Technology

Michael Acton Smith OBE is a highly successful technology entrepreneur and leader. He is the co-founder and Co CEO of Calm, whose mission is to make the world a happier and less stressed place by bringing meditation and mindfulness to the mainstream.He is also the creator of Moshi Monsters and CEO and Founder of entertainment company, Mind Candy and Co-founder of Firebox.

Michael Acton Smith OBE

Co-founder and Head of Design at Kickstarter, the groundbreaking crowdfunding website which has raised over $752m for over 50k projects from computer games and music to technology and feature films. An innovator passionate about the internet.

Charles Adler

Ash is an entrepreneur who found his way into digital entrepreneurship when he sold his first award-winning internet business at the age of just 19. Serial tech master known for his high-speed innovative growth hacking.

Ash Ali

Global thought-leader in business futurism. Renowned for making complex societal shifts and emerging technologies relatable for any audience.

Kate Ancketill

Sold his first business to Horizon when he was just 17, then at 21 founded Fanbytes. A prodigy in influencer marketing and brand building

Timothy Armoo

Stephen Attenborough’s name is synonymous with the opening of space to private individuals. He was Virgin Galactic's first employee; a protégé of Sir Richard Branson, he is an authority on commercial space travel.

Stephen Attenborough

Azeem Azhar is the Founder and author of Exponential View which concentrates primarily on technology, business models, the political economy and society. Azeem is also on the board of the Ada Lovelace Foundation, the leading independent research institute focussed on the ethics of AI. He is a venture partner at Kindred Capital, a generalist early stage VC fund, and an advisor to Fabric Ventures, a blockchain-focused VC fund. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future's Council on the Digital Economy and Society.

Azeem Azhar

Author, international speaker, and CEO of Stillpoint Spaces, an international hub for the exploration of psychology. Was Radio 1's mental health agony uncle. Renowned scholar.

Aaron Balick

Sonya is an award-winning BBC Presenter, Entrepreneur, Author and Keynote Speaker specialising in entrepreneurship, technology, gender equality, inclusion, future of work, diversity and neurodiversity.

Sonya Barlow

Georgie is a technology and consumer presenter, broadcaster and journalist, best known for Channel 5's The Gadget Show and Shop Smart Save Money, specialising in sustainability and echo-tech content.

Georgie Barrat

Author of The Dark Net and Radicals and Director of the Centre for the analysis of social media ,Jamie speaks expertly on important topics such as cyber security, internet cultures and surveillance technology.

Jamie Bartlett

Chris Barton is the Founder and Creator of Shazam, Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Tech Investor; a dynamic tech speaker on creativity

Chris Barton

Award-winning speaker specialising in the future human, Artificial Intelligence and body responsive technologies. She is the studio expert for BBC World Service Digital Planet (formerly BBC Click) and is a Reader in Digital Immersion at the University of Greenwich.

Ghislaine Boddington

Jason is the former host of The Gadget Show, a charismatic and inventive technology expert whose acclaimed public speaking has been turned into '30 Days of AI'; a machine learning revolution with profound implications for how we live and work

Jason Bradbury

Co-founder of OLIO- a hugely popular app which enables users to locate persons to share their unneeded food. Through her philanthropic efforts, over 1 million users have given away 3 million portions of food and counting. Tessa's goal for OLIO is to create a world where every single person has enough to eat.

Tessa Clarke

Chloe Colliver is the Head of Digital Research and Policy at ISD she leads a global team of analysts studying disinformation and extremism online. A perfect keynote speaker for events focusing on disinformation, technology and digital policy, fake news and extremism.

Chloe Colliver

President and CEO of PayByPhone, one of the fastest growing mobile payment companies in the world.

Jonny Combe

is a Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and the Media, Senior Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School with an impresssive track record as a successful TV entreprenuer

Dr Alex Connock

Dave helps organisations and individuals to see the full potential that technology offers of a modern, digital society. He focuses not on the technology itself, but on the humans who use it. Inspiring corporate choice!

Dave Coplin

Cristina is a technology correspondent at the Financial Times, specialising in artificial intelligence and social media.

Cristina Criddle

A lively and engaging science broadcaster, journalist and astrophysicist. A space specialist, she’s worked at NASA and been involved with the various private space initiatives currently in development in the US including programmes backed by Amazon, Virgin and Elon Musk, and has even conducted interviews with Buzz Aldrin!

Sarah Cruddas

Dominic is the highly controversial political strategist behind the Vote Leave campaign and Boris Johnson's ill fated Premiership but nobody doubts his extraordinary ability to harness modern technology to political objectives

Dominic Cummings

Bruce ran Twitter in Europe for twelve years before becoming a best selling author and technology leader, having launched the successful “East, Sleep, Work Repeat” podcast. One the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work, Bruce is a highly sought after keynote speaker at conferences around the world.

Bruce Daisley

Ortis Deley is a British television presenter, radio DJ and actor. As of 2016, he is a presenter on The Gadget Show.

Ortis Deley

Pioneering expert in robotics and AI. Director of Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Lausanne.

Dario Floreano

Lisa founded Red Goat Cyber Security in 2017 to teach companies about the methodologies used by cyber criminals. Her areas of expertise include social engineering, the psychology of persuasion, insider threats and rehearsing for a cyber attack. She has conducted ground-breaking research into the psychology behind insider threats and created the first ever GCHQ certified social engineering course.

Lisa Forte

Danny is a World-renowned Tech Journalist who writes for the Sunday Times from the USA

Danny Fortson

Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL where she studies patterns in human behaviour using her knowledge of AI techniques amongst other scientific tools to predict the future

Hannah Fry

A former Digital Security Journalist of the Year, Misha is an author and journalist with a rich background in cyber security, geopolitics, criminology and broadcasting. His non fiction book, McMafia was turned into a thriller by the BBC.

Misha Glenny

Louise is a TV presenter and journalist, with a specialism in sustainability and green living.

Louise Gookey

Grace is the founder of School of the Digital Age, a retail destination for new technology products. She’s a keen proponent of femtech – tech gadgets specifically designed for women from the start, and not just tech specifically for women, but more generally so avoiding issues of smaller hands/pockets etc

Grace Gould

Real estate futurist and industry trends presenter - topics include innovation, disruption, IoT, sustainability, design thinking, future workplace, robots, cities, architecture and the built environment.

Nikki Greenberg

Julia Hardy is an experienced TV Presenter, writer, radio presenter and live host, specialising in technology, video games and YouTube. Her years of experience in front of the camera, teamed with her depth of knowledge and lively personalty makes her a fantastic choice for hosting live corporate events, from Awards Ceremonies to Product Launches. She is an experienced host of both conferences and awards and has given keynote speeches.

Julia Hardy

Kitty Horlick is Founding Partner of web3 consultancy, Blackwood; a highly sought after speaker on the Metaverse, Blockchain, NFTs, Cryptocurrencies and associated technologies.

Kitty Horlick

Having held positions at Goldman Sachs, HP and Deutsche Bank, Anne-Marie founded STEMettes, an award winning social initiatives to inspire and promote young women in STEM. On a lighter note, she provided maternity cover for Rachel Riley on Countdown, having got into Oxford in her mid teens!

Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Poppy Jamie is an entrepreneur, TEDx speaker and entertainment presenter. At 25 Poppy founded her first start-up, an accessories brand “Pop and Suki” with best friend and model/actress Suki Waterhouse. At 26 Poppy founded Happy Not Perfect (HNP) a mental well-being start-up application and corresponding product line which is being launched in 2018.

Poppy Jamie

Nick is an internationally-recognized thought leader on how leadership, innovation, and sustainability can transform the future of business in an increasingly complex, digital, and disrupted world.

Nick Jankel

Named one of the most creative entrepreneurs for 2020, Shivvy Jervis is an award-winning Trends Forecaster, Broadcaster and the Founder of forecasting lab FutureScape 248.

Shivvy Jervis

Sanderson Jones is far from your average comedian. He knows how to start a business from scratch and all that goes into it and is the Co-Founder of a non-religious church The Sunday Assembly; of which there are now 28 assemblies worldwide.

Sanderson Jones

Sam is the founder of Gener8, a browser enabling people to take back control and monetise their own data; a sought after speaker on tech related issues including artificial intelligence and business ethics.

Sam Jones

A leading expert in AI, analytics, digital strategy and big data.

Adrian Joseph OBE

Cyberpsychologist & author of REBOOT: Reclaiming Your Life in a Tech-Obsessed World.

Dr Elaine Kasket

Spencer is the face of Click, the BBC Technology TV programme; a highly regarded international techno journalist, he has interviewed all he major icons of the industry, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Ballmer, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange included.

Spencer Kelly

Irra Ariella Khi is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of multiple data security patents in USA and Europe. She is the only female CEO to successfully commercialise blockchain technology for international border management and identity.

Irra Ariella Khi

Turi uses genetics in the fields of forensics, history, genealogy, and archaeology, and is best known for ‘cracking one of the biggest forensic DNA cases in history’ – the identification of the remains of King Richard III.

Turi King

A leading technology journalist and presenter with a real passion for all things tech and over ten years of broadcasting experience. Regular presenter of OS, a 2 hour live global current affairs radio programme on the BBC World Service.

Zoe Kleinman

Louise is the founder of PhygitalTwin, a technology entrepreneur with a positive take on the innovative possibilities of AI to revolutionise businesses, especially in the competitive world of fashion retailing.

Louise Laing

Angela has over 200 BBC TV shows to her name capitalizing on her knowledge of technology, including space, fusion, AI, sustainability, cybersecurity and fintech; unsurprisingly, she is in great demand as a speaker or host at conferences worldwide.

Angela Lamont

Award-winning AI Content and Prompt Engineering Strategist, worked for Microsoft and Google. Presenter for Apple Music, Channel 4, Virgin and the BBC

Georgia Lewis Anderson

Creative entrepreneur Roberta Lucca, is one of Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech and co-founder of BAFTA-winning British video game developer Bossa Studios.

Roberta Lucca

Angelica has proven herself to be one of Britain's most exciting young entrepreneurs. Her inspiring story begins at the age of 22, when she started her career straight out of university with the vision of a curated lifestyle magazine- About Time has over 85,000 monthly readers and a team of 90 writers behind her. Angela delivers passionate keynotes about incredibly passionate about female liberation and entrepreneurship.

Angelica Malin

Dr Pippa Malmgren is a world renowned economist with an impressive track record as an adviser to US & UK Governments stretching over many years as an interpreter of hi tech trends.

Pippa Malmgren

Broadcaster and journalist specialising in technology, gadgets and science. He has appeared on BBC television and radio, as well as on Channel Four, Bloomberg and CNN. He is the regular consumer technology expert on BBC One’s Rip Off Britain.

David McClelland

Charlie spent more than 30 years in the Metropolitan Police where she set up and led the Police Central e-crime Unit, with the national remit to undertake cybercrime investigations that impact the UK. She is now Senior Cyber Crime Advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Charlie McMurdie

Carl speaks to audiences around the world about what the digital revolution really means to them and how they can keep ahead of it! He draws together immersive first-hand reporting from around the world with data and evidence to describe how every single aspect of our lives are changing in often unseen yet important ways.

Carl Miller

Brilliant science and technology presenter, and a memember of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd.

Steve Mould

Dhiraj is a Co-Founder of Shazam, the mobile music recognition company (acquired by Apple in 2018). He was named one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs by the Financial Times in 2015. In the course of his career, Dhiraj has served in senior roles in media & entertainment, digital business consulting and the charity sector with Save the Children.

Dhiraj Mukherjee

Globally renowned speaker and one of the world's leading authorities in customer centricity and customer experience, Martin entertains, inspires and educates by delivering actionable insights for any business audience.

Martin Newman

Ed Newton-Rex is one of the world’s leading experts and speakers on Generative AI.

Ed Newton-Rex

Professor Anu Ojha is Director of the UK’s National Space Academy programme and a leading authority on the future of Space travel

Anu Ojha OBE

Abadesi Osunsade has been revolutionising the tech scene. With a steely focus on removing inequality by educating employees and employers alike with her company Hustle Crew. Abadesi also hosts a podcast Techish, and has written guide book for success aimed at women in technology.

Abadesi Osunsade

Founder & CEO of Playmob, connecting gamers with brands to raise funds for good causes

Jude Ower MBE

Timothy Papandreou is a trusted global thought leader on emerging technologies, moonshots, smart cities, and the future of life & work.

Timothy Papandreou

Co-CEO of Decoded, a technology education company and expert on digital transformation, artificial intelligence and blockchain

Kathryn Parsons

Samantha is Co-Founder of Open Bionics; an award-winning start-up developing low-cost bionic hands that look and feel good, for amputees or those born without a hand. She is an entrepreneur, a journalist and a digital marketer.

Samantha Payne

- Caroline is a best-selling and award-winning writer, broadcaster, feminist campaigner, and speaker. Her talks focus on the data gender bias and how it affects organisations and prevents a world that is inclusive for everyone.

Caroline Criado Perez OBE

Paul Redmond is one of the UK’s leading experts on generational change and the future of work. As a leading expert in generational theory and employability, Dr Paul Redmond’s research and keynote talks are at the forefront of what this means for managers, recruiters, HR specialists and individuals.

Paul Redmond

Sharmadean is one of the UK's most bright millennial entrepreneurs at the moment. Bestselling authour and feminist, she founded WAH Nails as a side project whilst at university which went on to become an internationally successful concept nail salon. She went on to create Beautystack; a social network based beauty brand which exclusively connects beauty professionals to users.

Sharmadean Reid MBE

with AI setting many agendas, David is one of today’s leading speakers on how emerging technologies will impact business — and how leaders should prepare now. He uniquely walks the talk as both an investor and a keynote speaker

David Rowan

Adam is a geneticist & writer with multiple credits as a distinguished radio broadcaster with the BBC

Dr Adam Rutherford

Ayo Sokale is a Civil engineer, BBC Presenter, Former Deputy Mayor of Reading and a highly regarded speaker on STEM, sustainability and Neurodiversity

Ayo Sokale

Business woman, entrepreneur and writer who regularly hosts corporate events. Julia’s team have always worked remotely, something she introduced as she saw it was a way of avoiding the loss of female talent due to family commitments, and so is experienced in leading and inspiring a remote team.

Julia Streets

One of Google's Cloud CTOs, Professor Dr. Larissa Suzuki is a recognised figure in the technology and engineering industry using over 18 years of experience to drive innovation and bring futuristic technologies like AI, Federated Learning, Cloud Robotics, Responsible AI, and ML Ops to fruition.

Larissa Suzuki

Brilliant Irish comedian who actually studied STEM subject at university and was a civil engineer before changing tact to become a comedian.

Eleanor Tiernan

Renowned as The Digital Speaker, Mark is a trailblazing strategic futurist and highly sought-after international keynote speaker; with particular emphasis on AI, blockchain and the metaverse.

Dr Mark van Rijmenam CSP

Lisa Ventura is an award-winning cyber security consultant whose career spans over 23 years in cyber security and technology.

Lisa Ventura

Resident gaming expert on Channel 5's The Gadget Show.

Jordan Webber

Dr Iya Whiteley is a leading space psychologist who conducts applied research, designing and developing techniques to explore the interaction of people, technology and the environment to improve quality of life in space.

Dr Iya Whiteley

Co-founder and CEO of Unruly, the video ad tech company. Sarah is a force to be reckoned with! She has helped make 2 of the most successful ad campaigns ever.Sarah is a highly sought after speaker who talks on how to thrive in a male dominated sector.

Sarah Wood OBE

One of the world’s leading authorities on hacking and cyber security. He successfully hacked Facebook as part of a student competition at University where he was studying computer information systems. He has since uncovered security holes in numerous high-profile operations, including Kim Kardashian’s website. He is a director of both a cyber security company specialising in training, penetration testing and recruitment and an advisor for the Cyber Smile Foundation which specialises in online cyber bullying.

Jamie Woodruff

James Woudhuysen is Visiting Professor at London South Bank University. He is a Futurist, a journalist and broadcaster with a reputation for registering trends well before others.

James Woudhuysen

Kit is an author, broadcaster and academic specialising in the role of mathematics in everyday life; a speaker who can explain scientific material in layman's language with wit as well as wisdom

Kit Yates