Anka Zapart is a teacher, a teacher trainer and an ADOS at BKC IH Moscow. She has been teaching for over 15 years. Her professional interests are all related to teaching early years, primary and pre-primary students and involve practical solutions for the classroom in the area of storytelling, literacy, songs and craft as well as the research in the second language acquisition in preschoolers and assessment for VYL and YL.

John Hughes is an award-winning ELT coursebook author and teacher trainer. With over 50 titles, his main course series are Life, World English (National Geographic Learning) and Business Result (Oxford University Press). He's also written methodology titles and is the series editor of the ETpedia teacher resource series (Pavilion ELT). He trains teachers from all over the world and leads courses in materials writing and critical thinking at Oxford University. His website is www.johnhugheselt.com.

Anne Robinson is a seminar presenter and seminar team trainer for Cambridge Assessment English, and a very active teacher trainer. She is an author for Cambridge University Press, namely of Fun Skills, Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers and the Exam Booster for Advanced. Since March 2020, Anne has been supporting teachers with numerous webinars and articles and in writing content for digital resources, including the A2 Exam Lift and Kahoots for young learners. Anne also aims to support teachers by sharing tips and resources on her webpage www.teachingtogether.info.

Margarita Kosior is an educator, teacher trainer, conference presenter, materials writer, but also a storyteller and a children's author. She has written "Toby to the rescue", a picture book in the Tales of Strays series, and started a campaign with the same name aiming to raise awareness of the issue of stray animals through storytelling and English language teaching.

David Valente is the Coordinator of the IATEFL Young Learners and Teenagers Special Interest Group. He works as a PhD Research Fellow in English Language and Literature Subject Pedagogy at Nord University, Norway, where he teaches on the 5-year Masters degree in Primary Education. David has over 20 years' experience in ELT as a teacher, teacher educator, academic manager, author and editor and his specialist interests include children's literature in ELT, English teacher education and intercultural learning. David is also one of the authors of the new Cambridge FUN Skills series.

Ellen Setterfield is the Young Learner Product Marketing Executive for National Geographic Learning. With over 15 years' experience of working with children and teenagers, and teaching experience in Russia, the Czech Republic and the UK, she is passionate about helping Young Learners use English to understand the world around them.

Director of Studies at London Express Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarskiy krai); Qualified and certified CELTA and teacher with 12 years experience; Part-time teacher at Krasnoyarsk Regional in-service teacher training institute; Russian State Exam Expert; CAE, TKT, DELTA M1.

James is a Delta-qualified teacher trainer and teacher currently working at International House Rome Accademia Britannica. Alongside extensive experience with online teacher training, he is a CELTA Trainer (both physical and online courses) and IHCYLT course tutor, and he blogs on ELT at www.jamesegerton.wordpress.com. He counts online teacher training/teaching and educational psychology among his most-valued specialities.