Craig David is a critically acclaimed British singer-songwriter. Aged 18, he burst onto the scene with the garage classic 'Rewind' and, following the phenomenal success of his debut album Born To Do It, he has continued to top the charts over the past 22 years, amassing 17 million album sales and over 1 billion streams, to date.

Through his unique blend of R&B, garage, dance and pop, Craig has delighted his fans with live performances on stages across the world, while also becoming one of the biggest DJs on the dance scene with his TS5 sets, and his renowned pool parties in Ibiza. He has received 14 Brit Award nominations, two Grammy nominations, four MOBO awards, three Ivor Novellos honouring his songwriting and, most recently, an MBE for his services to music.

Craig remains one of the UK's most loved performers and is at the helm of his own distinctive, authentically British sound, making him one of the most successful artists in UK chart history.

The icon, the influencer, the entrepreneur, Jackie Aina will be gracing our stage as the headline speaker for this year’s event. With her dynamic presence in the digital world, seamlessly merging tech and beauty, Jackie brings knowledge, inspiration, and enthusiasm to the tech space

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Digital Anthropologist. Tech Strategy Alchemist. Talent Space Maker. Iconic Brands Ways of Working Curator. Next Gen Collaborator.

Lisa Smith, a Deloitte Digital Partner and Unlimited Reality™ UK & NSE Practice Lead. Unlimited Reality™ is Deloitte's ground-breaking new offering focused on spatial computing, Web 3.0 (AR/VR), blockchain and generative Al experience integrations. Lisa spends her time helping global and UK headquartered brands develop new enterprise digital strategies in the face of emerging technology driven changes, whilst enabling the delivery of accelerated strategy across the enterprise the right way, the first time around with changes that stick.

As a Global Strategy and North South Europe Practice Lead for Unlimited Reality™, Lisa works not only as a Private Sector Consumer Partner, however, also partners to directly advise both the Public and Financial sectors CEOs and Boards of Directors regarding understanding future proof disruption of their businesses and how to prudently shape and deploy investment capital to achieve their enterprise transformation outcomes.

Lisa is also Deloitte’s partner sponsor for inclusion for the Consulting Business, where she is leading a DE&I agenda at scale with a focus on Intentional Inclusion by Design, Equality is not Equity and Diverse Intersectionality. Lisa also is a member of the Ethnicity Council and spends time supporting Deloitte’s partnership with Blueprint for All and the Prince's Trust.

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Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa and Joltid.

Pamela Maynard is CEO of Avanade, the leading provider of innovative digital, cloud and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. She is passionate about building a people-first culture for Avanade’s 60,000+ global employees while driving sustainable, responsible growth centered around client success. Under Pamela’s leadership, Avanade has put its purpose of making a genuine human impact at the forefront of the work we do for our clients, their employees and their customers. She’s also tied our purpose to the contributions we make in our communities and the planet. ​

Before being named CEO in September 2019, Pamela was President of Product and Innovation, focused on defining and delivering innovative solutions for our clients. Earlier in her Avanade career she was President of our European organization after serving as General Manager of Avanade UK.​

Throughout her career in the technology industry, Pamela has helped clients rethink how they do business, whether it’s to be more resilient in their operations; empower their employees to do more remotely; strengthen customer experience and beyond. She is passionate about using technology as not just an enabler of business, but to support the missions of non-profit organizations and closing the digital divide, especially for young people, so that everyone has an opportunity to participate in the digital world.

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Renee has been part of the tech industry for over 30 years and has built her career delivering high quality software engineering in commercial organisations.  
Renee earned a Bachelor’s degree from Penn State University, she holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and is a veteran of the US Army Signal Corps. 

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In her career, she has been fortunate enough to work with amazing organisations like: Ford Motor Company, Vodafone, Deloitte, NICE, Oxford University, Sky and now ComparetheMarket (the one with the Meerkats!). 

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She has a passion for building and leading high-performance teams.  Renee is an excellent motivator, coach, and mentor, who has a strong track record of developing leaders. Renee is now focused on FinTech for Good with an amazing team of engineers, product managers and other business partners at Compare the Market. Together they will take the brand that everyone loves and make financial decision-making a breeze for everyone.  

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Renee has many interests her favourites are cooking, sport, sci fi, fashion, Women-in-STEM, art, music and opera, taking her passion a step further by vice chairing for OperaNorth, the largest regional opera company in the UK. Renee has been a supporter of West Ham United Football Club for over 20 years. She loves to travel
and all things orange. Renee now lives with her husband Michael in London.

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Sharmadean Reid is the Founder and CEO of Beautystack. Her mission is to use technology to economically empower women in the beauty and wellness industries, globally. A former fashion stylist and brand consultant who started WAH as a hip hop magazine for girls in 2006 while still at university. She then founded WAH Nails as a side project in 2009.WAH completely changed the beauty landscape with its millennial voice, feminist attitude and innovative salon space. She then wrote two books, delivered global pop up nail salons for 100s of brands, created a product line with Walgreen Boots Alliance and was awarded an MBE from HRH Queen in 2015 for services to beauty.Alongside all of this she shared her journey by organising business events for young female entrepreneurs culminating in futuregirlcorp.com.In 2016 she opened a dreamy salon in Soho, London, showcasing a Virtual Reality Nail Design app in collaboration with DVTK. She is constantly looking for ways to push the salon experience further through technology.With her experience from WAH, she founded Beautystack, a new way to book beauty through images.

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Wendy Mars is President of Cisco’s Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia region (EMEAR).

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Wendy is responsible for Cisco’s growth, business and operations across the EMEAR region. Her focus is on
driving strategies which deliver on customers’ digital and sustainability transformation requirements and which help to close the digital divide. The region delivers over $12bn annually and represents more than a quarter of Cisco’s revenue.

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In her previous roles at Cisco, Wendy has led the Partner, Enterprise and Technology teams for EMEAR.
Wendy is a passionate supporter of greater diversity in business. She specialises in creating high-performing teams that are grounded in a strong sense of common purpose, a focus on results and holding each other accountable. She is driving initiatives that promote greater inclusion and is the Executive Sponsor of Cisco’s
Connected Women community. She understands the talent and skills challenges facing the technology industry and firmly believes in promoting education in digital skills as a driver of transformation and differentiation.

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Prior to joining Cisco, Wendy was the Global CTO at ThruPoint for 11 years, working primarily with its enterprise and service provider customers. She began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she lived abroad working on a variety of IT programmes in Europe, the US and Asia.
Originally from the North of England, Wendy now lives in London and in her spare time loves walking, wildlife and nature. She has a BEng(H) in Electronic Engineering from York University and an MSc in Operational Research from Lancaster University.

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