Andrea is an award-winning news broadcaster and journalist with over 25 years’ experience as national TV and radio presenter. She is currently a BBC Radio 4 presenter and documentary maker. She regularly presents news and current affairs programmes including The Media Show, Last Word, Any Answers and Woman’s Hour.​

Andrea hosted Bloomberg Television’s business programme The Pulse and was the main anchor of ITV’s Weekend News. Andrea has also anchored bulletins for Channel 5, NBC Asia and CNBC Hong Kong. As ITN International Correspondent Andrea was the first British television journalist to visit Guantanamo Bay. She has reported live from Iraq, Kosovo, Gaza and Afghanistan.

Dan is one of the UK’s best-known television presenters and the creative force behind History Hit TV, a video-on-demand history channel which builds on the success of the UK’s most successful history podcast, Dan Snow’s History Hit.

Dan’s TV career began in 2002 when he co-presented the BBC’s 60^th anniversary special on the Battles of El Alamein with his father, veteran broadcaster Peter Snow. Dan and Peter then went on to present the BAFTA-winning Battlefield Britain. Dan has since written several history books and has presented numerous history series and special events for the BBC. He is a regular face on BBC One’s The One Show.

Dan is on a mission to reinvent how history is told in the digital age through video, podcasts, online articles and more. He travels the length and breadth of the country to keep up with the cutting edge of history, talking to experts, historians, and the people who were actually there.

Andy is Conservative MP for Warrington South. Elected as an MP in 2019, Andy is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group, a leading forum for discussion on media policy matters.

A former journalist at commercial radio stations around the UK, Andy launched several radio stations in the 1990s having won commercial radio licences. In 2001 Andy joined the Guardian Media Group, initially as the programming director of their radio business in Leeds. He was appointed managing director of its Welsh radio interests in 2003 and spent five years working in Cardiff.

Andy played an instrumental role in the launch of Smooth Radio around the UK, based at MediaCity in Salford he worked with teams in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Nottingham and in 2010 he became the Group MD. In 2014 Andy left radio to launch his own consultancy business, working with retailers to grow their private-label ranges and introducing new brands to the UK.

Alongside work in business, Andy has spent time as the deputy chair of Warrington and is a parish councillor in Lymm. He is also a multi-academy trustee and chair of a regional advisory board on alternative provision in education. He also sits as a magistrate on the Merseyside bench.

Gonzalo de la Vega is the General Manager of EMEA at Fastly, where he is responsible for driving the growth and development in-region.

He has worked on most sides of the value chain, including digital music at Sony Music, music apps at Microsoft, and networks at Telefónica.

Previously, Gonzalo served as CEO of Nice People At Work and SVP of Sales at Musiwave.

Maria leads the strategic development and manages the day-to-day operations of a team of analysts tracking the evolution of global service providers and operators. She created the team while at Screen Digest, now part of IHS Markit.

Maria has participated in several leading reports and has led or been a significant contributor to many consulting projects for high profile media and technology companies.

Maria holds a first-class degree in Economics and Business Studies from Vigo University, Spain, and an MBA with distinction from Cardiff Business School, UK. She has received several awards, including an Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement and the 2015 Research and Analysis Excellence Award.