, the University of Sunderland, and several leading tech titles. Adam is former editor-in-chief of MacUser, a monthly computer magazine delivering the most up-to-date tutorials, news, and reviews – also the UK’s longest established Apple magazine. An authority on tech­nology and magazine publishing, and head of Vast Landscape Ltd.

@AdamBanksdotcom
adambanks.com

Matt Potter

As a journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker, author and head of content at global content agency John Brown Media, Matt’s commitment to powerful storytelling has taken him from BBC radio to Hollywood, via investigative work in Afghanistan and Russia and omnichannel projects for some of the world’s biggest brands. His non-fiction books, Outlaws Inc.: Flying with the world’s most dangerous
smugglers, and F*** You & Goodbye: A History of the resignation, were both bestseller-listed. He lives in London

@MattPotter
johnbrownmedia.com