Christopher Morency is the co-founder of EDITION, a strategy firm co-founded with Tom Garland. He previously held the role of chief brand officer at luxury group Vanguards and has a decade of experience as an editor at The Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety and as a consultant for Gucci, Dunhill, Marni, and Lego. Morency launched Highsnobiety’s first insights vertical, which included a white paper series with Boston Consulting Group and multiple other channels and tools that served as the foundation for the company’s next growth phases.

Elise Meng is the founder of LU~LI Research, an APAC-based research agency that studies youth culture and Gen Z communities. With 24 years of experience as a professional Gen Z herself, Elise unites young strategists, researchers, analysts, and culture-ists around Asia to work together with brands that are keen to tell the real story of who they are and what they stand for.

Born an amputee missing digits, Los Angeles-based Stephanie Thomas is a speaker, writer, disability stylist, and the founder of Cur8able, a B2B consulting business. In 2004, she created the award-winning Disability Fashion Styling System: Accessible, Smart, Fashionable, which guides her work. She is a 2021 Create & Cultivate Fashion 100 honoree, a 2019 Business of Fashion #BOF 500 fashion professional moving the global industry forward. Stephanie is also a celebrated TEDx speaker and an academic who teaches one annual fashion marketing college course. Featured in over 30 articles, she is a trusted voice at the intersection of fashion and disability.

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.