Daze Aghaji is an environmentalist and cultural strategist whose work explores identity, belonging, and our relationship with the Earth. Her activism, rooted in grief and love for the planet, led to national media attention, running for election as the youngest MEP Candidate in 2019, and a successful judicial review against the UK government. Committed to using diverse forms of storytelling to make the climate crisis feel human and urgent, Daze took this ethos to mainstream audiences through her appearance on the latest season of Big Brother in 2024. Now, she co-founded Absurd Intelligence, a narrative agency reimagining bold futures, and leads Speak Up, a storytelling and speakers agency, and Hard Art, a world-building cultural collective addressing the climate and democracy crisis.

Frank Starling is the VP, Chief DEI Officer at LIONS. He is responsible for evolving and embedding its global DE&I strategy to create a more equitable business and put inclusive thinking at the heart of the organisation. He previously served as CEO of Variety Pack, a consultancy that works with global organisations across sectors to build equitable cultures of trust, psychological safety, and inclusion. Recognised in 2020 as one of the UK's prominent Black figures by Operation Black Vote, Oxford University, and the House of Commons' Pathways to Success programme. Frank is an alumnus of Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, a certified Psychological Safety Consultant, and holds a DE&I certification from Cornell University.

Lucy Siegle is a writer, broadcaster and public speaker on ecological issues and sustainability who has been at the heart of contemporary conservation and environmentalism for two decades. As a reporter and presenter on BBC1's The One Show, she has been following the problem of single use plastic and wider ecological issues since the show began in 2007. She is author of five books including To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World? (Harper Collins 2011, nominated for the Orwell prize) and Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (and you) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again (Orion). She is co-producer and stars in the Netflix hit documentary, The True Cost.

Dr Matt Winning is a climate change comedian and expert environmental lecturer at University College London. He performs live comedy shows about global warming at festivals and events across the world, including at COP28, Royal Institution, New Scientist, Bluedot, HowTheLightGetsIn, UK Schools Climate Assembly and many more. He hosted the BBC Radio 4 series "Net Zero: A Very British Problem" and has a TEDx talk about the importance of using humour to discuss the topic, a tool which he used extensively in his debut book HOT MESS: What On Earth Can We Do About Climate Change. Matt has a PhD in climate policy, with much of his research cited in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Sam is the CEO of WaterBear: a B Corp-certified social action platform giving people the tools to do some good, and impact-led storytelling studio. Prior to joining the founding team at WaterBear, Sam was the GM of The European Nature Trust (TENT), produced content and campaigns at Nice and Serious, and trained with the BBC’s Natural History Unit. Sam is also the Founder of social enterprise DrawFor, and a Trustee of Hartswood, the Aegean Film Festival and London Breeze Film Festival. He is a passionate conservationist and photographer — and deeply committed to transforming systems across the media industry. In spare moments he can be found with his Nikon F3, or up a mountain somewhere.

Victoria Goodyear is an Associate Professor in Sport, Physical Activity and Health in the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences and Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK. Victoria is a world leading academic in school-based research on youth health and wellbeing. A key focus of her research has been on social media and digital technologies, specifically relating to how phones and social media inform young people’s mental health and wellbeing, physical activity behaviours and their learning. Victoria has received several national and international awards for her research, and she has worked extensively with national broadcast media, such as the BBC and Sky News.