Brandie Deignan
Managing Director, MPW Restaurants
Now leading the 50 strong Marco Pierre White Restaurants business, Brandie is strongly informed by her exposure in the wide array of hospitality disciplines related to her field of expertise. Having had a varied career within hotels, high street restaurants and airline leadership, she is specifically interested in the way in which social shift and innovation influences business and strategy subtly.
Zoe Chilton
Head of Technical Partnerships, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing
Zoe leads a team managing key relationships with Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s technical and innovation partners, based at the Team’s headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK.
Zoe joined Red Bull Racing in 2015, from a career in motorsport and high performance engineering, and is now responsible for a portfolio of 15 Innovation Partners including IBM. These Partners are delivering crucial products, services and technology to help drive car performance, and help Aston Martin Red Bull Racing stay ahead of the pack.
Kaushal Shah
Founder & CEO, envoPAP
Kaushal Shah set up envoPAP in 2015 to make sustainable materials made out of waste sugarcane fibres, which are sourced from India. He sees sustainable development as a core business of the packaging sector, paving the way for securing a safe and healthy working environment and the desire to develop sustainable products.
Ankita Singh
EMEA Head Franchise eCommerce Manager, The Body Shop
Ankita is the EMEA Head Franchise eCommerce Manager at The Body Shop rolling out the websites in 37+countries, leading and executing all aspects of the global digital business. Previously she was responsible for day to day online trading of the website at Monsoon Accessorize, and led end-to-end management of the online supply chains at Beyond Retro.
Paul Massara
former CEO, nPower
Paul has extensive experience in the energy and service sectors. Previously CEO of RWE npower, he now advises and leads young energytech businesses such as Electron, Habitat Energy and Verv. He is also an Associate at Creative Destruction Labs (Said Business School) and a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty, advising the Secretary of State for Energy on energy strategy.
Will Mace
Founder, EQ-Connect
As Head of Strategic Innovation at the Kindred Group, Will has spent the last 5 years exploring the most exciting innovations the gambling industry has to offer - from virtual reality poker to conversational interfaces to emotion detectors. He is now leading EQ-Connect, a start-up that seeks to revolutionise the way the industry approaches its vulnerable players. By aggregating real-time data from gambling operators, a more holistic view of any one player is achieved, leading to better decisions and safer customers.
Damian Smith
Head of IT, England and Wales Cricket Board
Damian has been building information systems and transforming organisations for more than twenty-five years, in a range of sectors including Defence, Telecoms, FMCG, Sports, Media, Financial Services and Financial Regulation. Currently Head of IT at the England and Wales Cricket Board, Damian tenuously claims responsibility for England winning the Men’s Cricket World Cup this year and the Women’s Cricket World Cup in 2017. Before Damian realised that his future lay in information technology, he ran pubs, climbed mountains and starred as a body double for Tom Cruise in Hollywood movies.
Alexandra Altinger
CEO - UK, Europe & Asia, J O Hambro Capital Management
Alexandra is the CEO of J O Hambro, and has worked globally in wealth and asset management for 25 years. She has led business transformations including appointing women to the leadership team. She's currently writing a book on ethical leadership.
Rebecca De Beukelaer
Founder and CEO, UniSalad
Rebecca founded Nottingham’s largest university student community Facebook group in 2013 while still a student, which grew to 36,000 users in just a few years.
She has built a company as a sole female founder and acquired over 15,700 student users on her platform so far as a single person team.
Dr Eitan Buchalter
Director of Innovation, Global Governance Institute
Eitan is passionate about innovation and anthropology and loves nothing more than fusing the two together, with experience in the private, public and third sectors.
Over the past 15+ years, he has worked with clients as varied as NASA, Big Pharma, HM Treasury, P&G, Tate Modern and many more. His primary interest is in the culture of innovation, and helping individuals and organisation to nurture and enhance their innate creative abilities.
Dan Hayes
Co-Founder and CEO, VRCO
Dan is a co-founder of VRCO, a drone company that is piloting an Airvolution®, creating the future for select, modern aviators. The vision of VRCO, is to provide clientele with hyper electric flight performance which revolutionises their journeys, giving them the very best, most unique and safest experience possible. Dan is passionate about technology, aviation, transport and driving the adoption of a circular economy.
Charlie Fraser
Co-Founder, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network
Charlie is an ambitious social enterprise and ever-growing community with a mission to enable refugees to thrive through the power of their own ideas. Alongside an experienced volunteer community of over 300 industry experts, entrepreneurs and consultants, TERN supported 196 entrepreneurs in 2019 alone, with a goal of launching 2,000 refugee-led businesses by 2025.
Rashik Parmer
IBM Fellow and Vice President Technology - Europe, IBM
Rashik is responsible for creating and driving IBM’s European technical strategy, with a focus on helping clients on the journey to become a cognitive enterprise leveraging cloud, AI and IoT technologies whilst creating a dependable IT platform. Drawing on 36 years of practical experience in IBM, he specialises in ensuring the technical success of complex IT projects that transform business models. Rashik was also awarded an MBE for his contribution to business and innovation.
Nick Lisher
Head of EMEA, Nextdoor
Nick Lisher is Head of EMEA for Nextdoor, focused on bringing the world’s largest social app to neighbourhoods across Europe. He was previously UK Country Manager at Nextdoor leading user growth across the UK and Europe, former roles include CMO roles for leading tech companies including Depop and Twoo.
Ian Moyse
EMEA Sales Director, Natterbox
Ian Moyse is EMEA Sales Director for Natterbox. He has sat on the boards of a number of industry bodies; FAST (Federation Against Software Theft), CIF (Cloud Industry Forum), Eurocloud and the techUK Cloud Leadership Committee. Twice rated #1 Cloud influencer by Onalytica and recognised as a leading cloud Blogger published by many leading global brands and listed in the EMEA top 50 influencers in Data Centres, Cloud & Data 2017, Top 50 Cloud Computing Blogs 2020 and as a top 10 cloud influencer on Quora.
Rob Cowell
Principal Technologist, Pyramid Analytics
More than 25 years’ experience of high-volume data architectures and analytics. Rob has worked as a software developer, database administrator, technical and solutions architect and currently focusses on predictive analytics and data visualisation at Pyramid Analytics.
Ian Macdonald
Principal Technologist, Pyramid Analytics
Ian has been active in the Analytics and BI space for more than 30 years in senior technical and marketing roles with large software vendors, system integrators and BI specialist consulting houses. His role with Pyramid Analytics includes introducing products to new markets, evangelising products and enabling new customers.
Heather Savory
Non-Executive Director and Business Advisor, Office for National Statistics
Heather Savory is a non-executive director and business advisor, was previously co-chair of the United Nations Global Working Group on Big Data and Director General for Data Capability at the Office for National Statistics which she modernised through a cross-organisation digital, data and workforce transformation. She has also been Chair of the Open Data User Group (ODUG), a member of the Regulatory Board of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and has held CEO roles at SMEs. She has also worked extensively across the UK Government.
Fergus Moroney
VP EMEA, Workato
Based in Dublin, Fergus is VP EMEA at Workato. Workato is the only enterprise automation platform that enables both business and IT to integrate their apps and automate even the most mission-critical workflows without compromising security and governance. Workato is trusted by over 6,000 of the world's top brands and fastest growing innovators. Fergus has 20 years experience in enterprise software, working with leading integration brands such as BEA, Informatica and Trifacta.
Boaz Nur
Enterprise Customers EMEA, Workato
Based in Amsterdam, Boaz is the Head of Enterprise Customers in EMEA at Workato. Workato is the only enterprise automation platform that enables both business and IT to integrate their apps and automate even the most mission-critical workflows without compromising security and governance. Workato is trusted by over 6,000 of the world's top brands and fastest growing innovators. Boaz has 15+ years experience with technology companies having worked in various roles across sales, business development and technology partnerships both in the US and Europe.
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