Consultant and Executive Producer
Will Saunders is an independent media consultant, and executive producer. He is Creative Industries Lead for the AHRC funded Storyfutures Cluster and Storyfutures Academy, industrial strategy consortia projects led by Royal Holloway, University of London that will explore the future of the UK screen based industries and that include; Pinewood Studios, Sony Interactive Entertainment & The National Film and Television School as partners. In 2018 he co-authored the DCMS ‘Culture Is Digital’ report. As Creative Director, Digital, BBC Studios he ran Digital Development and Production for the UK’s leading media company. His recent focus has been working with organisations & companies including; BBC World Service, Discovery Network and Coventry City of Culture who want to explore the storytelling and commercial potential of emerging technologies.
Industry Champions
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company
Tom Chalmers
Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group
Tom Adeyoola
Entrepreneur
Sade Banks
Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons
Mandy Barker
Founder of Sail Creative
Lucy Bayliss
Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast
Charlotte Beevor
Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist
Stephen Bennett
Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist
Jennifer Johnston
Head of Learning at Into Film
Vikas Kumar
Founder and Director of GemArts
Amanda Maxwell
Community Manager and board member of shesaid.so
Jo Morrison
Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium
Dave Moutrey
Director and CEO at HOME
Laura Pye
Director at National Museums Liverpool
Lara Ratnaraja
Cultural Consultant
Will Saunders
Consultant and Executive Producer
Jaswinder Singh
Director of Asian Arts Agency
Amy Smith
Head of Talent at Framestore
Tolu Stedford
Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions
Maria Tanjala
Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain
Annie Warburton
Chief Executive at Cockpit Arts
Sharon Watson
CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Claire Whitaker
Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025
Nia Williams
Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales
