Music and radio are among the most beautiful things in life. I am very happy that both play an important role in my life and are closely intertwined. Radio may be an old medium, but however it is consumed, it is still that reliable and human medium that is a wonderful companion for many people throughout the day and throughout their lives. Especially when you make radio for discerning contemporary listeners, make broadcasts that never underestimates the audience. Radio is made by people for people. Radio is not just a playlist generated by a computer, radio comments, accompanies, surprises, stimulates the imagination and is made by people who speak to you. As head of the music department at the Austrian cultural station Oe1, I am responsible for ensuring that over 400 concerts a year are recorded and broadcast throughout the country. This makes cultural diversity and the rich concert scene accessible to a large audience. In addition, every Saturday at 1 p.m., my colleague Christian Scheib and I host a very colourful and eclectic weekly music radio show called 'le week-end'. Nothing gives me more pleasure than radio and music.

Born in 1985 in Priština. She completed her basic and master's studies in directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade in 2008, followed by a master's studies in video art at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Novi Sad in 2010. She has directed theatre plays in Serbia and the region, and her play Pokupiću svoje stvari i otići ću (I'll pack my things and leave) was awarded the Nušić Award for Best Original Dramatic Text. Her radio drama Lift (the elevator) won first prize at the Radio Festival in Tehran, Iran, in 2007. She is the author of two children's books, Tačno otprilike (roughly exactly) and Silvija i Luče, published by Laguna. She is a member of the Association of Playwrights of Serbia. In addition to her early work in advertising agencies as a director/copywriter, she has been working at Radio Beograd since her student days.

Perrine Kervran studied history, art history and cultural management. She then joined the french public radio as an intern, then a freelancer for RFI and France Culture. She produced her first documentaries for "Les nuits magnétiques" and "Les Carnets Nomades" and she collaborated for 15 years as a documentarist, columnist and host at "La Fabrique de l'Histoire" alongside Emmanuel Laurentin. After that, still for France Culture, she was chief editor of a daily documentary program "LSD la série Documentaire" for 7 years. Since August 2023, she has been the editorial head of ARTE Radio. She also made a first person podcast for ARTE Radio in 2004 about discovering being a mother.

Pernille Munk Esmark Skydsgaard is a Danish EAVE producer with a Copenhagen University master's degree in film & media, a bachelor's degree in Economics, Film studies at UCLA and more than 25 years of experience in the European film industry, with credits ranging from creative producer, script consultant and distributor to international festivals expert and sales agent. Having read, developed and consulted on more than 250 scripts, and developed, produced and distributed fiction and documentary and participated actively at international festivals and markets over the last 30 years, including working for DC Intl. Film Fest. Founder of 41shadows Production and Distribution, developing original, high quality stories for a targeted audience across the European continent, often in co-production with international partners, and using her wide international network. In 2023 received the Nordic Council Prize as a producer of one of these original co-productions. Created a curated streaming site: FILMLOUNGE. Participated in several jury and selection committées, and holds strong skills in understanding the festival programming and markets, both from job as Head of Distribution and Festivals at the DFI, and also from current position as the Executive Director for DR Sales, financing and selling fiction, documentaries and formats internationally.

Gena Teodosievska is a journalist, film critic, Editor in chief of the Art and culture Dept. at the Macedonian Television, festival selector, artistic director and director, script tutor and producer. Since 1991, she has been employed with in the PSB Macedonian Radio and Television, reporting from numerous international cultural and art events. Represents MRT at the high level of the media meetings. She was a Coordinator of several successful international TV co-productions. Has Master degree of Cultural studies and insists of the necessity of the critical observation in the film, TV and radio media projects, lecturing young students, as well in script developing for the short feature and documentary film.

Tshilidzi Davhana is a media practitioner and content specialist with over 25 years of experience in broadcasting. She began her career in the newsroom as a bulletin reader, producer, and acting editor before transitioning to content development. For 16 years, she worked on both TV and radio programs under the SABC Education department as a commissioning editor. She then moved to the factual content sector, where she worked as Head of the Factual department. In January 2024-July 2025, she was given an opportunity to head the SABC Content Department as Acting Head, where she was managing nine business units, namely SABC Drama, Entertainment, Education and Children, Factual, Industry Development, Commissioning, Internal Productions, Licensing, and Religion. Tshilidzi has collaborated with well-known organizations in broadcasting, such as Japan National Broadcaster (NHK), on projects like "Discover Science" and "Faces." She participated as a speaker at the World Forum of Broadcasting in 2011, hosted by Jalisco TV in Guadalajara, Mexico, and served as a panellist at the 2010 Inter-Cultural Dialogues in Broadcasting held in Chile. Her passion for learning led her to receive the Public Media Alliance Travel Broadcast Bursary in 2015. She has also worked on TV shows that were shortlisted and won awards locally, and some that were screened at the INPUT and Prix Jeunesse festivals. Due to her involvement with NHK, Tshilidzi was invited to serve as a three-time judge for the Japan Prize in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Charlène Gourmand, commissioning editor for documentaries at France Télévisions, joined the group in 2014 after initially working as a journalist. Starting out as an editorial project manager and editor, she participated in the launch of the digital offering for young adults, France TV Slash. After conceiving and producing short programs for its social media accounts, she has been selecting and supporting documentary productions for this digital media since 2019.

Kåre V. Poulsen has worked in Public Service broadcasting for DR and SVT since 1997, doing tv, radio and digital media. He has executed numerous interactive projects during the years. He has also moderated and been a jury at numerous international digital media festivals. He holds an Executive MBA, a Master of Arts and a Script Writing degree. He is currently quite skeptical about the future of mankind due to the rapid invasion of AI, and also extremely thrilled about all the wonderful possibilities that AI has to offer.

Oana Cristea Grigorescu is a theatre critic, the president of Romanian AICT.Ro (from 2022) and Chair of Conference at AICT-IATC Executive Committee. She is audio drama producer at Radio Romania Bucharest, National Audio Drama Department. She holds a PhD in music from the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj since 2011 and she is member of UNITER (The Romanian Theatre Union) since 1997. She received the UNITER Award for Theatre Criticism at the UNITER Awards Gala 2020. She has curated the National Theatre Festival in Bucharest organized by UNITER in 2021, 2022, 2023. As an audio drama producer she has consistently her productions have won awards at international audio drama festivals. In 2023, two important awards were added to a rich list. Ema Stere's "The Sixties" won the Best European Audio Drama BBC Awards, and Andreas Jungwirth's "Langholzfeld", for which she wrote the radio script adaptation, won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union – Together for Peace Award. As theater critic she writes constantly theatre reviews for Scena.ro, Observator Cultural, Capital cultural, Vatra, Caietele Masca, the Austrian theatre magazine Aurora Magazine, the Italian magazine Hystrio and the German language website theatrescu.com. Since 2023 she is deputy editor-in-chief of Scena.ro magazine.

Jacqui Hlongwane is a seasoned media professional with over three decades of experience at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she has held multiple senior roles including leadership positions in content production, acquisition, scheduling and programme management for SABC 2 and SABC 3. She was recently appointed as the Genre Manager for SABC Education and Children, a key strategic role that places her at the forefront of developing and curating educational and children's content for one of South Africa's most influential broadcasters. A passionate and accomplished content creator, Jacqui has conceptualised, produced, directed and overseen numerous award-winning programmes spanning diverse genres and age demographics. With a background in education, she has also played a pivotal role in training producers from across Africa and Asia in the development of high-quality children's programming. She is a believer in the transformative power of public broadcasting in shaping informed, empowered and inclusive societies, particularly within South Africa's dynamic and evolving democracy.

Peter Ciaccio, Pastor and film critic of Italian and Northern Irish descent. Born in Belfast in 1975. He graduated in theology with a thesis on the pastoral models depicted in Ingmar Bergman's films. He is a founding member of the Associazione Protestante Cinema "Roberto Sbaffi", and meanwhile became its President. Further, he is a member of the INTERFILM Board. He has published several pop theology books, including "The Gospel According to Star Wars" (2015). He hosts a film review programme for Italian Adventist Radio. Since 2005, he has been a pastor of the Methodist and Waldensian Churches in Italy, actually serving in the parish of Trieste. He is honorary citizen of Palermo.