Janine Warner is a journalist, author and a pioneer in digital journalism. Over the last decade, she has worked with thousands of journalists and digital media entrepreneurs and traveled extensively to speak at events and universities.
David Walmsley is the Globe and Mail’s editor-in-chief and current President of the World Editors Forum.
He is the creator of World News Day, a global day of education involving more than 800 newsrooms on five continents explaining the role of journalism and how it can make the world a better place.
Under his editorship, The Globe and Mail has won the annual Canadian Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism five times as well as dominated the annual National Newspaper Awards.
Ezra Eeman is Strategy and Innovation Director at NPO, the Dutch Public Broadcaster, and leads the WAN-IFRA AI in Media initiative. He also serves as lead advisor to the 2024 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge. Ezra writes a weekly industry newsletter, Wayfinder, about media innovation and is the author of the annual “Wayfinder Trends Report”. Previously, he served as Change Director at the international media company Mediahuis, where he was responsible for coordinating newsroom transformations and digital acceleration across a wide range of cross-media brands. Before that, Ezra was the Head of Digital at the EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, and has held positions at VRT (the Flemish public broadcaster) and VTM (the Flemish commercial broadcaster) as innovation lab head and editor-in-chief, respectively.
Juan Carlos Rincón Escalante is a journalist and three-time winner of the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award. He is also a best-selling author, university professor, lecturer, and lawyer with a Master’s degree in Law (Research) from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). He works as the Opinion Editor of the newspaper El Espectador (Colombia). There, he helped create several digital projects, including La Pulla and La Puesverdad, which have over a million followers and hundreds of millions of views. In 2020, together with Cecilia Ramos, he published the illustrated book “La depresión (no) existe” (Depression (Does Not) Exist), which has sold over 20,000 copies and is in its 16th edition in Colombia, and it was also published in Spain and Mexico. He was a professor of Opinion Journalism at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá for five years and also taught at the Universidad de los Andes.
