Kyle Monk is the CEO of Consumer Industries, a consumer and retail market advisory. He was previously the global consumer knowledge lead at RRA and the director of insight for the British Retail Consortium. Throughout his career, he has led teams of market experts and economists who report on industry trends and act as the benchmark for retail, product, and service. Monk has over 15 years of retail industry experience and led the market intelligence function at Planet, a multinational retail fintech organisation.

Gilly Smith is an award-winning food writer and podcaster with a career spanning over 30 years. Her weekly podcast, Cooking the Books with Gilly Smith, features interviews with top food writers and covers all of life through the prism of food. A food podcasting pioneer, The delicious.podcast, which she produced and presented for Delicious Magazine, was the first podcast to be nominated for a Fortnum and Mason Award in 2017. She has written an array of books, mainly discussing the influence of culture on food in its various forms, as well as a number of articles for national titles and academic journals.

Maddy Alexander-Grout is a TikTok trainer who helps people who are just starting to get to 1k followers and beyond with simple strategies and free bi-weekly training. She utilises her expert knowledge of the platform to teach others how to build up a content plan, get the right hashtags and even hack the algorithm.

Kat Romero is a writer and journalist with over a decade's worth of experience in the industry at a national level. She's worked across multiple sectors within journalism, focusing on lifestyle, consumer trends, health, relationships, and parenting content.