Co-founder, The Daily Aus

Australia

Zara Seidler is the co-founder of The Daily Aus and is passionate about media literacy for young people.

Creator, founder, Woody World

Thailand

Woody Milintachinda has more than two decades of experience in radio and TV. He is one of Thailand’s top talk show hosts and one of the most powerful social media influencers in the country.

Co-founder + CEO, The Daily Maverick

South Africa

Styli Charalambous is CEO and co-founder of Daily Maverick. Media entrepreneur, blind optimist, and reformed accountant.

Publisher, Frontier Myanmar

Myanmar, Thailand

Sonny Swe is CEO and co-founder of Boomerang Media Group, and the publisher of Frontier Myanmar.

Co-founder, North Base Media

Thailand

Saša Vučinić is a Serbian journalist and is the co-founder of North Base Media VC, and co-founder and former CEO and Managing Director of the Media Development Loan Fund

Strategy + policy + funding, Macroscope

United Kingdom

Sameer runs Macroscope, which works with clients, partners, and peers in the UK, Europe, and beyond to help transform and grow the public interest journalism and information ecosystem.

Co-founder, Suno India

India

DVL Padma Priya is a journalist with over 15 years of experience across journalism, digital communications and advocacy. She is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Suno India, a leading award-winning podcast network based in India.

Founder, Asia Undercovered

Japan

Nithin Coca is a freelance journalist and curator of the Asia Undercovered newsletter, covering politics, society, and environment across the region.

Founder, We, the Citizens

Singapore

Kirsten Han is a freelance journalist and activist who covers Singapore from a rights-based perspective via her newsletter, We, The Citizens. The only authoritarian regime she willingly submits to is the one run by her three cats.

Co-founder + CFO, The Kyiv Independent

United Kingdom

Jakub is a co-founder and Chief Financial Officer at The Kyiv Independent. He runs research and advisory projects with a focus on media business, distribution, and media tech. He also advises and invests in impactful media start-ups.

Founder + writer, Campuccino

Cambodia

Darathtey Din writes Campuccino, a fortnightly newsletter on all things Cambodia.

Product marketing, Meta

India

Charmaine Fernandes is a Product Marketing Manager for news at Meta. Charmaine has held content strategy and planning roles in the TV broadcast industry in India with companies like Star India, Disney India, and Viacom18.

Co-founders, Splice

Singapore

Hi, we’re Rishad Patel and Alan Soon, and we’re Splice. Splice is our media startup, and we work with the global ecosystem to help you build viable media businesses.

Creator

Mongolia

Anu Harchu is a Mongolian financial education content creator and an occasional vlogger on YouTube and Instagram.

Co-founder + CEO, Splice

Singapore

Alan Soon is the co-founder and CEO of Splice, a media startup based in Singapore that works with the global ecosystem to help people build viable media businesses.

Co-founder + head of product + design, Splice

Singapore

Rishad is the co-founder and product + design guy of Splice, a media startup based in Singapore that works with the global ecosystem to help people build viable media businesses.