Helene Holzmann is a luxury retail consultant. She has over two decades of experience developing and delivering with some of the world's most respected, influential, and innovative brands across jewellery, watches, luxury mobile phones, and luxury leather goods. A native French speaker, she has delivered outstanding retail results in both the UK and France, including establishing a retail presence in the UK for brands such as Chaumet, Goyard, Delvaux, and Valextra. She has focused on retail consultancy since 2020, helping luxury start-ups with their strategy and private equity funds select luxury brands to invest in.

Henry Coutinho-Mason is the author of The Future Normal and Trend-Driven Innovation. His client work typically focuses on 'The Future of X' (AI, retail, work, digital, cities, travel, etc.). He has given 100-plus keynote talks and workshops in more than 30 countries – to global leadership teams at J&J, Calvin Klein, Mastercard, the Tata Group, and many more. He has served as the managing director of TrendWatching for ten years. Henry was also included in GQ's Most Connected Men in Britain list for 2016, and as the co-founder of real estate non-profit 3Space, he is an award-winning social entrepreneur – featured in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas 2019.

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.

Shom Mabaquiao is a Junior Editor for APAC at Canvas8. He’s currently taking his master's in Social Psychology at the University of the Philippines, where he inspects universal human behaviour through the lenses of his local folkways. Outside Canvas8, he writes personal essays that have been published in Adelaide Literary Magazine, Tint Journal, Rappahannock Review, and Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South, among others. When he’s not working, he’s busy doing stand-up comedy for his therapist after cry-dancing to Taylor Swift.