Jasmine Richards has worked in children's publishing for over 15 years and written over a dozen books for children, ranging from picture books to teen fiction. Jasmine is the founder of Storymix, a children’s book incubator with a social purpose. Storymix focuses on putting children of colour front and centre in stories with inclusive casts of characters, through its creative projects.

Acquisitions Manager for all acquired Films and Kids content across the ITV portfolio. He has acquired and co-produced a range of live-action and animated comedies such as Detention Adventure, Lloyd of The Flies, Mr Bean and Mr Magoo. He was previously Acquisitions Executive for Channel 5.

Laura Henry-Allain MBE is an award-winning international producer, storyteller, educationalist and consultant. She is the creator of the well-loved JoJo and Gran Gran series, developed and produced by CBeebies and is the series’ associate producer. She is also executive producer on a few shows that are currently in development, including Daddio & Co. 

Her new bestselling children's book, My Skin, Your Skin, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu, explores race and racism, and empowers children to be the best versions of themselves. 

Louise is VP Programming Kids, Nickelodeon Network and Milkshake! Channel 5 UK & Ireland, with over twenty years’ leadership experience as a content strategist and commissioner. She is the kids content lead, responsible for all editorial and content strategy and sits on the Nickelodeon International Programming Council.

Selom Sunu studied MA Character Animation has since balanced a day job with freelance Illustration and Character Design. You will rarely find him without a pencil in hand, and characters are at the heart of everything he creates. He loves thinking up my own backstories, whether it’s for a brief, or for a personal project. Selom is a devoted Christian and lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Jodie Hodges is a literary agent for children’s authors and illustrators at United Agents, London. She represents award winning and bestselling creators across children’s publishing; working on stories and non-fiction for all ages from babies to teenagers.

Tom Box is co-founder and joint MD of Blue Zoo Animation. Over the last 21 years, the studio has become the biggest dedicated CG animation studio in the UK, picking up a few BAFTAs along the way. Tom has been the driving force behind the studio's use of technology to facilitate their creativity.

Tom Beattie is Head of Kids and Family programming for Tiger Aspect Productions.He is creative producer of the Mr Bean animated series and creator of Danny & Mick for CBBC. His other credits include Tinga Tinga Tales, Aliens Love Underpants, Pirates Love Underpants and Charlie and Lola.

Natalie is a Development Executive at Aardman Animations, focusing on the development and creative supervision of many of Aardman’s projects. Before joining Aardman, Natalie worked at The Walt Disney Company for several years as part of their Animation & Acquisition team. Before getting into animation, she began her career working on documentaries & factual shows.

Caroline Roberts-Cherry established Saffron Cherry TV, now Saffron Cherry Productions, in Manchester to facilitate quality entertainment and factual programming from the North-West for a global stage. She has produced over 800 hours of television and has a stellar reputation for diversity and increasing representation on and off screen of tv professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds, promoting opportunities for women and broadening the bandwidth for people with a story to tell.

Jay Grace is an award-winning director and animator with over 25 years’ experience in the animation industry. He joined Gutsy Animations in 2018, as Series Director for seasons one and two of the studio’s Emmy Award-nominated series ‘Moominvalley’ and has recently finished directing three of the episodes in Season 3. 

Tony is a writer, director, producer, executive producer and in his current role as Animation and Puppetry Genre Lead for BBC Studios Kids & Family Productions he manages large-scale projects for domestic and international markets as well overseeing the animation and puppetry development team.