GrowthLab London 2026

Hear from content chiefs, studio heads, indie leaders and commissioners across UK scripted, unscripted, podcast, digital and streaming - on growth, money and who's winning and why... PLUS insights from the teams behind the stand-out creative and commercial successes of 2026.

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Alex Hryniewicz

Managing Director, Network Social Platforms
Little Dot Studios

Alex Hryniewicz is Managing Director, Network Social Platforms at Little Dot Studios, a multi-platform production company, social media agency and digital media network. He leads the delivery and monetisation of premium digital content across major video and social platforms, driving revenue growth and wider strategic initiatives for the Little Dot Studios Network. Alex manages a portfolio of 135+ Little Dot Studios owned and operated YouTube channel network, and most recently served as Executive Producer on the digital content created during the search for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance. Previously, Alex was Head of Multiplatform at Maverick Television, working across award-winning cross-platform projects for major UK broadcasters and commercial partners.

Alex Morris

Managing Director
4Studio

Alex Morris has spent the last 15 years building and running digital first content businesses at the heart of social media and the creator economy. In his current role as Managing Director of Channel 4 ‘s social-first division, 4Studio he plays a central role in developing and steering Channel 4’s over-arching social strategy working across content, distribution and monetisation. Prior to this role Morris was Chief Creative Officer at SB Media Group where he helped to grow the business from a Dubai-based Content Creator operation into a global media company.
In addition, Morris has held positions at LADbible Group and Barcroft Studios, where he helped lead the business for over a decade before selling to Future PLC.

Amelia Brown

CEO
Fremantle UK

Amelia has been a driving force in television for over two decades, beginning her career as a runner on genre defining Pop Idol. Since those early days, she has worked on some of the UK’s most iconic entertainment shows including The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, The Weakest Link, Big Brother and Geordie Shore. 

 

Since 2023, Amelia has been the CEO of Fremantle UK - the British production arm of global entertainment group, Fremantle. In this position, Amelia leads on the corporate strategy of the business, manages the output of all Fremantle UK labels and companies, and plays a vital role on the Fremantle Global Leadership team - all testament to her dedication and ability to shape the future of television entertainment. 

 

Prior to her current position, Amelia worked at Fremantle UK label Talkback Thames, where her visionary approach and creative leadership earned her a reputation as a BAFTA and multi-award-winning show runner. In 2017, she became Managing Director of the label overseeing a diverse slate of hit productions such as Britain’s Got Talent, Too Hot to Handle, I Can See Your Voice and MAMMA MIA; I Have a Dream. 

Athena Witter

Founder & CEO
Engine POP®

Athena Witter is the Founder and CEO of Engine Pop®, a creative and commercial content growth studio helping producers, founders and organisations turn ideas and existing brands into scalable content businesses with long-term value. Her career spans senior editorial and commercial leadership roles at BBC Studios, Fremantle, ITV and Channel 4, with major titles and IP portfolios including Bluey, Top Gear, Doctor Who, Britain's Got Talent and Love Island, among many others. At BBC Studios, she also led the commissioning of 500+ original digital titles. Today, she works upstream of production, helping teams align creative ambition with commercial growth across digital, social, streaming and emerging platforms. She writes The Disruptors, an editorial series on how creators, founders and media businesses build lasting value in a platform-driven landscape, and is a Non-Executive Director at Screen Yorkshire.

Clive Myrie

Journalist, Newsreader and Presenter

Clive Myrie is a BAFTA and multiple RTS Award winning journalist, documentary maker, writer and author. He’s the anchor the BBC’s main evening news programme, the Ten o’clock News and the BBC’s Chief News Correspondent. He’s also the presenter of the long running quiz show ,Mastermind.
He began his career in local radio and regional television, becoming a foreign correspondent in 1996. He’s been based all over the world, as the BBC’s Asia, Africa, Washington and Europe Correspondent.
Clive was born and grew up in Bolton in Lancashire. He’s Pro Chancellor of the University of Greater Manchester, and Chancellor of the University of the Arts, London. He’s also a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.

Ed Lane

Partner
Harbottle & Lewis LLP

Ed is a media & entertainment specialist, advising founders, businesses and investors on a broad range of corporate, corporate finance and commercial matters. He advises in all the creative sectors, but with a particular focus on film and TV, video games and music.

His practice spans mergers and acquisitions, fundraises from pre-seed to series A and beyond, startups, private equity, public takeovers, joint ventures, management incentive arrangements, including EMI options and growth shares, and SEIS/EIS investments. He is actively involved as a speaker and mentor for a number of different industry accelerators and trade bodies, including Indielab, BAFTA, the National Film & Television School and UKIE.

Ed trained and qualified at Linklaters, where he spent five and a half years in the private equity M&A team acting for a variety of private equity houses and businesses on leveraged and non-leveraged buy-outs, growth equity investments, exits, management incentive arrangements and bolt-on acquisitions.

His recent experience includes advising:

• the selling shareholders of luxury menswear brand Drake’s on its sale to venture firm Heartland
• Soho Studios Entertainment on its investment from Asylum Entertainment (now Pantheon)
• the shareholders of After Party Studios, a digital-first creative production company, on the sale of a majority stake to SISTER Group
• rock band Queen on the landmark sale of its entire music catalogue and related assets, including publishing and image rights, to Sony Music
• Super Media Group on its acquisition of games studio Bulkhead from Tencent and its fundraise from and strategic partnership with Everplay Group plc
• David Beckham on his sale to, and strategic partnership with, Authentic Brands Group (ABG), the owner of a portfolio of global media, entertainment and lifestyle brands
• the management of games studio The Chinese Room on their buyout from Sumo Group
• indie production company Studio Crook on its investment from the Channel 4 Growth Fund
• Hat Trick Productions on its investment in Strong Watch Studios

Elizabeth Kilgarriff

Co-Founder and CEO
Firebird Pictures

Elizabeth Kilgarriff is an award nominated producer and former Senior Commissioning Editor for BBC Drama. With over 20 years experience in the industry, her multi award-winning portfolio of work includes Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Bodyguard, Bafta winning thrillers The Cry and The Victim, Emmy nominated Luther, International Emmy winning McMafia and the critically acclaimed Thirteen starring Jodie Comer.

Fiona Campbell

Director of Factual Content
BBC

Fiona Campbell is the newly appointed Director of Factual Content at the BBC. Her remit covers Documentaries, Natural History, Science, Religion and Arts programming.

Fiona's previous role was as Controller, Youth Audience, BBC iPlayer & BBC Three where she focussed on 16 - 35 audience and innovated with the launch of BBC Creator Lab that selected 100 creators across the UK providing opportunities to work on BBC content. She also launched BBC Wonderverse which gamifies key BBC IP such as Match of the Day and Dr Who in Roblox .

Earlier in her career Fiona worked as a producer on Panorama and spent time reporting in conflict zones Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo. She also spent five years as a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 News. Fiona is a Trustee of Comic Relief and the Burberry Foundation which supports projects to encourage young people's creativity as a source of progression and mental wellbeing. Fiona also works with Speakers for Schools visiting colleges in Northern Ireland where she is based to encourage students to consider media and journalism as a career path.

Gary Lineker

Co-Founder
Goalhanger

Gary Lineker is a former England striker, broadcaster and co-founder of Goalhanger. One of the outstanding footballers of his generation, he scored 48 goals in 80 appearances for England and won the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup. At club level, he represented Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur, winning the Copa del Rey, European Cup Winners’ Cup and FA Cup.

After retiring, he became one of Britain’s best-known sports broadcasters, presenting Match of the Day for 26 years. He now hosts the world-leading podcast The Rest Is Football, which aired daily on Netflix throughout the World Cup and will continue weekly on the platform, covering the latest Premier League action. He will also present ITV’s new primetime show, The Box. Goalhanger was named Britain’s fastest-growing private company by The Sunday Times. Its hit shows include The Rest Is History, The Rest Is Politics and The Rest Is Entertainment, with its programmes generating more than 750 million streams in 2025."

Jen Topping

Founder
Business of TV

Jen helps producers, TV broadcasters, brands and creators grow their businesses in an era of tech disruption. Over 5,500 industry professionals subscribe to her bestselling Substack newsletter, Business of TV, which covers what TV, film and content producers need to know to plan for the future. She has supported over 100 independent TV, film and content production companies through programmes including Channel 4’s Emerging Indie Fund, FilmCity Futures and North East Screen; regularly leads sessions for organisations such as Pact, Documentary Campus and Indielab; and has worked with clients including the Booker Prizes, STV and Beano Studios. Previously, she was a director at the Microsoft studio making interactive TV for Xbox, and spent and seven years at Channel 4 working across 4oD, multiplatform TV shows, channel4.com, YouTube and social. She started her career as a BBC news trainee. She has an MBA and was vice chair of BIMA, the trade body for the British digital industry.

Krish Majumdar

Co-Founder
Me+You Productions

BAFTA-winning producer and Co-Founder of Me+You Productions with Richard Yee. Credits include Close To You (starring Elliot Page), Alice & Jack (C4/Masterpiece), and the BAFTA and RTS award-winning I Am Ruth by Dominic Savage starring Kate Winslet. Co-created the International Emmy-winning Hoff The Record and the BAFTA-nominated global hit An Idiot Abroad (starring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant & Karl Pilkington). Earlier, directed many documentaries for C4, BBC, and Sky. Served as BAFTA Chair (2020–2023), leading over 120 significant reforms to campaigning, voting, and membership. Named in Variety's V500 list of most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry five times.

Lee Mason

Vice President, Scripted Originals
Disney+

Lee Mason is Vice President of Scripted Originals at Disney+, leading UK commissions and overseeing the EMEA scripted slate. His portfolio includes acclaimed series such as Rivals, A Thousand Blows, Alice and Steve, and Suspect: The Killing of Jean Charles De Menezes, alongside EMEA originals including Yo, Adicto, The Ignorant Angels, The Lions of Sicily, and Cristóbal Balenciaga. Upcoming projects include Mosquito, starring Nicholas Hoult and Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Dad, from A24. Before Disney+, Lee spent nearly a decade at Channel 4, commissioning celebrated dramas including It’s A Sin, Help, and The End of the F*ing World.

Mairi Brewis

Head of MediaCo Partnerships
YouTube UK

Mairi Brewis is YouTube’s lead for partnerships in Media and Responsibility for the UK. Her team manage relationships with the lead broadcasters, production companies, sports and news organisations, to help them maximize their YouTube presence.

Mairi has a strong interest in education, learning and children. She is a school governor, and previously served as a Trustee for Polka Theatre.

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