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Sandra Jurek
VP Software Engineering | JP Morgan Chase
Robotics engineer turned front-end engineer in JP Morgan Chase. Her key responsibilities involve leading the Design System engineering team and the front-end architecture of the Chase application. Her past experience includes working on projects for leading UK brands, such as Wagamama, Jaguar Land Rover, Boots and Nando’s. In her free time she enjoys playing board games and creative crafts.

Mairi Brewis
Head of Strategy | Youtube, EMEA
Mairi joined YouTube as Head of Strategy in 2021, and has led a mix of Global product launches, and EMEA specific initiatives. Prior to YouTube, Mairi worked at the BBC, heading up TV Strategy, and at Expedia, where she held Strategy, Marketing and Product leadership roles. In her spare time, she is a school governor and parent to 3 children.
He’s passionate about the role data plays in our day to day lives and how it can maximize our wellbeing and human potential.

Richard Lees
GTM | Amazon Web Services
Richard leads AWS’ Application Modernization business for EMEA. He works with CxOs of AWS’ most ambitious customers to determine how they can best leverage cloud-native technologies and become digital businesses. Prior to AWS, Richard was a Senior Manager for Accenture Strategy and co-founded, Limber, a private equity backed disruptive technology startup for the Hospitality sector.

Onur Korucu
Global VP Consulting Services | Terzion DX
Onur Korucu has started and continued her professional life in multinational professional services companies such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. She had the opportunity to work as an experienced consultant and part of senior management in different world geographies. Recently she worked as a GRC, Cyber Security and Data Protection senior manager within Avanade UK & Ireland before moving into her new role; Global Vice President of Technology Consulting Services, Technology and Law at one of the Microsoft partners, TerzionDX, which produces AI, robotics and automation solutions, and also provides infrastructure services with a focus on security. She is also an advisory board member of GovernID, a data protection and privacy-enhanced technology company.
She is an information security, compliance, and privacy professional focused primarily on emerging technologies from information security and data protection perspectives. On top of her technical engineering degree and M.Sc degree, she obtained her LL.M degree in Information and Technology Law. She also completed a Business Analytics executive master’s program at the University of Cambridge.
She published a book about risk-based global approaches to improve data protection. She has also been publishing articles in prestigious magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Tomorrow Magazine about trending technology, cyber security and data protection, and privacy trends. She was one of the lecturers for the Cyber Security Masters programme at the universities in Istanbul and Dublin. She is a Women in Tech world ambassador, board member, and International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Ireland Chapter Chair. Onur was nominated for the GRC Role Model of the Year, Technology Consulting Leader and Cyber Women of the Year awards.

Surya Mukherjee
Sr. Principal & Head of Technology | Accenture
Surya Mukherjee is a Senior Principal at Accenture and Head of Technology Research for Europe. He is a well renowned futurist has over two decades of experience as an advisor to platform providers and their users. He has been quoted on the Wall Street Journal, ZDnet and Computer Weekly and regularly speaks at technology events. His interest lies in exploring the transformative impact of technologies on industries, companies, and brands.

Vineet Harsh
Sr. Engagement Manager | Amazon Web Services
Vineet is a Senior Engagement Manager working with AWS. He has significant experience in leading and delivering large-scale cloud transformation projects for enterprise customers. He has delivered multi-million dollar projects related to data migration, AI/ML, cloud infrastructure modernisation and others.
He is a strong proponent of using tech solutions such as cloud, AI/ML, GenAI and others to achieve business outcomes. He is a mentor who helps people break into tech, provides career advisory and advisory on Agile/Scrum methodologies.
He is an MBA graduate from Imperial College London and a Computer Science Engineer from NIT Nagpur.

Bankim Chandra
Chief Executive Officer | Dotsquares
Surya Mukherjee is a Senior Principal at Accenture and Head of Technology Research for Europe. He is a well renowned futurist has over two decades of experience as an advisor to platform providers and their users. He has been quoted on the Wall Street Journal, ZDnet and Computer Weekly and regularly speaks at technology events. His interest lies in exploring the transformative impact of technologies on industries, companies, and brands.

John Mulholland
Managing Director | Prophet
I have been told by many people I have an unusual way of looking at the
world. Over the last 20 years or so it has enabled me to have a lot of fun
figuring out what really matters to us and collaborating with some truly
remarkable people along the way—from designers and developers to
scientists and CEOs.
Through those collaborations, I have built more purposeful learning,
made more magical events, coded more elegant software, formulated
smarter and cleaner strategies, and designed more beautiful and
sustainable products to trigger meaningful change. Often the best way to
trigger change is through face-to-face conversations at conferences,
workshops, and other events. I look forward to our conversation.

Jon Hammant
Head of Compute | Amazon Web Services
Jon leads AWS’ Compute business for EMEA. He is responsible for incubating new AWS compute services, scaling existing AWS services and delivering workload specific domain expertise. As the voice of AWS’ customers in EMEA, Jon work closely with AWS’ product teams to help them evolve the products and address issues, concerns, and requests. Jon is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Prior to AWS, he was a Managing Director at Accenture, leading their UKI DevOps business.

Didem Un Ates
VP, AI & Innovation | Schneider Electric
Didem Un Ates is Vice President, AI Strategy & Innovation, for Schneider Electric’s AI Hub. In addition to defining Schneider’s AI/ Generative AI Strategy & Innovation roadmaps, her charter covers strategic partnerships, startups/VCs/PEs, academia, M&As, AI upskilling, and Responsible AI across Schneider’s three business pillars: Sustainability, Energy Management, and Automation.
She is a passionate AI practitioner with multiple awards such as Tech Women 100 Champion and Trailblazer 50. She directly supported the birth and incubation of Microsoft Business AI Solutions at Microsoft Research and led the Alice Envisions the Future/ Girls in AI Hackathons which has since been developed into several Diversity in AI programs across Microsoft and its Fortune500 customers and partners.
She has also lead operationalization of Responsible AI at Accenture, Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, and currently Schneider Electric, putting her energy towards the future of AI and Generative AI, operationalizing responsible and sustainable AI practices. Prior to joining Schneider, she headed Applied Strategy, Data & AI, at the Chief Data Office of Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions, focusing on Microsoft’s largest Data, AI, and Metaverse engagements worldwide.

Sian Jon
Chief Technology Officer | NCC Group
Siân John MBE is Chief Technology Officer at NCC Group responsible for intelligence, insight and
innovation within the company.
Siân has worked in Cybersecurity for 25 years across strategy, business risk, privacy, and technology.
She is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Information Security, Chair of the techUK
Cybersecurity committee, and a council member for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council
(EPSRC). Siân was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to
Cybersecurity.

Princess Asante
Software Engineer | Bloomberg
Princess is a software engineer and part-time blogger who is passionate about helping young talent in tech reach their fullest potential. She graduated from Ashesi University in Ghana, with honours, and currently works at Bloomberg LP as part of the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Team. Princess co-founded Uplink Masterclass (on hiatus), a career consultancy committed to the professional development of its clients, who have gone on to work at companies such as Goldman Sachs, KPMG, Deloitte and Unilever, among others. She also formerly served as the Campus Co-Director of Black Sisters In Stem, a non-profit finance and technology talent accelerator for African women, and previously interned at Bank of America and Goldmans Sachs. When she’s not working, you can find her playing guitar, reading in the local library, serving in her church or baking!

Ketan Anand
Vice President, Engineering| Stepstone
Ketan is a strategic, empathetic, and commercially aware technology leader who has built and led high-performing tech teams across global locations, including co-founding a startup. He is a proponent of systems thinking and a strong advocate of a commercially aligned business strategy powered by product and technology strategies. With a background in computer science and being an engineer at heart, he has a proven track record of building exceptional product development capabilities leveraging lean agile principles, a DevOps culture, and modern software engineering practices. With core values of excellence, integrity, and transparency, he cultivates a compelling tech culture and excels at team building. Ketan’s versatile skills and experience encompass three main dimensions – delivering business outcomes, building scalable tech, and growing talent in a wide variety of industries. He is also a proud dad of two.
Currently, he is Vice President of Engineering for the StepStone Group – EMEA B2C Products. His teams are leveraging AI to disrupt traditional user experiences as well as build new core capabilities in the JobTech domain.

Jacob Vaidyan
Vice President, Transformation | SAP
Jacob Vaidyan, a digital transformation leader based in London, has been working on technology led business transformation for over two decades. At enterprise software leader SAP, Jacob leads multiple local and global teams of industry specialists, business strategists and technology experts in customer engagements. He works closely as a trusted leader and adviser with the executive team internally, with customers and the wider ecosystem to drive mutual success in digital transformation. To his engagements, he brings a breadth and depth of experience working with leading brands from around the world across a range of industries particularly telecom, financial services, and consumer industries, where he finds synergies between technology and business drivers.
Jacob is currently a Vice President in the Industry and Value Advisory team at SAP working with customers across Europe. He is a mentor, investor, and advisor to startups in UK, USA, and India. He has previous work experience with Enterprise software provider Salesforce and consulting leaders like Keane Inc, Wipro Technologies, and Charteris Plc. He is a Mechanical Engineer from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and an MBA in General Management from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (II
MB).

Adam Tillner-Smith
Senior Product Designer | Wise
Adam Tillner-Smith is a digital product designer and artist based in London. He’s built a range of data focused products, at organisations including; Wise, Accenture and Microsoft.
He’s passionate about the role data plays in our day to day lives and how it can maximise our wellbeing and human potential.

Vicky Whittingham
Container Specialist, EMEA | AWS
Natasha is a Sr. Containers Specialist at AWS, with 15+ years experience in DevOps transformation and strategy, helping customers unlock the value of DevOps. She works closely with container technologies, believing they are a key enabler to growth and innovation. Her current focus is supporting customers in the Middle East and Africa with container adoption. Natasha is an advocate for LGBTQIA+ awareness, and a proud Inclusion Ambassador at AWS, helping to build an inclusive workplace for all.

Mohammad Reza Bayat
Software Engineer | Siemens
Mohammad Reza Bayat is a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a skilled software engineer with a strong foundation in computer science. Currently at Siemens, he excels in maintaining software components and contributing to exciting developments. With expertise in C++, data structures, and algorithms, Mohammad brings a unique perspective to problem-solving and collaboration.