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Conz is originally from Argentina but grew up bouncing around all over the world. She landed in Brooklyn where she met her husband and had a baby boy. Before her role at Mother.ly as editor for MotherlyStories, she was at Buzzfeed where she was the Regional Director of the Americas, launching Buzzfeed Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain and LATAM. Before that she held positions at Univision, Mashable and MySpace.
Ismael is the is the author of the newsletter Tendenci@s, launched in 2017 and now reaching more than 9,000 subscribers, as well as co-author of the newsletters Hoy en internet and On the Net Today. He has written five books, including La Reinvención del New York Times (2017) and Clarín, actualizado (2023). He serves as Vice President of the Executive Board of SembraMedia, an international non-profit supporting digital media entrepreneurs. He was Director of National Geographic España from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as journalist in residence at the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin during the 2016–17 academic year.
Dr. Mario R. García is Senior Adviser on News Design and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and the CEO and Founder of García Media, a global consulting firm specializing in newsroom transformation, design strategy, and mobile-first storytelling.
Focusing on creative and strategic direction, Anne Bourgeois-Vignon’s interests lie at the intersection of innovation, media, news, arts & culture. Currently Executive Creative Director of Culture Trip, a travel, culture and media platform, she spearheads content strategy and development. She previously held the role of Global Digital Director at Magnum Photos where she launched magnumphotos.com as a new platform for visual storytelling and photojournalism. Anne has also held roles as Creative Content Director of NOWNESS and Photography Director of Forward Publishing (WPP Group).
Penny Riordan is the Director of Business Strategy and Partnerships for Local Media Association. She runs the LMA Digital Club, including two web conferences per month where members collaborate with industry peers on important digital revenue, product, audience and content topics. Penny also supports the work of the Oklahoma Media Center and LMA’s new initiative on locals news startups with the Tributary in Jacksonville, FL.
Selymar Colón is an award-winning journalist and the Managing Director of Platea Media in Puerto Rico. A digital media leader, she previously served as Executive Director for Digital at GFR Media, where she led digital editorial and reader revenue strategies for El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora. A pioneer in newsroom innovation, Colón was instrumental in integrating social media and digital video into traditional newsrooms, building multimedia teams that bridged broadcast and digital. In 2022, she joined the Board of Advisors. for the Center for Media Integrity of the Americas, contributing her expertise in trustworthy journalism and digital transformation.
Joss is a subscription and membership-marketing consultant with over 20 years’ experience of acquiring and retaining customers in the media and e-commerce sectors.
During the course of her career, Cripps has developed hundreds of marketing programmes designed to reach, acquire and engage audiences, and has worked for several blue-chip brands including Amazon, the Financial Times (FT), News UK and Sky.
At the FT, in the role of EVP, B2C Global Marketing, she was responsible for print and digital subscriptions revenue growth. During her tenure, she commercialised the FT digital subs paywall globally, conducted testing and analysis that led the publisher to make its successful transition from metred access to paid access and
Whilst at the FT, over the course of a decade, Joss undertook several global assignments taking her to Asia and North America. Joss returned to the UK in 2015 and joined Amazon to run their loyalty engagement programme ‘Subscribe and Save’ with a pan-EMEA remit.
In 2017, recognising the emergence of a new subscriptions-based economy, Joss established a consultancy business which helps brands optimise their recurring revenues. Given her background, not surprisingly, much of her focus has been on servicing clients in the publishing sector – devising paywall strategy and how to efficiently acquire and retain digital audiences.
When she’s not consulting, Joss lectures on digital marketing strategy and customer insight for the Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM) and enjoys mentoring and guiding the pivotal career decision points for professional women.
Gregor Waller provides consulting services to international media businesses for developing their digital strategy and transforming their business models for the digital era.
Tras una exitosa etapa como Chief Digital Officer de N+, donde lideró la transformación digital del referente en información noticiosa en México (Canal 2, Foro TV y N+ Media), Diego regresa a su consultora gig Company como CEO y socio fundador.
