2026 Braw CrossMedia Jury

Warren Buckleitner is a Professor and reviewer of children’s interactive media who has worked in close partnership with the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for many years, to create and coordinate independent digital media award programs. He is the founding Editor of Children's Technology Review and has covered children’s technology for the New York Times for over a decade. 

In 2001 he created the Dust or Magic Institute, an annual meeting of leading designers, researchers and reviewers, with the intention to share examples of best practice in children’s digital media.  He teaches courses on digital design and pedagogy at The College of New Jersey and he holds degrees in Elementary Education, Human Development and a doctorate in educational psychology from Michigan State University. He is also a musician who lives in New Jersey, and is the proud father of two daughters.

In 2011 came the event that changed everything: the birth of Martina, followed in 2014 by Valeria. A long-dormant passion - for teaching and mentoring - joined his love for the digital world. Since 2008 he has

been teaching digital journalism at the university level, first at Bicocca, then at the University of Milan (in the Master’s program dedicated to Walter Tobagi), and at RCS Academy. Since 2020, he has created,

organized, and coordinated CampBus for Corriere della Sera, a project bringing digital culture and literacy to Italian high schools.

With over 25 years’ experience in the business side of the Animation industry including roles with indie studios, majors and her own award-winning distribution entity, Julie’s experience covers international distribution, co-production financing as well as licensing&merchandising/publishing. In 2022, Julie moved to a more creative role as Head of Development at Gaumont Animation where she scouted for and produced book based Ips and original creations alongside hiring French and European writers to bring them to life. Since February 2025, Julie is now consulting via her Serendipity Animation structure, whilst delving into the wild world of AI marketing to learn where it might take us all!

Neal Hoskins is an independent publishing consultant who focuses on innovation and content creation in the children’s book industry. He has worked with BCBF over the past 10 years on various digital initiatives. 

He runs Winged Chariot. He recently completed an MA in creative writing and his first picture book from Thames and Hudson published last year and became a White Raven 2025 pick.

GeumJoo (A.k.a. Beatrice) calls herself a professional Digital Content Specialist (DCS) with technology at heart and the demonstrated career spanning decades from the licensing, publishing, ed-tech and digital content publishing, distribution, and security technologies including digital watermarking and DRM. As a co-founder and CEO at CO.MINT Inc. she is leading rights agency from literary to screen, consulting and digital content distribution of Korean language ebooks and audiobooks. From 2017 to 2022, GeumJoo had led Storytel’s audio publishing business in South Korea.

With her continued interest and focus on the development of digital content in the era of Industry 4.0 technologies such as metaverse, blockchain, A.I. and IoT, she has been following the market and IT trend of South Korea and overseas in content and publishing industry, and becomes a judge, frequent speaker, lecturer and writer for Korea’s Digital Book Association, KPIPA and KOCCA of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea on the topic of publishing, ebook, audiobook, digital content trends, and copyrights in digital environment, she has been invited to speak at global arena such as APA (Audio Publishers Association) and Sharjah International Book fair in 2022, AbuDhabi Book Fair 2023, and Readmagine2023 in Madrid, Spain.

 

She is studying at Ewha Womans University the Graduate School of Law for "the future of copyright in the era of the new technology and Gen AI" as an extension of her bachelor’s degree of llaw, to foster dialogue and drive movement towards the harmonious application of innovative technology and law for our future content industry. In June 2023, she played a key role in organizing PublisHer's Seoul Conference during Seoul International Book Fair to introduce PublisHer into Korea's publishing industry to facilitate and nurture the culture of participation in diversity and gender equality at global level.