FUTURE OF AI

Edward is a Partner one of Europe’s most active venture capital firms - Octopus Ventures. At Octopus, Edward leads a £500m software fund focused on high-growth scaleups. His responsibilities include team management, overseeing new investment activity and representing Octopus Ventures on various boards.

Adviser to some of the world’s leading tech driven businesses, Kolvin was ranked by Legal 500 for data & technology as known for being ‘extremely responsive and client focused’. He has vast experience advising on legal issues related to the internalisation of technology: his work regularly involves complex, cross-border matters that raise multi-faceted IP, data privacy, consumer protection, and internet regulatory issues.

Richard Mabey is the co-founder and CEO of Juro, the intelligent contract automation platform. Juro powers contracting for some of the world's leading companies, including including Deliveroo, Trustpilot, Justworks and Carlsberg Britvic. Juro has raised $38m from 8Roads, USV and Point Nine Capital. A former M&A lawyer at Freshfields, Richard founded Juro in 2016. He occasionally makes angel investments to support ambitious projects.

Mike Jones is the CEO of Emerald Technology and a seasoned strategist for scaling tech businesses globally. With over 20 years’ experience, he’s helped VC-backed startups and enterprises expand, hire top talent, and navigate complex compliance challenges.

Devin is a Venture Partner at Seedcamp, with one foot in investing and the other in building. Devin has founded companies including Lyst, Fuzzwich, and Useful Books, the latter of which he’s still actively working on. He was also previously a Partner at Founder Centric.

Neil is a senior leader at Google Cloud, helping businesses harness cloud technology to drive transformation and scale. With deep expertise in infrastructure, strategy, and enterprise innovation, he’s passionate about unlocking growth through digital platforms.

Tom is an Associate Partner at Cooper Parry, helping lead the Early Stage practice within the Tech & High Growth team. With over a decade supporting founders from seed to scale, he brings deep insight, hands-on experience, and a strong network to every conversation.

Noel Hurley is a technologist and engineer passionate about building breakthrough tech businesses with dynamic teams. He brings deep expertise in computing, product strategy, and scaling VC-backed ventures in deeptech and microprocessor innovation.

William is the founder and CEO of Unlikely AI, a deep tech company focused on safe and effective general AI. He previously founded Evi, acquired by Amazon, where he helped launch Alexa. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Cambridge Angels member, he’s also invested in around 100 AI start-ups.

Gabbi is a Partner at Stride.VC. He has led investments into companies including Knowunity, Screenloop, Chapter Two, Argo AI, and Seva among others. Prior to joining Stride.VC, he spent almost three decades as a founder - building, backing, branding (and occasionally breaking) startups, scale ups, and megacorps. He likes being tattooed. A lot ;)

Simon is a senior leader at Cooper Parry Wealth, helping entrepreneurs and business owners shape their financial futures. With deep expertise in wealth strategy and client relationships, he’s passionate about making money a force for good.

Kirsty is the CEO and Founder of Luminous PR, a tech and b2b PR agency. She's spent the past two decades immersed in strategic communications; building a strong foundation in leveraging the power of the media and creating impactful campaigns for tech startups, fast growth scale-ups and established brands like Unilever, PayFit, Cover Genius, Wise and Azimo.

Wanda is a serial founder, founder-coach, and pragmatic organisational psychologist. She has spent 30 years helping founders grow their businesses as they position, transition through investment rounds, expand into new regions, experience hypergrowth and exit. Primarily in Tech, Wanda has helped founders bridge the Founder-to-CEO gap and with 20 000+ hours of coaching experience can help unlock new ways of being & doing that will accelerate growth and fulfilment.

Jenny founded Untapped Pricing to shine a light on the untapped potential of pricing to boost profitability, drive engagement with customers and unlock growth bottlenecks. Her background includes 10 years with eBay where she built world-class analytics teams to transform their 20 petabytes of data into commercial intelligence, delivering major price changes across their European markets. Jenny also teaches Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School and Pricing Strategy at LSE.

Lev is CTO and Co-founder of Metamindz UK, a fast-growing tech consultancy delivering scalable digital products and elite technical talent. With a background in military tech leadership and deep expertise in software, he’s built a business grounded in clarity, accountability, and results.

Oren helps B2B marketing teams scale efficiently by implementing AI-powered systems that eliminate manual work and drive results. With 20+ years in growth marketing and deep expertise in AI, he’s built engines for brands like Canon, BT, and SeedLegals.

Simon is an exited digital entrepreneur, investor, NED and B2B scale up advisor. He is also a founding partner at early-stage VC Haatch where he actively invests in and supports founder-led tech companies. His passion lies in supporting the next generation of digitally-focused businesses scale and he remains obsessed with 'what's next'.

Sophie was part of the growth team that built MVF, a now exited start-up but in 2012, she traded security to become an adventure athlete and is the only person in history to climb the highest mountains in the eight alpine countries and cycle between them. Sponsored by brands like Adidas, Land Rover, and Kellogg's, she built ‘Challenge Sophie,’ to champion challenges as a route to growth. As a mindset coach and keynote speaker, she leverages this experience and partners with leaders to cultivate mental fortitude, strategic vision, resilience, emotional intelligence, a growth mindset, and authentic leadership. Her work spans high-growth tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, driven by a passion for helping ordinary people achieve the extraordinary.

Stuart is Co-founder of OrbitalX, a demand generation platform helping lean marketing teams scale without extra headcount. An award-winning entrepreneur, he’s led GTM teams across New York and London, with exits and $75m+ raised from top-tier VCs.

Kirsty is an experienced, award-winning leadership & executive coach. With 26 years as an accredited trainer, 16 years as a certified coach, and 6 years as a coach supervisor, she brings deep expertise and a playful, purposeful and creative purposeful approach to transformation. Her debut bestseller, "Untangled – A Practical and Inspirational Guide to Change We Choose and Change We Don’t," was published in November 2023.