Arthur Gallego is an award-winning expert in food and beverage marketing as well as the consumer psychology behind trends. From 2020 to 2022 he incubated an alcoholic beverage start-up for venture capital as a CEO, having often served in the past as a start-up CMO for different brands.

Gallego’s expertise also covers cosmetics, fragrances, hospitality, real estate marketing, and media, but his consultancy’s focus is on consumer packaged goods. Gallego is a sought-after expert on trends and regularly shares his perspectives with the media, analysts, and researchers. His insights have appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and on CBS News and MSNBC.

Jane is an alcoholic drinks consultant, educator, writer broadcaster, public speaker, and founder of the School of Booze. She's the author of eleven non-fiction books, including books about beer, gin, and cocktails, and is the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier). Jane is also an accredited beer sommelier and is accredited with the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

Her professional awards include former Drinks Educator of the Year and a lifetime achievement award from Britain's Parliamentary beer group for her work in beer.

Avril Treasure has been a freelance lifestyle writer for a decade, contributing to Broadsheet, Delicious, and Urban List NZ. She joined Time Out Sydney in 2022, becoming food and drink writer in 2023 and editor in 2024. Treasure explores Sydney’s food and drink scene to inspire others to eat, drink, and explore well.

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.