Speakers

Richard Parker
Mayor
West Midlands Combined Authority

The Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP
The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation & Technology
UK Government

Nicola Hodson
Chief Executive – UK & Ireland
IBM

Sir Peter Rigby
Chairman & Founder
Rigby Group plc

Henrietta Brealy
CEO
Greater Birmingham
Chambers of Commerce

Richard Harpin
Founder and Chairman
Homeserve

Irene Graham OBE
CEO
ScaleUp Institute

Sheridan Ash MBE
Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer
Tech She Can

Charlie Blakemore
CEO
Intercity

Charlie Smith
Chief Marketing Officer
IBM

Carolyn Dawson
CEO
Founders Forum

Anwen Robinson
Senior Vice President
OneAdvanced

Yiannis Maos MBE
Founder & CEO
TechWM

Aaron Baker
Investor
BGF

Aleks Subic
Vice Chancellor
Aston University

Neil Rami
CEO
West Midlands Growth Company

Melissa Snover
Founder
Nourish3d

Marcus Stuttard
Head of AIM & UK Primary Markets
London Stock Exchange

Hilary Smyth-Allen
Executive Director
Supertech WM

Gareth Wilson
Executive Vice President, Head of Banking & Capital Markets
Capgemini

Abbie Vlahakis
CEO
Millennium Point

Eddie Olla
Chief Digital Officer
NHS – Coventry & Warwickshire

Vikki Bradney-Spencer
Corporate CSR Leader
IBM

Nimmi Patel
Head of Policy – Skills, Talent & Diversity
techUK

Lauren Monks
Director of Strategic Services
In4 Group

Jason Sahota
Chairman
TechWM

Victoria Pargetter-Garner
Director – Digital Skills & Commercial Impact
TechWM

Harjinder Kundra
Project Manager
Birmingham Digital Futures

Pete Cripps
Design and Technology Director
Digital Innovators

Gurjit Jagpal
Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking
Goldman Sachs

Mick Westman
Founder & CEO
Digital Innovators

Georgia Lewis-Anderson
Consultant
Self-employed

Deirdre Bounds
Founder
Moonrise

Dr. Abena F. Dadze-Arthur
Founder & CEO
Mindset Dynamics

Yvonne Thompson
Founder & CEO
Change Innovators

James Pomeroy
Global Economist
HSBC

Alison Kilby
Associate Director
ARUP

Robert Franks
Managing Director
WM5G

Alexeis Garcia Perez
Professor of Digital Business and Society
Aston University

Suzie Archer
Director of Customer & Employee Experience
Huler

Alexis Edwards
Associate Partner Clinical Safety Officer
IBM Healthcare Consulting

Kath Mackay
Chief Scientific Officer
Bruntwood SciTech

Sebastian Weir
Associate Partner (AI, Analytics and Automation Practice Leader)
IBM Consulting

Tim Jones
Chief Officer
Health Innovation West Midlands

Timothy Williamson
Sales Director
Floww

Claire Dunsterville
Chief Executive Officer
The Harborne Hospital 

Tim Davis
Regional Head – Primary Markets
London Stock Exchange

Charlotte Holloway
Policy Associate
Future Governance Forum

Dan Carins
Finance and Productivity Lead
Business Growth West Midlands

Tom Haworth
Founder
B13.ai

Kyle Long
Partner
BGF

Jof Walters
CEO
Good Things

Mo Isap
CEO
IN4 Group

Alex Favier
Program Director
Midlands Innovation

Richard Austin
Partner
Crowe UK

Claire Spiller
EMEA Leader
AWS – re/Start Programme

Paul Collins
Co-founder & NED
Spica Technologies

Pam Waddell OBE
Director
Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands

Tom Harrison
Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Education Innovation
University of Birmingham

Bindiya Verma
UK Representative
Invest Region Leipzig GmbH

Cian Galvin
Head of Cyber Skills
DSIT

Rich Bovey
Chief of Data
AND Digital

Elizabeth Gooch MBE
Founder & CEO
Tech Growth Factory

Davie Okeowo
Business Finance Specialist
Oxford Innovation Advice

Jack Tasker
Business Engagement Partner
Birmingham Digital Future

Hilary Smyth-Allen
Executive Director
SuperTech

Tom Williams
CEO
The Insight Family

Margaret Rice-Jones
NED
Holiday Extras

Henry Doyle
NED & Co-Founder
Boxphish

Vita Woods
Innovation Manager
STEAMhouse

Richard Austin
Managing Partner – Global Business Solutions
Crowe UK

Zoe Radnor
Pro Vice Chancellor & Executive Dean
College of Business and Social Sciences –  Aston University

Divya Kesavan
Head of Corporate Data Science & Insights, Transaction Banking
Barclays

Dr. Chris Meah
Founder & CEO
School of Code

Ashleigh Miles
OT Cyber Security Senior Associate
PwC

David Keene
Founder
Aurrigo

John Catarinich
CEO
Agilyx Group

Johnathan Dudley
Partner National Head of Corporate SME Business
Crowe UK

Anushka Malhotra
Head of Marketing
TechWM

Louise Campton
Founder & Interim CEO
Primary Goal

Guillaume Black
CEO Founder
Property Filter

Bethan Bannister
Senior Investment Manager
British Business Bank

David Bell
Director
ICON

Jody Tableporter
Director,Nations and Regions Investment Funds
British Business Bank

Jakubbily White
Head of Business Development
Moravio

Neil Dsouza
Senior Consultant – Generative AI
Capgemini

Justin Nesbitt
Sales Director – UK
nlighten UK

Harpal Mattu
Managing Director
Agilyx Group

Ryan Hardwick
Solution Architect
AWS

Laura Hyatt
Senior Cloud Architect
Google

Steve Wade
Founder
Cloud Native Club

Nigel Driffield
Deputy pro vice chancellor
University of Warwick

Matthew Izatt-Lowry
Senior Economist
Farrpoint

Matt Robinson
Head of Nations & Regions
techUK

Hoda Shahzadeh
Senior Trade Consultant
OCO Global

Mike Lattimer
CEO
SF Technology

George Hall
Marketing Manager
Good Growth

Ellie Wyburd-Edwards
Vice President
Barclays Eagle Labs

Satvir Bungar
MD
BDO

Professor Dean Fathers DL
Chair
Midlands Engine Health, Care and Life Science Board

Geoff Turral
Co-founder
CarCloud Community

Andrea Tittel
Director of Innovation, Customer and Propositions
BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK

Max Woolf
Staff Backend Engineer
GitLab

Emmie Cooney
Revenue Operations Director
Good Growth

Chris Blackwell
Chief People and Performance Officer
Autogen AI

Valeria Vigilante
FDA Utilisation Lead
DBT

Frederike Thone
Senior Trade Adviser
British Embassy The Hague

Ben Brabyn
Director
Amitypath

Dan Clark
Chair
techUK

Charles Brant
Relationship Development Manager
Gowling WLG

Helen Turner
Director
Midlands Innovation

Steve Crane
CEO and Co-Founder
Export to Japan

Tendai Chetse
Head of Creative Industries
DBT

Rick Shaw
Partner
Evelyn Partners

Tom Newman-Taylor
CEO
East Midlands Freeport

Roland Emmans
Head of Technology Sector & Growth Lending
HSBC UK

Kieran Borrett
Director
Plug and Play UK

John Burt
CEO
Medherant

Ashlene Smith
Innovation & Scale Manager
WMGC

Sarah Windrum
Future Mobility Cluster Lead
HORIBA MIRA

Raj Mack
Head of Digital City & innovation
Birmingham City Council

Manolya Kavakli-Thorne
Program Lead for Gamification & Simulation Technology
ADFI – Aston University

Iain Mansell
Cluster Leadership Delivery Manager
WMCA

Aline Martins
Global Business & Partnerships Lead
Connected Places Catapult

Lloyd Broad
Head of European and International Affairs
Birmingham City Council

Peter Laybourn
Chairman
International Synergies Limited

Philip Cupitt
Partner
Marks & Clerk

Callum Whyte
Managing Director
Bump Digital

Paul Dragoonis
CTO
ByteHire

Mark Simpson
Technology Director
Griffiths Waite

Simon Bennetts
Founder and Project Lead
Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)

Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer
Syntasso

Beckett Leclaire
Senior Engineer
5Rights Foundation

Andrew Fitzpatrick
Staff Engineer
TravelPerk

James Prince
Software Engineer
Celcat

Simon Gurney
CTO
Punk Security

Leonardo Giordani
Associate Director
e-therapeautics

Kathryn Lupin
Delivery Manager
NHS Property Services

Andy Bell
Founder
Set Studio

Alex Craven
Co-founder
The Data City

Becki Floyd
UX Designer
NHS Education for Scotland

Daniel Tallentire
Engineering Manager
The Citation Group

Alison Johnson
Senior Vice President UK Health
ORCHA

Hung- Suck Park
Emeritus Professor
Ulsan College

Joshua Mo
DevRel Engineer
Shuttle.rs.