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Peter Bazalgette
Chair - The Media Festival & Media Consultant (Former Chief Creative Officer, Endemol)
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Jo Twist
Commissioner - Fiction & Entertainment, BBC
Jo Twist is the Multiplatform Commissioner for BBC Entertainment & Switch. She commissions multiplatform formats, experiences, and products for the BBC's major Entertainment TV and online only shows, as well as the corporation's Teen brand. Previously, Jo was BBC Three's Multiplatform Channel Editor where she led the multiplatform extension and online strategic direction of the channel's rebrand in 2008. She re-joined the BBC in 2007 as Multiplatform Research Manager after heading up Digital Society & Media research at the Institute for Public Policy Research where she was a Senior Research Fellow. Her early career at the BBC was as Technology Reporter for the BBC News website and a broadcast journalist for CBBC Newsround online. An expert in participatory media, social media, and online communities, she has written and commentated extensively across digital print, radio and TV. She holds a Ph.D. in online communities and youth identity from the University of Newcastle.
