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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Demis Hassabis
Co-Founder & CEO of DeepMind
DeepMind is a neuroscience-inspired AI company, bought by Google in Jan 2014 in their largest European acquisition to date. Demis is now Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind and leads Google’s general AI efforts, including the development of AlphaGo, the first program to ever beat a professional player at the game of Go. Demis is a former child chess prodigy, who finished his A-levels two years early before coding the multi-million selling simulation game Theme Park aged 17. Following graduation from Cambridge University with a Double First in Computer Science he founded the pioneering videogames company Elixir Studios producing award-winning games for global publishers such as Vivendi Universal. After a decade of experience leading successful technology startups, Demis returned to academia to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, followed by postdocs at MIT and Harvard, before founding DeepMind.
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About DeepMind: DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.
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Dhruv Ghulati
Co-Founder and CEO of Factmata
Dhruv holds a Distinction in Computer Science and Machine Learning from University College London, and a 1st Class BSc in Economics from the LSE. He was a product manager and co-founder of two London based machine intelligence startups, and is an Entrepreneur First alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in Technology. He wrote his thesis in cost-sensitive classification and distant supervision for statistical claim detection.
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About Factmata: Factmata is an artificial intelligence company for automated content understanding..
Daniel Hulme
Co-Founder & CEO of Satalia
Daniel is the CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd) a UCL spin-out that provides AI inspired solutions to solve industries hardest problems. He’s the co-founder of the Advanced Skills Initiative that transitions scientists into industry as data scientists. Daniel has a Masters and Doctorate in AI from UCL, and is Director of UCL’s Business Analytics MSc; applying AI to solve business/social problems. He lectures in Computer Science and Management Science at UCL and PCL. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions in many companies, he holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation across the globe.
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About Satalia, University College London (UCL): Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
David Lundgren
Chief Executive Officer of Quantemplate
Dave has a wealth of experience in building insurance and technology businesses. He began his career at General Electric, leading operations for lighting, medical systems and GE Capital. He then brought his operational expertise to the world of insurance, first as Chief Sourcing Officer for Allianz, where he ran global sourcing for technology, then leading the P&C and Life Companies at CUNA Mutual. Most recently Dave served as CEO of AgPro Exchange, an open technology platform enabling farmers and their business partners to capture data from a range of sources, then normalise and securely store it for a complete analytical overview of their operations, along with sharing via a marketplace. Dave also sits on the boards of several insurance and manufacturing companies. As CEO of Quantemplate, Dave shapes the business strategy, optimises its execution and develops talent within the company.
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About Quantemplate: Insurance data integration, automation & analytics
Alex Vratskides
Co-Founder & CEO of Persado
Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’s strategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation. Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.
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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.
Tugce Bulut
Founder and CEO of Streetbees
Tugce is passionate about the power of data and the positive change it can bring to the world. She is a published author and Master’s graduate from Cambridge, specialising in poverty alleviation and global living standards. Before founding Streetbees, she spent 6 years as a strategy consultant advising technology and consumer companies to accelerate growth in international markets.
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Kenny Ewan
CEO & Founder of Wefarm
Kenny Ewan is originally from Scotland and he studied architecture at Dundee University, before moving to Peru to work for an international NGO for seven years. While he was in Peru he worked closely with local farmers and indigenous communities on sustainable agriculture projects,where he learned about the power of grassroots innovation. After his time in Peru he joined Cafedirect Producers Foundation, an independent UK charity that works with a network of more than 280,000 smallholder farmers. As part of their start-up team he led the development of WeFarm from 2010 to 2014, before launching it as an independent social enterprise in 2015. WeFarm connects smallholder farmers in Africa and Latin America to vital information on agriculture via SMS. Farmers can ask questions on farming and receive crowdsourced answers from farmers around the world on even the most basic mobile phone, without having internet access or leaving their farm. In November 2015 we have 32,000 farmers using our system.
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Maria Chatzou Dunford
CEO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
Dr. Maria Chatzou, CEO of Lifebit, is a biotech innovator and a proud geek, expert in bioinformatics, medical informatics and high performance computing. She is also a passionate entrepreneur and has founded two companies, Innovation Forum Barcelona and Techstars-backed Lifebit. Prior to Lifebit, she was a researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, in Barcelona, where she was designing and deploying tools and methods that facilitate the analysis of Big Biomedical Data, allow for biological discoveries, and promote personalised medicine. She was part of the developing team of Nextflow, a programming framework that is revolutionising the computational analysis of genomic data and setting the foundations for personalised medicine computational analyses. Maria is also a frequent industry speaker and has spoken in many international conferences on the subjects of docker containers, genomics workflows, the computational challenges of personalised medicine, AI and HPC in genomics, women in leadership, entrepreneurship, science ventures, among many other topics.
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Ian O’Rourke
CEO & Founder of Adthena
Ian has been involved in technology businesses and start-ups for over 22 years and has built businesses in Australia, Taiwan, Silicon Valley and the UK. One of these, Oovie, became Australia’s largest DVD kiosk operator before being acquired by Hoyts, the country’s top entertainment group. Another venture, Treeview Estates, has created a 148-home retirement village outside of Sydney. Formerly Ian was based in San Francisco heading Asian sales for Intershop, an eCommerce software start-up. From the early stages through a successful Nasdaq IPO and beyond. He established Intershop’s Asian operations growing sales from zero to US$8m in under three years. Ian has grown Adthena since 2012 to its current position as the premier global provider of competitive intelligence. Recent key achievements include a growth rate up from 50% to greater than 100% and a 92% increase in sales value as well as staff engagement scores exceeding 80%. Ian has also secured significant investment from Candy Crush entrepreneur Mel Morris, who now brings unmatched experience to Adthena’s board as it expands its operations in the US, UK and Australia. Ian likes to foster a culture of great products, getting things done, responsibility, freedom and continuous improvement. While Adthena itself has won many major industry awards, Ian’s entrepreneurial determination has also been recognised with the Developing Entrepreneur Award at the WCIT Enterprise Awards – commonly regarded as the ‘Oscars for technology entrepreneurs’. A double graduate of the University of Queensland, Ian is also a fluent Chinese speaker having lived and studied in Taiwan. He is married with two children and is an avid rock climber.
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About Adthena, Treeview Estates: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Lewis Z. Liu
Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen Technologies
Lewis Z. Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Ricky Thomas
Founder & CEO of Avora
Ricky Thomas As founder and CEO of superfast, cloud-based data intelligence platform AVORA, Ricky Thomas is a key disruptor in his space. Ricky has decades of experience building global, scalable high-speed database and transaction systems & now with AVORA, he has built a platform that aggregates any number of data sources, delivering meaningful insight with the power of machine learning. Ricky believes that “to drive growth, businesses need to drastically reduce data blindspots & the time it takes to access critical information, transforming your business’ time to action.” He is a regular speaker at the London Analytics Forum and industry panels on the challenges of traditional data systems and how to overcome them. Previously CTO at IG Group before building a number of business across Europe, most notably PetMeds which he sold in 2013.
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About Avora, MedicAnimal.com, Socialite: Avora provides a complete augmented analytics solution powered by AI that makes in-depth data analysis as easy as a web search.
Owen Hall
CEO of Heliocor
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About Heliocor, Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Fahd Rachidy
Founder and CEO of ABAKA Holdings
Fahd is a serial entrepreneur passionate about helping the industry creates secure financial futures for everyone, and re-inventing the way the financial industry works using Artificial Intelligence. Fahd was previously co-founder of Scientificbeta.com, the leading index retirement digital platform recently acquired by SGX for $205m. Ecole Centrale, Sorbonne University, Lycée Louis Le Grand Paris.
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About ABAKA Holdings: ABAKA is the Enterprise platform powered by Artificial Intelligence enabling institutions to build digital retirement solutions
Shay David
CEO of Retrain AI
Dr. David is the co-founder and CEO of Retrain.ai, ( www.retrain.ai ) where he connects people to jobs. Retrain is a talent-intelligence platform for Enterprises and Governments to seamlessly assess their workforce’s knowledge, qualifications, and skills, using artificial intelligence and machine learning, enabling them to retrain, recruit, and retain workers faster and more accurately than ever before. Retrain’s AI models captures skills shifts cycles and predicts the Jobs-of-the-Future, allowing employers to understand better which skills are emerging, evolving and expiring, so they can re-train their workforce effectively while planning outside talent hiring rapidly, all while empowering job-seekers who have been displaced by automation or global crisis to be re-trained and get back into the workforce. Prior to retrain.ai Shay co-founded of Kaltura ( www.kaltura.com ), a leader in video streaming solutions. Through multiple roles ranging from CTO, CRO, and GM, he oversaw the company’s growth from inception to thousands of global customers including 700 universities and 25% of the Fortune 100, and over $100M in annual revenue. Prior to Kaltura, Dr. David co-founded Destinator Technologies, a leader in mobile-GPS-navigation software, and consulted on open systems to Fortune 500 companies like Toyota. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters, and in his spare time enjoys yoga and angel investing. Dr. David’s academic expertise is collaborative and open-source information and communication systems. He earned his B.Sc. (magna cum laude) at Tel-Aviv Univesity with a double-major in Computer Science and Philosophy, his interdisciplinary M.A. at New York University on the economics of open systems, and his Ph.D. in Arts and Science from Cornell University on the topic of participatory information networks. He pursued his post-doctoral work on the issue of Access to Knowledge at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, where he is a visiting fellow.
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About Retrain AI: Retrain AI provides software using AI and machine learning to read job boards at scale and gain insight into where the job market is going.
Joanna Shields
CEO of BenevolentAI
Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields OBE) is a tech industry veteran with a successful track record building some of the world’s best-known companies. Her career spans over 30 years and has focussed on harnessing the power of technology to drive change that improves connectivity, humanity and society. Joanna is currently Chief Executive Officer of BenevolentAI, a world leader in the development and application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the underlying causes of disease, accelerate drug discovery and develop new and more effective medicines. Prior to joining BenevolentAI, Joanna served as the UK’s first Minister for Internet Safety and Security, Under Secretary of State, Special Advisor on the Digital Economy, and Chair & CEO of TechCityUK. Prior to her government service, Joanna held executive roles at Google, Facebook, Bebo/Aol, Decru, RealNetworks, Veon and EFI and served as a non-executive director of the London Stock Exchange Group. Joanna founded WePROTECT.org, a multi-stakeholder global alliance working to protect children from online abuse and exploitation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity and the Child Dignity Alliance. She is also a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG) and sits on the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as the UK nominated expert on an AI-enabled COVID response. In November 2020, she was elected Co-Chair of the GPAI Steering Committee and Chair of the GPAI Multi-stakeholder Expert Group Plenary. In 2014, Joanna was appointed OBE for services to digital industries and voluntary service to young people and made a Life Peer of the House of Lords.
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About BenevolentAI, UK House of Lords: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
David Plans
CEO and Co-Founder of BioBeats
David Plans is a member of the University of Surrey’s Center for Digital Economy and Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, and is working towards machine learning solutions to foster human wellbeing. His primary research focus is adaptive media and affective modelling. Having worked on early mHealth projects in the NHS, he is now leading smartphone and wearable research projects at BUPA, AXA/PPP, and Microsoft Health with his startup, BioBeats, where they are helping actuarial and care provision teams think differently about preventative health.
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO of Tessian
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Jack Hampson
Co-Founder & CEO of Deeper Insights
CEO and Founder at Deeper Insights.
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About Deeper Insights: Deeper Insights solve the toughest human problems through the transformative power of AI.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Michael Ouliel
Founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies
Michael Ouliel is the founder and CEO of BlackSwan Technologies.
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About BlackSwan Technologies: BlackSwan Technologies makes an enterprise AI operating system used for risk management, compliance, lead generation, and other functions.
Mohammad Khodadadi
Founder / CEO of SATIS.AI
Mohammad Khodadadi is a Director/Chief of data, Technologist, Entrepreneur. Mo is an accomplished technologist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of industry experience that includes building and managing large teams, designing complex AI oriented data architectures, and leading high-growth intelligence-driven businesses. His interests include applying artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to health and biotech and developing cognitive ecosystems capable of contextual deduction from data for actionable suggestions. Prior to joining Babylon, he founded and ran um.ai, a food advisor that tracks/suggest what you eat. He was also CTO at Klappo, a semantic platform for food ingredients, enabling the development of applications that help people to make educated choices about what they consume. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, speciality in formal methods, and his MSC in Bioinformatic at The University of Manchester. He is also one of the first of 100 tech exceptional talent visa holders in the UK and the winner of sirius enterprenurship competition by UK Trade and Investment ministry.
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About SATIS.AI: Food that makes sense | Delicious, Nutritious and affordable, while green and fair
David Benigson
Founder and CEO of Signal AI
David Benigson is the Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
James Dean
CEO of Sensat
James is a technology entrepreneur fascinated by the way the world works. He founded SenSat to enable the greatest step change since the internet; the digitisation of the physical world. SenSat allows computers to interact with the real world in their own language, making important information accessible to everyone. James received a BSc from King’s College London in Geography and a minor in Astrophysics from The University of California, Irvine. His speciality lies in Satellite Sensing and Earth monitoring where he worked with NASA’s LandSAT and MODIS satellites.
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About Sensat: SenSat simulates reality in real time, which helps computers solve real world problems.
Nathaniel Barling
Co-Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Knowhere
Nathaniel Barling joined Knowhere as Co-Founder, CEO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Tom Wood
CEO of Cazana
Tom hails from a business & innovation background having led technology teams within investment banking and pharmaceutical sectors and founded and sold companies in the marketing technology space. Tom has always had a passion for cars and considers himself very lucky to work on his hobby every day.
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About Car and Classic, Cazana: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Louis Decuypere
Founder & CEO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Jenny Griffiths
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Snap Vision
Jenny Griffiths is an award-winning technology entrepreneur and Computer Vision engineer. She founded her company Snap Vision in 2011, which was the first in the world to offer visual search for fashion retailers and publishers across both mobile and web. Being so early in the journey of the development and commercialisation of today’s AI market, Jenny is a thought-leader not only in AI and computer vision, but also in how to innovate and how to drive markets into adopting new innovations. Her work has led to her winning a number of awards, from the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver medal for personal contributions to UK engineering, to being awarded an MBE for Services to Innovation at the age of just 27. This year she was named as one of Forbes Magazine’s Top 50 Women in Tech in the world.
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About Snap Vision, University of Bristol: Snap Vision specializes in the fields of AI computer games and machine learning.
Chris Clark
CEO of GB Group
Appointed to the GBG Board in April 2017 as Chief Executive. Before joining GBG Chris was Managing Director at Experian for five years where he was responsible for accelerating growth across the UK and EMEA. Chris previously worked at BT for 20 years, running several large and small technology businesses across the globe. In his final role as Managing Director of BT Enterprises, BT Retail’s fastest growing business, Chris was responsible for a global workforce of 3,000 people and revenues of £1bn. He also had overall responsibility for BT’s London 2012 Olympic activities. Prior to this Chris was CEO of BT Ireland, where he played an instrumental role in the company’s rapid growth and, before that, Director of Business Transformation for BT Retail, where he managed a radical two year transformation programme. Chris has lived and worked in the USA, Europe and Asia, as well as the UK, and has significant international experience. He was educated at Plymouth University in the UK and holds an honours degree in Geography.
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About GB Group: GB Group offers a series of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers.
Stephen Upstone
Co-Founder & CEO of LoopMe
Stephen Upstone is an established figure in the mobile industry, having worked in mobile advertising since 2006, at the world’s leading mobile companies, including Ad Infuse (sold to Velti), LoopMe and many more. He has very strong experience in mobile and an excellent track record in sales, growth and general management in venture capital backed mobile technology companies including two company sales and one NASDAQ listing. Stephen was Managing Director Europe for Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and then VP Sales and Business Development Europe for Velti after the takeover. Stephen was part of the senior management team that successfully listed Velti on the NASDAQ and was present in New York for the ringing of the opening bell, raising $300 million USD and reaching over $1 billion USD in valuation. Whilst at Ad Infuse and Velti, he opened offices across the globe, helping to build a multi-million dollar business, working with companies such as Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, Sky and Daily Mail. Prior to Ad Infuse Stephen worked at Touch Clarity (sold to Omniture), FirstCapital, Universal McCann and Lowe Howard Spink. As an experienced mobile advertising expert, Stephen founded LoopMe, the world’s largest mobile video advertising platform, reaching over 2 billion consumers worldwide. Since LoopMe’s foundation, Stephen has opened ten offices all over the world and grown its employee base from only a handful to over one hundred in under three years, developing the company from a start-up to a successful medium sized company with a monthly revenue in the high six figures. Stephen is also Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association UK Advisory Board, a member of the EMEA Board and a supporter of the mobile marketing and advertising initiatives. Stephen was previously Co-Chair of the Global Advertising Committee and was a Member of the IAB Mobile Advertising Committee.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Steven Hunter
CEO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Mr. Steven Hunter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at 9fin Limited.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Nikola Mrkšić
Co-founder & CEO of PolyAI
Nikola is the CEO and Co-Founder of PolyAI, a London-based machine learning startup developing the next generation machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence. Their platform enables the development of machine learning powered chatbots or voice-based agents which perform tasks across many applications, in a wide array of world languages. Nikola completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working with Professor Steve Young. He worked as a machine learning researcher with the Apple Siri team in Cambridge. Before that, he was the first technical hire at VocalIQ, a Cambridge-based dialogue systems startup acquired by Apple in 2015. He graduated from the Cambridge Computer Science Tripos, completing his Master’s degree with Professor Zoubin Ghahramani.
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About Apple, PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Zia Hayat
Founder and CEO of Callsign
Zia is Chairman, CEO and founder of Callsign. With a PhD in Information Systems Security from the University of Southampton, he has served in various roles in the cybersecurity industry. From research engineer at BAE Systems to internet banking security architect at Lloyds Bank. Zia oversees the overall direction and strategy of the company while contributing to innovation and design of the service.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Ali Rezaei Haddad
CEO and Founder of NeuroNav
Ali is a neurosurgical resident in London and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. Prior to this, he completed his Academic Foundation Training in the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford undertaking research in the field of neuroimaging. He graduated with first class honours in Neurosciences BSc at Imperial College London, and he holds honorary research positions at the University of Oxford and St George’s Medical School. Ali co-founded the internationally acclaimed GoodSAM app used by the NHS, in which clinically trained individuals sign up as volunteers to respond to life-threatening emergency calls. He also directed and curated the Imagining the Future of Medicine at the Royal Albert Hall in partnership with TEDMED, attended by a live audience of 5,000 people. Inspired by the lack of user friendly and affordable neuronavigation solutions worldwide, he founded NeuroNav to democratise access to neurosurgery navigation solutions.
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About Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, NeuroNav: An augmented reality neuronavigation platform powered by computer vision and machine learning.
Danny Goh
CEO of Nexus FrontierTech
Danny is a serial entrepreneur and an early stage investor. He is the Co Founder and CEO of Nexus Frontier Tech, an AI research firm to make AI easy to work with organisations by using natural language processing to transform idle information into structured data, enabling them to run better, leaner, and faster. He has also co-founded Innovatube Frontier Labs (IFL), which later merged with Nexus. IFL is a technology group that operates an R&D lab in software and AI developments, invests in early-stage start-ups with 20+ portfolios, and acts as an incubator to foster the local start-up community in South East Asia. IFL has a team of researchers and engineers to develop cutting-edge deep technology to help start-ups and enterprises bolster their operational capabilities. Danny currently serves as an Entrepreneurship Expert at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and he is also an appointed Fellow at the Center for Policy and Competitiveness at the École des Ponts Business School, Paris Tech. He is an advisor and judge to several technology start-ups and accelerators including Microsoft Accelerator, Startupbootcamp IoT, and LBS Launchpad. Danny serves as a visiting lecturer at various Universities in Europe and he is a speaker at various conferences including TEDx and Fintech events.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Innovatube, Nexus FrontierTech, Said Business School, University of Oxford: We integrate AI solutions into existing systems, helping save time & money by employing solutions tackling inefficiency & data waste.
Karl Moritz Hermann
CEO and Co-Founder of Dark Blue Labs
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Dark Blue Labs: Learning deep representations of data to make intelligent products, including natural language understanding, a reality.
Darko Matovski
CEO of causaLens
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About causaLens: CausaLens is a casual AI software company that develops intelligent machines.
Siavash Mahdavi
CEO of AI Music
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About AI Music, University College London (UCL): Exploring the relationship between music and AI to enable a new age of music consumption
Krystian Zajac
Founder and CEO of Hero Labs
Krystian Zajac is a serial entrepreneur specializing in transformative smart home and IoT insurtech products. His ventures have won dozens of awards, been featured across tier-one media and recognized as some of the most disruptive companies in the world. Krystian Zajac founded Hero Labs and currently serves as the chief executive officer.
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About Hero Labs, Hero Labs, Hiro: Hero Labs develops technologies that help prevent water leaks.
Vadim Toader
CEO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Yiannis Kiachopoulos
CEO, Co-Founder of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Hongbin Zhuang
Co-Founder and CEO of Emotech LTD
Hongbin was the product director of Renren.com and assisted it to become one of the largest SNS in China with over 35 million monthly login users, which went to NYSE IPO in 2011. He graduated from UCL with a distinction in the degree of MSc HCI & Ergonomics and strongly believes that the revolution of human computer interaction will make a better world.
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About Emotech LTD: Emotech is an AI startup aiming to redefine the relationship between humans and technology.
James Field
CEO & Founder of LabGenius
James is founder and CEO of LabGenius. James completed his PhD studies at Imperial College London where his research was focused on re-engineering protein nanocages for biotechnological applications. Prior to his PhD, James completed a BSc in Biology with Microbiology and an MRes in Systems and Synthetic Biology, at Imperial College London. James is an active member of the synthetic biology community having participated in the iGEM competition both as an undergraduate (2009), advisor (2011) and judge (2016). In 2017, James was awarded the BBSRC Innovator of the Year award for early career impact. James is also a fellow of the prestigious Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program (LEAP).
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About LabGenius: LabGenius is a biopharmaceutical company developing protein therapeutics using a machine learning-driven evolution engine.
Kristofer Mansson
CEO of Silobreaker
Kristofer entered the technology industry in 2000 when he took on the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology venture in Stockholm owned by OMX and the Boston Consulting Group. Before the millennium he spent 15 years in Financial Services as Vice-President at Salomon Brothers and Managing Director of AIG Financial Products, both in London. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
Mikela Druckman
Founder and CEO of Greyparrot
Mikela is the Founder & CEO of Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI based computer vision to power next generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was CCO at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products and partnering with global brands to deliver award-winning projects. She is a Global Future Council member at the World Economic Forum, providing thought leadership on emerging technologies including AI for the private and public sector. In 2018, Mikela was listed as “TopWomen50” in tech by WeAreTheCity. She is passionate about using new technologies to solve key challenges in our society.
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About Greyparrot: AI-based computer vision solutions to power next generation robotics and smart systems for the waste management industry
Tuhin Chakraborty
Co-Founder & CEO of Mimica Automation
Tuhin Chakraborty is Co-Founder & CEO at Mimica.ai. Tuhin led software engineering teams at companies like Pandora and LinkedIn while building and selling enterprise software in his spare time.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Jens Munch
Co-Founder & CEO of Pace Revenue
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About Pace Revenue: Pace is revolutionising revenue management with a suite of tools to deliver science, real-time and automation.
Zara Riahi
CEO & Founder of Contilio
CEO and Founder of Contilio, a cutting-edge deeptech startup that uses 3D vision, deep learning and BIM to turn construction site data into real-time, intelligent insights on project progress, performance KPIs and risks. 12 yrs global management, commercial, entrepreneurial and engineering experience driving growth and productivity for multi-nationals and startups in North America, Europe and Australia. Prior to Contilio, executed infrastructure (PE) and tech investments (VC/M&A deals) at UBS, London and Westpac, Australia and was lead engineer and project manager for billion dollar construction projects in North America. I sit on the board of an early-stage VC, have advised many CEOs and boards on growth, digital transformation and operations initiatives and was head of business development for a round-A Silicon Valley startup. MBA from London Business School, MASc in Earthquake Engineering (minored in advanced computational methods) from the University of British Columbia, Founder of LBS Construction & Infrastructure Club.
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About Contilio: 3D AI construction analytics platform that provides actionable intelligence in real-time, unlocking $Bn savings & automated payments.
Caroline Plumb
Founder and CEO of Fluidly
Caroline Plumb is Founder and CEO of cashflow management software business Fluidly. Caroline previously co-founded and led FreshMinds, an innovation consultancy, and FreshMinds Talent, a recruiting business. The businesses have won a number of Best Agency awards and have regularly been listed in the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Small Companies to Work For. Caroline is one of the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassadors, representing the Professional & Business Services sector. She has a First Class degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University, is on the industrial advisory board of the Engineering department and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 90th Birthday Honours List in 2016.
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About Fluidly, FreshMinds: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Sarvarth Misra
Co-Founder & CEO of ContractPodAi
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About ContractPodAi, NewGalexy Services: ContractPodAi offers One Legal Platform to support the full spectrum of corporate in-house legal needs.
Priti Padhy
Co-founder & CEO at Cognino AI of Cognino AI
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About Cognino AI, ExtraaEdge: Cognino empowers Contextual decisions with Explainable AI. It transforms data at a cloud-scale into intelligence with speed and accuracy
Mathias Strasser
Chief Executive Officer of Scissero
Mathias Strasser is the Chief Executive Officer of Scissero Ltd and WallStreetDocs Ltd.
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About Scissero, Wallstreetdocs: Scissero is a cloud-based legal AI platform that can draft, mark, analyze, review contracts from human lawyers.
Mohammad Rashid
Co-founder & CEO of Calipsa
Rashid started his career in consulting with Accenture where he worked on high profile Government projects for the NHS and DWP. Since then he’s held tech roles ranging from enterprise software to fintech startups. He has a Masters focussing on Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge.
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About Calipsa: Deep Learning powered video monitoring
Marc Warner
Chief Executive Officer of Faculty Science
Dr Marc Warner is the co-founder and CEO of ASI. He founded ASI in the belief that the benefits of AI should extend to everyone and has shaped the company so that it can support organisations of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of rapid advances in this field. In the two years since founding ASI, Marc has overseen its growth to more than 50 employees, and expanded its offer from a small fellowship scheme to a cutting edge range of software, training, project and advisory services. He has also led over 50 data science projects, with clients ranging from multinational companies like EasyJet and Siemens to the UK Government and NHS. His work has been covered by the BBC, the Telegraph, and the Independent and many more. Previously, Marc was the Marie Curie Fellow of Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing. His research has been published in many high impact journals and cited hundreds of times. His PhD in Quantum Computing was awarded the Stoneham prize, published in Nature, and covered in the New York Times.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Ofri Ben Porat
CEO and Co-Founder of Edgify
Ofri Ben Porat is the Co-Founder and CEO of Edgify.
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About Edgify: Edgify is a developer of a predictive personalization technology used to train entire data sets for comprehensive analysis.
Paul Drayson
Chairman and CEO of Drayson Technologies Group
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About Drayson Technologies Group, Sensyne Health: Drayson Technologies is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that uses wireless charging technology and machine learning software.
Ankur Modi
Founder and CEO of StatusToday
Ankur Modi is the former CEO and Co-Founder of StatusToday, one of the UK’s top AI Startups. He is an expert in big data with a unique specialization in Psychology. Prior to StatusToday, Ankur worked at Microsoft, driving international efforts behind MS Office, Office 365 and Dynamics. In 2017 he was featured by Forbes’ as 30 Under 30 in Technology and Immigration while also being invited as a guest advisor to Westminster Parliament to present evidence on AI.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Martina King
CEO of Featurespace
Martina is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at Featurespace. She has served as CEO since October, 2012. Former Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma, Martina King has an extensive career in media technology. Her previous leadership roles include Managing Director of Capital Radio, where she doubled revenues as Sales Director and successfully defended the radio station’s number one position in London. Martina was also Managing Director for Europe at Yahoo!, where she rebuilt the UK and Ireland business after the ‘dot com’ collapse and subsequently led the rebuilding of Yahoo!’s European division. Martina is also non-executive director of Capita Group, Cineworld and Debenhams
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Ambuj Agrawal
Founder and CEO of ZappyAI
Ambuj is the world leading expert in Artificial Intelligence and Process Automation. He has received numerous innovation awards from Citibank, Imperial College London, Ministry of Justice UK, Bristol University, among others. He is also one of the youngest recipients of the “Exceptional Talent Visa in Digital Technology” by the UK Government for expertise in Compiler Design and Machine Learning. He has been one of the youngest Speakers at the Money2020 Europe, Fin.Techsummit Europe, Future of Work Summit London and Automation Summit Paris on the topic “Automation and Future of Work”.
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About Cocoon Networks, ZappyAI: Cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with AI/ML Process Mining
Richard Conway
Chief Executive Officer of Elastacloud
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About Elastacloud: Elastacloud are a Cloud Architecture and Data Science Consultancy who specialise in bringing intelligence to your data.
Ben Harris
CEO of Decibel
Ben Harris is the founder and CEO of Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Liam Houghton
CEO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Liam Houghton joined Popsa as CEO & Founder in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Allan Ponniah
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Facesoft
Allan is a renowned plastic and reconstructive surgeon with a keen interest in facial reconstruction and artificial intelligence and its applications. He has a vivid entrepreneurial spirit and aspires to make Facesoft the leading company in the field.
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About Facesoft: FaceSoft is develops databases that improve 3D facial recognition and computer-genetared facial reconstruction technologies.
Ben Richmond
Founder & CEO of CUBE
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About CUBE, International RegTech Association: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Aruna Schwarz
Founder and CEO of Stelae Technologies
Founded the company in 2002 in Paris, funded by a group of private investors. Prior experience in marketing, product management and business development in the telecommunications and technology sectors with BT (UK), Cable & Wireless (UK, France, EMEA), 9 Telecom (France) and Rosebud Technologies (a content management solutions vendor).
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Alex Housley
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Seldon
Alex is a serial entrepreneur on a mission to establish the new open standard for predictive AI, to make the world a more personalised, productive and fun place. He is the co-creator of the Genome Laser, which sequenced the inventors of the laser and high-speed genome sequencing and blasted their DNA into space with an enormous laser.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Mikhail Dubov
Founder & CEO of Chattermill
Mikhail Dubov is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chattermill.
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About Chattermill: Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience.
James Critchley
Co-founder and CEO of cloud.IQ
James Critchley is the co-founder and CEO of cloud.IQ, which he launched in 2012 after leaving his position as MD at another established, successful company that he co-founded in 2002 offering enterprise multi-channel services to brands, governments and charities. Before that, James spent time at Ogilvy Interactive until 2001 after launching another successful business – winter sports travel company, Alpine Elements. James graduated with a BSc in Economics in ’98. Today, as CEO of the leading conversion rate optimisation platform for eCommerce Enterprise brands such as Boots, TUI and Samsung. As a serial digital entrepreneur, he is leading the charge in AI and machine learning based customer experience in a way that has never before been possible. As with most start-ups, one of the biggest challenges was to get the funding required to help build a team to create a cutting-edge product and take it to market. Having already secured sufficient investment from investors that shared our view has helped us achieve our growth to date. An exclusive partnership agreed with PayPal last year is testament to cloud.IQ’s specialist expertise in conversion and has elevated the company’s market strength with access to a global merchant audience. cloud.IQ’s direction towards a fully automated AI and machine learning based CRO platform is a game-changer for any e-commerce brand. James and the cloud.IQ team are leading the thinking in this space, which means educating its customers and the wider market as to the full power of the platform and how smart brands are adopting CRO capability not previously possible. With offices in Sydney, the cloud.IQ headquarters are based in the vibrant heart of London’s tech scene in Shoreditch. This proved a smart move, as it continues to help to recruit and retain the best tech talent in the UK as well as reap the benefits of being part of a much bigger and inspiring collective of companies all trying to disrupt established ways of doing stuff. There are now over 3,000 tech companies all within a mile of cloud.IQ headquarters, creating ample opportunities to network and share ideas. James is passionate about his family, technology as an enabler and by contrast his 82 year old race car and snowboarding/skiing – in that order!
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About cloud.IQ: cloud.IQ is an AI and machine learning based automated conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce businesses.
Mark Musson
Founder & CEO of Humn.ai
Mark Musson is the Co-Founder and CEO at HUMN.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
George Frangou
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Massive Analytic
George is Massive Analytic’s founder and Executive Chairman (formerly CEO), Artificial Precognition inventor and Oscar product architect. Pushing ICT boundaries for more than 30 years, he has many firsts including the UK fibre optic broadband network run by Virgin Media. George’s CV includes CEO Platon UK (now Delloitte), analytic company Pronus founder and KPMG senior executive. Degrees incude Astrophysics and wireless and optical communications from world leading universities including UCL. Professional accreditations and honours include Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Directors (FIoD), FRSA, Fellow of The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About Massive Analytic, Massive Analytic: Massive Analytic is a London-based analytics innovator, with patented world leading technologies and global big data heritage.
Yaniv Altshuler
Co-Founder & CEO of Endor
Yaniv Altshuler is Co-Founder & CTO at Endor.
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About Endor: Predictive software platform that lets business users ask any predictive question and get high-quality results in minutes instead of months.
Andy Owen-Jones
Co-Founder and CEO of bd4travel
Andy is bd4travel’s CEO and co-Founder. He oversees business development and the overall growth strategy. Before founding bd4travel, Andy was the CEO at leading German leisure specialist TravelTainment, which he joined after 10 years at Amadeus. Prior to that, Andy held positions at several international businesses such as British Airways, Deloitte Consulting, and Virgin Atlantic.
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About bd4travel: Bd4travel provides IT solutions to assist firms in targeting and segmenting their customer base.
David Atkinson
Founder & CEO of SenseOn
David has over fifteen years’ experience working within the UK’s specialist military units and government environments, making him one of the best trained government cyber operatives. He was responsible for designing, delivering and managing a range of specialist techniques and innovative technology to support cyber operations and information security challenges at both the strategic and operational level. It was during David’s time within government and whilst working alongside CISOs that he realised the current approaches to cyber defence were flawed and that organisations needed a new technology to deal with the increasing velocity of cyber attacks. David has brought together a team of experts that has built a truly unique cyber defence platform. His sense of comradery, instilled by his military background, has created a collaborative working culture which is nurtured by an extremely bright, dedicated and most importantly passionate team.
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About SenseOn: SenseOn’s self-driving cyber defense platform automates the process of threat detection, investigation and response.
Kostas Koukoravas
Founder and CEO of Intelistyle
Project & Product management, business development, software engineering, AI. Has 13 years experience leading the development of ideas from inception through to delivery and has launched high profile online services including BBC iPlayer Radio, Microsoft Skype on Windows 8 and Surface Hub. Has varied experience in applied machine learning ranging from real time action detection in video (Microsoft Surface Hub) to portfolio optimisation in financial data. Holds an MPhil on unsupervised learning from the University of Manchester and a coursera machine learning certificate from the University of Stanford.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Hami Bahraynian
CEO of Wluper
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About Wluper: Advanced Conversational AI to provide powerful voice-first experiences for any industry.
Hami Bahraynian
CEO of Wluper
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About Wluper: Advanced Conversational AI to provide powerful voice-first experiences for any industry.
Rob Bishop
Founder & CEO of Magic Pony Technology
Rob Bishop is the founder and CEO at Magic Pony Technology, which is now part of Twitter Cortex.
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About Magic Pony Technology: Magic Pony Technology is a technology company that develops machine-learning based approach for visual processing on web and mobile.
Jesse Shemen
Co-founder and CEO of Papercup
Jesse Shemen is CEO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
Ege Akpinar
Founder and CEO of Pointr
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About Pointr: Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Mihkel Jäätma
CEO of Realeyes
Mihkel is the CEO of Realeyes. An ambitious entrepreneur and a visionary, he saw opportunity for a ‘Google of Emotions’ before ‘Big Data’ was even coined. Mihkel co-founded Realeyes in 2006 with Elnar and Martin, whilst studying for his MBA at Oxford University. They set out to build a world-leading business intelligence firm – and the company is now the technology leader in webcam-based emotions measurement. Always looking for the next step in establishing Realeyes at the forefront of the industry, Mihkel has already secured multi-million partnerships with several of the world’s finest international publishers, agencies and brands.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Joshua Bower-Saul
CEO of Cybertonica
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About Cybertonica: Cybertonica uses Machine Learning and AI to manage risk and fraud, increasing trust and growing frictionless banking and m/e-payments.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Fernando Ventureira
Chief Executive Officer of Stratence Partners
Fernando is CEO at Stratence Partners, a global Consulting, Systems and Outsourcing well-known company, and has more than 25 years of experience helping the organizations, worldwide, optimizing Strategies, enhancing Commercial Effectiveness and implementing successfully Pricing Excellence. Fernando is a recognized expert in producing tangible economic results through pragmatic “Short Term Solutions” and delivering long term vision as “Sustainable World Class Capabilities”. Fernando is usual Chairman, VIP Workshop owner and Speaker at leading conferences, globally, and he is regularly editing expert articles and Whitepapers. His professional career highlights include roles as CEO, CSO, VP, GM, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Program & Project Manager at leading companies such as Proudfoot (US), Matrix (UK), PwC (Spain), McKinsey (Portugal), IIC (Belgium) and IMP (France). Fernando owns a DipHE in Industrial Engineering by the Science School of Cachan (Paris), a BScIT by the ESCP (Paris), a MBA by the EAP (Oxford), and he is finishing his Phd in Strategy & Organization at the Swiss Management Center (Zurich). He speaks fluently French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and Catalan and enjoys international Projects to continuously improve his Italian, German and Chinese.
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About Stratence Partners: Stratence Partners is a Consulting, Systems and Outsourcing Company.
Dev Amratia
Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan
CEO of nPlan. Worked as head of Emerging Sectors @UK Government. Project Manager on several megaprojects @Shell. Antarctic Explorer. Aerospace Engineer
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About nPlan: Artificial Intelligence to provide schedule certainty for projects, by highlighting risk and suggesting optimal execution paths.
Armen Poghosyan
Founder, CEO of Actable AI
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About Actable AI: Actable AI helps you to analyze your data with powerful Causal AI and ML – without coding.
Dishant Shah
CEO of Spherical Defense
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About Spherical Defense: Spherical Defense offers API Security powered by Deep Learning
Bruno Marnette
Founder and CEO of Prodo.ai
Bruno Marnette is the founder and CEO at Prodo.AI.
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About Enki, Prodo.ai: Prodo.ai uses machine learning, data science, and human guidance to provide coding software services.
Co-Founder & CEO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Maya Pindeus
Co-Founder, CEO of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Peter Mason
Co-Founder & CEO of Illuma
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About Illuma: Leading the way in contextual scaling for online advertising campaigns. Privacy friendly, without using cookies or personal data.
Aaron Shaw
CEO & Co-Founder of Ember
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Ajit Jaokar
CEO of Futuretext
Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies. In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem. Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University. Ajit’s thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com), which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Internet of Things, Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands.
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About Futuretext, University of Oxford: Futuretext applies machine learning techniques to problems in the IoT and telecom domains that offers advantages for customers.
Seth Ward
CEO & Founder of Pynk
Online since the ’80s, I grew up eating my cereals off of arcade game machines which led to my first thriving business aged 8 – running a lunchtime arcade sanctuary for my school buddies in my garage (in true Silicon Valley style). Serial tech entrepreneur and incubator since the ’90s. A hands-on, can-do leader, I’ve: – Raised investment (and delivered ROI) – Coded prototypes, alphas and betas – Set up data-driven analytics that enabled rapid growth – Recruited and led globally disperse tech teams – Built a business from $500 to eight figures in 4 years with zero investment – Pioneered digital download and mobile video streaming platforms for AOL, Vodafone, Orange and Universal Music – Co-founded a business which transformed professional soccer scouting before selling to an industry leader And I… – love to immerse myself in the most positively disruptive technology (from those arcade games and pre-WWW internet in the ’90s, web in the 90s, mobile in the 00s and now blockchain and AI in the 10s – learn to teach, and teach to learn; I feel most alive when I’m learning and applying new thinking – realise that as a society we need to actively shape our use of technology to help us reach our human potential rather than allowing it to rule our lives and diminish our connection to each other I first started mining Bitcoin in 2011. I’m currently focused on the blockchain space, dedicated to helping everyday investors and startups. I love blockchain, and I kinda love capitalism – both are broken right now, but could fix each other. Let’s make things better!
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Constantine Yurevich
Founder / CEO of SegmentStream
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About SegmentStream: SegmentStream is a predictive marketing attribution and optimisation platform for a cookie-less world.
Kyle DuPont
Founder and CEO of Ohalo
Kyle DuPont is Founder and CEO of Ohalo, a company building data governance tools using AI/Machine Learning and Blockchain. This is his second company following, a company he founded in the Bitcoin financial crime compliance space in 2013. Kyle was a Fellow at Anthemis prior to starting Ohalo, and it was there, while working on blockchain technologies that he got the idea for Ohalo. Before building companies, he was fortunate to have worked in many areas of finance primarily in Asia with companies such as MUFJ Morgan Stanley. Kyle spends his time between London and Tokyo. Ohalo is supported by 500 Startups and Anthemis Group. Kyle has a BSci from Georgia Tech and MBA from Waseda University.
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About Ohalo: Ohalo helps automate data governance for modern organizations
Igor Volzhanin
CEO of datasine
Igor is the CEO of DataSine, having founded the company in 2015. He moved to London to do a PhD in Psychology and Computer Science at the University of London. Prior to that he spent 5 years working in international development and lived in New York, Frankfurt, Tirana and New Delhi. A relentless innovator, he is passionate about bringing his research to life and helping companies build meaningful relationships with their customers.
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About datasine: We empower marketers with intelligent, data-driven insights to improve the performance of creative content.
Martin Adams
Co-Founder & CEO of Codec
Martin is an international keynote speaker on innovation, artificial intelligence and disruptive technologies, and the Founder and CEO of Codec.ai. Codec.ai has raised millions & uses artificial intelligence to identify new target audiences and understand what content and products they want to consume, all before brands have to guess. Codec won ‘the Best Artificial Intelligence Product in Marketing’ award at CognitionX and has been named one of the ‘Hottest AI Businesses in Europe’ by TechCrunch. Martin has been recognised as one of the UK’s Top 100 Entrepreneurs by Maserati and as an innovation advisor he has worked with some of the most high-profile individuals and organisations in the world on how to use technology to be more innovative and connect more deeply with real people- including companies like Pfizer and Red Bull and governmental organisations like the Royal Marines. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the Co-Founder of the Social Media Unit @ UCL and the Digital Leadership Council.
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About Ambient Tone, Codec, CognitionX, Digital Leadership Council, London Speaker Bureau, University College London (UCL): We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Edouard Chalopin
CEO of Semantic Evolution
15 years of broad exposure to financial services gained at CMA in London and then at Markit in Asia. As a sales leader, strategic account manager and business builder, Edouard has developed new markets and penetrated key accounts providing innovative solutions. Graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in International Business (BBA) and from Reims Management School with a Diplôme d’Etudes Supérieures Européennes de Management.
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About Semantic Evolution: Semantic Evolution helps firms address all parsing needs and transforms data into actionable information.
Edward Challis
Co-founder and CEO of re:infer
Edward Challis is the Co-founder and CEO at re:infer.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
