World’s Top 50 Innovators 2024

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We are thrilled to invite you to join us at one of the most prestigious events in the tech calendar, the World’s Top 50 Innovators 2024! Get ready to embark on an incredible journey of inspiration, creativity, and breakthrough technologies that will shape the future.

Innovation is the driving force behind progress, and once again it’s time to celebrate the companies that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Come and join us to learn what’s on the horizon, understand the bigger picture, and celebrate world-firsts and sensational achievements in the high-tech sectors.

The format will be a series of Codex Talks, each of which is a concise presentation, lasting 15 minutes (or less), in which the speaker addresses a challenging question faced by their technology or industry today, and ends with a bold prediction for the future.

Codex Talks are engaging, entertaining and elucidating. They give the audience something they can walk away with: valuable insights, actionable information, fresh perspectives, and renewed optimism.

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Don’t miss the opportunity to meet CEOs and founders of the world’s most innovative companies, influential investors, and media from across the world.

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The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, One Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BL, United Kingdom

08 May 2024 - 10 May 2024

8:15 am - 6:30 pm

Schedule

8:15 am 8:50 am Registration

8:50 am 9:00 am Welcome

9:00 am 10:30 am Artificial Intelligence

Toby Lewis, Global Head Threat Analysis, Darktrace
How can AI help protect your data when your data is everything, everywhere, all at once?
Pinar Ozcan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Oxford University
How is AI changing competition across industries?
Edward Challis, Head of AI Strategy, UiPath
How can we unlock the power of Generative AI at work?
Dinesh Nayar, Managing Director, Creator Studio | H&M Group
How can AI lead to innovation in the fashion industry?
Maryam Fayaz-Torshizi, CEO, DeepSearch Labs
With AI here to stay, what will the next five years look like?

Panel Discussion and Q&A

10:30 am 11:00 am Morning Coffee

11:00 am 12:15 pm Artificial Intelligence

Maksim Sipos, Chief Scientific Officer, causaLens
Why is causality key to making AI robust and trustworthy?
Dr. Robin Tuluie, Founder and Co-CEO, PhysicsX
Will Generative AI save humanity from itself, by achieving humanly impossible solutions to climate change and industrial waste?
Philip Davies, President, EMEA, Siegel+Gale
Is Simple Smart?
Kurt House, CEO, KoBold Metals

Panel Discussion and Q&A

12:15 pm 1:15 pm LUNCH

1:15 pm 2:45 pm Robotics

Michael Brown, Chairman and CEO, Skyline Robotics
How is AI robotics a crystal clear window to the future?
John Hutt, Head of Culinary Engineering, REMY Robotics
How can AI-powered robots make restaurants commercially successful?
Zaki Hussein, CEO, Touchlab
How would the world look if robots had a sense of touch?

Panel Discussion and Q&A

2:45 pm 3:15 pm Afternoon Tea

3:15 pm 5:15 pm Future of Mobility

Yunus Jabalpurwala, Emerging Technology Lab, Honda R&D Europe (UK) Ltd
How will Web3 and AI affect the future of mobility?
Grant Ray, VP, Global Market Strategy, Group14 Technologies
What will it take to finally industrialise next-generation battery technology so we can have flying cars like we were promised?
Ricky Sandhu, Executive Chairman, Urban-Air Port and Urban.MASS
How can we slash CO2 emissions from transportation?
Hakan Lutz, CEO, Luvly AB
Can we have a car and eat it?
Andras Galffy, CEO, Turbulence Solutions
How will turbulence impact the future of air mobility and what to do about it?

Panel Discussion and Q&A

5:15 pm 5:30 pm Closing Remarks

5:30 pm 6:30 pm Drinks Reception

Speakers

Dr. Nicola Fox
Head of Science, NASA

Biography

As the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox directs ~100 NASA missions to explore the secrets of the universe–missions that use the view from space to assess questions as practical as hurricane formation, as enticing as the prospect of lunar resources, as amazing as behavior in weightlessness, and as profound as the origin of the universe. She is responsible for fostering an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere and supporting a diverse team of space scientists and engineers around the country. As the AA, Dr. Fox creates a balanced portfolio of carefully chosen missions and research goals to enable a deep scientific understanding of Earth, other planets, the Sun, and the universe. These efforts lay the intellectual foundation for the robotic and human expeditions of the future, while meeting today’s needs for scientific information to address national concerns.

Dr. Fox joined NASA in 2018 as SMD’s Director of the Heliophysics Division, where she led a world-class team in understanding Earth’s most important and life-sustaining star. She oversaw NASA’s work to study key space phenomena and improve situational awareness of the very space our astronauts, satellites, and robotic missions travel through as they explore the solar system and beyond. Her portfolio also included NASA’s robust space weather research to help the U.S. government better predict space weather, which can interfere with radio communications, affect GPS accuracy, and even–when extreme–affect electrical grids on the ground.

Dr. Fox has authored numerous scientific articles and papers, in addition to delivering science presentations worldwide. She is known for her keen ability to make science accessible to a broad range of audiences, as well as her stellar leadership, creating a sense of purpose and belonging in her teams. In 2021 she was awarded the American Astronautical Society’s Carl Sagan Memorial Award for her demonstrated leadership in the field of heliophysics. In 2020 she was awarded NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal.

Prior to August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University, where she was the chief scientist for heliophysics, as well as the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe–humanity’s first mission to a star. Dr. Fox’s extensive project, program, and supervisory experience included serving as the Deputy Project Scientist for the Van Allen Probes and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program.

Dr. Fox graduated from The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London with a B.S. in Physics. She received an M.S. in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey. She then returned to Imperial College to complete a Ph.D. in Space and Atmospheric Physics.
Dr. Andy Palmer CMG
CEO, Aston Martin (2014-2020); CEO, Pod Point
Antony Jenkins CBE
Executive Chairman, 10x Future Technologies

Technology

10x Banking’s (10x) mission is to make banking 10x better for customers, banks, and society.

Founded in 2016, the company’s next-generation core banking platform, SuperCore®, enables banks to launch products and customer experiences faster and more cost-effectively, powered by real-time data.

The platform supports retail, SME, and corporate banking across current and savings accounts, credit cards, lending, and mortgages. Available as a SaaS platform hosted in the public cloud, SuperCore is fully managed by 10x to ensure local and regional compliance, robust security, always-on performance, and operational resilience.

Today, 10x powers some of the world’s leading banks, supporting core migrations, greenfield projects, and banking as a service partnerships.

Biography

Antony Jenkins CBE is the Founder, Chair and CEO of 10x Future Technologies Group, a fintech company that aims to redefine how banks operate and engage with customers. His ambition is to be the global bank operating system of choice by applying cloud native technology to everything from checking accounts to savings to loans.

He is an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee of the Bank of England, and Chair of Currencies Direct—the U.K.’s first non-bank foreign exchange payments specialists. Antony is also a member of the Advisory Board at Palamon Capital Partners.

Previously, Antony led a global FTSE 100 financial services business, holding board leadership positions at Barclays Bank, including the Group Chief Executive (2012-2015). He was also responsible for several large business units at Citigroup (1989-2005).

Additionally, he has chaired Business in the Community and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical education. He has held board positions at Visa Europe, Absa Group, Barclays PLC, Fannie Mae and Blockchain.com

Raised in the North West, Antony was awarded an MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Cranfield University.

Antony was awarded a CBE for services to business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2021.
Alison Brooks
Founder, Alison Brooks Architects

Biography

Alison Brooks is one of the UK’s most highly awarded and internationally acclaimed architects. A native of Guelph, Canada, she studied architecture at the University of Waterloo before moving to the UK in 1988. Since founding her practice in 1996 she has emerged as one of the UK’s most inventive architects with works encompassing urban design and housing, higher education buildings, private houses, and public buildings for the arts.

In addition to receiving over 80 awards for design achievement she is the only UK architect to have received all three of the profession’s most prestigious architectural awards: the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Manser Medal (twice), and the Stephen Lawrence Prize.

Design Philosophy

Alison Brooks’ unique architectural approach springs from invested research into specific geographies, climate and cultures of each project so that her design solutions to emerge as both unique and relevant to the constituencies they serve. In 2017, she released “Ideals Then Ideas”, a book outlining the four core ‘ideals’ guiding her architectural work: Authenticity, Generosity, Civicness, and Beauty.

This is beautifully exemplified by her recently completed Cohen Quadrangle at Exeter College, Oxford. The first Oxford College to be designed by a female architect, this building demonstrates the conceptual rigour, sculptural quality and ingenious detailing that is her practice trademark.

Nick Shave
Managing Director, Astroscale

Technology

Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits. Founded in 2013, Astroscale has been at the forefront of a movement to create a sustainable future for space operations including the entire lifecycle of space environment management, from satellite design (engineered for prepared orbit removal) to comprehensive in-orbit services.

Astroscale’s mission aligns with a fundamental truth: no commercial industry on Earth is built on the foundation of single-use and disposal. Space, too, should be no exception. From responsible satellite end-of-life management, orbital transfers and life extension to space situational awareness, inspection and active debris removal (ADR), Astroscale is working relentlessly to address the perils of space debris.

Biography

With 30 years of experience in the space industry, Nick Shave was appointed Managing Director of Astroscale UK on 1^st June 2022. His extensive background includes senior management, engineering, and sales roles at Inmarsat, CGI, Logica, Thales Alenia Space, Airbus Space & Defence, and the UK MOD Defence Research Agency. Nick Shave holds an MBA and an MSc in Spacecraft Technology & Satellite Communications from University College London. Nick is currently Chair of the UKspace In-Orbit Servicing and Manufacturing (IOSM) Committee.
Carl Gotham
Advanced Design Director, MG Motor Cars
Yunus Jabalpurwala
Emerging Technology Lab, Honda R&D Europe (UK) Ltd

Biography

A Seasoned R&D leader spearheading Honda’s innovation efforts leading to 2030 and beyond. Having started his career in traditional automotive development, Yunus now leads the Emerging Technology Lab team from UK. Along with the Advanced planning team, focussing on what the world would look like in 2030 and beyond, and actively developing technologies to provide solutions to that future.

Technology

Honda is a company that offers mobility products across land, air and sea, with eyes also set on space! So the breadth of technologies is very vast. At our UK office, we are specialising in technologies such as AI, Web3, Future comms and overall software innovation.
Pinar Ozcan
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Oxford University

Biography

Pinar Ozcan is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. She is also the academic director of the Oxford Entrepreneurship Centre and the Oxford Future of Finance and Technology (Fintech) Initiative.

Pinar specializes in strategy, entrepreneurship, and technology markets. Her current research includes AI and business models in fintech, open banking, digital disruption, and the rise of big tech platforms. She serves in advisory roles working with regulatory authorities such as the Competition and Markets Authority UK, the Financial Conduct Authority UK, the European Commission and the OECD on these topics.

Pinar completed her Ph.D. at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) at the Stanford University Management Science and Engineering Department, and also holds a Master of Science and dual Bachelors degrees from Stanford.

Since completing her PhD, Pinar has received the Excellence in Research Award at IESE, the EFMD Best Teaching Case Award, the IDEA Entrepreneurship Thought Leader Award, and Best Paper Nominations and Awards at Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Society. Pinar is also the 2015 recipient of the British Academy Newton Grant for the study of open innovation, the 2016 SWIFT award for the study of the UK Banking industry’s transition into open application programming interfaces (API’s), and the 2016 Best Conference Paper Award at Strategic Management Society.

In 2017, Pinar had the honor to be selected to the Top 40 Business School Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants. In 2018, Pinar received the Strategic Management Society Research in Organizations Award for her work on the disruption in the banking sector in partnership with Swift Institute. She was recently selected to the global Thinkers 50 list for emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice. In 2019, she was chosen as a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow for her work on the disruption of banking in Europe and the UK. Finally, in 2021, Pinar was chosen to the Global Women in Fintech Powerlist by Innovate Finance.

Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Pinar speaks English, German, Spanish, Turkish and Dutch. She is a founding partner of Blanchard International Turkey. Her work experience also includes management consulting at Siemens Corporation in Munich, Germany, and strategy consulting with technology ventures and venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley.

Ivan Harbour
Senior Design Partner, RSHP

RSHP Design Philosophy

We believe the world we build should be transformative, joyful to experience and continually adaptable. We are RSHP, an architectural practice creating sustainable places for a better future.

Biography

Ivan is an architect and senior partner at RSHP. He began his career on Lloyd’s of London and subsequently led the design of the European Court of Human Rights and Bordeaux Law Courts. He was a director in the practice from 1993, and he is a founding partner of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, established in 2007, now RSHP.

Two of Ivan’s projects – Terminal 4 Barajas Airport Madrid (2006) and Maggie’s West London (2009) – have won the Stirling Prize, the most prestigious architectural award in the UK. Ivan is deeply involved in design from city scale to the smallest detail and, together with Graham Stirk, promotes and develops the ethos and design quality for which the practice is renowned.

Ivan’s work spans many building types, from airports to low cost housing, where the designs share a common belief that successful buildings pay the greatest respect to those that use them.

Projects designed and led by Ivan include: Centre Building at the LSE in London; a new mixed-use piece of city in Monte Carlo; the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, USA; offices at Stratford, London for the Financial Conduct Authority, Transport for London, The British Council and Cancer Research UK; Barangaroo South masterplan and International Towers in Sydney, Australia; 300 New Jersey Avenue offices in Washington DC, USA; Senedd Cymru, Welsh Parliament in Cardiff, Wales; Law Courts in Antwerp; primary and secondary schools in Minami Yamashiro, Kyoto, Japan and Hackney London; a mixed-use town centre in Scandicci, Italy. Significantly, these projects have all been recognised by either national, European or international awards.

Ivan is currently leading the design on the Melbourne Metro Rail project. Other live projects include Taoyuan T3 airport, Taiwan and the Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus in London. He also plays an instrumental role in developing modular housing pioneered at Crofts Street, Cardiff, Y:Cube, Mitcham and PLACE / Ladywell, Lewisham, London, UK.
Jessica Middlemiss
CTO, Matter

Technology

Matter is developing a range of technology aimed at preventing microplastic pollution from reaching our oceans. Their first consumer-focussed product, Gulp, is a retro-fit microfibre filter for installation downstream of a domestic washing machine.

Matter’s filtration technology is capable of filtering micro-scale solids from fluid at a range of scales from domestic washing machines to industrial applications such as textiles production or waste-water treatment. Matter is working with a variety of customers in these sectors and others to implement tailored filtration solutions.

Biography

Jess Middlemiss is CTO of Matter. a Bristol-based engineering company developing innovative technology to capture micro-scale pollution including microplastics. Jess studied Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London and has spent her career in Engineering focussed roles in the aerospace, consumer goods and biopharmaceutical sectors. Jess has gained a breadth of experience across the lifecycle of an engineering project, including cutting-edge R&D, product development and evolution, manufacturing engineering, supply chain management and in-field product reliability.

Jess is passionate about developing young Engineers and also spent 2 years as Head of Operations at The Dyson Institute, Dyson’s in-house Undergraduate degree programme. She also volunteers for her professional engineering institute (IOM3) and is involved in various initiatives related to supporting Women in Engineering.

Outside of work Jess enjoys spending time with her husband, 2 children and their various animals. The family is passionate about improving biodiversity on their 6 acre smallholding and Jess enjoys making delicious food from whatever she can grow and forage. She also keeps bees.
Dinesh Nayar
Managing Director, Creator Studio, H&M Group

Technology and Biography

Dinesh Nayar is Managing Director of Creator Studio, H&M Group’s on-demand printing service for the modern merchandising industry. In his Codex Talk, Dinesh will discuss how, after a decade in tech development, he was tasked with creating a new venture in one of the world’s most recognisable global retail groups, and the lessons he has learnt throughout. Via constant innovation and a relentless pursuit of new ideas – including becoming the first merchandising brand to integrate AI functionality into its consumer offering – Creator Studio is fast revolutionising the merch industry both in Sweden and across the world.

Creator Studio is the global, on-demand printing service for the modern merchandising industry, making merch more sustainable, cost-effective, and frictionless. Launched by H&M Group in late-2021, Creator Studio’s proprietary tech offers artists, labels, and licensees an end-to-end solution for merchandise printing and fulfilment. Once integrated with a client’s ecommerce, the platform handles everything from sourcing to printing to global last-mile delivery.
Maryam Fayaz-Torshizi
CEO, DeepSearch Labs

Technology

DeepSearch Labs have developed an AI search engine tailored for industry needs. Our platform serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it eliminates the cost burden of data from your balance sheets, allowing you to explore the extensive data compiled by DSL over the years using a “map of information”. You can also create the same map of information using your own inhouse datasets and augment it with the data we have collected. Secondly, it operates as a junior AI analyst, enabling you to filter the map on industry, location, databases, date ranges, and visualize connected trends, entities, and understand connections. Using the map you can transform the data into comprehensive research reports of your desired length. We achieve this through advanced computational linguistics, machine learning, and generative AI technologies.

Biography

Maryam comes from an EEE background with a focus on signal processing. She has worked as a Quantitative Researcher, Data Scientist, and Consultant. She is the founder of DeepSearch Labs, a next generation search engine.

Philip Davies
President, EMEA, Siegel+Gale

Biography

Based in London, Philip is behind the people, the work and the firm’s belief that complex brand challenges can be solved through simple unexpectedly fresh strategies, stories, and experiences. His career spans journalism, advertising, and brand consulting. You’ll see Philip at events and quoted in the press on topics ranging from leadership, corporate culture, product development, customer experience and new ways that people interact with brands.

Siegel + Gale

Siegel + Gale is a global brand experience firm. With unlimited imagination and a dedication to the facts, we cut through the clutter—and unlock success for our clients. Since 1969, we have championed simplicity for leading corporations, non-profits and government organizations worldwide. Clients have included CVS Health, Bristol Myers Squibb, and NBA, to name a few. No matter the brand challenge, we activate our brand purpose: to make it simpler for our clients and colleagues to succeed. Furthermore, we embody our four core values of smart, nice, unstoppable, and inclusive. We are a part of Omnicom Group Inc., and we have strong partners all around the world.
Toby Lewis
Global Head of Threat Analysis, Darktrace

Technology

Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity artificial intelligence, is on a mission to free the world of cyber disruption. Breakthrough innovations in our Cyber AI Research Centre in Cambridge, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands have resulted in over 175 patent applications filed. Rather than study historic attacks, Darktrace’s technology continuously learns and updates its knowledge of your business data and applies that understanding to help transform security operations to a state of proactive cyber resilience. The Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ provides a full lifecycle approach to cyber resilience that can autonomously spot and respond to known, unknown and novel in progress threats within seconds across the entire organization, including cloud, apps, email, endpoint, network, operational technology (OT) and zero trust. Darktrace, which listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021, employs over 2,300 people around the world and protects over 9,200 customers globally from advanced cyber threats.

Biography

Toby oversees all of Darktrace’s work monitoring for threats and predicting what’s next. Prior to joining Darktrace, he spent 15 years in the UK Government’s cybersecurity threats response unit, including as the UK National Cyber Security Centre’s Deputy Technical Director for Incident Management. He has specialist expertise in Security Operations, having worked across Cyber Threat Intelligence, Incident Management, and Threat Hunting. He has presented at several high-profile events, including the NCSC’s flagship conference, CyberUK, the SANS CyberThreat conference, and the Cheltenham Science Festival. He was a lead contributor to the first CyberFirst Girls Competition, championing greater gender diversity in STEM and cyber security. Toby is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Bristol.
Carlos Bausa Martinez
Head of Sustainability, Zaha Hadid Architects

Design Philosophy

ZHA works on understanding all the design aspects as a whole, marrying innovative digital design with ecologically sound construction practices, and delivering practical solutions to the defining challenges of our era. Each project by ZHA is the very specific assimilation of its unique context, local culture, programmatic requirements and intelligent engineering-enabling the architecture and surrounding urban fabric to seamlessly combine, in both formal strategies

In over 50 award-winning projects around the world, ZHA’s architecture becomes more refined spatially, more efficient structurally, more polished materially, more advanced technologically- and generally more resolved- with each new design. Their clients commission buildings and ZHA meets the programmes, but ZHA also reads between the lines to exceed each brief and consistently deliver the shared aspirations of a new generation.

Collaborating with visionary clients, communities and industry experts on over 60 ongoing projects in 28 countries, ZHA’s hugely talented and dedicated teams of experienced professionals work with passion and commitment to honour Zaha Hadid’s legacy and deliver outstanding projects across the globe.

Biography

Carlos joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 2019 as the Sustainability Team Lead, following almost five years at Foster + Partners, where he worked in the Specialist Modelling Group as an Environmental Design Analyst. His speciality in Computational Design and Environmental Simulation, combined with his expertise in Sustainable Architecture, allowed him to propose and found the ZHA In-house Sustainability Team to inform design decisions from the early stages in all ZHA ‘Design Clusters. After four years at ZHA he became “Senior Associate and Head of Sustainability”, and together with his team, they coordinate sustainability assessment tasks with external consultancy firms to ensure all projects are delivered targeting reductions in environmental impact.

The contribution of the Sustainability Team led by Carlos is helping ZHA target carbon reductions from Building Codes around the world and goals of International Sustainability Certifications like LEED, BREEAM and the Chinese Three Star Rating System. His work with the ZHA Sustainability Team has been publicly shown in exhibitions in China and London, in different venues. Carlos has a background in Architecture and Computational Design. He received his Bachelor’s in architecture at the University of Alicante, Spain, and his Master’s in Advanced Architecture at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), LEED AP® Building Design + Construction, and Qualified UK Non-Domestic Energy Assessor.
Mathieu Nouzareth
Chief Business Officer, The Sandbox

Technology

The Sandbox is a decentralised, community-driven gaming ecosystem where designers and artists can create, share and monetise NFTs and gaming experiences on the Ethereum blockchain and is partnered with 200 Brands, IPs and Artists in Music, Entertainment, Fashion, Sport and Music (Adidas, Gucci, Warner Music Group, HSBC, Snoop Dogg, Deadmau5, Avenged Sevenfold, The Walking Dead, Smurfs, Square Enix, Atari…). Its popular virtual real estates, known as LANDs, are taking over the NFT world.

Biography

Paris-born, London based serial web entrepreneur Mathieu Nouzareth is the Chief Business Officer of The Sandbox. The Sandbox is the leading web 3 metaverse.

Mathieu Nouzareth began his career in 1995 at 23 by co-founding WebConcept, one of France’s first e-business consulting firms, later sold to Sweden’s IconMedialab of Sweden in 1999.

In 2001, Mathieu co founded and led Boonty.com, a digital game distribution company. Operating in over 30 countries with a staff of 180, the company was sold to Nexway in 2008.

In 2006, Mathieu co-founded and led Is Cool Entertainment, a social casual game publisher which was listed on the Paris stock market, and later acquired by publishing company Hachette.

In 2017, Mathieu co-founded SATO, a leading crypto currency mining company in Canada that went public in Toronto in 2021.

From 2009 to 2022, Mathieu was the co-founder and CEO of FreshPlanet, the New York-based developer of the mega hit social music trivia mobile game SongPop. The game has built a global following of over 150 Million players since its launch in June 2012. It won a BAFTA awards in 2013 as well as multiple awards. In 2018, FreshPlanet was sold to Gameloft of Vivendi, one of the leading mobile game publisher in the world.

Mathieu is a graduate of the Grenoble School of Management and holds an MBA from Pace University in New York.

Michael Brown
Chairman and CEO, Skyline Robotics

Technology

Skyline Robotics is a deep tech robotics and automation company. Its flagship product, Ozmo, the world’s first high-rise window cleaning robot, is disrupting the $40B window cleaning industry as a safer, more efficient, and more effective alternative to humans. Skyline Robotics believes that people are more than robots and that is why—starting with window cleaning—it aims to automate all types of work at heights.

Skyline Robotics is the winner of a Fast Company 2023 Next Big Things in Tech Award; a PropTech Breakthrough Award for “Construction Robotics Solution of the Year”; a 2023 RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award; and was named to the 2023 BuiltWorlds Robotics 50 List.

Biography

Michael Brown is CEO and chairman of the board at Skyline Robotics. In his role, Michael serves as both a veteran strategic advisor and is leading the expansion of Skyline into the US market. Michael’s 35-year career has been focused on business services and distribution roll-ups. He has led two previous companies with revenue over $400M, both of which were sold to publicly traded companies.

During Michael’s career, the companies he led have generated in excess of $5B, while leveraging a proven model, driving growth and market expansion through business acquisition, cross-selling, and organic growth steeped in data analysis and strategy. Additionally, Michael serves on the Sanitation Foundation’s Board of Directors, the official nonprofit partner of the NYC Department of Sanitation. Michael holds a degree in Information Technology from Syracuse University and surgical microrobotics.
Helene Huby
CEO, The Exploration Company

Technology

The Exploration Company’s vision is to ensure an intact and affordable logistics infrastructure in space by building its modular, reusable and sustainable Nyx spacecraft. By 2030 alone, there will be five to seven space stations, at least two of which will be on the moon. At the same time, 150 moon missions are planned. According to calculations, the turnover volume for the space industry will be in the trillions by 2040. Nyx will meet the growing demand for affordable transport solutions.

Nyx is the first modular, refuellable and reusable spacecraft of its type in the world. Nyx uses only environmentally friendly propellants and has a refuellable cryogenic engine with a higher performance level than conventional models.

Biography

Helene is Co-Founder & CEO of The Exploration Company which builds reusable space capsules that carry goods and humans to space stations around the Earth and to the Moon. She has served as an executive at Airbus Defence & Space and Ariane Group both in operational and strategic roles: from starting as Head of Innovation to leading major European space programs.

She is the Founder and Chair of Urania Ventures, a deep tech investment company. She is the Founder and Chairman of The Karman Project, a non-profit foundation which fosters trust, independent dialogue and cooperation between the ones who shape the future of space. She graduated from ENS-Ulm, Sciences-Po Paris and ENA.
John Hutt
Head of Culinary Engineering, REMY Robotics

Technology

Remy’s robotisation model will radically change the restaurant industry. Not by changing what we are cooking, but by changing the how. Remy’s autonomous flexible robotic kitchens offer a ground breaking solution that makes it possible to produce high quality delicious food affordably, consistently, and profitably at scale. All the foods you want without the limitations.
Dr. Katie King
CEO, BioOrbit

Technology

The superior crystallisation process in microgravity has been well documented on the ISS, but commercial scale production has not yet been realised. The dramatic reduction in launch costs (SpaceX) and the coming of re-entry vehicles this year (The Exploration Company, Space Forge, Varda, Atmos Space Cargo etc.), means that the infrastructure is now ready for in-orbit manufacturing. BioOrbit is developing hardware to scale up the production of crystalline protein antibodies, with in-orbit demonstration on the ISS planned for 2025.

Biography

Dr. Katie King is the CEO of BioOrbit, a company building a pharmaceuticals factory in microgravity to revolutionise cancer treatment. BioOrbit aims to bring a paradigm shift to the administration route of cancer treatments. Much like diabetics self-inject with solutions of crystalline insulin, through crystallising antibodies in microgravity, subcutaneous derivatives of anticancer treatments can be formulated, enabling cancer sufferers to self-inject at home.

Katie completed her PhD in nanomedicine at the University of Cambridge in 2022 and is a strong advocate that science in a microgravity environment can be used to accelerate healthcare and drug development on Earth. Her vision is to see BioOrbit as the go to manufacturing line and research facility in microgravity.

Dr. Robin Tuluie
Founder and Co-CEO, PhysicsX

Biography

Robin is the founder and co-CEO of PhysicsX, a company of scientists and engineers borne out of Formula One and numerical physics. He believes that to solve the urgent climate and industrial challenges we face, AI is essential to reconceive how engineering is practiced. PhysicsX is dedicated to building generative deep learning solutions to unlock breakthrough engineering performance across advanced industries.

A theoretical physicist by background, Robin worked alongside Nobel-prize winning physicists on the discovery, by simulation, of a foundational new effect in the cosmic background radiation. Robin left academia for the fastest development cycle on earth, Formula One, where he developed ground-breaking innovations that helped Renault F1 win back-to-back double World Championships.

As Chief Scientist and Head of R&D at Mercedes F1, he helped build one of the most successful F1 teams of all time. As director of vehicle technology at Bentley Motors, Robin was responsible for the overall simulation strategy and digital twin roadmap, working across the VW Group. Robin founded PhysicsX in 2019.

Technology

Equations for a Better World. PhysicsX is deep-tech company of scientists and engineers dedicated to building generative deep learning solutions to unlock breakthrough engineering performance across advanced industries, in Renewables, Space and Aerospace, Automotive and Materials production. We work with our customers to address the critical challenges of our time, such as accelerating the energy transition and minimizing materials consumption, while avoiding harmful technologies.

Our technology uses generative geometric deep learning to accelerate and replace numerical simulations with large physics models (LPMs), which are 10,000 times faster and highly accurate, to supercharge virtual product development. We use this speed to search for improved designs, in both traditional design spaces and AI-generated geometries which humans have not conceived of. We find new design and operating conditions to help unlock previously unattainable efficiencies, material savings and operational optimization.
Zaki Hussein
CEO, Touchlab

Technology

The biggest barrier to mass robot adoption is their inability to feel the world around them. Touchlab is changing this by manufacturing an e-skin system – thinner than human skin – which can be wrapped around hard or soft robots to sense pressure, location, and direction in real-time.

Even basic tasks such as picking up objects require an understanding of touch. Without this sense, robots cause damage or drop items, making them clumsy and unsuitable for real-world applications. Touchlab’s e-skin solves grand tactile challenges in robotics, enabling dexterous manipulation in humanoid robots, and remote healthcare provision through teleoperated robot avatars.

Biography

Dr. Zaki Hussein is the CEO and founder of Touchlab Limited. Whilst doing his PhD in Integrative Sensing and Measurement at the University of Edinburgh, Zaki discovered how the missing sense of touch has severely limited the uptake of robotics. Determined to solve this problem, Zaki founded Touchlab with the mission to give machines the power of human touch. The company has since gone from strength to strength, raising investment from one of Europe’s biggest deep-tech VC’s and even reaching the finals of the $10m ANA Avatar XPRIZE as one of just 20 teams globally.
Grant Ray
VP, Global Market Strategy, Group14 Technologies

Biography

Grant Ray is Vice President of Global Market Strategy at Group14 Technologies, the world’s largest manufacturer and supplier of advanced silicon battery material for consumer electronics, electric vehicles and more. Backed by an esteemed bench of strategic and financial investors, including Porsche AG, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund and Amperex Technology Limited (ATL), Group14 is already delivering to more than 100 customers representing 95% of worldwide lithium-ion battery production today, including Porsche for electric vehicles and ATL for consumer electronics.

A serial mobility marketing veteran, Grant spearheads all marketing efforts, including helping to define go-to-market strategies, customer trends and platform solutions across the automotive, autonomous and deep tech sectors.

Prior to joining Group14, Grant was chief marketing officer at Polysync Technologies, an autonomous vehicle technology company. Grant also served as the senior manager of brand marketing at EV company SF Motors, where he helped to shape the brand and define customer experience for its global launch. Previously, he was the director of marketing and communications at EV motorcycle company Alta Motors, where he led the brand’s public launch, spearheaded the development and launch of the company’s world-class dealer portal, and guided the startup to become a global leader in the U.S. market. Grant holds an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Richard Murray
CEO, ORCA Computing

Technology

Headquartered in London, UK, with offices in Toronto (Canada), Krakow (Poland), and Seattle (US), we are a developer and provider of full-stack photonic quantum computing systems to address applications of scientific and economic importance. Founded in 2019 as a spin-out of the University of Oxford, ORCA leverages over 30 years of scientific research and technology breakthroughs by Co-founder Professor Ian Walmsley. The company was established to deliver a completely new approach towards photonic quantum computing.

Since our founding, the company has enjoyed numerous achievements including leading a record £11.6 million Quantum Data Centre of the Future grant from the UK government and deliveries of the PT-1 quantum photonic system to customers around the world. Customers such as the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have placed their trust in us to begin their quantum journeys.

Biography

Richard co-founded ORCA Computing in 2019. He is an accomplished business executive and technologist with a PhD in quantum atom-optics and over 15 years of experience managing scientific teams working on disruptive early-stage technologies such as quantum, AR/VR and other consumer and industrial applications of photonics. Under his leadership, the company has grown to 35 people, expanded globally and developed a roadmap focused on building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer. Previously, Richard worked for the UK government alongside Sir Peter Knight creating the £270m UK quantum technologies programme. He was also pivotal in the early stages of the €1 billion EU quantum flagship programme.

Caroline Hoeschle
Team Leader, SPACEWHALE

Technology

SPACEWHALE uses Very High-Resolution satellite imagery to detect whales in the open ocean. Vast areas are still poorly surveyed, and an understanding of these ecosystems are limited or even non-existent. We use Deep Learning assets with a team of expert biologists to offer clients a range of products including abundance and distribution estimates. Since the ocean is our largest carbon sink it is crucial that we maintain healthy ocean ecosystems to help tackle the climate and nature crises.

The UN and the EU stated within their frameworks to have a healthy ocean until the year 2030. These major global conservation decisions rely on accurate and effective data. By serving baseline data on the abundance and distribution of whales, SPACEWHALE can provide these data to help accelerating the designation of Important Marine Mammal Areas and Marine Protected Areas, evaluate shipping routes and fishing areas, provide environmental impact assessments for offshore wind farm operators and offer an efficient tool for mandatory baseline monitoring of whale populations. The technology of SPACEWHALE has the power to enhance and accelerate ocean conservation.

Biography

Caroline Hoeschle is marine scientist and research team leader at BioConsult SH since 2009. Her academic and professional work has centred in applied sciences in the marine environment in diverse projects, monitoring marine mammals in the framework of environmental impact assessments and research of new techniques.

Via a partly funded program by the ESA (European Space Agency), she initiated the project SPACEWHALE and together with her team, she leveraged the proof of concept to an applied service. SPACEWHALE is such a powerful tool that is to be applied worldwide and will drive effective conservation. We from SPACEWHALE believe that this is the key to solving our today’s most pressing challenges.
Jan Goetz
CEO, IQM

Technology

IQM is the global leader in building quantum computers. IQM provides on-premises quantum computers for supercomputing centres and research labs and offers full access to its hardware. For industrial customers, IQM delivers quantum advantage through a unique application-specific, co-design approach. IQM’s commercial quantum computers include Finland’s first commercial 50-qubit quantum computer with VTT, IQM-led consortium’s (Q-Exa) HPC quantum accelerator in Germany, and IQM processors will also be used in the first quantum accelerator in Spain.

IQM has over 300 employees with offices in Espoo (Finland), Munich (Germany), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Singapore, and Palo Alto (CA, US).

Biography

Dr. Goetz is a quantum physicist, former sole CEO, and co-founder of IQM Quantum Computers. Goetz did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. In 2023, Handelsblatt, a leading business and financial newspaper in Germany, named Jan “Founder of the Year” on its “People of the Year” list. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany, and he received an entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation.

He was on the board of European Innovation Council EIC and now serves as a Council Member of the EIC scaling club, Board Member of the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, member of the German Federal Economic Senate, and a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Sabrina Maniscalco
CEO, Algorithmiq

Technology

Algororithmiq is harnessing the power of quantum computing to solve complex problems in life sciences. Founded by a team of world-leading academics in the field, the company aims to leverage the potential of quantum software so that new drugs can be discovered, invented and brought to market quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively, leading to precise medical treatments and a paradigm shift in drug discovery and development.

Biography

Sabrina Maniscalco is the Professor of Quantum Information and Logic at the University of Helsinki, and an Adjunct Professor at Aalto University, Finland. She is the Vice Director of the Finnish Centre of Excellence for Quantum Technologies and serves in the scientific advisory board of several international institutions, such as the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (Austria) and the Quantum Technology initiative at CERN. She is CEO and co-founder of Algorithmiq Ltd, a start-up focusing on quantum algorithms and software.

Sabrina obtained her PhD at the University of Palermo (Italy) in 2004. She has held academic research positions around the world, in Sofia (Bulgaria), Durban (South Africa), Turku (Finland) and Edinburgh (UK). She returned to Finland in 2014 to lead the Theoretical Physics Laboratory in Turku. She then moved to the University of Helsinki in November 2020.

Sabrina represented Finland’s Quantum National strategy at the White House in May 2022 and is a national figure in quantum for Finland.

Sabrina has coordinated several international and interdisciplinary projects and is recognised as one of the leading experts in Quantum Technologies.
Kimberly Washington
Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer, Deep Space Biology

Biography and Technology

Kimberly Washington is a successful serial entrepreneur and philanthropist with over 20+ years of experience in growing international businesses, with a specific focus on technology for good. Currently serving a Board Member and Executive Vice President of the California-based AI technology company, Deep Space Biology.

Kimberly is at the helm of Yotta™, the first AI platform that bridges space biology data for innovation, Space & Earth R&D, and accelerated health discoveries. Deep Space Biology was singled out by StartUs Insights as one of the top 10 SpaceTech startups to watch in 2023 and achieved the distinction of winning the Care In Space Global Challenge in 2022. Notably, chosen by Georgia Tech’s CreateX initiative.

Moreover, she is the founder of Space4Girls, a global non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the growth of young women into future leaders within STEM fields and the rapidly expanding space industry. Through exposure to knowledge, mentorship, and hands-on STEM and space-related activities, Space4Girls actively boosts self-confidence and ignites a new era of space leadership throughout the world.

Kimberly plays an integral role as a regular participant and esteemed speaker in prominent global leadership events, including the distinguished Leaders on Purpose CEO Summit/UNGA, the renowned World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos and may other global leadership events.

She plays an active advisory role in multiple organizations including Leaders on Purpose, a community of purpose-driven corporate leaders promoting an inclusive and sustainable economy that puts purpose at the core and leaves no one behind. Founded by leaders and experts from Harvard University, Unilever, The World Bank, and The London School of Economics, it has evolved into a platform that connects the CEO agenda with the global agenda.

Residing in Napa Valley, California she and her family are deeply engaged in multiple wine-related businesses and agricultural ventures.

Subodh Kulkarni
President and CEO, Rigetti

Technology

Rigetti is a full stack quantum computing development company headquartered in Berkeley, CA. Rigetti is a leader in superconducting quantum computing technology development and has recently made available 84Q at 98% median 2q-fidelity with square lattice, tunable couplers and <70 ns gate speeds, on Rigetti cloud as well as on Azure and AWS.

Rigetti’s current focus is to improve fidelity to 99+% in ’24, and at that time to start tiling 84Q chips to enable 336Q and narrow Quantum Advantage (nQA) in 2-3 years. nQA will demonstrate significant improvement in performance and/or cost for practical applications compared to classical computers. Rigetti started selling QPUs to key national labs in ’23 and has sold 9Q QPU to SQMS center at DOE Fermilab near Chicago, IL, and to another major national lab. In Feb ’24, NQCC in the UK announced Rigetti as the winner of competition in superconducting QPU, and commissioned installation of a 24Q QPU in mid ’24 at Harwell, UK to enable building quantum infrastructure in UK.

Biography

Dr. Subodh Kulkarni has been CEO of Rigetti Computing, a publicly traded quantum computing company, since Dec ’22. Subodh did his B.Tech at IIT-Mumbai, India in ’85 and MS/PhD at MIT Cambridge, MA in ’90. He has been involved with semiconductor technology development for about 3 decades with IBM, 3M and more recently as CEO of CyberOptics, a publicly traded semiconductor and electronics manufacturing company for 9 years.
Rishi Khosla OBE
CEO, OakNorth
Kurt House
CEO, KoBold Metals

Biography and Technology

Kurt is the Co-founder and CEO of KoBold Metals, an AI-driven mineral exploration and development firm that combines the expertise of renowned mineral explorers with data scientists and engineers from top Silicon Valley companies. KoBold is dedicated to discovering the critical materials needed for the energy transition; it’s currently exploring ~60 properties on 4 continents for lithium, copper, cobalt, and nickel, as well as developing it’s Mingomba project into a very large new mine. KoBold has also partnered with established firms like BHP and Rio Tinto.

KoBold is backed by Bill Gates company Breakthrough Energy Ventures and also Jeff Bezos.

Before KoBold, Kurt founded a carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery venture as well as a natural gas asset acquisition platform. Previously, Kurt worked in private equity and corporate consulting at Bain & Company. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and was a KAUST Research Fellow at MIT. He received his B.A. in physics from the Claremont Colleges, and his Ph.D. in applied math and earth science from Harvard University.
Vriko Yu
CEO, Archireef

Technology

Archireef offers a comprehensive Nature-based Solution for coral reefs, encompassing various stages from identifying Restoration Hope Spots through spatial modeling to designing algorithm-based 3D printed Reef Tiles for seafloor renovation, and finally, monitoring and quantifying impact using advanced techniques such as photogrammetry and eDNA biodiversity assessment.

Our flagship product, the 3D-printed Reef Tiles made from clay, boasts an impressive 95% survivorship rate after three years in Hong Kong waters. These tiles are engineered with nature-inspired algorithms, enabling seamless adaptation to local ecological conditions, including coral growth forms and sizes. The proprietary Reef Tiles ensure flexibility, biocompatibility, and long-term durability.

We leverage cutting-edge technologies like photogrammetry and eDNA analysis to gather essential data. Through photogrammetry, we generate precise digital twins of deployment sites, while a sophisticated computer vision algorithm tracks coral growth dynamics over time. Simultaneously, our use of eDNA technology allows us to monitor and assess the impact on local marine biodiversity accurately.

Biography

Vriko believes in science-based active restoration and advocates for a nature-positive approach to marine ecosystems. A Hong Kong native, she was deeply moved when she observed a small coral community vanish in just two months. This poignant experience fueled her passion for coral restoration, leading her to delve into extensive research during her PhD at the University of Hong Kong.

In 2020, Vriko co-founded Archireef, a nature tech company committed to revitalizing degraded marine ecosystems, ranging from coral reefs to intertidal shores. Archireef provides a comprehensive turnkey solution, encompassing site selection, production, data collection, and impact reporting, aligning with frameworks such as TNFD and UN SDG framework. To date, Archireef has deployed 500 sqm of coral reefs across Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi.

Beyond her role at Archireef, Vriko has become a respected figure in marine conservation. Actively shaping environmental policies within WWF-HK and various governmental committees, she is committed to fostering positive change. Despite the global recognition Archireef has gained, being featured in prestigious outlets such as Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg, and the World Economic Forum, Vriko stays true to her mission of contributing genuinely to the restoration of our precious marine habitats.

Hakan Lutz
CEO, Luvly AB

Technology

Luvly is a Stockholm-headquartered technology company developing ultra-sustainable and community-minded light urban vehicles (LUVs). Luvly LUVs create affordable access to ethical, safe passenger and cargo transport choices, democratising the benefits of a plug-in car with vehicles that are more practical, affordable, and efficient, as well as safer for pedestrians and other drivers than traditional cars.

A unique flatpack transportation solution enables assembly in micro-factories close to the end-user, reducing the carbon emissions and cost of shipping. Luvly’s patented, licensable infrastructure platform and tech development kit enables third-party development and production of LUVs, creating a cost-effective and customisable global solution for brand-new vehicular innovations.

Biography

A visionary in the field of technology and mobility, Håkan Lutz has been at the helm of the mini-mobility movement for nearly 20 years. As the CEO and Founder of Luvly, he is the creative force behind the company’s patented technology, leading the way in sustainable urban transportation solutions.

Holding an MSc in International Economics and Development Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, Håkan’s unique blend of economic insight and technological innovation has positioned Luvly as a trailblazer in the industry. His commitment to reimagining the way we move within our cities has not only shaped Luvly’s success but continues to inspire a new era of mobility.
Valerie Corcias
CEO, mycoocoon

Design Philosophy

At mycoocoon, we blend colour science with innovative technology to create transformative experiences where colour is not only seen but deeply felt. This approach enriches individual well-being and strengthens community connections.

In today’s world, where mental health is paramount, we are at the forefront of fostering a more mindful, harmonious, and emotionally connected society. Our vision integrates colour science into everyday life, enhancing mental wellness through advanced technology.

mycoocoon offers a unique experience where colour impacts emotions and well-being, bridging the gap between the digital and the multisensory. Our cutting-edge solutions in colour therapy are designed to promote wellness and togetherness.

Biography

Valerie Corcias from Argentina brings a unique perspective on global culture, ideology, and technology trends. Throughout her career, she has significantly influenced product design and development. In 2000, Valerie was pivotal in launching the PANTONE UNIVERSE brand, overseeing its conception, distribution, and communication.

In 2007, she initiated Contramundo, a project focused on sustainable development and education in a Brazilian fishing village, known for its commitment to sustainable values and community empowerment through art and equitable practices.

Leveraging her expertise in colour and passion for social and technological connectivity, Valerie, alongside her husband Dominique Kelly, founded mycoocoon. With over 20 years of expertise in the emotive aspects of colour, this field has become an integral part of our DNA at mycoocoon.

They are committed to providing colour solutions that are not only effective but also scientifically validated, to increase wellness and togetherness for corporates, brands, healthcare, and wellness organizations.

In 2020, they introduced the Brainbo app, a straightforward tool designed to help users assess their colour needs, promoting mental wellness and sensory resets.
Carlos Mira
CEO, Halo Space

Biography

Carlos Mira, CEO of HALO Space since 2021, is a visionary leader committed to democratizing the Overview Effect by making Earth’s awe-inspiring curvature visible from over 30 kilometers up. With a mission to offer this transformative experience to thousands, he aims to redefine space tourism within this decade. Prior to leading HALO Space, Carlos was a Partner at Arthur D. Little and the leader of ADL’s Breakthrough Incubator global program, building for ADL customers new products or new companies from idea to commercial launch. His extensive +30-year career in defense & aerospace, energy, IT and telecoms includes pivotal roles at Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Thales, Telefonica and disruptive start-ups in Europe, Asia and the USA. Known for his strategic vision and ability to create and develop new businesses, he has also spearheaded science and technology think tanks, fostering growth and innovation in Spain, being the founder and chairman of CRE100DO Foundation and trustee at Bankinter Foundation of Innovation and at the NGO Action Against Hunger. Carlos’s blend of technical expertise and visionary leadership positions him at the forefront of the evolving space tourism industry.
Edward Challis
Head of AI Strategy, UiPath

Biography

Edward Challis head’s up AI Strategy at UiPath. His career has been centered on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in industry and academia. Ed gained his PhD and MSc in AI from the research groups at UCL and Edinburgh. Ed’s research has been published in the leading AI journals and conferences including NIPs, AISTATs, Neural Computation, the Journal of Machine Learning Research and NeuroImage.

Dr. Wolf Reik
Director, Altos Labs

Biography

Wolf Reik obtained his MD from the University of Hamburg. He was Head of the Epigenetics Programme at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and its Director from September 2020 to June 2021. He is the founding Director of the Altos Labs Cambridge Institute of Science since March 2022. His lab studies epigenetic reprogramming in development and ageing, develops single cell multi-omics technologies, and applies these to understand and control cell fate and cell rejuvenation.
Andras Galffy
CEO, Turbulence Solutions

Technology

Turbulence Cancelling is a patented technology that reduces the negative effects of turbulence by more than 80%. This is achieved by anticipating turbulence sensing and high-dynamic generation of counter-turbulence by direct lift control. The system can be used in advanced air mobility (AAM), light aircraft (part 23, UL, LSA) and airliners (part 25).

Biography

Andras Galffy is CEO and head of research and technology of Turbulence Solutions. He is committed to making flights turbulence-free following his passion for aviation, piloting, flight dynamics and flight control since 2012. During his PhD research at TU Wien he demonstrated the effectiveness of Turbulence Solutions’ technologies “Improved Direct Lift Control” and “Active Turbulence Cancelling” in manned test flights in 2021.

Since then he and his team drive forward the integration of Turbulence Cancelling products into Light Aircraft and Air Taxis (eVTOL, AAM) striving for outstanding passenger comfort and flight experience. Besides the efforts to transfer the research results to industrial applications, he is lecturer for flight control, system theory, and applied flight dynamics at University of Applied Sciences JOANNEUM Graz in Austria.
Maksim Sipos
Chief Scientific Officer, CausaLens

Technology

causaLens is on a mission to radically advance human decision making, creating a world where humans trust machines with their biggest challenges. To achieve this mission, causaLens are pioneering Causal AI, an AI approach where models understand cause-and-effect rather than relying on statistical patterns

Today’s machine learning algorithms predict outcomes based on correlations in past data. Correlations are useful for making predictions, but often fall short when it comes to decisions as they fail to properly understand the underlying causes which drive outcomes in the real world. Additionally, they are typically black box in nature, lacking explainability and trust. Causal AI goes beyond correlations, allowing models to be created which understand cause and effect dynamics and so can be used for decision-making. Causal AI models are also inherently explainable and can be easily tested for fairness and bias.

causaLens is partnering with leading global companies across manufacturing, retail, finance and healthcare to create robust, transparent and fair AI solutions that unlock superior business performance while mitigating bias.

Founded by former research scientists, causaLens is among the world’s handful of causal AI startups – and the only one in the space to have successfully raised $50 million in venture funding. Headquartered in London, causaLens has a diverse, gender-balanced team that spans 20 different nationalities.

Biography

Maksim Sipos is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of causaLens, a $50M venture-backed scaleup pioneering Causal AI – a new category of intelligent machines that reason like humans and understand cause-and-effect relationships.

With a strong academic background, Maksim holds a PhD in Physics from the prestigious University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Recognized for his exceptional presentation and teaching skills, he has received 7 awards and has authored 8 peer-reviewed papers in research journals, which have garnered over 400 citations in aggregate.
Ricky Sandhu
Executive Chairman, Urban-Air Port and Urban.MASS

Technology

Urban-Air Port (UAP) is a UK company that provides compact, scalable landing and charging infrastructure for the eVTOL market.

Our vertiports are eminently safer, 80% smaller and more sustainable than competing vertiports. Our mission is to build mobility solutions that enable fully electric air transportation that saves time costs and emissions.

In order to support urban air mobility (UAM) air taxi operations, networks of vertiports of varying sizes will have to be built and operated in each city, with the number of locations numbering from around 5 for a small city with a population of less than 1 million, up to 30 or more for a very large metro area with a population of more than 20 million.

Urban-Air Port (UAP) provides compact, scalable landing and charging infrastructure for the eVTOL market. Our vertiports are founded on a disruptive technology and are 85% smaller than conventional vertiports, maximise throughput and prioritising passenger safety and sustainability. UAP created the 1st Blueprint in Advanced Air Mobility, Air One Coventry, the World’s 1st fully-operational vertiport in April 2022.

MASS – We are an infrastructure technology business specialised in designing and creating innovative zero emission URBAN transit mobility solutions.

The Floc Duo Rail system is a twenty-first century solution to cities’ needs for efficient, affordable and sustainable mass transit systems:
FLOC – zero-emission mass transit technology using driverless electrically powered Pods capable of travelling on both road and elevated rail and individually or together in ‘platoons’ dependent on the level of demand for services. DUO RAIL – elevated track system, which allows the Pods to cantilever either side of a lightweight central column to run above existing roads and infrastructure, or to ascend or descend vertically within challenging or dense urban environments.

Biography

Ricky is a graduate of the world leading Bartlett School of Architecture and went on to become one of the youngest equity partners at Foster + Partners where he worked for 16 years on some of the world’s largest and most iconic infrastructure projects.

Ricky founded Urban-Air Port in 2019 & Urban.MASS in 2020 to follow his passion for delivering ethical, sustainable and game changing contributions to local, national and international communities through innovative, disruptive design & technology. With a focus on mobility, he is committed to creating solutions that deliver a zero emission, inclusive, healthier and sustainable future for everyone.

Ricky holds a BA (Hons) from Nottingham University, an award-winning Diploma of Architecture (Dip Arch) and a Master of Architecture with Distinction (MArch) from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, during which he also spent a semester at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). Ricky is a MIT DesignX Mentor supporting other innovative tech start-ups focused on design & tech for the built environment.

Ricky is also the founding member of their family foundation, the SMALL. Foundation a not for profit tasked with tackling the other global challenges that seem to never get tackled inc. plastic waste, fashion waste, electric waste.

Trevor Martin
CEO, Mammoth Biosciences

Technology

Mammoth Biosciences is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its proprietary ultracompact CRISPR systems to develop long-term curative therapies, as well as other applications such as decentralized precision diagnostics. Founded by CRISPR pioneer and Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and Trevor Martin, Janice Chen, and Lucas Harrington, the company’s ultracompact proteins are designed to enable in vivo gene editing in difficult to reach tissues utilizing both nuclease applications and new editing modalities beyond double stranded breaks, including base editing, gene writing, and epigenetic editing.

The company is building out its pipeline of potential in vivo gene editing therapeutics and capabilities and has partnerships with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, including Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Bayer AG to broaden the reach of its innovative and proprietary technology. Mammoth’s deep science and industry experience, along with a robust and differentiated intellectual property portfolio, have enabled the company to further its mission to transform the lives of patients and deliver on the full promise of CRISPR technologies.

Biography

Dr. Trevor Martin co-founded Mammoth Biosciences with the mission to enable the next generation of CRISPR-based transformative products across therapeutics and diagnostics. Areas of focus include a novel class of affordable, effective, and rapid CRISPR-enabled molecular diagnostics that allow individuals worldwide to better understand their health and novel families of nano-sized CRISPR proteins including Cas14 and Cas⏀ that can enable in-vivo editing.

Trevor earned his BA from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford. His scientific work has been featured in outlets including FiveThirtyEight and The Atlantic. He is the featured healthcare honoree on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list, and is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2021.
Tamer Mohamed
CEO, Aspect Biosystems

Technology

Aspect Biosystems is pioneering the development of bioprinted tissue therapeutics by applying its full-stack tissue therapeutic platform, which combines the company’s proprietary bioprinting technology, therapeutic cells, biomaterials, and computational design. These next-generation cell therapies are designed to replace, repair, or supplement biological function inside the body.

Biography

A globally-recognized bioengineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, Tamer co-founded Aspect Biosystems and currently serves as President and CEO. As a leader and visionary in the field of regenerative medicine and 3D printing, he has been invited to speak at venues ranging from TEDx to industry, scientific and executive conferences. He was selected as a Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst, named among the Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs in 2022, and has received awards for both BC’s Top 40 Under 40 and Top 30 Under 30. He is also a Board Member at The Stem Cell Network, an organization focused on building Canada’s stem cell and regenerative medicine research sector.
Matthew Henn
Chief Scientific Officer, Seres Therapeutics

Technology

Microbes have evolved alongside human cells for millions of years with greater than one microbial cell existing for every human cell in an individual; additionally, the genetic content of the human microbiome is at least 100-fold greater than that contained in the human genome. Given this intricate interplay between microbial and human cells throughout the body along with the vast functional potential of the human microbiome, there are opportunities to both prevent and treat diseases by leveraging technologies that can modulate the microbiome and harness the therapeutic potential of human microbes and the metabolites and peptides they produce.

Such a technology was approved by the FDA in 2023 with VOWST©, the first, orally administered microbiome therapeutic to prevent the recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in adults following antibacterial treatment for recurrent CDI. Microbiome therapeutics represent a novel class of drugs that may have the potential to transform treatment options for a broad spectrum of infectious, inflammatory, immunological, metabolic, and neurological diseases.

Biography

Matthew Henn is Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Seres Therapeutics. He has been involved in the discovery and development of multiple microbiome therapeutics across infectious, inflammatory, and oncology indications including VOWST©, the first FDA-approved, oral, microbiome-based therapeutic. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications; his research has focused on microbial populations and the functional role of microbes in both environmental and human disease applications, and the development of genomic and functional technologies to study these populations.

Prior to participating in the launch of Seres in 2012, he was the Director of Viral Genomics and Assistant Director of the Genome Sequencing Center for Infectious Diseases at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He has served on various NIH working groups on antimicrobial resistance and microbiome research, as a scientific advisor for the National Institutes of Health’s Viral Pathogen Bioinformatics Resource Center, as an ad-hoc reviewer and editor of various peer-reviewed journals, and as a scientific advisor to non-profit and for-profit organizations. He currently serves on the Microbiome Therapeutics Innovation Group Board of Directors, the World Microbiome Partnership Steering Committee, Life Sciences Cares Board of Advisors, and the Scientific Advisory Board of Growcentia, Inc, an agricultural microbiome company.

Dr. Henn is formally trained in ecology and evolutionary biology and earned his Ph.D. in ecosystem sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a NASA Earth Systems Sciences Fellow, and trained as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbiology at Duke University.
Austin Martin
COO, Coral Vita

Technology

Coral reefs sustain up to one billion people’s livelihoods and 25% of marine life while providing an estimated $2.7 trillion of value per year through goods and services like tourism, coastal protection, and fisheries. But half of global reefs are dead and over 90% are on track to die by 2050. By establishing vertically-integrating farms selling restoration as a service to reef-dependent customers while licensing in-house technologies and expertise, Coral Vita works to unlock critically-needed funding for large-scale impact.

Their first coral farm is in Grand Bahama, have signed commercial contracts and launched operations in Saudi Arabia and Dubai, are one of the first-ever initiatives funded by the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, are raising their Series A in 2024, and ultimately envision land-based facilities in every nation with reefs to kickstart a Restoration Economy to preserve healthy ecosystems for future generations.