Angela heads up the award-winning communications and public affairs directorate at the Information Commissioner’s Office – the UK’s data protection regulator. Her teams help people understand their privacy and freedom of information rights. But more than that, they use comms to help people to care: to take steps to protect their information, and to see why their rights – and the ICO’s work protecting them – are so important. She specialises in using integrated communications that bring together engaging storytelling, creative content and partnerships to connect organisations’ work with different audiences and deliver social change.  

She co-chairs the UK Regulators communications network, is part of the Women in PR committee and on the board of the Asian Communications Network.

She spent nine years in government communication, working on international and business issues including the Ebola crisis, Syria conflict and launching shared parental leave. She began her career as a journalist, working at the Guardian, before cutting her teeth in comms at one of the UK's biggest charities, Cancer Research UK.

Sam Knowles founded data storytelling consultancy Insight Agents in 2013 to empower all sorts of organisations to make smarter use of data. He is the author of the ‘Using Data Better’ trilogy of books published by Routledge, comprising: 2023’s critically-acclaimed Asking Smarter Questions, 2020’s best-seller, How To Be Insightful, and 2018’s award-winning Narrative by Numbers. His popular training courses based on the IP in these books is delivered both in person and in the online training course, Using Data Smarter. Sam is the host of “Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data, smarter – and is a Fellow of the Market Research Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Professional Speaking Association.

Natalia runs Natalka Design - outcomes driven strategic communications business, working with corporate, agencies and governments to deliver high stakes engagements including Google, UK Gov and Big 4. The team is on a mission to use tactically visual communication to inspire change and progress.

Their gift is in visualising the invisible. She’s a critical thinker and innovative storyteller.

Stephen Waddington is a professional advisor at Wadds Inc. and PhD researcher at Leeds Business School who supports agencies and in-house teams on a range of management, corporate communications and public relations issues.

His agency career includes leadership roles at Metia, Ketchum, Rainier PR and Speed. He has worked for clients including The Economist, HM Government, Intel, Microsoft, The Press Association, NHS, Tesco and Virgin Media Business.

Stephen co-founded Socially Mobile, a social enterprise that supports public relations practitioners in increasing their earning potential. It delivers management training to those from lower socio-economic backgrounds and underrepresented and underserved groups.

He has written and edited ten books, including Brand Anarchy, Exploring Public Relations and Management Communication and Share This, and served as president of the CIPR.