David Harron is Commissioning Executive, Factual at BBC Scotland.  Recent credits include Murder Case, Inside Barlinnie, Real Kashmir FC, Yes/No: Inside The Indyref, Murder Trial, Salmond & Sturgeon: A Troubled Union and Scotland 78: A Love Story.

Deirde Ní Choistín is Director General of TG4. Deirdre was TG4’s first Head of News and Current Affairs. She was appointed in 2022 with responsibility for developing a strategy and vision for TG4’s news and current affairs. She was also Editor of current affairs series Iniúchadh TG4 and of children’s news service Nuacht Cúla4. Deirdre has over twenty-five years experience in TG4, having begun working with the station in 1999, shortly after the channel rebranded from TnaG to TG4. She was a Producer and Director for fourteen years. She established MOLSCÉAL, a popular online news and entertainment platform for TG4’s core Irish speaking audience in 2017. Prior to being appointed as Head of News and Current Affairs, she was TG4’s Communications Manager from 2019 to 2022 where she implemented an innovative new multi-platform communications strategy.

Doireann Nic Dhomhnaill is the Irish Language Broadcast Fund Manager at Northern Ireland Screen.  With a current annual budget of just over £4 million, the ILBF supports Northern Ireland based production companies to produce around 50 hours of television content which is mainly broadcast on TG4, BBC NI and RTÉ.  The Fund also supports Irish language audio content and digital content including educational resources.  The ILBF also has a large training remit and Doireann oversees a range of skills initiatives for those working or aspiring to work in the Irish language production sector.  

Geraint Evans is Chief Executive of S4C. Since joining S4C in 2019, Geraint has been News and Current Affairs Commissioner, Director of Content and Publishing Strategy and Interim Chief Content Officer. He's been responsible for developing S4C's digital news service, leading the commissioning team and developing a multi-platform content publishing strategy. Before joining the channel, he was a journalist with ITV Cymru Wales for 25 years, as a Correspondent on the current affairs series Y Byd ar Bedwar, then as Series Editor and Head of ITV's Welsh Programmes.

As Chief Executive he is a Member of the S4C Board, leads the Senior Leadership Team and chairs the S4C Commercial Board.

John Morrison is the chairman of MG ALBA, the company that partners with the BBC to deliver BBC ALBA and its digital platforms. He is also the Managing Director of Morrison Media, a leading PR, Public Affairs and Media Training company.  Previously John was Scotland Correspondent with BBC News and also had stints as Europe correspondent and Chief Political Correspondent. He continues to work as a broadcaster, presenting the award-winning Spors na Seachdain on Saturday mornings on BBC Radio nan Gaidheal. 

Justin is an executive producer for BBC NI with a range of experience across scripted and unscripted with notable credits in Feature Docs, Natural History, Specialist Factual, Sports Docs, Factual Formats and single TV Docs. Credits include: BAFTA nominated and Grierson winning Patrick Kielty: My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me, Grierson winner Wild Ireland,  Celtic Media Award winning A Different League-The Derry City Story and Road, Carl Frampton: Men in Crisis, Young Plato, Bobby Sands: 66 Days and Beauty Queen and Single (RTS). He also oversees BBCNI’s acclaimed single doc strand True North for Our Lives.

Laura is a seasoned distribution executive with over 18 years of experience from tenures at both major and independent studios; NBCUniversal, Warner Bros., Aardman.

Now working as both a distribution consultant and bespoke distributor. Laura helps clients navigate complex digital eco-systems, future proofs their global distribution models, creating audience development strategies and unlocking new revenue streams. Known for delivering actionable strategies tailored to client needs, Laura is passionate about aligning content lifecycle management with evolving consumer behaviours.

Laura is a full voting member of BAFTA and has voted for BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). 

Margaret moved to a commissioning role at BBC ALBA in 2006 after 15 years in business affairs, acquisitions and content selection for MG ALBA and became Director of Additionality in 2022 and Director of Content later that year.  MG ALBA are Scottish government funded with a remit to fund Gaelic language content.  MG ALBA operates BBC ALBA in partnership with the BBC.  Margaret oversees the strategic direction of BBC ALBA content and is the channel lead on co-production/co-finance projects.  

Mark Gordon runs Score Draw - a Belfast-based company working at the intersection between music and children's media. He co-created and co-produced the 2024 52 x 7 min Cbeebies pre-school animated series "Yukee". Described by The Guardian as "a genuinely brilliant resource for musical inspiration and education" the show featured musical guests including Lauren Laverne, Wet Leg, Femi and TJ from Ezra Collective, Tom Odell, Maisie Peters and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer. The associated "Yukee's Garden Party" album was released in April 2025 for Record Store Day,  and an accompanying BBC Sounds podcast is narrated by Guy Garvey from BBC 6 Music/Elbow. The show, which is centered around a 6 year old Chinese- Irish heritage ukelele playing girl and her gang of musical animal friends,  weaves simple curriculum based music education with fun storytelling. Marks background includes composing music for children's series for Disney Jr, Nickelodeon Jr, Amazon Kids and Netflix (including writing songs for Dolly Parton for a children's show!)

More than twenty years experience within the television business. Working for both, private and public, regional and national spanish TV stations.

Commercially oriented executive with experience in the media/entertainment industries.

Have been involved in product management, finance, marketing, rights acquisition and sales and content distribution activities.

Member of Television de Galicia´s Programming team since 2009. Deeply involved with the network programming strategy from different angles: looking for innovation, originality and talent when acquiring new content. Supervising development, production and scheduling when setting new programmes and formats to be  launched.

Responsible for dubbing coordination to galician language of any foreign content acquired by Television de Galicia, mainly animation, films and TV series.

Regarding new technologies and social media, working right now in a project to improveTelevisión de Galicia kids´ web and App with a 360º strategy to complete our children offer on traditional TV, in our secondary channel.

Always commited to explore new approaches to the exciting audiovisual business from a buyers’ perspective with a wide experience in international markets.

Pádhraic Ó Ciardha is a native speaker of Irish, former Chair of the Celtic Media Festival and Leascheannasaí (Deputy CEO) of TG4.   He was a central figure in the establishment of the TG4. He has extensive experience in broadcasting policy and journalism.  His previous  background had been in academics.    

Rebecca Harrison leads the Environmental Impact of Filmmaking project at The Open University. Her research on the Star Wars franchise’s ecological footprint has featured widely in the press (BBC and ITV news channels, The Times, etc.), and in university filmmaking courses. Her other work, including a recent book for the BFI Film Classics series on The Empire Strikes Back, focuses on power, identity, and technology in the media industries, and is cited by practitioners and academics internationally. Beyond research, she campaigns for better working conditions in higher education, and writes as a freelance film critic, mostly for Sight & Sound. 
 
The Environmental Impact of Filmmaking project is funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and The Open University, and its project partners are BAFTA albert and the National Science & Media Museum.

Seán Mac Giolla Phádraig is RTÉ's Group Head of Factual. Working alongside a team of commissioning editors, he has responsibility for a range of content, from documentaries and doc series to popular factual formats. Prior to this, Seán ran RTÉ television's in-house documentary department where he exec-produced a number of impactful documentaries and series, including Whistleblower, My Homeless Family, and the Celtic Media Award-winning The Crossing.

Sinéad Stimpfig is the Head of Commissioning at Virgin Media Television.  She is responsible for shaping and implementing VMTV's commissioning strategy across all genres for all platforms.  Since joining VMTV in 2020, she has commissioned international drama co-productions, such as Dead & Buried and Faithless. She has championed new Irish formats, including The Clinic for Well People and Help Me Buy a Home and delivered groundbreaking factual series, such as The Guards and The Brain Doctors. Before joining VMTV, Sinéad worked as a freelancer for over 15 years, producing hit series, such as Operation Transformation, Daniel and Majella’s B&B Road Trip and Super Garden.

Sioned is a Content Commissioner at S4C - Children and Learning. She commissions content for children from 0 – 16. This includes  the industry award winning brand ‘Cyw’ aimed at children up to 6 years of age,  ‘Stwnsh’ for children 7-10 and drama for the 11+ audience. She is an award-winning, bi-lingual former Series Producer and Exec with over 30 years of experience in production for S4C, BBC, and ITV. With single and multi-camera director experience in pre-recorded and live environments Sioned formerly worked across a variety of genres – factual, factual entertainment, entertainment, children, live - events and music.She is a qualified industry coach and mentor and sits on the Children’s Media Conference Advisory Committee and the Screen Skills Children’s Council.

Sioned William has worked as a producer and TV executive in both radio and television, her credits as a producer include Big Train, Game On, iDot and Yonderland. She was Comedy Commissioner for BBC Radio 4 from 2015 to 2022. Before that she held a number of high profile posts including Controller of Comedy for ITV. She has also written a number of successful novels.
At Radio 4 Wiliam nurtured some of comedy's biggest rising stars including Rosie Jones, Sophie Willan, Daliso Chaponda, Alex Edelman, Jon Holmes, Lost Voice Guy and Mae Martin, as well as established names such as Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders, Angus Deayton, Bill Bailey, Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam.
She also commissioned The Skewer, Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn and Converstations from a Long Marriage.
She is currently working as the Interim CEO of S4C.

Suzanne Kellty is Head of Children’s and Young Peoples Content at RTÉ. Suzanne Kelly has headed up the RTÉ Children’s division since 2018 with responsibility for all content commissioned and created across RTÉ’s video, audio and digital platforms for kids. Content is divided as follows;  RTÉjr, 0 – 6 years channel and RTÉ Kids,  7 – 12’s platform. As a PSM company, the RTÉ kids’ team is dedicated to delivering top quality content and ensuring that kids are represented and given a voice.Suzanne works hand in hand with Producers from the Live action, Animation & Audio sectors to deliver stand out moments for TV audio and online;  recent commissions include, drama series’ The Unreal & Louise Lives Large, Bellie & Whizz Minding Me, a series helping kids to understand and manage their emotions,  animated adventures with Doodle Girl, where creativity knows no bounds & The Scavengers, set in the year 3000 following the adventures of Arrow and his family, the first humans to live on Earth for a thousand years!  In our new podcast series, Our Sustainable Village, we meet kids from Dubin, as they create solutions to make their community a healthier, greener, happier place.
Prior to joining RTÉ, Suzanne worked as an Independent producer/director, creating & developing programme formats, script writing and producing & directing in studio and on location for linear and digital platforms.