Richard Parker
Mayor of the West Midlands
West Midlands Combined Authority
Kit Windows-Yule
Director of Innovation
University of Birmingham
Neil Howells
ROCU Protect Officer
West Midlands Regional Cyber Crime Unit
George Hall
Growth & Engagement Manager
Good Growth
John Catarinich
CEO,
Agilyx Group
Isaac Harvey MBE
Disability Advocate, Speaker & Content Creator
I Am Isaac Harvey
Kelly Kwarteng
Founder & Director
Elevate Community & HW Solutions
Bruce Asbestos
Artist
Harpal Mattu
Managing Director
Agilyx Group
Lara Jeetley
Researcher
The Alan Turing Institute
Mhairi Aitken
Research Leader in AI Ethics
Our AI Collective
Alan Welby
Managing Director,
Connected Places Catapult
Alex Zarifeh
Founder
Futures Readiness
Alice Whorley
Vice President of Operations
British Esports
Andrew Griffiths OBE
Commander Armed Forces Recruiting
Ministry of Defence
Claire Owen
CEO & Co-Founder
Pupil Power
Csaba Berenyi
Managing Director
Sponge Hammer Games
Dan Harris
Founder & CEO
Neurodiversity in Business
Darren Hodson
Corporate Finance Partner
PKF Smith Cooper
Elena Gaura
Professor & Senior Research Lead
Coventry University
Henrietta Brealey
CEO
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Jacqueline De Rojas
Chair
Bletchley Park Trust
Jenny Millar
Founder & CEO
Untapped Pricing
Kirti Desai
FinTech Expert
Lucy Colson
Founder & Director
Lucy Colson
Dr Rachel Farrer
Director
Farrer Consulting
Santina Graham
West Midlands Sensors Coordination Officer
West Midlands Combined Authority
Steve Rigby
CEO
Rigby Group
Tara Attfield-Tomes
Founder
The 51% Club & East Village
Tom Loosemore
Founder
Public Digital
Valerie Oyiki
Founder
Koala
Yasmin Sidat
Founder
Olai
Yiannis Maos
Co-Founder & CEO
Unloq
Amardeep Gill
Partner, National Head of Public Sector
Trowers & Hamlins
Jordan Holmes
Regional Lead: Strategic Partnerships at vivacity
Vivacity
Professor Roya Rahimi, PhD, SFHEA, FIH, F Inst TT
Professor of Marketing and Leisure Management
University of Wolverhampton
Astrid Bowser
Principal Product Manager
OneAdvanced
David Francis
Director of Engineering
Under the Hammer
Dileep Marway
VP of Engineering
PebblePad
Faith Sodipe
Software Developer
Bauer Media
Akash Joshi
AI Engineer & Consultant
Joshi Systems
Steve Wade
Founder
Platform Fix
Claire Mironik
Change and Test Manager (Aston University) & Founder (WITBHAM) Aston University & WITBHAM: The Women in Tech UK
Mikayla Sinead
Head of People & Culture
Hood Futures Studio
Alan Brosnan
Tech Entrepreneur
MTMN Digital
Nick Heap
Principal Software Engineer
OneAdvanced
Claire Downes
Co-Founder & CEO
Virtual Decisions
Harmeet Chagger
Founder & Creative Director
Surfing Light Beams
Charlotte Ridley
Head of Marketing
West Midlands Growth Company
Jordan Prince
Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs
Netflix
Sebastian Rosengren
Director, Technology Sector & Growth Lending
HSBC UK
Gabrielle Crofts
CEO
B13
Mira Androniciuc
Investment Associate
DSW Ventures
Chris Orr
Strategic Lead
Catalyse Angel Network
Drew Currie
Founder
hibretOne CIC
Michael Adewoye
Founder and Director
Digital Impact Lab CIC
Ash Ali
Co-Founder
Uhubs.ai
Julie Nugent
Chief Executive
Coventry City Council
Adewale Adetona
Convener and Founder
Elevatech Network
Ilyas Khan
Co-Founder
Cloud Surge
Caitlin Stanley
Chief of Staff
Rem3dy Health (trading as Nourished)
Afshan Sheikh
Cyber Practice Director
Cyber Chain Alliance
Vicki Sutherland
Chief Growth Officer
Outernet
Edwina Dunn
The Female Lead
Suraj Sudera
Founder & CEO
Seergrills
Matt Harris
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs
Kerry Hewitt-Snyders
Director, FFCS AI Governance
Mastercard
Chris Waller
Chief Technology Officer
Fleetclear
Cynthia Akiotu
Data Protection Associate Manager
Accenture
Tess Bartlett
Business Development Manager
West Midlands Growth Company
Robert Bilsland
CTO & Head of AI Enablement
Coco Software
Aaron Powell
Director of Digital and Data Transformation
West Midlands Combined Authority
David Geale
Executive Director,
Payments and Digital Finance (FCA)
Eloise Singer