Richard Parker
Mayor
West Midlands Combined Authority
Leon Butler
Chief Executive
IBM
Andy Hague
CEO
TechWM
Katie Obi
Chief People Officer
OneAdvanced
Nikki Christie
Deputy Director, Creative, Digital, Finance and Business
Skills England
Charlie Smith
Executive Director
IBM UK & Ireland
Sara French
Director Trade and Growth
London & Partners
Lucy Dimes
Former Non-Executive Director
Babock plc
Praveen Jayaraj
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
Richard Billingham
Chief Operating Officer
Aston University
Prashant Aggarwal
Exited Founder
MoneyHero Group
Emily Stubbs
Head of Policy
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Joanna Birch
Founder
Growthinnk Associates
Alex Zarifeh
Founder
ATLP Future Readiness
Karen Rodkin
Operations Director
Netcom Training
Cian Galvin
Head, TechFirst and Cyber Skills Team
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Rachel Moore
Learning and Development Director
OneAdvanced
Karen Newman
Founder
BOM
Kellie Kwarteng
Founder
Halzak | Elevate Women in Tech
Prof Roya Rahimi
Professor of Marketing and Leisure Management
University of Wolverhampton
Victoria Pargetter-Garner
Director – Digital Skills & Commercial Impact
TechWM
Amber Strickland
Principal Associate
Gowling WLG
Caroline Hildreth
Principal – Transport & Logistics
Netcompany
Charlie Blakemore
CEO
Intercity
Dr Anneloes Smitsman
Founder
EARTHwise
Hannah Proffitt
Hardware Engineering Leader
GE Aerospace
Dave Sharpe
Co-founder & CTO
Chiron.ai
Amelia Kallman
Futurist
Kallman Communications
Davies Okeowo
Founder
PitchHub Ltd.
Amanda Brock
CEO
OpenUK
Steve Rigby
CEO
Rigby Group PLC
Melissa Snover
Founder & CEO
Nourish3d
Richard Knott
Head of AI
SCC
Tom Haworth
Founder
B13.ai
Chris Blackwell
Chief People and Performance Officer
AutogenAI
Louise Campton
Founder
Primary Goal
Lalita Pinky Taylor FRSA
Founder
We Job Box
Rebecca Bignold
Co-Founder & CEO
Fibraxis Ltd.
David Milton
Entrepreneur in Residence
WMG
Dan Harris
Founder & Chairperson
Neurodiversity in Business
Monder Ram
Director
CREME – Aston Business School
Mike Lewis
Strategic Lead for West Midlands Digital Roadmap
West Midlands Combined Authority
Phil Chell
Co-Founder & CEO
Chiron.ai
Laura Bond
CEO
Superspree
Clare Streets
Innovation and Digital Lead
SuperTech
Andrew Knight
Co-founder
GTA Savants
Suzie Branch-Haddow
VP – External Development
BMet
David Plumb
Chief Innovation Officer
University of Warwick
Sam Meiklejohn
Partner
Gateley
Amy Moore
Solutions Manager
Gowling WLG – CoLab innovation
Dr Marco Ghisoni
Technical Product Manager
Equivital
Ben Cheema
Founder
Agenda For Change
Amandip Kaur Jheeta
Senior Director
NTT Data
Chris Traverse
Engineering Director
Huel
Raj Boora
Global Head of Data
Pinsent Masons
Prof Clare Schofield
Dean Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Lucy Rook
Managing Director
BlackRook Academy
Shahin Ashraf MBE
Deputy Leader
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Jamie Whysall
Principal, Head of Health
Netcompany
Kirsty Davies-Chinnock
CEO
Women of Metal
Dr Samia Mahmood
Senior Lecture
University of Wolverhampton
Angela Spence
Chair of the Board of Governors
University of Wolverhampton
Kari Lawler
Content Creator
Independent
Elisabeth Lewis Jones
CEO
Liquid PR
Alex Bellingham
Director, UK Tech Sector & Growth Lending
HSBC UK
Lin Lowden
Ecosystem Marketing & Sales Lead
Good Growth
Davina Schonle
Founder
HumanVantage AI
Irene Graham OBE
CEO
Scaleup Institute
Josh Robson
Head of Public Affairs and External Relations
Scaleup Institute
Serena Koivurinta
Venture Partner
Borski Ventures
Alexander McLeod
Start-up Coach
University of Warwick
Enrique Dupuy de Lome
Director Venture Capital
Estrella Galicia
Rupert Lyle
Early Stage Investor
Future Planet Capital Regional
Dave Bannister
Intellectual Property & Commercialisation Manager
Birmingham City University
Chris Ensor
Deputy Director for Cyber Growth
National Cyber Security Centre
Chris Woods
Founder & CEO
CyberQ Group
Bill Mews
Co-founder and Reporter
TechTV
Clive Summerfield
Founder & CEO
FARx
Lisa Washer
Head of Cyber
IntaForensics
Sarah Gray
Senior Associate
Gowling WLG
Wayne Horkan
Head of Technology and Engineering
Cyber Tzar
Bridgette Bigmore
CTO
UKTL
Ryan Protheroe
Cluster Manager
Midlands Cyber
Anitha Chinnaswamy
Director – Cyber Security Innovation Centre
Aston University
Sophie Powell
Director & Co-Founder
Cyberwomen Group
Zoe Mobberley
Innovation Programme Development Officer
Warwick Innovation District
Anthony Gribben-Lisle
Trustee & Director
Wired Differently
Dominic Richardson
Partner
Gowling WLG
Michael Whiley
VP of Platform Engineering
OneAdvanced
Paul Ward
Director of Digital Services
Coventry City Council
Helen Frost
VP of Platform
OneAdvanced
Tom Haworth
Founder
B13.ai
Janne Kaariainen
Principal Consultant
AND Digital
Carl Tanner
Senior Manager, EMEA Customer Enablement
Databricks
Clare-Boden-Hatton
Director – Planning & Performance
Coventry City Council
Robert Franks
Managing Director
WM5G
Vicky Crockett
AI Portfolio Director
QA Ltd.
Claire Downes
Co-founder & CEO
Virtual Decisions
Dr Adam McGuinness
Programme Manager
Plug and Play
Dr Jean-Louis Duprey
Head of Research and Development
GenDX
Jason Sahota
Chair
TechWM
Prof Zeeshan Pervez
Director of Centre for Cyber Resilience and Artificial Intelligence
University of Wolverhampton
Phil Bindley
Field CISO
Intercity
Andy Bloxam
Partner Private Equity & Venture Capital
Foresight Group
Dan Glazer
Managing Partner London Office
Wilson Sonsini
Daniel Campion
CEO & Co-founder
Sitenna
Danielle McGrellis
Associate
ARUP
Indy Bening
Associate Principal
Gowling WLG
Jayne Hume
Head of the Global Division
Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce
Luize Silina
Investment Analyst
Future Planet Capital
Matthew Borthwick
Co-founder & CEO
Scalerr
Max Swinbourne
CEO
4T2Sensors
Maxine Laceby
Co-founder
Absolute Collagen
Nick Grimshaw
Regional Director
Creative UK
Sophia Tarr
Business Partnerships Manager
STEAMhouse
Stephen Windsor
Deputy Fund Principal
Mercia Ventures
Amahra Spence
Co-Executive Director
Hood Futures Studio
Asha Easton
Immersive Tech Network Lead
Innovate UK
Blake Kammerdiener
Senior Manager, Film & TV, XR Programming
SXSW
Bob Ghosh
Founder & Director
BG Projects
Dr. Jason Wouhra
Chancellor
Aston University
Hayley Pepler
Head of Culture, Creative Industries and Digital Roadmap
West Midlands Combined Authority
Henriette Breukelaar
West Midlands Regional Director
Canal & River Trust
Lamberto Coccioli
Director
Createch Frontiers
Melodie Leung
Director
Zaha Hadid Architects
Michael Candy
International Artist
Independent
Mikayla Sinead
Executive Board Member
Create Central
Miriam Beresford
Project Officer
Coventry & Warwickshire Exchange
Pauline Roche
Producer, Broker, Journalist
Digital WM Productions
Professor Francis Pope
Professor of Atmospheric Science
University of Birmingham
Rachel Farrer, PhD, MBA
Managing Director
Farrer Consulting
Rachel Jackson
Founding Partner
Nokamo
Ravi Deepres
Professor of Moving Image and Photography
Birmingham City University
Siamak Arzanpour
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Human in Motion
Simon Delahunty-Forrest
Assistant Director for Development in the Planning and Development Service
Birmingham City Council
Jim Shirley
Founder
Funding Hero
Melanie King
Chief People Officer
Intercity
Sonia Howe
COO
Invictus Games 2021
Tre Azam
Founder & CEO
Myndplay
Joe Webber
Chief Product Officer
Good Growth
Abdi Timer
Data Scientist
IBM
Alfonso Sandoval
Developer Advocate
Cicso Systems
Dr. Manimuthu Arunmozhi
Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity and Business Analytics
Aston University
Cynthia Akiotu
Cyber Security Analyst
Tesco Bank
Serge Harjau
Tech Lead
Capital One
Igor Kanyuka
Software Engineer
META
Kingsley Okonkwo
Data Engineer
Ministry of Defence
Tom Clifford-Clarke
Senior Software Engineer
Capital One
John Murray
Assistant Principal – Commercial Development
Halesowen College
Phillipa Peart
Founder
Clarity Penny