Born and raised in rural Crete, Andreas quit the prestigious Mathematics University of Athens to pursue his passion for Advertising at the University of Florida, graduating with High Honors. Forging a life journey from Greece to New York and from Tokyo to Taiwan, he made Malaysia his home since 2006. In his career he has built & managed several media agencies for Publicis, Omnicom, WPP and Vivendi. He is currently the Group CEO of Star Media Group Malaysia.

Andreas has served in many industry associations and advisories, university advisory boards and awards juries. He is a frequent industry speaker, and the recipient of several awards and accolades. He is a Certified Professional Coach & NLP practitioner and finds his purpose into adding value and becoming a catalyst for greater things to come.

Andrew Hunter is Facebook’s News Partnerships Lead for Australia and New Zealand. In this role, he is leading Facebook’s growing collaboration with ANZ news organisations.

Andrew began his career as a local news reporter and has worked in newspaper, magazine and digital news rooms. He co-authored the book All Your Friends Like This: How Social Networks Took Over News, which looks at the relationship between the news industry and social networks.

Cherilyn Ireton heads up the World Editors Forum, the global network for editors within WAN-IFRA. She is a seasoned newspaper professional, having spent more than 20 years on South African newspapers, as journalist and editorial manger on the country's leading titles, the Sunday Times and Business Day. She rose to be Chief Operating Officer of BDFM Publishers, the business media joint venture between Pearson, owners of the Financial Times, and Times Media in South Africa which published Business Day newspaper, the Financial Mail magazine and Summit TV. She relocated to the UK in 2005 and owned an ran a London-based media consultancy, Presslinks, which advised a variety of international organizations and foreign governments.

Danto Dewanto is a combination of planner, strategist, brand and digital person. He has been tinkering with digital stuff for over 9 years, from Content Management, Product Management, Pre Sales to Digital Strategy.

From 2008-2017, he dedicated his talent to two of the most respected media companies in Indonesia, MNC Group and Metro TV. Danto began his career at MNC Group in 2008, where he served as a Content Management Officer. From 2010-2014, he was promoted twice to become Head of Product Management and Business Support, and Head of Pre Sales.

In November 2014, Danto left MNC Group to join Metrotvnews.com as its Head of Digital Strategy Planners. He helped boost the company into a multibillion-rupiah-a-year business and doubled its size.

Danto is passionate about digital transformation, mobile and fascinated by how technology can change the way people see the world around them. He hates the typical cut-copy-paste kind of job and is always starving for innovation, despite the fact that it means experimentation and risk.

Danto enjoys listening to music. If you challenge him to play Pro Evolution Soccer, he will win.

Gary Liu is CEO of South China Morning Post, a leading English-language media company covering China and Asia. Founded in 1903, SCMP is headquartered in Hong Kong and is the city’s newspaper of record. Along with its flagship news products, SCMP also publishes Hong Kong’s premier lifestyle and fashion magazines, including Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Elle Men, Esquire and Cosmopolitan. Prior to joining SCMP in January 2017, Gary was CEO of Digg, spearheading the New York startup’s transformation from aggregator to a data-driven news platform. Previously, Gary was Head of Spotify Labs, where he led emerging technologies and business strategies for Spotify’s global markets, after joining as Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. Gary has also worked at AOL and Google.

Born in the United States, Gary grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, before returning to the American Northeast where he lived and worked for 20 years. He currently lives in Hong Kong with his wife Katrina, a pediatric dentist. Gary is an Economics graduate from Harvard University.

Ellana Lee is Senior Vice President & Managing Editor, Asia Pacific, for CNN International, and Global Head of Features Content, based in the network’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. Lee is the network’s most senior executive outside of the United States.

As head of the Asia Pacific region and its editorial output, she manages CNN's award-winning on-air news programming produced there, including the correspondents and newsgathering teams across eight operations, from Kabul to Seoul.

As Global Head of Features content across CNN International television and CNN Digital, she is responsible for the partnership between CNN’s international editorial and commercial teams, helping to drive the network’s business outside the United States. CNN’s features group is an integrated, cross-platform, award-winning creative team, producing more than 1000 hours of premium original programming every year. This encompasses long-form series, documentaries and specials for TV, digital and social platforms across eight production hubs in Hong Kong, London, Abu Dhabi, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Miami.

Under Lee’s management, CNN has received a variety of prestigious awards, including five award wins at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2018. The Royal Television Society (RTS) awarded CNN the coveted Best News Coverage International prize in 2013 for its reporting of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and this and other reporting from the region played a key role in CNN International winning the RTS News Channel of the Year in 2013 and 2012.

Lee has also received numerous personal accolades, including ContentAsia’s ‘Asia Media Woman of the Year’ in 2018 for her commitment to the news media industry. Lee was also an integral part of CNN’s coverage of the historic Inter-Korean and the Trump-Kim summits in 2019 and 2018. 

In recognition of her leadership position, Lee was named a 'Young Global Leader' by the World Economic Forum and now sits on the board of the Young Global Leaders Foundation. She is an Asia 21 fellow, as awarded by the Asia Society, and is a graduate of Harvard's 'Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century' Executive Program. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council, and sits on the advisory board of The Murrow Centre at Tuft University.

In 25+ years as a professional journalist, he worked in print, radio, TV, and online news based in the U.S., Japan, Switzerland, Hong Kong, and Singapore for the likes of CNN International, CNBC Asia, NHK Japan, ABC News Radio and others. 

Glenn currently sits on the Boards of  Asian American Journalists Association (Asia) and the East-West Center Alumni Association. He is a Past-President of the Foreign Correspondents Association of Singapore, the American Association of Singapore, and the Atlanta Press Club. Glenn is an active member of Asia Professional Speakers Singapore, the American Chamber of Commerce (Singapore), and the Singapore Press Club. Glenn co-authored “Happy Customers Everywhere” and “The American Journey in Singapore” and contributed chapters to five editions of “Living in Singapore Reference Guide” as well as to “Insights from the Inside Volume II” by the Singapore International Foundation. 

A Singapore Permanent Resident with his wife and children, Glenn is the inaugural recipient of the East-West Center's 21st Century Outstanding Service Award for his volunteer work across the region.

With more than 15 years of leadership experience in the digital media industry, James is applying his expertise towards the growth and expansion of Index Exchange’s offices and operations across Europe and new global markets.

Prior to joining Index, he was the CEO of Datacratic, a machine-learning and AI software start up. James has previously served as a consultant to large media companies including Yellow Pages Group, Rogers Digital Media and The Globe and Mail, where he worked with senior executives to establish competitive strategies leveraging the opportunities emerging from a shift to real-time, data-driven advertising.

James is a successful angel investor and serves as an advisor to several leading digital media and e-commerce start ups

Joe Martin is Vice President of commercial partnerships at Dow Jones in APAC. He is responsible for driving digital membership growth for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones through strategic partnerships.

Previously, Joe was Senior Relationship Manager for The Wall Street Journal and Financial News based in London where he oversaw the corporate sales operation across EMEA. Joe first started at Dow Jones in 2012 before relocating to Hong Kong in 2015 where he is now based. 

Joon-Nie leads the WAN-IFRA APAC team in Singapore. A lawyer by training, Joon-Nie spent over 15 years in broadcast television as a reporter, interactive producer, current affairs producer and news editor at Channel News Asia and its predecessors SBC News and TCS News. She has won several in-house awards for reporting, executive producing and best ‘live’ coverage and a Student Emmy for her Masters documentary project produced at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism while under a fellowship from MediaCorp. 

In her seven years teaching at Nanyang Technological University, Joon-Nie set up and headed Newsplex Asia, a US$700,000 convergent training newsroom and media lab in partnership with WAN-IFRA.

Besides being a Vice-President of the Singapore Press Club for over 16 years and co-founding the Hacks/Hackers Singapore chapter in 2015, Joon-Nie is also a regular speaker and trainer at conferences, workshops and industry panels both locally and abroad.

Korey Lee joined the South China Morning Post in March, 2017 to spearhead the data operations of the now 115-year-old news organization. 

Before joining the SCMP, Korey was Vice President of Analytics at KeyMe, a New York-based hardware startup that leverages computer vision technology and machine learning to provide an automated and seamless key duplication experience for customers across the US. Previously, he was co-founder and CIO of SumAll, a connected data platform for over 500,000 businesses worldwide. Prior to this, he led the business intelligence and analytics teams at AppNexus and Squarespace. Korey has also worked in various capacities at Google, including revenue strategy, sales finance, payment operations, and business analytics. He was previously with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in venture capital tax and audit.

Korey holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration, and a B.S. degree in Economics from University of California Berkeley.

Siang Kiang started out at Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) as a software developer but have since in the last 15 years project managed several high value systems selection, procurement and implementations to support SPH's Print and Digital Newsroom operations.

Mr Loke Chee Soon has over 18 years of experience in the information technology field. He began his journey with Sin Chew Media Corporation in 2011, currently designated as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and responsible for management of ICT departmental and digital advertising operations. One of his noteworthy achievement is his committed efforts which spearheads Sin Chew Media Corporation in achieving the ASOCIO Outstanding User Organization Award in year 2017.

He is also Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and holds number of security professional certifications including Certified Ethical Hacker v7, Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA), Ethical Network Security Administrator (ENSA) and CSM-Certified Secure Application Professional (CSAP).

Mat Booth spent 17 years at CNN working on projects around the world.  Working out of the Hong Kong Production centre, Mat covered the Olympic Games in Beijing, various live shows across Asia and Europe, helped set up CNN Philippines and CNN Indonesia, while always supporting the Post Production facilities back home.

Mat moved to the post of Head of Video with the South China Morning Post in 2017 to build a world class Video production unit.  Leveraging the power of social media and the latest digital media workflows, Mat has overseen an expansion of Video output to reach new viewers and experiment with new storytelling possibilities.  This has resulted in a massive rise in Video viewers and has significantly expanded the horizons of the SCMP.

All of this was done within the transformation of the SCMP from a traditional print newspaper to a global digital media service.

Norma Chu was born and raised in Hong Kong. Prior to DayDayCook, Norma was the head of equities research at HSBC Private Bank. Norma started DayDayCook in 2012 where she turned her passion for cooking into the business. In 2015, Norma brought DayDayCook to Shanghai and entered the China market.

Norma designed DayDayCook to satisfy today’s young female millennial who need for a better lifestyle and has been providing a 360-degree lifestyle experience to them. Company has three major business lines including DDCTV content, E-commerce platform and offline experience centers to form a panoramic and comprehensive brand ecosystem. DayDayCook now is the largest cooking and lifestyle content platform with 80 million active viewers, and has 6 experience centers nationwide.

Norma has raised over USD65M in venture funding for DayDayCook from investors including Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneur Fund, K11 Investments, Ironfire Captital, and 500startup.

With the achievement acquired, Norma was named as China New Media Top 100 people in 2016 and CY Zone’s 2017 Most Notable Female Entrepreneurs, and was featured in Apple Store’s Cover Story in November 2018.

For more than thirty years, Richard Gingras has led highly-regarded efforts in the development of online services, software, and new media. These endeavors range from pioneering uses of satellite networking for television, the first applications of television signals for data distribution, both pre-Web and Web-based online services, and the creation of various platform technologies. Over the last several years Gingras has focused his attention on the transformation of the media landscape.  

He serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists. In the fall of 2012, Gingras was recognized with the Manship Prize for contributions to the evolution of digital media. The Manship Prize is awarded by the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. In May 2013, Gingras gave a commencement speech at West Virginia University. Until July, 2011, Gingras was CEO of Salon Media Group which operates the popular and acclaimed news site Salon.com, the blogging community OpenSalon.com, and the pioneering virtual community The Well. Gingras has had a long association with Salon having assembled its initial seed financing in 1995. Salon was the first web-only publication.

Thanavalai Vacharaphol is the COO of Thairath Online, a digital arm of Thairath Group, a leading media company in Thailand which also consist of newspaper and TV channel. Her role is in leading Content, Product and Technology teams to deliver the best content and best experience to Thai audiences. Other than leading the news editorial team, she initiated two new brands under Thairath Online to create a community for women and youth culture, under the brand MIRROR and PEEPZ. Bringing the idea of data journalism and data visualization to Thairath Online, she aims to enrich the audience’s experience through innovative storytelling. 

Her other important role is to drive the tech team to incorporate new technology for publishers such as IA, ML, NLP to improve the efficiency of the company and ensure the best experience for the audiences. Her vision is to bring Thairath Online to be a technology-driven media company. She is eager to make sure Thairath’s brand name remains the number one media player in the country on all platforms.

Previously, she was involved in content acquisition and development for Thairath TV.

Winston Utomo is the Founder & CEO at IDN Media, the leading media-tech and content platform for Millennials and Gen Z in Indonesia. IDN Media operates IDN Times, Popbela.com, Popmama.com, Yummy, GGWP.ID, Duniaku.com, IDN Creative, IDN Event, and IDN Creator Network. IDN Media's vision is to democratize information Millennials and Gen Z.