IPPC conference 2026: speakers

10:00-13:00: Tim Jotischky (Divisional Regional Director of Reputation, The PHA Group) 

‘Crisis communication management’

Tim Jotischky is Divisional managing director of Reputation at The PHA Group and leads on all crisis and reputation management issues. Tim runs a small team of senior advisors and works directly with clients on crisis planning and mitigation; crisis management; media training and media relations; pro-active reputation management; and reputation rebuilds. He provides strategic counsel and advisory services to senior leaders.

Tim joined PHA in 2014 after a 25-year career as a senior executive on UK national newspapers, spanning all areas of journalism. His roles included Business Editor at The Telegraph, Deputy Editor at The Sunday Telegraph, Editor of Metro, Editor of The Scottish Daily Mail and Sports Editor, Foreign Editor and Executive News Editor at The Daily Mail.

He brings journalistic insight, a deep knowledge of the media industry and unparalleled network of senior contacts to his work, together with more than a decade’s experience supporting clients on reputation management issues.

Tim has worked with businesses from all sectors, both in the UK and globally; high-profile and High Net Worth individuals and leading athletes; Premier League football clubs and governing bodies; charities and third sector organisations; campaign groups; and membership bodies. Tim is happy to operate on a long-term retainer – some clients have been with him for more than a decade – or to take on short-term projects when immediate support is required.

Tim features on the Spear’s 500 list as one of the UK’s most trusted reputation advisors. He is a regular media commentator and has frequently appeared on BBC News, ITV, Talk TV and publications such as Mail Online, Metro and PR Week discussing reputation management issues. He has also spoken at legal conferences and chaired roundtable events.

10:15-11:30: Anne-Lise Harding (Strategic Training Lead, The House of Commons, Information Literacy Group, Co-Chair)

‘Dealing with Misinformation in the Parliament’

Anne-Lise Harding is the Strategic Training Lead at the House of Commons Library, where she oversees the quality and impact of training provided to Members of Parliament, their staff and the wider parliamentary workforce. Her work focuses on information literacy, democratic engagement and strengthening Parliament’s resilience to misinformation and disinformation. She is the creator and lead on the House of Commons Library’s Good Information Toolkit. 

She is Co‑Chair of the CILIP Information Literacy Group, a committee providing national leadership, advocacy and expertise in this field. She is also a non‑executive director at Full Fact, contributing her expertise to the UK’s independent fact‑checking charity and advising on training strategy. 

Her professional interests include information literacy, education to information and inclusion, and she recently co‑authored a chapter on informed society and representative democracy in The Ideas‑Informed Society (Emerald Publishing)

14:00-15:30: Ivan Philippov (media expert, author of  ‘All quiet on the Western front’ Telegram channel) 

‘How to analyse media content of radical and militant groups? - insights from the Ukraine frontline’

Ivan Philippov is a journalist, author, and creative executive with over 20 years of experience in Russian and international media. He began his career at Vedomosti, then a joint venture of The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, where he covered the media industry and interviewed global executives. Since 2007, he has worked closely with Alexander Rodnyansky across CTC Media, Non-Stop Production, and AR Content, contributing to internationally acclaimed films such as Leviathan, Loveless, and Beanpole, and taking part in multiple Oscar and Golden Globe campaigns.

He is the co-author, alongside Rodnyansky, of three nonfiction books about film and television, including the recent Leviathan: A Brief History of Putin’s Russia in Nine Films (2024). As an independent writer, Philippov has published two novels, Shadow (2021) and Mouse (2023). 

Mouse became a bestseller and the first novel in modern Russia to be officially banned by the Prosecutor General’s Office, drawing coverage from The Times, The Financial Times, and The Guardian.

Now based in Berlin, he is one of the leading analysts of Russian war propaganda. His Telegram channel All Quiet on the Western Front, which monitors hundreds of military channels, has over 100,000 subscribers and is widely cited by The Guardian, The Washington Post, Die Welt, Der Spiegel, and The Financial Times. In 2024, he was designated a “foreign agent” by the Russian Ministry of Justice.

14:00 - 15:00: Aarti Samani (Shreem Growth Partners)

'Illusions at Scale: Synthetic Identity and the Collapse of Human Defences'

Aarti Samani is the founder of Shreem Growth Partners, a leading advisory firm focused on deepfake fraud prevention. With over 20 years' experience in financial services and AI innovation, Aarti has launched category-defining products, including predictive text input, facial biometric verification, and AR surgical simulations. Her work has reshaped how organisations address identity verification and the growing threat of impersonation fraud.

Aarti is a sought-after international speaker, regularly featured at global events like Money 2020, COGX, and Identity Week. As a BBC commentator, she offers expert insights on AI’s impact on business and society. A cancer survivor, Aarti’s story of resilience adds a personal dimension to her work, demonstrating how technology can drive positive change in the face of adversity. A Durham University alumna, Aarti also serves as a guest lecturer at Durham Business School, sharing her expertise with the next generation of business leaders. She holds an honours degree in Mathematics.

16:00 - 17:30: Barney Guitton (World Wildlife Foundation)

'From Page to Podcast: Skills for Charity Comms Professionals'

Barney is Head of Media at WWF UK. He has worked in charity communications for eight years following a career in journalism that included a stint as News Editor at Newsweek's European edition, founding and editing his own magazine and editing online magazine Planet Ivy. At the Disasters Emergency Committee he played a key role in the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal which raised £446 million and at WWF has led major media campaigns such as Prescription for Nature and the Living Planet Report.

16:00-17:30: Vladimir Raevskiy (London-based journalist and performance artist) 

‘How I Searched for My Ancestors and Got the Twentieth Century Back’ 

Kyiv, Palestine, New York, Jewish shtetls, and Ural cities — in his new lecture journalist and TV host Vladimir Raevsky will tell how genealogy and journalistic tools opened up incredible stories about his own family and, through the prism of a hundred years ago, helped him see our time.

“I’ve been doing genealogy for 25 years and investigating my family’s history. It seems unfair to me that the twentieth century took so much from us — our very distant relatives, when they parted, later lost sight of each other, and it turned out to be forever.

"I really dislike that ‘forever,’ so I decided to reclaim that part of the family that disappeared somewhere in the last century. Through archival documents, travel, and sometimes tiny newspaper notes, I investigated the lost branches of the family tree. As a result, I found myself in Jewish shtetls, stayed with relatives with a view of a bay with whales, searched for rare books, discovered incredible coincidences — and literally a week ago I drank beer with a fifth cousin I might never have met.

"I will tell these stories in my lecture, and I’ll also show the tools for searching that anyone can use. The main thing is to remember that nothing is 'forever.'"