Jenny Southan is the editor, founder, and CEO of Globetrender, the UK's leading travel trend forecasting agency. She’s also an award-winning travel journalist who writes for publications such as Conde Nast Traveller, Mr Porter, and The Telegraph. She previously spent ten years as features editor of Business Traveller magazine and is currently developing a high-budget TV series on the future of travel.

Cassam Looch is Content Director at global travel platform Culture Trip. With a background in film and television, Looch specialises in analysing and documenting local travel stories on a global scale. Formerly editor of Yahoo! Movies, as well as holding roles at Metro and Hello! magazine, Looch joined Culture Trip in 2016. His series 'Beyond Hollywood', which explored global film culture, won the Muse Creative Award and won Gold at the prestigious Lovie Awards in 2019.

Anna Lee is a travel and food vlogger and influencer. Running an insider guide to Seoul, she provides her followers with insights into the hottest places, foods, and experiences in contemporary Korean culture.

Anastasiia Fedorova is a senior insights editor at Canvas8. A writer, curator and cultural strategist, she specialises in art, fashion, design, technology and visual culture. Her personal work explores sexuality, identity and queer communities while interrogating our place in a world shaped by rapidly changing technologies. As an avid sci-fi fan since teenage years, she is always interested in thinking about multiple and diverse futures.

Rebecca Smith is the Head of Toolkit at Canvas8. With a background in psychology, she has worked with global clients such as Google, Nike, and Mars, exploring everything from what people want from a fake tan to Gen Z’s relationship with social media. Outside of work, you’ll find her binge-watching reality TV, listening to hyperpop, or with her nose buried in a fantasy novel.

Alex Strang is a senior insight editor at Canvas8 who used to be in a punk band that was signed, shaped, and spat out. He enjoys using his experience of being the product to help brands understand how to sell theirs. After studying philosophy and critical theory, he found his feet in the market research world and has been over-analysing consumer behaviour ever since, including his own. He can usually be found playing board games, watching Seinfeld, or trying too hard to make his daughter laugh.