Yusuf Omar’s job is to help drive mobile innovation at Hindustan Times. He works on prototyping new ways to drive engagement and storytelling.

Verena Hölzl is a German freelance reporter based in Yangon. She reports for Deutsche Welle, Spiegel Online and Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She can be reached on email at verena-hoelzl@gmx.de.

Mark is a product manager at Singapore Press Holdings, Singapore’s dominant media organization with assets in print, broadcast and online. As a former product manager at Samsung, Mark takes a critical eye to usability problems and looks for ways to reduce friction…

Victoria Ho is a reporter based in Singapore. She’s worked at different newsrooms over the years, including The Business Times, ZDNet and Techcrunch — mostly reporting on technology. She’s currently the Asia editor at Mashable. The rest of her time is…

Yiwen left her job as a reporter at The Business Times in Singapore about a year ago to build her startup, Bolt. The marketplace service helps to connect creative agencies and companies with content creators (Disclosure: I’m one of Bolt’s advisors)…

Ashima is a broadcast journalist turned entrepreneur. After 10 years of work at BBC, Al Jazeera and CNBC, she founded Warrior9 — a team of content creators…

Candice Montenegro is the Managing Editor for D5 Studio’s entertainment and lifestyle verticals. She spent a number of years at GMA, one of the biggest TV networks in the Philippines, honing her skills as a multimedia journalist.