Aaron Bours is a founding member and the VP Marketing at Hyro, where he has helped scale AI-powered communications for healthcare leading to 3x revenue growth year over year. He has almost 10 years of business development, marketing and product experience, mainly within emerging technologies such as conversational and generative AI. Prior to Hyro, Aaron helped develop and launch Duplex at Google.

Previously the Director Apple Education EMEA, then Director Apple Education Asia. Alan Led the team who built Education Podcasting, project managed launch of iTunes U throughout UK, Europe then China and Asia PAC. Technology VC, brand, scale, and international BD.Founder/CEO gradience.co technology architect, software engineering, Ui/UX, data/Ai and design company.

Amit Masram is a multiple award-winning Global HR Leader with over 17 years of experience in regional and global HR roles across North America, Europe, and Asia. He is widely recognized as an HR Technology Expert with demonstrated success in scaling up high-growth technology organizations. Amit sits on the global jury of various leading global business competitions and awards, such as the Stevie Awards for Asia Pacific.

Andrew is an entrepreneur turned Founding Partner at 7percent Ventures; one of Europe’s leading early stage deeptech funds, he has invested in over 100 US & UK deeptech businesses. As founder Andrew built the world’s first online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com), world’s first location based mobile social network (playtxt) and AI personalisation startup (Rummble).

Charlotte empowers Salt’s global clients to hire the finest Banking, Engineering, Product, Design, Marketing, Data & AI, HR and Strategy talent to drive their businesses forward and achieve their strategic goals. Charlotte is an expert in advising on talent acquisition strategies based on a client’s specific pain points and barriers, combining expert data and competitor analysis with a commitment to diversity, inclusion and accessibility.

Cordelia founded FieldHouse Associates in 2012 and, with over 25 years experience, is one of the most experienced and well-connected communications and business growth advisors in the fast-growth tech ecosystem, with deep expertise in venture capital and investment.

Rasha Khawaja Saïd is Founder of The Toucan Project and Deputy of the Saïd Foundation. Rasha’s innate desire for knowledge took her to Brown University where she studied Psychiatry and Cognitive Science.

Further education followed at both Oxford University and Cambridge University before Rasha started her career at Condé Nast Publications and went on to work at Christie’s.

Fabio is the founding partner of Blueverse Ventures, an award winning emerging, thesis-driven, advisor, corporate financier and investor focused on emerging tech, the metaverse with a strong bias on web3. Fabio is a partner to the World Economic Forum's Defining and Building the Metaverse Initiative, a Jury Member of the European Innovation Council, and an Expert Rapporteur at the European Commission.

Flavilla Fongang is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, renowned for her impact in the tech industry. Named the UK's most influential tech woman by Computer Weekly and recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year award at The BTA Awards, she is a celebrated author, keynote speaker, brand strategist, and CEO of a leading branding and marketing agency. With accolades from Mercedes Benz and BBC, she founded GTA - Black Women in Tech.

Gori is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, and the founder and CEO of UpSkill Digital, an EdTech company reimagining the future of corporate learning through the lens of inclusivity and social impact. UpSkill Digital has built some of the world’s largest digital skills programmes, reaching more than 600,000 people globally, in partnership with the likes of Google, TikTok, Microsoft and Mastercard.

Hussein is a partner at Hoxton Ventures. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of Avantia Law, Baseimmune, BeyondRisk, Biocortex, Biotx, DruidAI, Finesse, Fy!, Giraffe360, Kbox, Kitt, Luminary, Peptone, PillSorted, Raptor Supplies, Really Clever, Rensair, Replai, Replan, Skin Analytics, TourRadar and XYZ Reality, and serves as a board observer on Behavox and Karakuri.

Isabelle joined SVV in 2018 and was involved in building out the fund in Ireland and the UK. She has built relationships with founding teams innovating in enterprise AI, immersive tech, e-sports, Metaverse and cybersecurity. She's led the firm's investments into Landvault, Virtex Stadium and Ambisense and has supported the rest of the portfolio on fundraising, building out business processes and introductions to important stakeholders.

Lopa Patel MBE is a Digital Entrepreneur, Non-Executive Chair, NED and Trustee with strengths in governance and risk oversight. The founder of two ventures in online media and a data-driven marketing consultancy, she is also the Chair of equality and inclusion charity, Diversity UK; Chair of the National Science & Media Museum (NSMM) Advisory Board; a Trustee of The Science Museum Group (SMG).

Matthew’s digital journey started in 1995 when he completed an MA in Interactive Design at the Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University. He went on to spend 20 years at leading agency networks (such as, McCann WorldGroup and Omnicom) working on some of the world’s most interesting brands (such as, Unilever, Intel, SAP).

Michael Berns is Director for AI & FinTech at PwC Germany. He is an AI Thought Leader and FinTech veteran with 20 years of international experience managing client projects on five continents. He spent more than a decade leading engagements at Fortune 500 companies before taking a fresh approach to the subject from an AI perspective after completing his Executive MBA at London Business School.

From September 2023, Michael Luck is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost of the University of Sussex. Previously, he was Professor of Computer Science at King's College London, where he was founding Director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence and founding Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence.

Miles is the CEO of DeepTech Labs based in Cambridge. DeepTech Labs is a global accelerator and VC fund connecting the Cambridge ecosystem of leading researchers, tech organisations and entrepreneurs to build world-changing DeepTech companies. Prior to DeepTech Labs Miles was Managing Director of AV8 Ventures, a €150m financial fund investing in Europe and the US.

Nadine is an Investment Director at AlbionVC, focusing on AI/Data, Future of Work and Deeptech. She has an engineering background with a specialisation in commercialisation of Deeptech and has been an investor for 9 years. AlbionVC invest in early stage companies (Seed to Series B) in B2B Software, Healthcare and Deeptech.

Nick has spent 45 years in technology with 10 startups behind him. Designed and built large industry platforms (Fintech Aviation, Travel), early into Bitcoin, big Web3 fan, work in Frontier Tech - Quantum Computing, AI, Nano, HealthTech, MedTech, Zero Gravity, Material Science etc... In spare time making a TV mini series - tech thriller and a documentary about Advanced Technologies.

Pierre joined Amadeus in 2012 and is a Partner in the Early Stage Fund. His current focus is on the Health and Bio sectors. He led our investments in and is on the boards of portfolio companies such as advanced wound therapy specialist Natrox, cell and gene therapy manufacturing platform OriBiotech, protein degradation leader PhoreMost, imaging biomarker pioneer Quibim, patient review leader Doctify, computer vision platform V7, and Parkinson’s therapy developer Charco.

Priya is a Venture Partner at Merian Ventures, investing in women-led innovation, an Advisor to Kheiron Medical Technologies and Gallos Technologies, a member of the Investment Governance Board at Future Planet Capital, a NED at Reach PLC, UK Research & Innovation, the Digital Catapult & GB Badminton and Adjunct Faculty at the Ashridge Hult Business School. She was previously GM for RocketSpace, launching their UK operations.

Dr Rayna Patel is a medical doctor & neuroscientist with an MPhil in Translational Medicine. She has extensive experience in academia (Cambridge, Harvard, MIT, Columbia) and was an Associate Fellow of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. Rayna has subsequently held strategic & commercial roles in government policy, tech startups & the Cabinet Office’s Nudge Unit, where she used behavioural science to rewire patient behaviours through digital products.

Reza is a PI (in machine learning and biomedicine) at Deep Medicine program of The University of Oxford, researching probabilistic ML, and neural sequence models for the development of personalised health predictions and recommendations, as well as an improved understanding of multi-morbidity.

Richard is a big supporter of COGX, as a speaker on the Global Leadership stage and winner (with C2-Ai) of three COGX awards. He is a strategist, mentor and tech entrepreneur who has led, founded and helped others build businesses across four continents and has held every main C-suite position. He has founded/co-founded 13 startups founded/co-founded with multiple exits, and worked for sweat equity supporting/refounding 6 startups.

Ross is Chief Strategy Officer, EMEA at CI&T (NYSE: CINT). He’s fascinated by the relationship between the exponential growth of digital technology, the adoption and evolution of customer behaviour and the transformation of business to adapt to these new landscapes. He has spent 28 years immersed in digital as the world has evolved from desktop to social to mobile to AR, VR, AI and beyond.

Ruth leads Shell's global digital transformation practice, driving adoption and value realization from technology investments. With a passion for achieving practical digital transformation, she oversees digital engineering delivery for Global Functions and Information Risk Management, bringing a wealth of experience from her successful career in technology consulting and practice leadership.

Holding a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sana Khareghani has over 20 years’ experience in technology and business across the private and public sectors. She has worked as a software engineer in big corporations and start-ups, as a management consultant advising senior officials throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, and in HMG.

Previous CogX winner and current Director of Legal Technology at Travers Smith, Shawn Curran has guided his team to prominent recognition for its innovative contributions to the legal tech landscape. With nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry and a thirst for forward-thinking solutions, Shawn has cultivated award-winning legal tech departments and streamlined operational processes.

Simon joined Global Ventures as a Principal in early 2020, and has over five years of investment experience across venture capital and corporate finance. Before joining Global Ventures, Simon worked in the investment team at Committed Capital, a venture capital fund based in London which focused on early stage technology investments.