Katrina Barlow is the Senior Director of Partnerships and the Chorus business at Vox Media, the leading modern media company. As a leader of the platform partnerships team, Barlow manages all distribution and programming opportunities for the company and its seven editorial networks: SB Nation, The Verge, Vox, Polygon, Eater, Recode, and Curbed. Additionally, Barlow leads the Chorus SaaS business, Vox Media’s proprietary publishing, audience, and revenue-driving platform.

 

Barlow previously worked at Apple News and, before that, The Seattle Times, where she contributed to two Pulitzer Prize-winning projects. She graduated from Whitman College, and received her MBA from Yale School of Management. She lives in New York City.

Zach Block is Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships at Condé Nast, where he oversees non-standard monetization, syndication and platform relationships with the company’s largest partners, and helps drive the company’s innovation efforts across emerging content formats. Zach also manages Condé Nast's commerce business, which has shown exponential growth over the last two years and represents a key pillar of Condé Nast’s revenue diversification strategy. Zach has also led the company’s efforts to scale its audio business, including the team responsible for Glamour's Broken Harts series, Condé Nast’s first podcast to reach number one on Apple's podcast charts.

 

Zach joined Condé Nast from Outbrain, a content discovery platform, where he oversaw the company’s biggest relationships and worked to launch new product lines. Prior to Outbrain, Zach ran digital business development at ESPN, and helped develop alternative revenue streams and business lines for ESPN's X Games business. Zach previously worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as a reporter at The Providence Journal. Zach received an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Literature and Culture from Brown University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their two sons.

Chris Grant is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Polygon, the Vox Media network dedicated to games, entertainment, and culture. For nearly eight years, Grant has overseen a growing team of journalists and creators who cover all facets of those industries with features, guides, podcasts, video series, and more. Previously, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Joystiq and a Programming Director at AOL.

 

Throughout his career, Chris has spoken about the impact of games, entertainment, and the communities around them at venues including MIT, Stanford, and the Smithsonian, and has appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, and Bloomberg.