The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) has added Fremantle CEO Jennifer Mullin (pictured) to its list of keynote speakers, and named the first of its In Conversation With sessions.

Mullin will speak as part of the annual festival’s Summit Series. BANFF is held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alta., and runs from June 11 to 14.

Fremantle is a global content producer, distributor and investor based in the U.K., and is owned by RTL Group. Mullin has been at the helm since 2018, after first joining its U.S. office as SVP of current programming in 2005.

BANFF has also announced that Scarborough, Ont.-born creative Lilly Singh and World of Wonder co-founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato will take part in the festival’s In Conversation With sessions.

Singh serves as a host on upcoming CTV quiz show Battle of the Generations and a judge on Citytv’s Canada’s Got Talent, and previously had her own late-night talk show, A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

Singh and her banner Unicorn Island Productions have first-look deals with Toronto’s Blink49 Studios (scripted) and Universal Television Alternative Studio (unscripted).

Bailey and Barbato are executive producers of the successful Drag Race franchise, born from original format RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has been adapted locally in roughly two dozen regions to date, including Crave original Canada’s Drag Race and its spinoff Canada vs. The World.

“Each of these incredible individuals have changed the face of the industry in unique and important ways,” said Jenn Kuzmyk, executive director of BANFF and VP and publisher of Playback in a statement. “Jennifer Mullin no doubt will have us rapt with her vision of what it takes to helm one of the world’s global content powerhouses… it’s just impossible to quantify the good that Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have put into the world via the legendary global juggernaut that is Drag Race and many other productions.”

“[Bailey and Barbato] have changed minds and opened hearts and continue to demonstrate that beauty is about authenticity and joy, that love conquers hate, and that despite horrific efforts to the contrary in many places around the globe, the civil rights and human rights of the LGBTQ+ community must be protected,” she continued.