Speakers
Ed Abis
Managing Director, Dizplai
Furqan Alamgir
Founder & CEO, Connexin
Leah Anathan
Chief Marketing Officer, Mews Systems
June Angelides MBE
Investor, Samos Investments
Iain Anstess
Partner & Managing Director, Q5 Leeds
Anna Ashford
Head of ALT Legal
Louise Andrew
Head of Art at d3t and Coconut Lizard, co-development games studios
Simon Barratt
CEO, Cooperative Innovations
Alexander Batchelor
CEO, Pictura Bio
Gordon Bateman
CEO, CRSI & CEO, Investor Ladder
Alastair Bathgate
Founder, Blue Prism
Jonathan Bean
Physicist
Laura IH Bennett
Regional Lead - TEAM SY
Estelle Blanks
CEO & Director, Innovation SuperNetwork
David Bothwell
Head of Mobility as a Service & Partner, Today Mobility
Stewart Boutcher
Chief Technology Officer, Veracity Trust Network
David Braithwaite
BBC Radio Presenter, Conference Speaker, Associate Coach for Strategic Coach
Justin Breen
Author, Epic Life
Jamie Broderick
Deputy Chair, Impact Investing Institute
Stuart Brown
Co-Founder, E2E Capital Ventures
Rachel Beverley-Stevenson
Co-Founder and Executive Chair, OneMedicalGroup and OneMedicalProperty
Martin Bryant
Founder, PreSeed Now
Jim Buckle
Chief Financial Officer, Gousto
Jennifer Byrne
Former CTO, Microsoft
Caroline Cartellieri
Non-Executive Director
Chris Cheshire
Safe and Found
Steve Clarke
Director, re-universe
Jon Coker
General Partner & Founder, Eka Ventures
Gary Crotaz
Executive coach and host of ‘The Unlock Moment’ podcast
Keeley Crockett
Professor of Computational Intelligence
Co-founder and CEO, Behavidence
Roy Cohen
Jordan Dargue
Board Director, NorthInvest & Founder, Fund Her North
Sarah Dear
Co-Founder and CEO, Born Ugly
Peter Denby
Co-founder & CCO, HyperFinity
Dace Dimza-Jones
Deputy Head, Northern Powerhouse Life Sciences
David Dixon
Co-founder, Future Greens
Michael Doughty
Co-Founder, Hylo
Barry Downes
Managing Partner, Sure Valley Ventures
Neil Dunlop
Experienced Tech Scale-Up Practitioner
Sonia Dembowska
Co-founder, Theia AI
Mel Ellyard
Creating connections and building innovation ecosystems
Chris Elphick
Senior VC Manager, BVCA
Andy Etches
Co-Founder, Rezzil
Bolu Fagborun
CEO, Fagborun Limited
Gary Fletcher
Founder & Director, EHE
Serena Fordham
Founder, Green Bean Studios
Katie Fowler
Chief Executive, The Social Innovation Partnership
Alex Frangi
Diamond Jubilee Chair in Computational Medicine
Will Fraser-Allen
Managing Partner, Albion Capital Group LLP
Anita Frost
Founder, ProspHER
Pippa Fulton
Founder, PF Studios
Lindsay Fisher
Co-founder, Sparkbox
Sophie Gallois
Co-Founder & CEO, The Climate Agency
John Gleasure
Executive Vice Chairman, DAZN Group
Anil Glendinning
Founder, Friday Sundae Studio
Nick Glicher
Chief Operating Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Xina Gooding Broderick
Owner, Mother of Abundance
Irene Graham OBE
CEO, ScaleUp Institute
Paul Hallett
CEO & Co-Founder, Vet-AI
Claire Hamlin
Director, Q5
Eleanor Harry
CEO & Founder, HACE
Judith Hartley
CEO, British Business Investments
Melanie Hayes
Managing Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures.
Non-executive Director, Leeds & York Partnership FT & NHS and a Trustee & Deputy Chair, Leeds Community Foundation
Cleveland Henry
Head of Publishing, Middlesbrough-based developer, Radical Forge
Stephen Hey
Lead Designer, Just Add Water
Ben Hinchcliffe
Founder, ICEOTOPE
Peter Hopton
Penelope Hope
Co-Founder, Rebel Energy
John Hoyle
Founder and CEO, Sook
Cian Hughes
Partner, Sure Valley Ventures
Tony Hughes
Co-founder & Commercial Director, CityCurator
Robbie Hunter-Paul
MD, Xtra Mile Marketing (Agency)
Richard Irvine
Chief Data Officer, NHS West Yorkshire ICB & Leeds City Council
Director of the Northern Asian Power Policy Think Tank, Founder of the Yorkshire Asian Business Association, Chair of Unity Enterprise, Board Member for the Association of International Accountants, and Board member for the Federation of Small Businesses.
Sharon Jandu
Paul Jeffries
COO & Deputy CEO, Chief of Staff
Annette Joseph
CEO & Founder, Diverse & Equal
Dan Kirby
Co-Founder & CEO, The Tech Dept
Peter Kirby
Co-Founder at Tred
Georgia Kirke
Founder, Write Business Results
Marianne Lehnis
Founder, The Green Techpreneur
UK Operations Director, Tickets for Good
Pippa Le Grand
Interdisciplinary academic with a B.A. in Corporate Communication, an LLB (Hons), an MSc in Applied Social Research and Criminology, an MSc in Human Resource Management, and a Socio-Legal PhD.
Sharon Lemac-Vincere
Bird Lovegod
Founder, Ethical Much
Researcher with a passion for closening the relationship between academic research and industry
Isaac Lockett
Nigel Lombard
CEO & Founder, Peppercorn AI
Amanda Lyne
Managing Director, ULEMCo