Georgie is a leading technology journalist and presenter of Channel 5’s The Gadget Show, testing latest devices and reporting on consumer trends. Alongside her Gadget Show work Georgie has reported for ITV Tonight, Good Morning Britain and ITV Weekend, and is a regular on The Jeremy Vine Show. Georgie also comments on breaking tech stories for the likes of Channel 5 News, Radio 5 live, talkRADIO and BBC Radio 2. Her writing credits include The Mirror, Tech City News, The Guardian, Marie Claire and Metro. 

Georgie is passionate about women working in technology and devotes time to encouraging more girls to be involved in STEM subjects. She works alongside Girls in ICT, the IET and Childnet in striving to make technology and the digital world as exciting, safe and inclusive as possible. 

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Georgie once held the world record for the longest time spent in virtual reality (VR) – 26.5 hours. And pushing the VR experience to the max she once bungee jumped while wearing a VR headset! Georgie graduated from King’s College London with a First in English Literature and has a Diploma in Radio Production.  

John Simmons is an industry-recognised expert on Web media standards. He drove Microsoft’s efforts to define DRM-interoperable encoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, the collaboration with Google, Comcast, Netflix and the W3C for HTML5 Media Extensions and a multi-year Apple collaboration to develop the Common Media Application Format. 

John’s standards evangelism across the media and entertainment industry led to the creation of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Web Application Video Ecosystem (WAVE) project, a 60-company collaboration to adopt ISO/IEC and W3C standards for streaming media on a global scale. 

John received the CTA 2017 Technology Leadership Award for the creation of the WAVE Project and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) 2019 Emmy Award for the Microsoft, Google, Comcast, Netflix and W3C “Standardisation of HTML5, Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and Media Source Extensions (MSE) for a Full TV Experience”.  

Recently retired from Microsoft, John now runs a media standards consulting business from his home in the Cascade Range foothills, east of Seattle, Washington. 

Nicola is Global Chief Growth Officer at Finecast, leading engagement with agencies and clients and building partnerships with media owners worldwide. Nicola is responsible for ensuring launch markets are set up successfully and in line with the strategic direction of Finecast, working with local market vendors and representing Finecast in global client pitches to ensure Finecast is positioned on the global stage as a leader in the future of television.

A highly respected media executive, with extensive experience across all channels, including a strong point of view on digital integration, and digital transformation, she held the position of Chief Investment Officer for GroupM Australia and Mindshare Australia prior to Finecast.

Before moving agency side, Nicola spent her career at market leading publishers in both Australia and the UK. Nicola earned a degree in Psychology at Sussex University before joining the Conde Nast sales team based in central London. In 2018, she was named the ninth most powerful woman in media by B&T Magazine, and was shortlisted as Executive Leader of the Year within the Women in Media Awards.

Bee is Director of Content Operations at Sky Studios, Sky’s production and development arm across Europe, where she is responsible for UK production management across all scripted Sky Originals, as well as broader operations across Sky Studios’ markets.  

Most recently, Bee was the architect of Sky Studios COVID Safety Guidelines for TV production as well as Sky Studios’ industry-leading Sustainable Production Guidelines; a key pillar of Sky’s ambition to become Net Zero Carbon by 2030. In addition to this, Bee currently oversees the launch operating model for Sky Studios Elstree, expected to be the world’s most sustainable film and TV studio when it opens in 2022. 

Prior to Sky Studios, Bee held a range of roles at Sky, having joined the business in 2013, including Entertainment production management at Sky Production Services, the build of Content Resource Planning and Content Supply Chain Metadata platforms. 

Andy is Senior Vice President, Global Distribution Technology for Universal Pictures based in London and has over 25 years technology experience in the media industry. Currently Andy is focused on managing the technical aspects of Universal’s premium video on-demand initiative, new innovative experiences around the purchase of digital content, immersive experiences, how artificial intelligence and machine learning can enhance the viewing experience of movies, as well as how it can help content protection initiatives.  

Innovation has been key throughout his career and recently he received a Fellowship from the Royal Television Society for his “outstanding contribution to television”. He has also recently worked as a UK Section Manager for the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and has been an active member of the Digital Television Group in the UK as well as other cross industry forums.

His previous roles include Head of Technology Planning for ITV in the UK where among other projects he was involved with was the launch of digital terrestrial television, widescreen and latterly the successful trials of high definition distribution.