FUTURE OF AI

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

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

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

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

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

For over a decade, Ben has been helping high growth VC backed companies build go-to-market teams and scale business operations around the globe, quickly and cost-effectively. Passionate about making it 'less scary' to grow your business in new countries whilst remaining compliant & hire your 'A-team' globally with the experience to help you scale revenue & be successful in new markets.

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

Asif specialises in working with venture backed companies as they scale and is widely recognised as a leader in the field. Having qualified at PWC he established and grew a successful advisory firm that was acquired in 2022. His work focusses on equipping investor backed companies with financial rigour, governance and best practices to go on to scale into large organisations. Having built a successful career as an entrepreneur that advises entrepreneurs, Asif has been appointed to various Government Boards and authored the Best-Selling book, ‘The Finance Playbook for Entrepreneurs’.