Twenty-five invitations, thirty-five people.

A couple who build in public, side by side. The Digital Battlefield panel asks who young Malaysians actually listen to online, and the honest answer is people like them rather than institutions.

Film, television and social media in one career, with an audience that crosses language lines instead of sitting inside one.

One of the strongest voices to come out of Sabah and stay national. Her presence says plainly that this conversation is not a peninsular one.

A Bornean singer-songwriter who also builds companies. Both halves matter to this room: the stage and the ledger.

Daphne Iking has spent a career holding difficult subjects on live television without flattening them. That is the exact register the closing panel needs.

Writes for the under-thirty audience the Digital Battlefield panel is about, and is heard by them daily.

Noh Salleh's audience came up through independent music: a generation sceptical of being lectured to, and receptive to being levelled with.

Nana Mahazan reaches an audience across radio, television and screen in a single day. Few people can carry a message that far that fast.

Soya Belacan is this conference's thesis written as a household name: a mixed marriage made ordinary, funny and daily for a very large audience.

A director and a stylist -- the two people who decide how a story looks and how it gets told. Both are useful to a conference about being misread.

An actor and a content creator who have built an audience across two cultures at once, in public, for years.

Sabri Yunus can put a hard truth into a room and keep it laughing. On a day about a bleeding wound, that is not a luxury.

Moves comfortably between music, screen and hosting, and between audiences that rarely overlap.

Duriankimchi is a Malaysian-Korean household that turned the daily negotiation of two cultures into a following and a restaurant.

Food is the least defended door into another community, and he walks through it every day for a Chinese-speaking Muslim audience.

A film-maker whose work reaches an audience that Malay-language cinema often does not.

An actor, host and entrepreneur whose public life already sits across more than one community.

One of the largest organic followings in the country, built on consistency and generosity rather than controversy. Panel Two is about precisely that kind of enterprise.

For the part of this that is not policy: the grief, the family rupture, the loneliness. Someone has to write that down.

Long-form conversation is where nuance survives. His audience comes for an hour, not for eight seconds.

Has spent years helping Malaysians of every background without first asking which one they are. If this conference has a living argument, it is him.

Has built national stories on Malaysian stages for decades, and knows how to make a country look at itself without flinching.

Comedy, music and radio across several communities -- a career built on being welcome in more than one room.

A broadcaster and founder trusted by an audience that spans language, class and community.

A scientist and a chief executive. Her presence makes the point that this room is not only entertainment -- it is also the people building things.