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Co-founder of Iris Cap­i­tal, one of the old­est VCs in Europe, based in France and Ger­many. Iris Cap­i­tal, found­ed in 1986, was first a TMT fund. Then it became a dig­i­tal fund.

An inter­na­tion­al media pro­fes­sion­al with over 25 years expe­ri­ence as Senior Vice Pres­i­dent, Dis­tri­b­u­tion & Acqui­si­tions, Alix Wise­man is respon­si­ble for head­ing up 9 Sto­ry’s dis­tri­b­u­tion oper­a­tions and sourc­ing 3rd par­ty con­tent for world­wide exploita­tion. Her remit includes bro­ker­ing inter­na­tion­al co-pro­duc­tion part­ner­ships, secur­ing financ­ing for 9 Sto­ry’s new IPs and work­ing close­ly with inter­nal cre­ative affairs teams to shape them for the glob­al market. 

Nico writes dai­ly exclu­sive news, fea­tures and per­spec­tive pieces for C21Media, the UK-based provider of break­ing news and indus­try analy­sis to the inter­na­tion­al enter­tain­ment com­mu­ni­ty. Pri­or to becom­ing edi­tor of Channel21 Inter­na­tion­al mag­a­zine in 2021 he was edi­tor of C21Kids mag­a­zine for five years. He joined C21Media in 2012 fol­low­ing stints writ­ing for the BBC online and music mag­a­zine Clash. As well as con­tribut­ing to the C21Podcast, Nico mod­er­ates and pro­duces ses­sions as part of C21Media’s award-win­ning annu­al con­fer­ence Con­tent Lon­don and has spo­ken at events around the world includ­ing Con­tent Amer­i­c­as, MipTV, Series­Fest and Series Mania. He has also devel­oped and pro­duced a non-TX com­e­dy pilot with Wild­seed Stu­dios in the UK and writes for award-win­ning Leeds Unit­ed fanzine The Square Ball. 

Expe­ri­enced investor, entre­pre­neur, exec­u­tive and con­sul­tant in the media and enter­tain­ment indus­try and ex-Apple. Timo Argillan­der has over 30 years of dig­i­tal media busi­ness experience.

Mar­tin Jůza (1986) co-found­ed the cre­ative stu­dio Kru­tart in 2014, where he works as CEO and pro­duc­er. He uses his entre­pre­neur­ial approach to trans­form the rigid busi­ness mod­els of the media indus­try into a suc­cess­ful glob­al busi­ness. As a pro­duc­er at Kru­tart, Mar­tin Jůza focus­es on cre­at­ing new IPs for chil­dren and their cre­ative exploita­tion. In 2020, Kru­tart brought the ani­mat­ed series ​“Kos­mix” (26x5’) to the screens of Czech Tele­vi­sion, which is now dis­trib­uted world­wide by the French sales agent Dan­de­looo. In 2022, Kos­mix received a sec­ond sea­son and a fea­ture film ​“Kos­mix: Secret Mis­sion” (CZ-IT-SK) is sched­uled to pre­miere world­wide in 2027. Anoth­er IP in devel­op­ment at Kru­tart is a 26x7’ TV series for chil­dren (5-7 years), ​“Napville”, with an esti­mat­ed pre­miere in 2028. In 2022, the CG ani­mat­ed short film ​“3-2-1 Start!” for full­dome plan­e­tar­i­ums began its suc­cess­ful world­wide dis­tri­b­u­tion. It is now pro­grammed in 26 coun­tries on five con­ti­nents around the world. Kru­tart now has its own in-house sales depart­ment for immer­sive media projects and an edi­to­r­i­al line with a planned release of one film per year. Mar­tin Jůza has par­tic­i­pat­ed in many inter­na­tion­al work­shops and pitch­ing forums such as Berli­nale Tal­ents, Dok.Incubator, MAIA, EPI and IDFA Acad­e­my. He is also one of the authors and hosts of the Pitch​.cz pod­cast, which con­nects Czech film professionals.

With over 25 years expe­ri­ence in kids and fam­i­ly brands, Julien Bor­de is Pres­i­dent of Medi­awan Kids & Fam­i­ly. Until 2018, he was Head of Kids and Gen­er­al Enter­tain­ment Chan­nels at Warn­er­Me­dia for France, French-speak­ing ter­ri­to­ries and Africa. Between 2005 and 2015, he cre­at­ed France Télévi­sions Kids depart­ment and estab­lished it as the leader of the Euro­pean ani­ma­tion indus­try. He was appoint­ed Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of France 3 in 2012, then Head of Dig­i­tal Pro­gram­ming with respon­si­bil­i­ty for AVoD/​TVoD/​SVoD. He start­ed his career at Dis­ney in 1997, where he remained until 2005, as Deputy Direc­tor then Exec­u­tive Direc­tor for Pro­grammes and Pro­duc­tion at Dis­ney Chan­nels France.

Jo Daris start­ed his career in large FMCG com­pa­nies, end­ing up at Has­bro in a Euro­pean role for trad­ing cards and trad­ing card games. From there, he joined Stu­dio 100 to build up the inter­na­tion­al busi­ness for them, which result­ed in open­ing up the inter­na­tion­al office in Munich, the acqui­si­tion of EM Enter­tain­ment and the open­ing of Stu­dio 100 Ani­ma­tion in France. He then moved to m4e as Chief Con­tent Offi­cer. After the sale of m4e to Stu­dio 100, Jo con­tin­ued in this role in the new­ly merged com­pa­ny. Today, Jo co-owns Toon2Tango, a cre­ative pro­duc­tion hub for ani­mat­ed series and fea­tures, where he ful­fils the role of Chief Cre­ative Offi­cer. Simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, he also worked for Bel­gian pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny Fobic Films in var­i­ous roles, from financ­ing to pro­duc­tion man­age­ment and pro­duc­tion. Fobic pro­duces the­atri­cal fea­tures and prime time tele­vi­sion for the Bel­gian mar­ket. Late­ly, Jo has also joined the ranks of Geron­i­mo in Bel­gium, help­ing them to sell and pro­duce high con­cept series for the stream­ing plat­forms. As a pro­duc­er, Jo is best known for ​“Wissper”, ​“Agent 203”, ​“Grisù” and for var­i­ous prime time series and the­atri­cal releas­es in Belgium.