Brett Chang is Co-Founder and CEO of The Peak – a daily newsletter, podcast and content studio helping Canada’s modern business leaders get smarter and stay informed with news and content that’s fast, entertaining, and digestible. Since starting in 2020, The Peak now reaches an audience of over 100,000 across newsletters, podcasts, events, and social media, including hosting The Peak Daily – Canada’s no. 1 most listened to business podcast. In June 2023, Brett announced the acquisition of The Peak by Moses Znaimer’s ZoomerMedia for $5m. Brett is a serial entrepreneur and prior to The Peak started companies in digital communications and the cannabis industry. In addition, Brett was one of the first few employees at Uber Canada where he helped drive and develop public policy for major cities across the country.

Anita Li is a longtime journalist, news entrepreneur, media consultant and educator. Currently, she is the founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of The Green Line, a local Toronto-based news outlet.

Anita teaches journalism innovation to graduate students at Toronto Metropolitan University and community-driven journalism to undergraduate students at Centennial College in Toronto. In addition, she coaches media executives and news entrepreneurs at the City University of New York’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of journalism.

Anita has over a decade of full-time experience as a multi-platform journalist in three markets: Toronto, New York City and Ottawa. She started her career as a reporter and editor at Canadian legacy publications, including The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and CBC. After that, she worked in strategic, management-level roles at American digital media outlets, such as Complex, Fusion and Mashable. Most recently, Anita was director of communities at The Discourse, a disruptive new player in the Canadian media scene that fills in gaps in news coverage for underserved communities. As a writer and reporter, she has been published in New York Magazine, Poynter, Policy Options and other publications across North America.

Anita is an expert in community-driven journalism, audience engagement, news entrepreneurship, consumer revenue business models, newsroom diversity, media ethics and journalism innovation; she’s spoken on these topics in press interviews and at conferences worldwide. Anita has also consulted a wide range of journalism outlets and institutions, including CBC Manitoba, American Press Institute, Journalists for Human Rights, Toronto Public Library, Pink Triangle Press, Carleton University, Indiegraf, Liisbeth, Facebook Journalism Project’s Sustainability Accelerator, Google’s Project Oasis via Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers, Radio Cité 97.9 and Informed Opinions.
Anita is a member of the 2020-21 Online News Association board of directors, as well as an alum of the inaugural 2016 Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media. She also co-founded Canadian Journalists of Colour, a rapidly growing network of racialized media-makers in Canada, in 2018. To keep up with Anita, subscribe to The Other Wave, her newsletter about challenging the status quo in journalism

Dru Oja Jay is a writer and organizer based in Val David, in the mountains north of Montreal. Currently serving as Publisher at The Breach and Executive Director at CUTV Montreal, he has written for a variety of publications and co-authored a book about Canada’s development NGOs. He is a co-founder of The Breach, the Media Co-op, the Solidarity Economy Incubator for Zero Emissions (SEIZE), and Journal Ensemble, among a handful of other organizations.

Graham Watson-Ringo, currently serving as the Vice President of Success and Growth at the News Revenue Hub, specializes in steering local news organizations toward financial viability and long-term sustainability. Her extensive 20-year career in journalism began in sports at major metros such as the Dallas Morning News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch and continued with digital outlets ESPN and Yahoo. Transitioning from sports, she embraced digital strategy at the San Antonio Express-News and later nurtured her passion for nonprofit journalism as the managing editor at the San Antonio Report. Graham is a lover of the full-funnel approach, well-crafted CTAs, killer UX, and insider journalism speak.

Graham’s academic background includes a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she also excelled as a goalkeeper for the women’s soccer team. She furthered her education in the inaugural year of the Executive Leadership Program at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY. Committed to mentoring, she provides coaching for entities such as LION and the Google News Initiative and serves on the Online News Association board. Graham resides in San Antonio, Texas with her husband and three children.