Anna Sulan Masing is an academic and a food, drink, and culture writer. Her PhD explored identity and storytelling. She co-founded Sourced, a public research project that explores people's relationships with food and drink. In 2021 she launched the global magazine Cheese along with three other food and media professionals. Anna Sulan is one half of the podcast and event series Voices At The Table.

Ian Moss is a technology consultant, start-up mentor, and founder of 196destinations.com – the community for making it a little easier to travel by train.

Dr. Jonathon Day is an associate professor at J.W.Marriott Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management. He has over 20 years of experience in destination management, sustainable tourism, and destination marketing.

Sabrina Faramarzi is an international journalist, trend analyst, and data storyteller. Her work explores patterns across sociocultural phenomena through a future-focused lens, with an interest in new media development and storytelling innovations. Faramarzi has worked and written for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue Business, Wired, and VICE, and has helped brands such as Google, Meta, Airbnb, Lush, Tempur, Regus, and GSK to create relevant content for their audiences. She founded Dust in Translation, a boutique creative storytelling agency helping organisations build and produce innovative, data-driven content and communications strategies.