Sinead was appointed Stuff CEO in August 2017, following a career of more than two decades in media in New Zealand and abroad. Prior to becoming CEO, Sinead was New Zealand Group Executive Editor for four years, responsible for New Zealand’s largest newsroom. Under Sinead’s guise, Stuff’s stable of newspapers, magazines and number one news site, Stuff.co.nz, grew to record audience numbers and was named New Zealand’s most influential publishing brand.

Sinead started her career as a reporter for The Press and gained international experience in London working as a digital journalist for the Financial Times site and as a general correspondent for Reuters’ London bureau. She was Stuff’s first digital editor, leading the growth of the young Stuff site into the largest digital brand in New Zealand.

In 2015, Sinead won Fairfax’s internal Woman of Influence Award recognising the special role she has had in advancing gender diversity, at Fairfax and beyond.

Sinead was also awarded the 2012 Wolfson Fellowship prize, the highest personal accolade in New Zealand journalism.

Sinead is a strong leader with a passion for inclusive and diverse workplaces and digitally-advanced business.

Torry Pedersen is Head of Editorial and a member of Schibsted Media's top management team. He was previously the CEO/Editor in Chief of Verdens Gang AS, Norway’s most read news-site/newspaper. He began his career as a journalist in Fredrikstad Blad 1981, and has more than 35 years of experience in journalism and publishing.

Pedersen has been Managing Editor in VG, Editor in Chief/Publisher in VG Multimedia AS, CEO of Verdens Gang AS and from 2011, both CEO and Editor in Chief of Verdens Gang AS. 

He was educated at the Norwegian School of Management (formerly the Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt), Oslo 1979 and holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He has been awarded the "Chief Editor of the Year Award" in Norway, and during his time as Editor in Chief and CEO, Verdens Gang won several prizes.

VGs is among the most profitable news organisations in Europe and its news-sites on desktop, mobile, tablet and paper, have nearly 2.4 million daily readers.

Alex Riggs-Miller is founder and CEO of SmartChain Media, a premiere media and blockchain company that is transforming entertainment. SmartChain Media is creating a platform that levels the playing field for content creators all over the world regardless of gender, language, location or race.

Although the core of his work has been around business and technology Alex has had deep passion for storytelling and the narratives that fill our world. This passion allowed him to create a platform that unites viewers and content creators, which improves the quality of entertainment and creates a model where anyone can benefit. He has also been working with blockchain technology since 2012 and considered a veteran in such a young industry, this allows him to offer great insights that bridge standard technology with blockchain in order to bring real world applications forward.

Alex Riggs-Miller has over 23 years of experience in IT consulting, business management and business consulting with a global acumen spanning 10 countries and 17 industries. He is an expert and entrepreneur in the following industries; technology, crowdfunding, entertainment, blockchain, content delivery networks (CDN), content management systems (CMS), desktop virtualization, cloud architecture (Public, Private, Hybrid), SaaS, DaaS, VoIP, VDI, mobility, and a deep understanding of web & social media platforms.

His experience comes from strategic and operational roles in some of the world’s key companies and agencies: Citrix Systems, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Goldman Sachs, NetApp, VMware, Gensler, Sprint, John Hancock Financial, Kaiser Permanente, Kaman Aerospace, DOD, CENTCOM, FDA, HHS, NIH, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, USPS, US Navy, US Army, DOJ, and GAO.

Anjali Kapoor is the Director of News Partnerships for APAC, Facebook where she supports the news industry in the region by partnering with news organizations to achieve their business and strategic goals on Facebook platforms. She is a focused digital leader with a passion for creating engaging experiences around the future of news and storytelling.

Over the past 20 years she has played a significant role in developing and growing audiences and revenue for large media and technology companies. She has been fortunate to work at the intersection of journalism, digital media and technology for companies like Yahoo and Microsoft, and for the past eight years working in traditional newsrooms helping journalists to tell their stories in new ways and build sustainable digital business models. Most recently she was at Bloomberg Asia where she developed the regional digital and business strategy for APAC and India and worked with over 600 journalists and partners across the region.

Dahlan Dahi has been a journalist for 24 years. He is co-founder of Tribunnews.com and is currently serving as Director of Tribunnews.com and VP of Entertainment News at Kompas Gramedia.

Erika Tapalla is a media professional with extensive experience in news content creation and delivery platforms. At Reuters News Agency, she leads business development initiatives, develops meaningful partnerships and brings content services to market in Asia Pacific.

Erika was an investigative TV reporter and news journalist covering natural disasters and national security in the Philippines. Holding a Journalism degree from Ateneo de Manila University, she was the first multimedia reporter in the Philippines breaking news and producing short-form video content for the web and mobile in 2008.

Glen Francis has over 20 years of technology experience and has served on a number of executive boards and forums.

Prior to SPH, he was the President and founder of CIO Academy Asia, Vice President for the IT Management Association, and President and founder of IDeationEdgeAsia. He continues to serve on the Singapore University of Social Sciences as its technology board chair. 

As Group CIO for Global Logistic Properties Limited (“GLP”), Glen was responsible for Technology across the organization’s global operations across 110 cities. He joined GLP, which has a market capitalization of approximately US$10 billion, shortly after its listing in Singapore and helped set up its technology platforms, security framework, data center, organizational, project management office, IT management office and mergers & acquisitions requirements for expansion and joint ventures.

Grig Davidovitz is the CEO of RGB Media, a company that specializes in developing journalism in the New Media age, with clients in the US, Europe and Israel. Prior to that, he was the Editor of Israel's Haaretz websites.

Jianyu (Jason) Tu, Stanford MBA, Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, Co-Founder and CEO of MioTech. Jason’s career spans across banking and tech startups around the globe. He kicked off his career at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong and has since then worked at a number of startups such as WeLab and Robinhood in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the U.S.

Joon Ian Wong manages CoinDesk’s business in Europe and Asia, based in London. He joined CoinDesk as a reporter soon after it launched in 2013, then built its events business in 2015 with the Consensus conference. He recently rejoined CoinDesk after nearly three years with Quartz as its European technology correspondent, where he worked on several noteworthy Quartz projects including its subscription newsletter, its book, and its Obsessions newsletter. He has also been a reporter in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, New York City, and Singapore. 

Kate Beddoe is the head of news and publishing partnerships in APAC. Prior to joining Google in July 2015 she had been working in the Australian media industry for over 20 years, the last 15 in digital roles in both pure digital business and traditional media companies.

Her focus is on bringing the best of Google to news and publishing partners in the region and making sure that the unique needs of the region are well reflected in Google’s approach to the news ecosystem.

As a former journalist in magazine and digital newsrooms Kate is committed to using storytelling to drive real business outcomes, for Google and it’s news partners in APAC. In her time she's created new teams, walked in to manage old ones, owned P&Ls and operated in environments where she had influence but no control. All of which makes her excited and empathic to the challenges faced in the modern news ecosystem.

When not working, Kate enjoys to spend time with her husband and two amusing children; travelling and perfecting the mix of a good espresso martini.

Kong Ho is the Technology Editor at the South China Morning Post, leading a team of reporters and editors dedicated to covering technology in Asia, with a particular focus on China.

In his previous positions at Bloomberg News, he reported and edited out of Shanghai and Singapore for over a decade. One of his last roles at Bloomberg News was leading coverage of the automotive industry in Asia.

Prior to Bloomberg, Kong Ho wrote for The Asian Banker and Singapore Press Holdings' publications - The Straits Times, The Sunday Times and Streats.

Kyoko ITO is an Associate Director of Digital Services Innovation Division who oversees digital marketing, new digital business development, international digital news services, and advertising. She started her career at a major internet provider services company as a planner/developer of new digital contents. In 2001, she moved to The Asahi Shimbun and has since built her career as a digital/mobile services producer, web marketer, digital ads developer and ads sales strategist. Her career includes a stint at the paper’s San Jose office in Silicon Valley in 2003, where her duty included the global coordination of digital news distribution, reporting on IT affairs and the management of computer servers. In 2015, she won a prize in an essay contest held by the Japan Newspaper Association with her entry entitled “Newspapers Readers Are The Source of Business and The Realization of Marketing Automation for Internet Users.” A highly-skilled administrative professional and business planner, she concurrently serves as a director of the Japan Interactive Advertising Association (JIAA). She graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies with a major in Russian and East European studies.

Mark van de Kamp heads up Escenic, a CCI-owned media tech company specializing in CMS platforms. Mark’s mission is to make digital storytelling more intuitive for the creators and more engaging for the audiences. He is one of the driving forces behind the development of CUE, the new cutting-edge digital publishing platform from CCI and Escenic.

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Michala is tasked with creating engaging content that communicates a brand’s campaign while up-keeping SCMP’s tone and values. 

Prior to joining SCMP, she spent more than eight years creating video and sponsored content for CNN International.

Nicole leads the Wall Street Journal Custom Studios team in APAC to produce content marketing, creative solutions and thought leadership in digital, print, events, and research for clients. Nicole and her team work together with the Media Sales team to drive revenue through non-traditional advertising means.

Previously, Nicole was the Head of Production for digital creative agency Razorfish in both Hong Kong and Sydney, before joining Dow Jones in 2016.

Ravi Hiranand was appointed Executive Producer of the South China Morning Post in January 2018. He is in charge of the editorial direction and content creation of Abacus, SCMP’s news product reporting all about China tech for the rest of the world.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Ravi has spent 14 years at CNN International in Hong Kong, covering a wide range of news from the Mumbai terror attacks to the Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. In 2011, he launched the network’s flagship Asia primetime show, News Stream, a global newscast with a heavy focus on technology stories.

Outside of work, Ravi can often be found flying across Hong Kong with his drone, exploring virtual worlds in video games, and building tiny worlds with LEGO.

Teymoor Nabili is a veteran international journalist based in Singapore. 

Over a 28-year career he has anchored, reported and produced news and programmes for the BBC, Al Jazeera, CNBC, CNN and Channel NewsAsia. He has reported major breaking stories from the field, including 9/11, the Asian Tsunami and the Japan earthquake, and covered global events from the studio like the Arab spring and the global financial crisis. Among hundreds of high profile interviews with political and business leaders, he has sat down with Kofi Annan, Goh Chok Tong, Hun Sen, Mahathir Mohammed, Najib Razak, Thaksin Shinawat and Chris Patten, to name but a few.

Yiling Ding is Chief Marketing Officer at Zilliqa, where she is focused on helping people better understand and adopt blockchain as a revolutionary technology. Prior to Zilliqa, she led APAC marketing for Google Pay, where she led the launch of the Google Pay brand across Asia. Her other experiences include building out the digital marketing program for Google Play. Yiling speaks fluent Japanese, Mandarin, and English, and is passionate about whisky and gaming.

Zuraidah Ibrahim is Executive Managing Editor of South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She oversees the Hong Kong, Asia and International desks and also a Sunday magazine, This Week in Asia, which won the Best News Website award from WAN-IFRA in 2017. She was previously deputy editor of Singapore’s largest English newspaper, The Straits Times. She has published several books, among them Lee Kuan Yew, Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going (2011), a monograph on the Singapore opposition (2017) and Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire (2020).