Antonio Caño graduated in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. He worked for Efe News Agency and joined EL PAÍS in 1982. He was foreign correspondent for the newspaper in Mexico and Central America and U.S. Bureau Chief in Washington, where he was stationed for over 10 years, until his designation as editor. He has also been Foreign Desk chief, deputy editor in charge of the Sunday paper and magazine, and responsible of the Investigative Reporting and Analysis section. During his career he has covered, among other events, the Gulf, Falklands, Chad and El Salvador wars, the revolts against Pinochet in Chile, the fall of the Sandinist government in Nicaragua and four presidential elections in the United States. He has interviewed many presidents, chiefs of State and public figures, most recently U.S. president Barack Obama. During the last years, while in Washington, he launched the America edition of EL PAÍS, that has become a journalistic reference in the Spanish-speaking world. In May 2014 he took over as editor of EL PAÍS.

Marc Lavallee leads a desk of programmer/journalists who build software that empowers reporters, evolves new storytelling forms and creates new editorial products. He is also a board member of The Coral Project, a Knight Foundation-funded collaboration between The Times, The Washington Post and Mozilla to improve communities on news sites through open-source software. Prior to joining The Times in 2011, he developed news apps, content management systems and other Web site features at NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and National Journal.

Diego is a Digital Growth & Transformation Expert. He has vast experience in designing, structuring and leading Operations and Content teams and a proven track record of tangible audience and income uplift, both in the U.S. Hispanic market as well as in Latin America.

He is currently Regional Digital Director for Discovery LATAM & US Hispanics.

In the US, he led the Product and Strategy for Discovery DLA: tudiscovery.com and Discoverybrasil.com. Previously, he was VP of Product and Digital Operations for UNIVISION (Noticias, Deportes & Entretenimiento), Univision Connecta & UFORIA APP.

In Latin America, he was Digital Managing Director for ICCK (Digital arm of Grupo Santo Domingo), Colombia's largest and most diverse media holding, with brands such as EL ESPECTADOR, CARACOL TELEVISIÓN, BLU RADIO, GOL CARACOL, CINECOLOMBIA, SHOCK, CROMOS.

Prior to that, he was Digital Managing Director for EL TIEMPO Casa Editorial, covering the strategies of media brands EL TIEMPO, PORTAFOLIO, CITYTV, VIVEIN, ALO, MUJERES, MOTOR, REVISTA DON JUAN ABC DEL BEBÉ.

He worked in content marketing as Head of Innovation, content and operations at pioneer digital agency Indexcol for regional clients such as Coca-Cola Latin Center Division & Warner Bros Theatrical.

He has spoken at several WAN-IFRA events in Latin America and Europe, as well as INMA, SIP, Hispanicsize Miami, Silicon Beach Fest, Digital Futuro Forum Miami, and many more. 

Blending a strong background in digital and marketing with proven success in launching and managing innovative assets, Frédérique Lancien held several executive positions within international companies including Lagardère and Bertelsmann.

Her background involves running digital properties, executing new product launch programs, as well as planning and executing technologically savvy e-commerce strategies.
After 5 years in book publishing, she joined Bertelsmann in 1998 to launch the BOL.fr e-commerce website dedicated to books, music and video, as editorial and sales director.
She joined the Lagardère Active Group in 2000 as e-commerce international manager to develop e-commerce activities in France, the United-States and Japan.

She became Senior licensing and new media marketing manager in 2003, in charge of defining and implementing the worldwide licensing marketing strategy for the ELLE clothing and accessories brand and of coordinating the Group’s Internet websites. She then worked as Lagardère Active’s international digital director from 2007 to 2011, being responsible for global digital strategy in 11 countries and launch of Doctissimo websites outside France.

She joined L'Equipe Group (the leading sports media group in France) beginning of 2012 where she served as Digital and New Business Director. She managed marketing strategy and business development for all digital assets and was in charge of identifying new growth opportunities and launching new activities around sports’ practice, conferences & events. She also developed paid content offers and implemented acquisition and loyalty programs. She was appointed Strategy and New Business Director of L’Equipe group beginning of 2015.

Ben is a leading expert on digital media, and at WAN-IFRA he has the task of providing independent advice on digital strategy and organisational change. He will also lead the various WAN-IFRA initiatives to support the media industry in its transformation.

Previously, he was Shaw Media's Chief Digital Officer, and focused in driving digital revenue and audience for their digital products in the United States. Shaw was also the company’s CTO and previously IT Director. He oversaw the alignment of all technologies to Shaw’s audience and revenue growth strategies. He was also actively involved in optimizing Shaw Media's over 100 print and digital publication products and workflows. He is a licensed Apple iOS Developer and an Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist.

Jason leads a senior team of Partner Managers who work exclusively with Google's largest Publishing Partners operating around the world in the News and Local Media Space. Jason's team facilitates and strategizes with those partners to ensure optimal use of Google products, and Google partner solutions to drive maximum revenue and profitability. Jason joined Google as a function of Google's 2008 acquisition of DoubleClick, where hewas Vice-President of Strategic Accounts. In this capacity, he and his team managed partnerships with DoubleClick's largest global Publisher and eCommerce accounts. Prior to DoubleClick, Jason was among the originating executive staff at Turn Inc., a leading demand-side-platform and data management company.

Aaron leads partnerships and content strategy for Google Cardboard. The most impressive surprise in Cardboard's short lived success is in the incredible brand engagement and eagerness for companies from all over the world to work with Cardboard. Previously Aaron was on the YouTube New Business Development team and helped launch 360-degree video on YouTube for unique storytelling.

Manuel is currently the Chairman and Director General of Grupo Expansion in Mexico, a media group composed of 17 magazines and 12 websites, one of Mexico’s most influential media companies, and a reference of ethical journalism. In 2000 he joined Grupo Expansion (GEX) as Director of Sales and has participated in the development and implementation of more than 20 publications and websites ever since. In 2005, he was promoted to CEO and as part of the senior management participated in the sale of the company to Time Inc, and subsequently as Director General (since 2008) in the successful sale to Southern Cross Group. Since 2006 he has taken Expansion Group to a digital revolution, with the launch of several successful websites and the acquisition of leading platforms (Mediotiempo.com and Metroscubicos.com), which GEX has managed to take to the next level, positioning itself as a major player in the space of the digital age. Currently, GEX is one of the most succesful companies in multi-platform & digital migration, with more than 30% of its sales and 75% of its nearly 37 million-strong audience coming from its digital media platforms (web and mobile).

Gail is Head of Business Development for BBC Global News Ltd, the division that manages the BBC News digital and TV business outside of the United Kingdom. This includes bbc.com and BBC World News TV. She is responsible for setting the BBC News digital partnership strategy internationally, as well as for directly managing a number of key strategic and commercial relationships, including with social media platforms. In her previous role at the BBC she was Head of Mobile and Emerging Platforms, working with news teams to innovate around emerging devices with a focus on mobile and smart TVs. She has also worked in the BBC World Service where she was responsible for delivering reach, brand awareness and revenue for BBC’s multi-lingual news services via off-platform distribution. Prior to joining the BBC, Gail spend many years working in book and magazine publishing.

Luke Miller has worked for Yahoo! designing native mobile experiences. He has a master’s degree in Information Science and brings expertise on users motivation and behavioural psychology. He is inspired by the methods of B.J. Fogg, the father of contemporary product-mediated behaviour change and director of the Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford. Miller became the first ever dedicated mobile employee at the Wall Street Journal, where he stayed for 3 years, before moving to Yahoo! He also teaches at Parsons and General Assembly and co-founded Tumbleweed, a mobile storytelling app.

Craig co-founded Rigor, LLC in 2010 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. He is responsible for product management, marketing, sales, and operations. He is an entrepreneur with a decade of experience in Application Performance Management. He served as a Solutions Consultant for Compuware/Gomez where he designed and implemented application performance solutions for the Fortune 100. Before that, he provided the Fortune 1000 and government agencies with systems to test and manage their networks while at Network Orange. He is active in the ATDC at Georgia Tech and can be found on the pitch with Atlanta Old White Rugby Football Club.

Miguel is Corporate Technology Manager & CSO at Grupo Clarín, the leading Spanish speaking media group worldwide, since 2007. Prior to joining Clarín, Miguel was CTO at PRIMA, the first internet access and content provider of Grupo Clarín in Argentina. Today Miguel is leading the seven companies part of Clarín group to a consolidated audience strategy: AGEA, CMD, Los Andes, La Voz (publishing sites), TyC Sports, Cablevisión (Broadcasters), and Radio Mitre (Radio), which together they accumulate more than 70 MM unique users and more than 800 MM page views monthly. Miguel is graduated in Electronic Engineering from Buenos Aires University, and has Master Degree in Business Administration from Universidad Austral.

In-depth expertise in Engineering and IT Management, strategic business-planning and development, process and product improvement, R&D, and operations. Experienced professional on startup environments with track record of leading expansion for multi-unit operations. Specialties: Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management of highly geographically distributed teams, Software Business Models including Open Source, Server architecture, Ajax, API designer, Concurrent Computing, Distributed Computing

Passion for monetisation and profit, working with cross-functional teams, transfer corporate objectives into market and customer actions, command of international business protocols and experience conducting business with foreign partners, customers, governments and executives across the globe.

Former employee of Apple, Adobe, Quark, Founder of One Latam, a consulting firm offering products and services to a vast array of companies and organisations with publishing needs. Always looking into the future, they are constantly searching for advances in technology that will push their clients to be leaders and innovators in their field.