Founder of Camtech Management, an incubator of early-stage technology start-ups in the fields of microfluidics, lab on a chip, wireless sensing and biotechnology. Other than mentoring promising companies, he is also passionate about novel lab on chip based solutions for biomedical diagnostics and biotech applications, integrating innovative technology and design in microfluidics, biological sensing and cell manipulation. He received a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, Institute of Biotechnology, where he worked in Professor Chris Lowe’s lab on integrating holographic biosensors into a lab on chip device. He also developed a patented method for rapid sample concentration within microfluidic devices. These are currently being further developed by into a commercial pathogen detection device. His earlier commercial experience was as business development manager in a Cambridge, UK based consultancy firm specialising in technology commercialisation. He worked on financing of early stage technology companies, and was responsible for obtaining consulting projects with government agencies on development strategy and technology transfer capabilities in micro and nanotechnology. Meng-Han also holds both Bachelor and Masters degrees in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Klaas De Boer has over 20 years of venture capital experience, mainly in Europe, but also in North America and Israel. He is currently Managing Partner of Entrepreneurs Fund (EF), which he joined in 2006. At Entrepreneurs Fund, Klaas’s responsibilities included inge GmbH (sold to BASF), Technolas Perfect Vision (sold to Bausch & Lomb), Prosonix Ltd (sold to Circassia), Lifeline Scientific Inc (sold to Genext), New Motion (sold to Shell) and Optinose (Nasdaq listing). He currently represents EF on the boards of General Fusion Inc, SmartKem Ltd, vasopharm GmbH and chairs the board of AIM listed Xeros Technologies plc. Outside of EF, Klaas is a member of the investment committee of Dutch Venture Initiative, and from 2014-2016 he chaired the council of the International Venture Club.  Klaas also represents NESTA’s social impact fund on the board of Oomph Wellness Ltd, having been a member of the fund’s investment committee for 3 years. Klaas started his career with McKinsey & Company in Amsterdam. From there he joined Vanenburg Group where established a corporate venturing group led investments in Europe, Israel and the US, which included WebEx. Klaas has an MSc in Applied Physics from Delft University of Technology, and an MBA from Insead.

Dr. Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), and Research Associate at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at the London School of Economics. His work focuses on self-resolving prediction markets for long-term forecasting, and on counterfactual models of fully informed public attitudes, with a focus on political attitudes.

Darrell Mann is an engineer, having spent 15 years working at Rolls-Royce in various R&D related positions, ultimately becoming Chief Engineer responsible for the company’s long term future military engine strategy. He first started using Systematic Innovation in 1992, and by the time he left Rolls-Royce had generated over a dozen patents and patent applications. In 1998 he started teaching systematic innovation methods to both technical and business audiences, and to date has given workshops to over 5,000 delegates across a broad spectrum of industries and disciplines. He continues actively to use and develop the Systematic Innovation methodology, with the help of 30 full-time research staff. With over 600 systematic innovation-related papers and articles to his name, plus the best-selling ‘Hands-On Systematic Innovation’ books, Darrell is now one of the most widely published authors on the innovation subject in the world. For the last 18 years he has helped many of the world’s top companies to create stronger IP, participating in the creation of over 500 inventions. Projects he has been involved in have resulted in the creation of several billion dollars of new value to clients. Darrell is a Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK, and Taylor’s University in Malaysia.

 

Steve Leonard is a technology-industry leader with a wide range of experience, having played key roles in building several global companies in areas such as Software, Hardware and Services. Although born in the US, Mr Leonard considers himself a member of the larger global community, having lived and worked outside the US for more than 25 years. In his current role as the Founding Chief Executive Officer of SGInnovate – a private limited company wholly owned by the Singapore Government – Mr Leonard has been chartered to lead an organisation that builds ‘deep-tech’ companies. Capitalising on the science and technology research for which Singapore has gained a global reputation, Mr Leonard’s team works with local and international partners, including universities, venture capitalists, and major corporations to help technical founders imagine, start and scale globally-relevant early-stage technology companies from Singapore. Prior to his role as the CEO of SGInnovate, Mr Leonard served three years as the Executive Deputy Chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA), a government statutory board under the purview of Singapore’s Ministry of Communications and Information. In that role, he had executive responsibility at the national level for various aspects of the information technology and telecommunications industries in Singapore. Mr Leonard serves on the advisory boards of a range of universities and organisations in Singapore. Mr Leonard also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Singapore Post Ltd (SingPost), a global leader in e-commerce logistics; and AsiaSat, a Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed commercial operator of communication spacecraft. Steve was appointed CEO Singularity University in January 2020.

 

 Before joining the Royal Society in 2016, Elizabeth Surkovic was the Deputy Director for Science at the Government Office for Science. Her responsibilities ranged across the entire Government policy portfolio from bee health to nuclear power. She and her team worked with Government Departments ensuring that science had been well used in any one area, resolving disagreements between Departments and leading on the investigation of issues of scientific merit and producing reports for use in policy development. Prior to this she worked in the Cabinet Office and the Better Regulation Executive where she led a Bill on better regulation, and in Defra where she worked on chemical management. The most notable element of that was negotiation of the REACH Regulation. Prior to becoming a civil servant, she worked in the chemical industry for 15 years. Her core function there was to work on chemical regulation. She is by training a biochemist and graduated from Birmingham. Elizabeth is a Policy Fellow in Cambridge.

 

Dominic Hobson is a principal in a consulting business that provides customer research, editing, writing, speaking and event services to investment and custodian banks, financial market infrastructures and technology vendors. He was one of the founders of Asset International, a publishing and events business whose titles include Global Custodian, where he was also editor-in-chief. After Asset International was sold in 2009, Dominic founded COOConnect, a peer group network for fund managers, which was also sold. Dominic has written for Financial News, contributed occasionally to the BBC on financial markets issues, and has three works of non-fiction.

 

Dr Andre Moreira was awarded his doctorate in physics at the Max Plank Institute, where he specialised in charged colloids, salts and their thermodynamic behaviour in solution. Following a post-doc at UCSB, Andre joined BASF Venture Capital in Germany initially as a scientist and later as Investment Manager, responsible for origination and deal-flow. Andre is currently CEO of Novihum Technologies, an industrial startup that produces NOVIHUM, a novel soil-enhancement product based on lignite, showing how to tackle both the stranded asset problem, while improving agricultural yield and soil fertility. 

Professor Michael Mainelli co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. Michael’s early scientific research in aerospace (rocket science) and computer graphics led to him starting Swiss companies in seismology. Michael served as a Director of Europe’s largest R&D organisation (DERA) leading to two privatisations.

 

Mike Halsall is an entrepreneur, and has worked in a number of arenas including construction, real estate investment, software development, and with government. Mike imported a number of overseas organisations to the UK including BravoSolution (McKinsey Milan e-procurement), slowVoice (IARPA collective intelligence) and Singularity University (a think-tank university). Mike is a guest lecturer at UCL on collective intelligence. Career highlights include co-founding and selling an investment business to AXA, building a school for autistic kids in Scotland, running several entrepreneur and intrapreneur competitions for corporations and government, sending winners to Singularity, Oxford and Cambridge universities. Mike has also constructed many buildings for the public and private sectors in the UK and overseas, including tree houses for his four wonderful now grown up children.

 

Ezinne Uzo-Okoro is the founder of Terraformers, an online marketplace that empowers anyone to grow affordable fresh organic food anywhere and donate the excess to local food banks. Terraformers provides an entrepreneurial approach to improved nutrition, and feeding communities. Customers – anyone with at least 100 sq ft of yard or rooftop space – will democratize food access, and improve the economic trajectories of their own communities. During her 13-year NASA career, Ezinne contributed to multifarious missions including a constellation of micro-satellites, and six launched spacecraft missions – Cassini, the Saturn orbiter; ExPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC) sitting atop the International Space Station; Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) observing hurricanes and precipitation on Earth; EFT-1 test mission for human exploration; Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer studying supernovae and neutron stars; and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite continuing the search for exoplanets. She is a technical leader in flight software development, and spacecraft systems engineering, and has made significant contributions in all phases of the NASA mission life-cycle from concept development and design to deployment and operations. She earned Computer Science and Aerospace Systems Engineering degrees and has received numerous NASA awards. Ezinne is a 2018 US Presidential Leadership Scholar.

 

Claudia Olsson, appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, is an innovation leader and speaker in the field of digital transformation. She is the founder and chairman of Stellar Capacity, a global education company specialized in providing strategic advice, analysis and professional development related to the digital transformation. Claudia is one of the Nordic region’s most sought-after speakers on exponential technologies, future trends, leadership and governance. Her work focuses on the impact of new technologies on citizens, society and global markets. Claudia is passionate about addressing global challenges through smart solutions in governance, technology and business. As a member of the High Level Industrial Roundtable “Industry 2030” at the European Commission, Claudia co-authored the vision for the European Industry until 2030. Claudia is also co-authoring the strategic innovation agenda for the Swedish Steel and Metal industry with a particular focus on the possibilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In 2016, Claudia authored the Sweden 2030 future scenario for the Digitalization Commission at the Government of Sweden, focused on the digital, integrated, smart and competitive society. She also co-authored the acclaimed report “Blockchain-Decentralized Trust” for the Entrepreneurship Forum. Claudia has served as Associate Faculty at Singularity University as well as Senior Advisor to the Office of Strategic Analysis at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Sweden. Claudia previously set up and managed the policy think-tank ACCESS Health International in Singapore following her work for ACCESS in India and her assignment with the United Nations, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In addition to repeatedly being ranked as one of Sweden’s top young business talents, Claudia Olsson has been awarded multiple honors including: The Young Leader of the year in Sweden by 4Potentials, a Leader of the Next Generation by the Stars Foundation in Switzerland and China, a Gifted Citizen by La Ciudad de las Ideas in Mexico and the European David Rockefeller Fellowship at the Trilateral Commission.

 

Russell Buckley is the ‘Godfather of Mobile Marketing’, With over four decades of experience in marketing, start-ups and cross-platform investment, Russell Buckley is an investment veteran. Through the years Buckley held roles such as advisor, chairman, director and partner, before turning his attention to investing.  The industries Buckley concentrates on are mainly digital health, martech, adtech and fintech. Buckley is an avid investment blogger and considered as a thought leader in the industry. Russell has also worked as a UK Government advisor.

 

Working in a Singapore technology transfer office, Radiana has more than 10 years of experience commercialising technologies ranging from ideation, business matching, value chain creation, product development, business model formation, negotiations, partnerships relationship management, process improvement and business development.  New innovations require the need to comprehend complex technical requirements and business needs. She is currently working closely with the research community and articulating them clearly in simple terms in relation for partners from other organizations to comprehend and establish open collaboration platforms and new partnerships. Her projects range from food packaging, personal care, advanced manufacturing in additive manufacturing, advanced materials, sustainability solutions and electrification solutions. Curiousity as a natural desire to learn new concepts and technologies, and to determine how they can fit together to meet or support strategic goals and objectives, allows her, to be better by knowing more and thinking faster than the competition and bringing these traits wherever she is.  

David Orban is the Founder of Network Society Research and Managing Partner at Network Society Ventures. He is a faculty member and advisor at Singularity University, and he served as the Chairman of the Board of Humanity+. Mr. Orban’s past entrepreneurial accomplishments span several companies founded and grown over more than twenty years. He attended University of Milan, and University of Padua and studied Physics.

 

Stephen Markscheid is a senior executive and corporate director concentrated in mergers and acquisitions and other financial transactions, corporate governance, and consulting. During his time with GE Capital (1998-2006), Steve led business development activity—primarily acquisitions and direct investments—in China and Asia Pacific. Prior to GE, Steve worked with the Boston Consulting Group throughout Asia. Steve was also a commercial banker for ten years in London, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong and Beijing with Chase Manhattan Bank and First National Bank of Chicago. He began his career with the US-China Business Council, in Washington D.C. and Beijing. Steve holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University, where he was class valedictorian and member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He earned his master’s degree in international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and his B.A. in East Asian studies at Princeton University. He is a trustee of Princeton-in-Asia. Besides his native English, Steve is fluent in Chinese and conversant in Japanese and French. Steve lived and worked in Asia for 20 years, including China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand. He now resides with his wife, Veronique, and three children in suburban Chicago.

 

Dave Lim is polymath, provocateur, possibilist and pioneer.   He delights in bringing people together to design, launch and grow new ventures.  Since 1996, he been of all sides of the entrepreneurial and startup fence: as founder of Innovation X by Coca-Cola, twice a high tech VC including in $1B Pacific Rim fund that had invested in a small startup in 1999 called Alibaba.com, and leadership team of Singularity University chapter. Outside work, he is a global TEDx Ambassador. To date, he has lived in four countries and studied at Singularity U, Stanford, Berkeley, UNSW, and UBC   Dave’s favorite quote is “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

 

Dr Alex C. Y. Wong is the CEO and Co-Founder of RedBite Solutions, a spin-out from University of Cambridge solving the world’s most challenging asset tracking problems. RedBite’s clients include the United Nations, Boeing, Wilmar, Sony and Rolls-Royce. The founders of RedBite were the original architects of the RFID EPC Network through the Auto-ID Centre, also where the Internet-of-Things (IoT) was first coined. Now, RedBite powers the largest RFID deployment in the world across more than 50 countries and has developed other products that have since been acquired. RedBite has recently launched the world’s first barcode and RFID SaaS asset tracking application called itemit, to allow any users to instantly track their items on iOS, Android and web application. At the University of Cambridge, Dr. Wong graduated with a BA and MEng (with distinction) in Engineering and a PhD In quantitative inventory control modelling. He is still an embedded researcher at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He has lead and been involved in EU and InnovateUK projects such as BRIDGE, CSIC, SoNIA and Digital Twin to push the boundaries of research through innovative asset tracking solutions that are also commercially viable for industries.

 

John Sharp is a Partner at Hatcher Plus, the leading data-driven venture capital investment firm. John has extensive commercial experience at the senior management level, having been the Chief Executive Officer of Authentium, Inc. the Managing Director, Asia, of WorldSpace, and CEO of Hatcher, the precursor company to Hatcher+. A tenacious and driven executive with longstanding board-level and C-suite level management experience within high-growth companies, John also brings a strong history of capital raising from an extensive network of investors globally. As Chairman and CEO of cybersecurity pioneer Authentium (acquired by CYREN in 2010), John co-authored three US patents and developed and sold cybersecurity solutions to some the largest organizations in the world, including the US Department of Commerce, NASA, AOL, British Telecom, Comcast, Cox Communications, Google, McAfee, Microsoft, Symantec, and Telstra. As CTO at Hatcher+, DocDoc, Heardable, and ThoughtRiver, John has designed and developed several highly-innovative technology platforms using cutting-edge approaches to data processing, user interface design, and workflow optimization.  John is a frequent blogger and an in-demand speaker at venture events globally, and has extensive experience implementing ESG solutions as Chairman and/or board member of numerous start-ups, including director roles at trade finance provider ASYX and payment aggregator Mozido, and roles as Chairman of MENA-based financial services pioneer Telr, and the leading Cambridge-based legal services technology company, ThoughtRiver.

 

Julian Durant has spent over thirty years leading strategy and organisational change for multi-national corporations, with a focus on Financial Services. He has worked extensively at Board and C-Level in both external advisory and in-house roles. He has spent the majority of his career overseas, including twenty years based in Asia. He recently returned to the UK where he is now building a portfolio of consulting and advisory positions. Julian spent the first part of his career in management consulting. He initially joined Bain and Company in London in 1986, then, after gaining his MBA at Stanford, he moved to the Boston Consulting Group where he spent the next thirteen years. After an initial spell in Sydney he transferred to Asia where he was elected to Partner and helped lead the development of BCG’s Asian practice, focusing on Financial Services clients. In 2002 he relocated to Bangkok to become the Head of BCG’s Thailand office. In 2005 Julian joined Standard Chartered in Singapore as the Head of Strategy for the bank’s global Corporate Banking division. He worked on almost every aspect of the business during a period of rapid growth before and through the Global Financial Crisis. In 2013 Julian became the Global Head of Strategy for Standard Chartered Bank overall. This included working with the new CEO and PLC Board to address a major downturn in performance by revamping the strategy, including a $5bn rights issue, a fundamental organisational restructuring and a major programme of digital investments.

 

Richard Porter is Director of Technology and Innovation at Zenzic, defining and overseeing a £200m portfolio of investments to make the UK the global centre for testing and development of self-driving technologies, building on existing and delivering new capabilities, both physical and virtual. Previously Richard was Director of Research and Innovation at Highways England, UK Research Liaison to US DoD, Security policy advisor and crisis manager at FCO. Richard is always interested in new technologies and encouraging collaboration to deliver technologies to market quickly and effectively.

 

Taseer Ahmad is a trans-disciplinary architect, designer, educator, and gelato-maker. Active in all aspects of practice: private, commercial, entrepreneurial and research. He was born near the Himalayas of Kashmiri origin, raised and educated in London at UCL and the Royal College of Art. Since the 1980s he has practiced in the UK and taught at schools of architecture and design in Oxford, London, Kent as well as in Europe and the USA. He was Director of Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Kent until 2010. His terrestrial architecture, interiors and design experience has been gained mainly in London-based practices and has spanned the mundane and the extraordinary: secret London interiors in Hampstead and Primrose Hill; private members clubs in the West End; international museums and galleries in Edinburgh and Delhi. He also practices as a multi and inter-disciplinary space architect and extreme environments designer and has collaborated in projects with ESA, ALENIA, NASA. From 1991 to 2001 Taseer was director of the Extreme Environments Laboratory, a design, teaching and research unit at Oxford School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University. In 1993 he was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Government of Ukraine for extreme environments design for Chernobyl de-contamination. Current design research and project work is in the field of sensory environments and the human body’s personal architecture and ‘spatialisation’.

John Kermath has spent over 30 years in fund management, investment banking, and venture advisory; working closely in the last 18 years with emerging technology companies in their development. Previously John served 9 years as President of a multi-strategy hedge fund that had peaked at $4 billion in assets under his management. He joined the organization to address problems arising from heavy investor redemption requests and ultimately led the team that restructured the firm’s main funds in multiple steps, raising approximately $240 million to facilitate the effort. He subsequently took over management of the organization and fund portfolios with over $1 billion in residual holdings, largely private equity & venture in nature. He has served as a board member of a dozen portfolio companies and created over $260 million in new value for fund investors in settling long-standing litigation. Prior to this, John was advisor and investment banker to several technology ventures where he assisted in raising a $65 million private equity fund and co-managed a $250 million portfolio of fund interests for a major family office. Early in his career, he advised several NFL investor groups on acquisitions and financing. He also served as a board member and President of the Houston Private Equity Association. Mr. Kermath began his career at Citibank and Deutsche Bank and previously served in the U.S. Army. He is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Economics.

Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, United Nations, UNICRI. More than 20 years of experience in leading multilateral negotiations, developing stakeholder engagement programmes with governments, UN agencies, international organisations, think tanks, civil society, foundations, academia, private industry and other partners on an international level. Since 2014, Initiated and managed one of the first United Nations Programmes on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Initiating and organizing number of high-level events at the United Nations General Assembly, and other international organizations. Finding synergies with traditional threats and risks as well as identifying solutions that AI can contribute to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Mr Beridze is advising governments and international organizations on numerous issues related to international security, scientific and technological developments, emerging technologies, innovation and disruptive potential of new technologies, particularly on the issue on crime prevention, criminal justice and security. He is a member of various of international task forces, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, and the High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European Commission. He is frequently lecturing and speaking on the subjects related to technological development, exponential technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics and international security. He has numerous publications in international journals and magazines and frequently quoted in media on the issues related to artificial intelligence. Irakli Beridze is an International Gender Champion supporting the IGC Panel Parity Pledge. He is also recipient of recognition on the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the OPCW in 2013.

Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University is very interested in the researches on Functional Metal Matrix Composites, Smart Meta-materials and Superstructures, Bio-inspired and Biomimetic Materials. Dr. Tongxiang Fan was born in Shandong, china and graduated from Shandong University with a bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He later received a Ph.D. degree in State Key Lab of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1999. From 1998 to 2001, he worked in Osaka University as a visiting scholar and Japan Science and Technology Agency as STA Fellowship award winner, respectively. After returning to School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, he became an associate professor in 2001 and a full professor in 2006. His research currently includes Functional Metal Matrix Composites, Bio-inspired and Biomimetic Materials, Smart Meta-materials and Superstructures. Tongxiang Fan received many awards for his contributions to the development of new materials, including STA Fellowship( Japan, 2000), Excellent Young Teachers Program (Ministry of Education, 2002), Fok Ying Tung Foundation (Hongkong, 2003), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (Ministry of Education, 2004), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, 2005), First Class Prize in Natural Science (Shanghai Municipality, 2014 and 2007), Dawn Scholar (Shanghai Education Committee, 2008), Distinguished Young Scholars (NSFC, 2014), National Natural Science Award (CPG, 2015), Leading scientists, engineers and innovators( National Ten Thousands Plan, 2017) and National Millions of Leading Engineering Talents (MOHRSS, 2017). His works were featured as cover stories in many international journals such as Advanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, and also selected as HOT Papers by Progress in Materials Science, Chemistry of Materials, Nanotechnology, and also highlighted in NPG Asia Materials, Nature China, ACS News, New Scientist, BBC Knowledge Magazine, Photonics Spectrum Magazine, Nanowerk, Biomass Journal, Science Daily, Physorg.com, Discovery Channel News and more.

Innovation & Change at Fontana Group, a world leading company which operates in the automotive industry’s luxury segment with R&D, engineering, dies construction, stamping and assembly super-cars lightweight materials bodies. Before joining Fontana Group, Stefano (born in Italy and adopted by the USA) was immerse among successful and unsuccessful projects in a variety of industry; entertainment, tech, pet health/food to cite some. Stefano literally possess a bright vision of the future, he is a tech-savvy innovator, endless learner, and passionate entrepreneur and intrapreneur.

Dennis M. Bushnell is a NASA scientist and lecturer. As chief scientist at NASA Langley Research Center, he is responsible for technical oversight and advanced program formulation. His work is focused mainly on new approaches to environmental issues, in particular to climate issues. Bushnell has received numerous awards for his work. Bushnell has promoted research at NASA into LENR. Bushnell obtained his M.E. degree from the University of Connecticut in 1963 and his M.S.degree from the University of Virginia in 1967, both in the field of Mechanical Engineering.

With over 20 years of marketing, business development and channel sales experience; Dinesh has established himself as a marketer with a penchant for both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the profession.

A University of Oregon graduate with majors in Finance and Marketing, in 2017 he received Certificate New Media Marketing for the Hospitality Professional from Cornell University.

As the Membership Director of The National University of Singapore Society – Singapore’s Premier Graduate Club, his core responsibilities, include overseeing both the subscription revenue and membership growth of by constantly developing greater membership value and driving membership campaigns.

Derwen Hinds is an independent Strategic Technical Advisor in Future and Emerging Technologies, having recently spent 17 years in the National Security Sector of Government as initially a Senior Information Assurance Consultant across HMG and the last 10 years in the impact analysis of future and emerging technologies. Derwen has participated in 5 Government Chief Scientific Advisor’s Blackett Reviews, advise on behalf of National Security several programmes including the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme and represented National Security on several Public Sector and Academic committees and boards. Prior to joining the Civil Service, Derwen spent 28 years in Industry including the computing capability for a large aerospace engineering group and the Nuclear side of the UK Electricity Generation industry as an intra/inter network designer and Technology Strategist. Derwen originally qualified as a Mechanical and Production engineer, specialising in feedback Control Systems and Metallurgy before moving into commercial computer programming, engineering systems design and Production Control Systems design and implementation. His varied and multi-disciplinary experiences bring a wealth of perspectives. Derwen is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), an Honorary Professor at STEaPP, UCL and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at ISST, Imperial College.

Charles Delingpole is CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized the ubiquitous inefficiency concerning money laundering processes. Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014, ComplyAdvantage works with over 500 enterprise clients across 75 countries. Backed by Index Ventures and Balderton Capital, ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs in London, New York, Cluj-Napoca, and Singapore. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

Dr Louise Beaumont works with legislators and regulators to create disruption, with corporates to cope with disruption, and with start-ups to exploit disruption – with open and accessible data as the guiding principle.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Munich Venture Partners
Dr Rolf P. Nagel is a German citizen. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Cologne and a Master’s Degree (Diplom-Kfm.) from the WHU Koblenz, Germany. While completing his Ph.D., he was awarded a research scholarship at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, USA.
Munich Venture Partners, which he co-founded in 2004 is a leading high-technology, research-to-business-transfer venture fund investing in innovative start-up companies, mainly in the European Union, with a focus on IT and Energy-Clean Tech. Munich Venture Partners has secured financial commitments from a wide range of institutional, private and philanthropic investors in the EU and the USA. MVP has recently achieved notable exits of Sonnen Battery (acquired by Shell Oil), Relayr IoT-Software (MunichRE) or Cobi (Bosch).
Currently, Dr Nagel is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novihum Technologies GmbH, a Director of Silicon Line GmbH, in addition to serving as Managing Partner of Munich Venture Partners. Furthermore he is on the Governing Board of the EIT European Institute of Innovation and Technology, a body of the EU Commission.
Prior to founding Munich Venture Partners, he was an Investment Manager and Partner of SVM Star Ventures Management from 1994 to 2004 in the Munich office. He managed international investments in IT (e.g. Ciena, RF Micro Devices), energy (e.g. Capstone) and medical companies (e.g. Medigene), which were successfully taken public on the NASDAQ New York or on the Stock Exchange Frankfurt.

Chiara Giovenzana is a scientist (PhD in Biotech), an entrepreneur and an investor. She co-founded and led a biotech startup and different companies and organizations focused on innovation. She’s a a TEDx speaker, a Fulbright fellow and a Singularity university alumna. She is also a partner of two VC funds, a business angel and a mentor at Endeavor.