Rory Cellan-Jones

Starting his BBC career as a researcher on the Leeds edition of Look North, he then worked in the London TV newsroom for three years before getting his first on-screen role at BBC Wales. He later transferred to London and became the business and economics correspondent. After the dot com crash of 2000, he wrote the book "Dot.bomb". Since January 2007, Cellan-Jones has been the BBC's Technology Correspondent with the job of expanding the BBC's coverage of new media and telecoms, and the cultural impact of the Internet.
In April 2007 he launched Stop the NUJ boycott, "a campaign for a ballot of NUJ members about the union's policy on a boycott of Israeli goods." According to the site, he and/or others sent the following motion to the general secretary of Britain's National Union of Journalists:
As BBC journalists and NUJ members we are dismayed at the passing of a motion at ADM calling for a boycott of Israeli goods. As members of a corporation which prides itself on providing impartial news coverage, we cannot associate ourselves with a move which involves taking sides in any conflict. We call on the union to hold a ballot of all members to see whether they support the view taken at ADM on an issue which could have a profound effect on the way all British journalists are viewed at home and abroad.

Anthony Rose joined the BBC in September 2007 as Head of Digital Media Technology within the corporation’s Future Media & Technology department. Anthony heads up the BBC’s iPlayer project, and is responsible for delivering the next generation of the BBC iPlayer, as well as realising BBC Future Media & Technology’s plans to create a unified embedded media experience across its online properties.

Anthony joined the BBC from Kazaa/Altnet where he was Chief Technology Officer, responsible for their end-to-end services.   During his six years with the organisation Anthony gained credit for his work on a host of impressive projects and patents, including P2P networks, DRM based content publishing and social networking services.   Prior to joining Kazaa/Altnet Anthony was Vice President for Technology at Sega Australia New Developments.

Chris Cooke is Managing Director of UnLimited Media, a London based media and marketing company and Editor of its two main media platforms, CMU and ThreeWeeks.  

Chris co-founded CMU in 1998 with the aim of bringing together everyone who works in music. Since 2002 this has been done through the CMU Daily,  a free e-bulletin read by over 13,000 music people daily, and providing a concise, independent and  irreverent round up of everything that has happening in music, the music business and the music media. As Editor of CMU, Chris is a leading expert on the music business, and often comments on developments in the industry for the likes of Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, News 24, Sky News and CNN.  

Chris co-founded ThreeWeeks in 1996 with the aim of providing the most comprehensive coverage of the Edinburgh Festival, the largest arts festival on the planet, while offering young people a totally unique media training programme. Each August over 100 students take part in the ThreeWeeks progamme, who between them review over 1500 shows. Their coverage is published through a free newspaper, daily reviews sheet, website, e-bulletin, radio show and podcasts.  

Chris also heads up UnLimited's design, content and marketing divisions, and has worked for a wide range of brands including Orange, Tiger Beer, Sony PlayStation, Motorola and Paramount Comedy Channel. He's also managed music partnership projects for various national newspapers involving the likes of The Killers, Kasabian, Mylo, Brian Wilson, Blondie, Oasis, The Stranglers and Pete Tong, and has recently helped develop and launch unicornjobs.com, a new graduate careers website.

Dr Doug Williams is project director, leading large collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects for BT that address the development of new communication and media applications that can be delivered over broadband.

Doug has led research on the emergence of convergent forms of media including the project NM2 that led to the world first broadcast of ShapeShifting media, in which viewers were given the power to interact with, and hence shape, the emerging narrative of a TV drama in real time. Previously he specialised in optical fibre design, a topic in which he holds a PhD and on which he has published widely.