Davin O’Dwyer is the Senior Managing Editor on the Content team at Intercom, the Irish-founded customer service platform. Davin manages the team responsible for some of the most renowned content marketing in the B2B space - they publish books, guides, podcasts and blog posts that are consumed by more than a million readers and listeners every year. Before joining Intercom, Davin spent 12 years as a journalist at the Irish Times, working in production across features and the newsroom, as well as writing regularly about technology and culture issues. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Slate.

Adrian Barry is Operations Director and broadcaster at Off The Ball. Former Sports Broadcaster of the Year who has worked in sports media for over 20 years as reporter and desk editor at 98FM and FM104 and later as producer and then Sports Editor at Newstalk. He produced and then presented various shows across Setanta Sports and later eirSport. Adrian also served on the steering group and the media committee on the 20x20 movement as well as being a judge on the eirSport Sports Book of the Year awards.

Brendan Keenan was born in Belfast and educated at St McNissis s College in County Antrim and Queen s University, Belfast. He joined the Belfast Telegraph in 1969 as a junior reporter and throughout the early years of The Troubles he reported on the violence and trials which took place. In 1973 he was appointed Deputy Political Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph where he covered the original inquiry into Bloody Sunday headed by the English Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, the Ulster workers strike and the fall of the power-sharing Executive. In 1976 he became a reporter and presenter for RTE News Features where he conducted interviews on the News at One-Thirty and This Week before being appointed Economics correspondent in 1981. In 1983 he joined the Financial Times as Ireland Correspondent. As well as covering the continuing economic crisis of the period, this role also took in the turbulent politics of the time in the Republic and coverage of Northern Ireland, with the various political initiatives taking place. In 1986 he became Business Editor of the Irish Independent where he was responsible for the production of the business pages of the newspaper and introduced the Thursday business supplement. He was Economics Editor from 1992-2012 and now wrote a weekly economics column until 2021.

Dave O’Connell is Group Editor of the Connacht Tribune, a role he has held for the past 15 years. A graduate of journalism at the College of Commerce in Rathmines in 1983, he started as a reporter with the Connacht Tribune that year before moving to the then-Cork Examiner in 1989. He was promoted to Deputy Editor and News Editor of the Cork Evening Echo before leaving to take up a role as Assistant News Editor with the Star in 1995. He worked as News Editor and Night Editor there until he departed for the Westmeath Independent in 2001, where he was appointed editor – a role that was subsequently expanded to Group Editor with the Westmeath Examiner Group, serving as editor of the Westmeath Examiner, Westmeath Independent and Offaly Independent. He has been a regular presenter and contributor with RTÉ, and with Galway Bay FM, which is part of the Connacht Tribune Group. A native of Oughterard, Co Galway, he is married to the RTÉ journalist Teresa Mannion, and they have two sons, Cian and Tom.