Seán Ó Baoill is a Donegal native and works as a director, producer, presenter and actor. He has more than 10 years of experience working in the TV sector. Tá breis agus deich mbliana caite aige ag obair san earnáil teilifíse. He presented the series I Lár an Aonaigh (BBC NI) agus An Focal Scoir (BBC NI), which received great reviews. On top of this he also directed and filmed An Teach Seo Againne (RTÉ), Cailíní Comhraic (RTÉ), 999 Faoi Oiliúint (RTÉ & BBC NI) agus Gairdíní Pobail (BBC NI) and his next documentary, Glacaim Leat, will air on TG4 soon. His acting experience includes Ros na Rún, Saol Ella, Murdair Mhám Trasna agus Babaí Brain.

Karen Kirby is a Commissioning Executive for BBC Northern Ireland with particular responsibility for the BBC Gaeilge portfolio on iPlayer and TV, and the commissioning of Audio and Digital content from the independent sector for BBC Gaeilge output on Radio and Online. She has worked as a Series Producer, multi-camera Director, Producer and Presenter on a variety of content since she joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1995, including weekly magazine series and events in Entertainment and Factual. She worked in News & Current Affairs before joining BBC Gaeilge as television producer in 2004. As part of the Commissioning team at BBC Northern Ireland, Karen commissions and exec-produces a range of Factual Entertainment, Arts, Drama, Music, Children’s and Documentary content for BBC iPlayer and the local and network BBC One and BBC Two schedules. She works with the independent television production sector and other broadcasters and funders to commission content with wide audience appeal including series for BBC Daytime, Feature Documentaries in the AMHARC scheme, single films in the Feature Drama initiative, Gealán, and drama series such as Crá which was the first Irish language drama series to be broadcast on BBC network television.

Áine Walsh is Head of the Irish Language Broadcast Fund at Northern Ireland Screen, a position she has held for over 17 years. With a current annual budget of just over £4 million, the ILBF supports Northern Ireland based production companies to produce around 60 hours of television content which is mainly broadcast on TG4, BBC NI and RTÉ. The Fund also supports Irish language audio content and digital content including educational resources. The ILBF also has a large training remit and Áine manages a range of skills initiatives for those working or aspiring to work in the Irish language production sector. Some recent key projects supported during her tenure include the multi award winning drama feature Kneecap; crime drama series Crá; Celtic animé series Lí Ban; award winning Rocky Ros Muc, the first Irish language feature documentary to be considered for an Oscar; Doineann, the first Irish language feature drama shot entirely in NI and winner of an RTS NI award; short feature animation Sol which won the Sandford St. Martin and RTS NI children’s category awards and Gradaim Chumarsáide an Oireachtas award winners M’ainm, Mo Scéal, the kids’ series for Cúla 4 and drama doc Séamus Mac Murchaidh:Díolta Faoina Luach. Áine is also responsible for the Co-development initiative between Northern Ireland Screen and the Canada Media Fund, which has been running for the past seven years. The initiative supports Canadian and Northern Ireland based companies in the development of projects across all genres. Before joining Northern Ireland Screen Áine had spent 10 years working in production - in UTV, working across entertainment and documentary programmes and also as a radio presenter and producer at BBC NI. Áine took over as Chair of the Celtic Media Festival sin 2024 having previously served as an executive board member since 2009.