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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 CTO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Sam Lowe
CTO of Streetbees
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
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Adam Neilson
CTO of Wefarm
Experienced and pragmatic technologist, strategist and respected team leader. Clear, creative and effective channel between technical and commercial teams with a track record of operational excellence and highly scalable service delivery.
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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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.
Paul Felby
Chief Technology Officer of Adthena
Paul is a supremely talented software engineer and architect and has built a career for major names such as the Logica Space and Defence Division and Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster, as well as spending time in the US teaching gifted children programming and electronics. Now our Chief Technology Officer and Product Director, Paul is responsible for the research and innovation at Adthena, delivering even better results for our clients, and the Architecture and development to ensure the quality of our data and application. With a first class degree in Computer Science with Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Paul was also winner of the Wind River Systems Award – given to the final year BSc Computer Science student who obtains the highest degree mark.
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About Adthena: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Edward Bishop
Co-Founder & CTO of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Luca Grulla
CTO of Signal AI
An entrepreneurial Technology Leader, experienced in leading product and technology teams from idea to delivery and monetization. Strategic thinker, core member of the Leadership Team, actively involved in company strategy and value creation. Member of the Core Technology team behind the £200M exit of uSwitch.com in 2015.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Marco Van de Bergh
Founder & CTO of LoopMe
As LoopMe’s CTO, Marco oversees LoopMe’s product and technology development from the London office. Marco has worked in mobile advertising since 2006, as Director of Technology EMEA at Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and Director of Products for Velti based in San Francisco. He worked in development & strategy for mobile services as Senior Business Analyst in Vodafone Group R&D Strategy.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Huss EL-Sheikh
CTO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Hussam EL-Sheikh is the CTO & Founder at 9fin.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Tsung-Hsien Wen
CTO of PolyAI
Tsung-Hsien Wen is co-founder and CTO at Poly AI.
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About PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Chris Goddard
CTO of G-Research
Chris Goddard is the Chief Technology Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Maksim Sipos
CTO of causaLens
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About causaLens: CausaLens is a casual AI software company that develops intelligent machines.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Artur Saudabayev
Co-Founder, CTO of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Raphael Holca-Lamarre
Co-Founder & CTO of Mimica Automation
Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Michael Hancock
CTO of Fluidly
Michael has over 15 years’ technical experience delivering large scale e-commerce and finance projects for the likes of Tesco, Auto Trader, London Stock Exchange and most of the major banks. He has spent the last 5 years working in RegTech and FinTech startups and most recently was CTO for digital payments company Judopay. Whilst there he designed and delivered a market leading fraud product, saw the payments volume increase 15x and built a world class team of 20+ engineers. Michael has a passion for using technology to help solve real world problems and is bringing a wealth of experience in scaling platforms and processes to the Fluidly team.
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About Fluidly: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Boris Ploix
Co-founder and CTO of Calipsa
Boris has spent 4 years working with transport authorities in France and England where he worked closely with transport planners and intelligent transport systems teams. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London
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About Calipsa: Deep Learning powered video monitoring
Viktoras Jucikas
CTO of Genus AI
Viktoras Jucikas is a Chairman at Genus AI, also he is a Founder and CTO at YPlan.
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About Genus AI: Genus AI is a Growth Platform for D2C brands, helping them acquire, engage and retain their customers
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Timothy de Paris
CTO of Decibel
Timothy de Paris is the founder and CTO 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.
Tom Cohen
CTO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Tom Cohen joined Popsa as Co-Founder & CTO in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Stefanos Zafeiriou
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Facesoft
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About Ariel AI, Facesoft: FaceSoft is develops databases that improve 3D facial recognition and computer-genetared facial reconstruction technologies.
David Edoja
Founder and CTO of Analytics Intelligence
David Edoja is the founder of Analytics Intelligence. He is a web analyst and entrepreneur, based in London. Previously, he worked at British Telecom and Omniture.
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About Analytics Intelligence: Palantir of Africa
Pierre Fraisse
CTO of Stelae Technologies
Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and doctorates from Orsay and former CTO of Datox/Wedia (specialist in editorial platforms for the publishing sector), with extensive experience in designing and building Content/Document Management solutions.
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Clive Cox
CTO of Seldon
Former Rocket Scientist, Clive is the CTO at Seldon and the brains behind the engine and co-author on numerous research papers. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics and studied Speech & Language Processing at Cambridge University. Clive has spent the last few years developing Seldon’s algorithms and predictive platform.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Michael Huth
Chief Technology Officer of Xayn
Michael Huth is CTO of XAIN AG and a Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London. He is a Diplom-Mathematiker (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 (Tulane University of Louisiana, USA). His research focuses on cybersecurity (notably the interplay of trust, security, risk, and economics), as well as security and privacy in machine learning. Michael served as the technical lead of the Harnessing Economic Value theme at PETRAS IoT Cybersecurity Research Hub in the UK. Professor Huth is an active research and product advisor within London’s cybersecurity startup scene.
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About Xayn: Xayn builds Web Search as it should be.
Jiameng Gao
CTO and Co-founder of Papercup
Jiameng Gao is CTO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai. Jiameng has an MPhil in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing and an MEng in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He was previously the first employee at Calipsa.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
Elnar Hajiyev
Co-Founder & CTO of Realeyes
Elnar stands at the heart of Realeyes’ core technology and IT architecture, driving the company’s emotions tracking vision. Elnar started coding at the age of 10 and built some of the first online shops in Azerbaijan. At 18, he created Azerbaijan’s first online beauty pageant, which got hundreds of thousands of hits, millions of TV viewers and extensive nationwide press coverage. He has also co-authored numerous academic publications, as well as been the recipient of several awards and prestigious scholarships. He went on to study for a fully-funded PhD in Computer Science at Oxford focused on database structures, which now form the essential foundation of our technology platform. During his PhD Elnar co-founded Semmle – working on big data analytics technology to provide business intelligence – and managed the company during its first few years before a fateful meeting with Mihkel led him to becoming one of the co-founders of Realeyes. He has built and now leads our Research & Development offices in Eastern Europe, and has been granted a US patent, with 6 more EU patents currently pending.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Alan Mosca
Co-founder & CTO of nPlan
Alan Mosca is the CTO of nPlan. He is completing a part-time PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, where his research focused on ensemble methods and improvements to optimization algorithms in deep learning. Previously Alan worked at Wallaroo Labs, Wadhwani Asset Management, Jane Street Capital, and several software companies as well as on consulting projects in machine learning and deep learning.
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About nPlan, Wallaroo: Artificial Intelligence to provide schedule certainty for projects, by highlighting risk and suggesting optimal execution paths.
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Hassan Ahmadzadeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Raunaq Bose
CTO, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Chris Loy
CTO & Co-founder of datasine
Chris has spent ten years in product development and software engineering, having led large engineering projects within leading technology teams across London, including at Ocado and the BBC. He holds degrees in Physics from Oxford and Machine Learning from UCL, with research efforts focused on using deep learning for complex frequency analysis. He has commercial experience spanning distributed system design, high-traffic web architectures, big data analysis and real-time engineering.
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About datasine: We empower marketers with intelligent, data-driven insights to improve the performance of creative content.
Mark White
CTO of Codec
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About Codec: We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Marius Cobzarenco
Co-Founder and CTO of re:infer
I believe artificial intelligence will improve most aspects of our lives in the next decade. AI is already “eating the world” today. In particular, I am interested in how emerging technologies such as deep learning can be used to build frictionless natural language interfaces. To this end I co-founded re:infer. I’m an old-fashioned hacker with strong understanding of machine learning and its proxy fields such as probability theory, statistical modelling, linear algebra and multivariate calculus. Academically, my interests are in probabilistic generative models of language.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
Subhash Muchala
CTO of Dynamify
PhD, University of Oxford
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
William Thomas
Co-Founder and CTO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Pieter Fabry
Co-Founder and CTO of Observe Technologies
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About Observe Technologies: Observe applies computer vision and machine learning to optimise aquaculture farms.
Ole Moeller-Nilsson
CTO of Pivigo
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About Pivigo: Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
Chris is the co-founder and CTO of NumberEight, a London-based AI company that detects user context from smartphone sensors and uses it to build audiences of behaviourally similar users. He is an ex-IBMer, where he researched air pollution sensors and has multiple patents to his name. He holds computer science degrees from Southampton and Cambridge and brings the know-how to achieve the theory of context detection in the real world.
Chris’ team has since produced patent-pending inventions, including efficient techniques for smartphones to process high-frequency data without significant battery impact, the ability to make personal devices work together to adapt to context and mood, and the process of defining groups of people with similar interests using anonymised sensor data.
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About NumberEight: NumberEight solves mobile addressability at scale by giving new life to untapped 1st party data. The company empowers app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to explore the power of mobex (mobile context) to connect with their users in a relevant, impactful, and most importantly, a private way. They do this through our best-in-class mobile AI software, which predicts the live context of a user (e.g. running, commuting) from sensors present in the device, and then packages them neatly into ID-less behavioural audiences (e.g. joggers, frequent shoppers). All computation happens on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.
Rafal Kwasny
Founder and CTO of Evolution AI
Rafal is co-founder and CTO of Evolution AI and has over 15 years’ experience in enterprise IT. He has developed big data and AI systems at institutions such as Credit Suisse, Coutts and Deutsche Bank.
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About Evolution AI: Evolution AI works with enterprises to uncover value in data and develop a natural language processing application.
Arkadiusz Klemenko
Co-founder, CTO & Tech Leader of Solvemed Group
Experienced Business Objects Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Change Control, Clinical Data Management, Databases, Data Warehousing, and Microsoft Reporting Service. Strong information technology professional with a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) focused in Computer Software Engineering from Technical University of Szczecin.
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About Solvemed Group: Revolutionising neurology diagnostics and drug discovery with the power of Artificial Intelligence.
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
Andrew Mantilas
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer of Mudano
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About Mudano: Mudano, part of Accenture Applied Intelligence, is a data and machine learning company focused on financial services.
Adrian Karl
CTO & Co-Founder of Inspection2
Adrian has over 20 years’ experience working within the mobile telecommunications and Internet industry. Adrian joined Sky-Futures in 2014 to lead the delivery of a technology roadmap for Expanse® that aims to maximise the value and impact of the data captured by drones. Adrian has been involved in both the design and delivery of a wide range of high tech and business applications that have technology at the core. He now applies this experience and expertise to ensure Inspection² stay at the leading edge of AI technology with our software and sensor solutions.
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About Inspection2: Automate industrial asset management & inspection with Inspection2 an AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting software
Matthew Eric Bassett
CTO of PRODA
Matthew Eric has 15 years of experience in delivering commercial software, with a strong focus on solving data science problems. He headed up the film industry’s first data science group at Universal Pictures. Under his leadership, the team successfully increased box office revenues and cut costs for several films, and expanded to television and home entertainment. He went on to found Gower Street Analytics, offering a suite of software simulating product release strategies in response to audience viewing habits to help studios make data-driven commercial decisions. Matthew Eric holds an MSci in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a PhD in Number Theory. He serves as an advisor on several academic and governmental boards on strategy and research for big data and machine learning.
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About PRODA, Sneffel: PRODA is focuses on solving core data processing pain points in real estate.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Adrian Negoita
CTO and Co-Founder of BotsAndUs
Adrian Negoita is a CTO and Co-Founder at BotsAndUs. He is an experienced software test engineer who is motivated by building high-quality products and sharing his knowledge to support the wider adoption of robotics.
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About BotsAndUs: BotsAndUs is a data-driven robotics and AI company that provides full-stack robot systems for dynamic spaces.
Alberto Pasqualotto
Chief Technology Officer of Spixii
Alberto Pasqualotto brings huge experience in machine learning, high-performance computing for large scalable applications, advanced information security and databases architecture, as well as a passion for compliance and data protection. Prior to Spixii, Alberto worked as a tech consultant for Italian and Swiss banks and founded other companies. Alberto is an Oracle database expert and holds a BSc and MSc with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Milano.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Lukas Dirzys
Founder and CTO of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Mario Menti
CTO & Co-founder of Ally Chatbot
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Rafael Nunes
CTO of Keypla
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About Keypla: Keypla is automating human valuations using Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Stan Karpenko
Co-Founder & CTO of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Victor Olatunya
CTO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Ben Holland
Co-founder and CTO of Antiverse
Ben Holland is the Co-founder and CTO at Antiverse.
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About Antiverse: Engineering the future of drug discovery
Surjit Bhachu
CTO of loomi.ai
Technical architect with over 16 years of experience delivering complex solutions at global brands like Tesco, Oracle, Vodafone, Toshiba and O2
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About loomi.ai: Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.
Tim Wilson
CTO & Co-Founder of centiment.io
I’m the Chief Technical Officer at Centiment.io which provides predictive analytics in relation to digital content using machine learning and AI. In 2005 I sold a freeware games website/company aged 15, now over 10 years on I’ve developed a heavyweight skill set across internet-based services. Having worked in senior/lead roles in both client and server side development and user-behavioral analytics for large corporations from Amazon to Virgin, my understanding and passion for web platforms only continues to grow with the industry.
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About centiment.io: Centiment Adtech uses artificial intelligence to find out how your audience FEEL and the BEST time to serve an ad.
Prashant Chamarty
CTO of InteriMarket
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About InteriMarket: InteriMarket is an employers platform for skilled contractors.
Ethan Ghoreishi
Co-founder and CTO of Teamflow
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About Teamflow: Teamflow unlocks the power of human intelligence in organizations to improve productivity.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Simon Baker
Co-Founder & CTO of Versed AI
Simon is a post-doc from the University of Cambridge specialising on AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP). He is also an Enterprise Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and has a PhD (Cantab) in Computer Science.
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About CUTEC, Versed AI: Versed AI helps companies to monitor, manage, and mitigate supply chain risks and identify constituents of their supply chains.
André Louçã
CTO of Warwick Analytics
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About Warwick Analytics: Warwick Analytics offers advanced predictive analytics and process automation.
