Daniel Nathan is a radio entrepreneur, producer and pioneer of new radio formats and platforms, with more than thirty years' industry experience. Pirate radio in the early 1980s led him to co-found the UK's first 'alternative' format station, Festival Radio, with a trial Home Office licences in London and Brighton. Spin-off Festival Productions made new music radio, ad campaigns, drama and documentaries for the BBC and UK commercial radio.

A launch consultant for Kiss 100 in London, Daniel was subsequently co-founder of Kiss 102 in Manchester and Kiss 105 in Yorkshire. He was the founder of Juice 107.2 in Brighton, which he launched in 1998. In 2000, he created totallyradio.com, the UK's original internet station playing music beyond the mainstream.

Daniel was a key contributor to the launch of UK Radioplayer in 2011 and served on their Technical Steering Group. He was Project Lead for three R&D projects funded by the Government's Technology Strategy Board from 2012 bringing together producers, aggregators, hardware manufacturers, broadcast and internet radio.

In 2014, he co-authored a National Radio Archive feasibility study for the British Library. In 2015 Daniel launched the UK's first open source 'DIY' broadcast digital radio multiplex. He is co-founder of Platform B, a not for profit 'next generation' youth community radio project in Brighton launched in 2018.

Dr Lawrie Hallett has over 30 years of experience in professional broadcasting. A founder member of the Community Media Association and director of various broadcast radio companies, he has advised numerous successful Ofcom radio licence applicants. He has helped launch various community services and commercial stations, both in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

Between 2004 and 2012, Lawrie was a Senior Associate in Ofcom's Broadcast Radio Team, with specific responsibility for broadcast radio licensing and DAB planning / development. He is currently on the board of Future Digital Norfolk Limited, the trial small-scale DAB operator in Norwich and is a trustee of the Norfolk-based Community Development Charity, Future Projects Limited.

Paul Boon has been a radio campaigner, broadcaster, editor and regulator after starting out in his first job in radio as a newsreader on South West London's Radio Jackie in 1983.

In the late 1980s, he chaired the Association for Broadcasting Development (ABD) a lobby group that successfully campaigned to government for more opportunities for new commercial and community radio stations.

Under his leadership the ABD negotiated fresh terms with copyright body PPL and secured an end to needle time, the rationing of the amount of music that could be played on the radio.

It was at this time, Paul worked as an intermediary between the Government’s then Home Secretary and chiefs at the regulator - the Independent Broadcasting Authority, and was the architect who brought about the award and launch of 26 new incremental radio stations in six months, ahead of the new broadcasting legislation.

He co-wrote winning radio licence applications going on to help launch and work on several creatively ground-breaking local radio stations before joining The Radio Magazine. Paul was appointed Managing Editor of The Radio Magazine in 2002.

In 2008 Paul joined Ofcom for a nine year stint and worked on different commercial and community, analogue and digital radio projects as well as dealing with regulatory and deregulatory licensing matters. He was the Chapter Editor of the radio & audio chapter of Ofcom’s Communications Market Report an annually published in-depth insight into UK radio and audio developments.

Thinking he could at last put his feet up, the call of small-scale DAB has proved too much and Paul is happy to lend his knowledge and support to the Opendab small-scale DAB project.