Ashley Yun
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company
Ninja Tune / Toothsome
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position
Head of Artist Strategy / Co-Founder & Editor-In-Chief
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when
Wednesday 7 October 11:30
13:00 Thursday 8 October 16:50
17:30
Ashley Yun is Head of Artist Strategy at Ninja Tune, where she has spent nearly a decade working across the US and UK music industries. She leads artist campaigns from strategy through to execution, shaping creative direction, commissioning work and bringing together artists and other creative talent to build ideas that travel beyond music.
Alongside Ninja Tune, Ashley is the Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Toothsome, an independent magazine exploring food, culture and design. Through Toothsome, she works across editorial and creative direction, collaborating with emerging and established talent across disciplines.
Working between music, publishing and culture, Ashley’s practice is rooted in finding interesting people, stories, and ideas.
2026 Speakersspeaking at
C:FUTURE is CICLOPE’s initiative dedicated to the next generation of the creative industry. Rather than discussing the future of young talent, it puts young talent at the centre of the conversation.
Taking place across all three days of the Festival, each session features a different group of emerging talent from different disciplines. But every conversation follows the same three themes: Expectations. Reality. Hope.
By repeating the framework with different voices, C:FUTURE reveals where a new generation shares common ground, where perspectives diverge, and what the industry can learn from both.
What makes something worthy of attention? As culture evolves faster than ever and choice becomes limitless, across directing, producing and commissioning acts of selection collectively shape the cultural landscape, and determine which ideas are carried forward.
Bringing together voices from film, music, events and advertising, this conversation examines the human judgment behind meaningful curation.