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2023 Speakers

Afiya Chohollo

Afiya Chohollo is VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management at Onfido, a global identity verification and authentication provider. Our technology...

VP of Engineering & Technical Program Management - Onfido

Ali Niknam

Ali Niknam (1981), born in Canada but from Iranian descent, grew out to be the de-facto innovator in the financial sector, bringing diversity to the banking...

CEO - Bunq

Ali Parsa

Dr Ali Parsa is a British-Iranian healthcare entrepreneur and engineer. He’s the founder and CEO of Babylon, the revolutionary AI and digital health company...

Founder and CEO - Babylon Health

Anil Seth

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty years. He is...

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience - University of Sussex

Anna Bulakh

Anna BULAKH, Head of Ethics and Partnerships at Respeecher, an Emmy-awarded voice cloning technology based in Ukraine. Anna is a former Policy Advisor at...

Head of Ethics and Policies - Respeecher

Carlos Eduardo Espinal

Carlos is a Managing Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real...

Managing Partner - Seedcamp

Christian Facey

As a former Facebook Science Partner and Google Agency Strategist, Christian’s passion for both games and music led him to co-found Audiomob after years of...

Founder and CEO - Audiomob

Dambisa Moyo

Dr Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique...

Global Economist, Author and Board Member -

Dennis Nobelius

Dennis Nobelius, 50 years of age, lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Dennis has been Chief Operations Officer (COO) for Polestar since September 2020. Before this...

COO - Polestar

Dex Hunter-Torricke

Dex Hunter-Torricke is Vice President of Global Communications & Public Engagement for the Oversight Board, the independent body established by Meta in 2020...

Vice President of Global Communications & Public Engagement for the Oversight Board - Meta

Ekaterina Malievskaia

Dr Ekaterina Malievskaia is the Chief Innovation Officer and Co‑founder of COMPASS Pathways, a mental health care company dedicated to accelerating patient...

Chief Innovation Officer and Co‑founder - COMPASS Pathways

Ella Goldner

Co-founder and Partner at Zinc, a venture fund that backs exceptional talent to build new commercial solutions that solve the most pressing societal issues...

Partner - Zinc

Emad Mostaque

Emad Mostaque is the founder and CEO of Stability AI, which focused on building the foundation to activate humanity's potential through AI. Previously he led multiple technology

Founder - Stability AI

George Hadjigeorgiou

George co-founded ZOE with a mission to improve the health of millions; by moving the world from calorie counting and foods that poison our health to the...

Co-founder and President - ZOE

Gina Neff

Gina Neff is the Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge and a Professor of Technology & Society...

Executive Director - Minderoo

James Peyer Ph.D.

James Peyer, PhD, is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cambrian BioPharma, a Distributed Drug Development Company focused on developing therapeutics targeting the...

CEO & Co-Founder - Cambrian Biopharma

James Vincent

James is the Founder and CEO of FNDR, who work hand in hand with transformative founders, harnessing the power of narrative to give voice to their vision...

Founding Partner and CEO - FNDR

Julian Guthrie

Julian Guthrie is the founder and CEO of Alphy, a U.S.-based tech startup building AI-powered communication tools called Reflect. Reflect by Alphy looks at...

Journalist - Alphy

Lauren Kunze

Lauren Kunze is currently the CEO of Pandorabots and co-founder of ICONIQ, a Pandorabots spinout working on a humanlike AI operating system for the Metaverse...

CEO - Pandorabots

Lindsey McInerney

Whether building hyper-growth startups or advising Fortune 500 companies, the Royal Family or the United Nations, Lindsey McInerney has spent her career ...

Co-Founder & CEO Sixth Wall - Sixth Wall

Lubomila Jordanova

Lubomila Jordanova is the co-founder and CEO of Plan A, a software provider offering an end-to-end platform that uses machine learning and science to enable...

CEO and Co-founder - Plan A

Lucas Joppa

Lucas Joppa joined Haveli Investments, a technology-focused private equity firm, just recently in 2022, with the mission to help build a company that has...

Chief Sustainability Officer & Senior Managing Director
- Haveli Investments

Magnus Grimeland

As the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Antler (www.antler.co), the world’s largest technology company builder and global VC, Magnus leads a team...

CEO & Founder - Antler

Marc Warner

Marc is the CEO and Co-Founder at Faculty. He co-founded Faculty in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone, and has since overseen the...

CEO & Co-Founder - Faculty

Molly Alter

Molly focuses on seed, venture, and growth investments across enterprise SaaS and health tech. She is particularly interested in the psychology of product...

Principal - Index Ventures

Moriba Jah

As Chief Scientist, Dr Jah leads the technical vision for Privateer. Jah is a renowned space environmentalist and astrodynamicist specializing in space...

Co Founder and Chief Scientist - Privateer Space

Nick Rosa

Nick Rosa is a creative technologist, experience designer, and digital transformation specialist, who previously worked for Google, Spotify, IBM IX, Yahoo!...

Metaverse Strategy Lead Europe & APAC - Accenture Metaverse Continuum Business Group

Nigel Toon

Nigel Toon is co-founder, Chairman and CEO at Graphcore. Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a silicon and systems company based in Bristol- UK, that has developed a...

CEO and co-founder - Graphcore

Nina Schick

Nina Schick is an author, entrepreneur and advisor specialising in Generative AI. One of the first GenAI experts, Nina analyses how this nascent field of...

Author -

Pippa Lamb

Pippa is an angel investor and a Partner at Sweet Capital, the early stage investment fund set up by the founders of King.com (publishers of the hit game...

Partner - Sweet Capital

Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser

Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser is the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge...

Chief Executive - UK Research & Innovation

Rachel Coldicutt

Rachel Coldicutt is an expert on the social impact of new and emerging technologies, and director of research consultancy Careful Industries. She was...

Director - Careful Industries

Ravi Gurumurthy

Ravi is CEO of Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency for social good. In March 2021, Nesta published its ambitious 10-year strategy which aims to improve the...

Chief Executive Officer - Nesta

Reshma Sohoni

Reshma Sohoni is the Managing Partner of Seedcamp, the European seed fund she co-founded in 2007 with a strong belief that European entrepreneurs have the...

Managing Partner & Co-Founder - Seedcamp

Rik Ferguson

Rik is a researcher, storyteller, and futurist. He helps governments, law enforcement, businesses and individuals understand the complexities of technology...

Vice President Security Intelligence - Forescout Technologies, Inc

Sarah Kerruish

Before moving back to London, Sarah Kerruish lived in Silicon Valley for 15 years where she worked with some of the great inventors of our age. This included...

Chief Strategy Officer - Kheiron Medical

Susie Alegre

As an international lawyer, author and speaker, Susie has worked on some of the most challenging legal and political issues of our time including human right...

International Human Rights Lawyer and Author -

William MacAskill

Will MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford. His academic research...

Associate Professor of Philosophy -

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