David Gibbs is a highly experienced leader helping shape the future of global sports streaming at Warner Bros Discovery.

As SVP, Global Sports Product, he has played a central role in transforming how audiences experience live sport—most notably through the Paris 24 Olympic Games and the launch of TNT Sports into the UK market. Gibbs led the multi-platform delivery of WBD’s record-breaking Olympic coverage across Europe, setting new standards for digital reach, product excellence, and fan engagement on HBO Max and Discovery+.

Previously at Sky and Comcast, Gibbs built one of Europe’s largest digital sports networks and helped launch pioneering streaming products including Sky Go, Sky Glass and Sky Stream. He has driven innovation across OTT and broader digital sports products, ad tech and global platforms , blending deep commercial acumen with a clear focus on the local fan and their evolving behaviours.

Gibbs continues to influence the industry at the intersection of technology, sport, and premium content—delivering products that scale, connect, and entertain sports fans globally.

As EVP and International General Manager of Pluto TV, Olivier Jollet has been a driving force behind the global expansion of the Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) model. Under his leadership, Pluto TV has become a global leader in free streaming, operating in more than 35 countries and territories across four continents and reaching millions of viewers worldwide.

Jollet oversees all aspects of the business, including P&L, revenue growth, content, distribution, marketing, operations and strategic partnerships, leading one of the world’s largest FAST streaming platforms.

A founding member of Pluto TV’s leadership team and now part of Paramount’s global streaming leadership team, he has played a central role in scaling Pluto TV into a billion-dollar global advertising business, expanding its international footprint and establishing FAST as a core pillar of Paramount’s streaming ecosystem.

A pioneer in the streaming industry, Jollet began his career at the forefront of digital entertainment. He co-founded Watchever, one of Germany’s first subscription video-on-demand platforms, and later co-founded Quazer, a digital TV streaming service backed by ProSiebenSat.1 that was subsequently acquired by Pluto TV. Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions within Vivendi Group and Universal Music.

With a career defined by innovation, operational leadership and a passion for building global media businesses, Jollet continues to shape the future of streaming at scale.

Grace Boswood serves as the Technology & Distribution Director at Channel 4 Television.

She is responsible for the teams that manage all of C4’s distribution and platform partnerships, across the TV and social ecosystem. Her position involves managing digital infrastructure, building the C4 streaming app, defining the technology strategy, implementing innovative tech solutions, and ensuring Channel 4 stays at the forefront of media technology in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Her work is crucial in supporting Channel 4’s mission to deliver diverse and engaging content across various platforms to audiences throughout the United Kingdom.

Kerry Ball is a strategic and visionary entertainment executive and is Chief Commercial & Strategy Officer at Britbox International. This pivotal role has allowed Britbox to accelerate it’s growth trajectory, expand distribution, identify growth opportunities, forge commercial partnerships and drive innovation across key markets including the US, Canada, Australia and Nordics.

With over 20 years of experience at the intersection of content and technology, she has worked across Networks, Studios, Streamers, Super Indies and Start-ups, always focusing on the next emerging growth area and optimising across the whole content value chain.

Leaning into new business models from the outset, at NBCU Ball devised and launched the first EST/DTO services in the world, structured the first NBCU SVOD deals internationally with Netflix and Amazon and then established global digital team at Shine International. On joining Discovery International, she launched the first Amazon Channels deals in Europe and went on to co-found/develop Aurra Studios, Loud Minds and Struum, before joining Britbox in 2022.

Ball holds an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA from Anderson School at UCLA.  

Yigit Dogan Celik is Chairperson and CEO of Merzigo, the global media technology company powering the next era of premium content distribution and monetisation. Since co-founding Merzigo in 2018, Yigit has helped major studios, broadcasters and rights holders transition to platform-native distribution models and unlock sustainable digital revenues at scale.

At a time when ad-supported digital video was still an emerging frontier, his conviction that it would reshape content consumption proved prescient. Today, Merzigo manages more than 6,000 digital channels, uploads over 7,000 unique videos to digital platforms every day, and stewards more than 8.5 million hours of premium IP on behalf of world-class partners across YouTube and Facebook, collectively reaching a global audience of hundreds of millions.

Backed by a global team of 500+ specialists, Merzigo sits at the forefront of the shift from traditional distribution to a platform-driven media landscape, with an integrated model spanning technology, content operations, localisation, rights management and monetisation.

Over the past 12 months, Yigit has led strategic partnerships with major global studios and distributors including Hearst Media Production Group, All3Media, Banijay Rights, Fremantle and ITV Studios. In late 2025, Merzigo also announced a $150 million investment programme for 2026 to enhance digital distribution infrastructure and accelerate growth across AVOD and social video platforms.

Yigit is recognised as a leading voice in global digital content distribution, platform-native monetisation and the AVOD economy, and has spoken at MIPCOM, NATPE and StreamTV Europe.

Warren Dias is a streaming TV advertising leader with over 26 years’ experience in commercial roles across streaming, digital, and broadcast television. His career has consistently placed him at the intersection of media and technology — a combination that has become his true passion.

Over the past two years, Dias has led the UK Advertising team at Netflix, where he and his team introduced innovative ad solutions and opened up new opportunities for UK advertisers. Under his leadership, Netflix Ads has become a meaningful player in the TV advertising space, significantly influencing the VOD/AV landscape.

His broader experience spans client leadership, team building, and strategic partnerships in roles at blue-chip companies including Google, Microsoft, NBCUniversal, Yahoo!, Channel 4, and ITV. This blend of UK broadcast and US tech expertise gives him a unique perspective on the industry.

Based in West London with his wife Rachel, Dias is an avid traveller, tennis player, and film enthusiast — interests that align neatly with his working life!

Liz Bales is the CEO of Digital Entertainment Group International (DEGI) and British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). She works closely with member companies to align shared goals and drive international growth in the film and TV industry, using collaborative insights and creative campaigns.

Under Bales’s leadership, BASE and DEGI have led impactful initiatives across Europe and Asia-Pacific. These efforts have boosted audience engagement and revenue, built a strong sense of industry community and sparked new partnerships across the sector.

Bales is passionate about effective leadership and skilled in managing people and change. She’s currently leading a major expansion of member services, including a host of talent development programmes all devised to help stakeholders navigate today’s fast-changing global entertainment landscape.

With deep expertise in intellectual property and copyright issues, Bales also has a strong background in driving behavioural change.

Tim Sewell has been CEO of Yospace since 2002. Under his leadership, the company has grown from being a provider of user-generated content platforms for mobile (pre-dating YouTube), to its current position as the foremost provider of dynamic ad insertion (DAI) technology in the world today.

Tim played a pivotal role in the widespread adoption of DAI as the de facto advertising method in video streaming. He led Yospace to achieve first-to-market status with the technology and drove its subsequent adoption by tier-1 broadcasters across the world. With the streaming industry now in the mainstream, Tim continues to provide leadership as we scale to an all-IP future. In March 2026, Yospace stitched a record 11.6bn one-to-one addressable advertisements – a feat that is set to be beaten during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Sarah Rose is President of 5 and UK Regional Lead. Based in London, she reports to Pam Kaufmann, President & CEO, International Markets, at Paramount. She oversees 5’s linear and streaming business in the UK, as well as maintaining commercial oversight of Paramount’s Pay TV brands – MTV, comedy Central and Nickelodeon – in the region.

Rose joined Paramount’s senior leadership team in 2020 and has been a driving force behind the commercial success of the company’s free-to-air portfolio in the UK, as well as the launch of Paramount’s streaming business in Canada.

In her previous role as Paramount’s Chief Operating & Commercial Officer for UK Broadcast & International Studios, Rose was responsible for key UK business functions and played a key role in devising and implementing strategy across Paramount’s free-to-air, BVOD and pay TV brands. For Paramount’s International Studio business, Rose also led all commercial and operational activity across its network of creative hubs.

Rose joined Paramount from Channel 4, where she was Chief Consumer and Strategy Officer on the Executive Team, responsible for Corporate Strategy, Consumer Insight and Data Science. She originally joined to helm the launch of Channel 4’s VOD service (All4) before moving to lead Commercial and Business Development.

Rose started her career as a graduate on ITV’s fast-track management scheme, eventually assuming the role of General Manager of ITV’s Digital Channels

She holds an MA in English and French from the University of Oxford and completed INSEAD’s Executive Management Course.

Sarah Milton is Chief Product Officer at Everyone TV, the organisation behind the UK’s free TV platforms. She leads the Product and Operations teams, setting the proposition strategy and designing the user experience for Freeview, Freesat and streaming platform Freely.

Sarah has played a central role in bringing Freely to market and scaling it since its launch on smart TVs in April 2024. Bringing together live and on-demand content from the UK’s biggest broadcasters in one place, over wi-fi and with no aerial, dish or subscription, Freely was the UK’s fastest-growing TV platform in 2025, passing one million weekly users over the Christmas period. It has since expanded beyond built-in smart TVs to plug-in streaming devices, and has been independently forecast to become the UK’s largest TV device platform by the end of the decade. As an owned-and-operated app, Freely is integrated directly into the TV’s native interface – something Sarah and her team have used to shape a viewing experience that few other services can match.

Sarah joined Everyone TV (then Digital UK) as Chief Operating Officer in 2020, before becoming Chief Product Officer in 2022. Before that, she spent over 15 years at Channel 4, where she was at the forefront of its digital transformation – first as one of the original team behind its pioneering video-on-demand service, 4oD, and later as Head of Product for All 4. Earlier in her career, she worked in business development and strategy at ITV and at internet start-up Webrewards. She began her career at McKinsey & Company, and holds a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge.