Lisa, China Luxury and Beauty Editor at Jing Daily, investigates Chinese consumer trends and brand strategies in luxury, fashion, and beauty. She leads the biweekly Jing Beauty newsletter, covering industry moves and trends. Her biannual beauty trends forecast is a top read on Jing Daily, offering insights into China's growing beauty and wellness market.

Rhea Cartwright is a strategy consultant and ex-beauty editor working with brands to start, scale, or stay relevant in the ever-changing beauty landscape. Currently charged with reshaping the beauty vision at Liberty London, Cartwright works with and advises brands across product development, marketing, distribution, and creative pillars.

Kayla A. Greaves is an award-winning journalist, beauty expert, consultant, and speaker with over a decade of media experience. She was previously the executive beauty editor at InStyle and has held positions at Bustle and The Huffington Post. Greaves has interviewed the likes of Pharrell, Gigi Hadid, Jennifer Lopez, Naomi Campbell, Halle Berry, and many more stars. She has also starred in brand campaigns for SheaMoisture, Ulta, and T.J.Maxx. She has consulted for various businesses under the Unilever, Procter & Gamble, and Estee Lauder Companies portfolios. From 2019 to 2022, she worked with Dove and Harvard University as an expert advisor to publish the Real Cost of Beauty Ideals study.

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.