Sreeram Visvanathan

Chief Executive of IBM UK and Ireland

Sreeram Visvanathan is Chief Executive of IBM UK and Ireland, a position taken after almost two decades within the IBM Company in a variety of global management positions. In his role as IBM UKI General Manager, Sreeram is responsible for business operations, driving revenue growth, client satisfaction, and employee engagement across the UK and Ireland. As one of IBM’s largest international operations, the UK and Ireland has significant core capabilities in hybrid cloud, AI, blockchain, data and analytics and quantum computing, which empower clients to embark on their digital transformation journeys. Sreeram is an eminent thought leader with deep industry and technology expertise and a strong professional background in consulting. In his 18 years with IBM, he also fulfilled a number of global roles including Global Managing Director, leading Government, Education, Healthcare and Life Sciences and Managing Partner for IBM Global Business Services for the Public Sector, worldwide and Managing Partner of IBM Global Business Services respectively. Sreeram is also a member of our Chairman’s senior team responsible for the performance of the Corporation. On a personal level, Sreeram has a strong mix of technology and business skills. He is passionate about challenging the status quo, leveraging innovation and modern technologies to fundamentally transform industries. Born in Bangalore, India, educated in the UK, with an MBA from the University of Bradford and, a BSc. (Hons) in Information Technology from Kingston University, he is a truly multi-national leader with a multi-cultural outlook and extensive international experience gained from working in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Bill Kelleher

Chairman, IBM UK & Ireland

Bill Kelleher is Chairman of IBM in the UK and Ireland (UKI), a position taken after twenty-five years’ leadership experience in the IT industry.

Bill is a respected and well-liked leader who has held a number of executive and leadership roles across the United Kingdom, Europe and Globally. Most recently, he served as General Manager, IBM in the UK and Ireland (UKI), a role he was appointed into in May 2017, where he was responsible for business operations, driving revenue growth, client satisfaction, and employee engagement at a country level. Bill has also operated in market facing roles which have previously included strategic client leadership, Vice President – European Communications Sector, Vice President – Small and Medium Business Sector and multiple Vice President and General Manager roles across IBM's Global Services businesses.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking business for a new pandemic-informed world

Lord Karan Bilimoria

President, CBI

Karan Bilimoria is the founder of Cobra Beer, Chairman of the Cobra Beer Partnership Limited, a Joint Venture with Molson Coors, and Chairman of Molson Coors Cobra India. In the Monde Selection, one of the most prestigious quality awards in the world for beer, the Cobra range have collectively been awarded a total of 121 Gold and Grand Gold medals since 2001, making it one of the most awarded beers in the world.

Lord Bilimoria is the Founding Chairman of the UK India Business Council, a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London, a former Chancellor of Thames Valley University (now the University of West London); he was the youngest University Chancellor in the UK when appointed. Karan was a former Senior Non-Executive Director of the Booker Group now TESCO PLC (2007-2016); he is one of the first two visiting entrepreneurs at the University of Cambridge; he is a founding member of the Prime Minister of India’s Global Advisory Council. In 2006, Karan Bilimoria was appointed the Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, making him the first ever Zoroastrian Parsi to sit in the House of Lords. In 2008 he was awarded the Pravasi Bharti Samman by the President of India. He is an Honorary Fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and was Chair of the Advisory Board of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University from 2015-2020 and subsequently appointed as an Honorary Ambassador. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young and graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. He is also an alumnus through executive education of the Cranfield School of Management, the London Business School and the Harvard Business School. In July 2014, he was installed as the seventh Chancellor of the University of Birmingham, making him the first Indian-born Chancellor of a Russell Group University in Great Britain, and he is the President of the UK Council for International Students Affairs (UKCISA). Since 2017 Lord Bilimoria has been a Bynum Tudor Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Lord Bilimoria is an Honorary Group Captain in 601 Squadron Royal Air Force. In June 2020, he was appointed President of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking business for a new pandemic-informed world

Helen Dickinson OBE

Chief Executive, British Retail Consortium

Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail. Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail, acting as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador; participating in the Timewise Innovation Unit, looking to support more flexibility in jobs, particularly at senior levels; supporting the Everywoman Retail Ambassadors Programme; and having previously been the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment.
Helen believes retail can make a strong contribution to communities, and is also on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses. Helen was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG, driving and developing the retail practice and leading relationships and audits for many clients.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking retail for a new pandemic-informed world

Katie Derham

Katie Derham is one of the UK’s leading broadcasters and a cornerstone of classical music and arts broadcasting at the BBC. Prior to a long and successful stint as an ITV News anchor, she was a Business Journalist at the BBC. With a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, Katie presented on BBC R4’s Money Box, the Financial World Tonight, Business Breakfast and Working Lunch. In 1995 she was named Personal Finance Broadcaster of the Year.

As the face of the Proms since 2010, music has long been a part of Katie’s life: presenting the Classical Brits, Classic FM, taking part in BBC2’s Maestro and Sky Arts’ First Love, and now broadcasting on Radio 3.

Proud to be involved with a number of charities including the Prince’s Trust, Leonard Cheshire Disability and Dementia UK, Katie is also a member of the Cambridge University Alumni Advisory Board and on their Communications Committee. She also really rather enjoyed getting to the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015. 

Sarah Wilkinson

CEO, NHS Digital

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking healthcare for a new pandemic-informed world

Jeremy Till

Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of the Arts London

Jeremy Till is an architect, educator and writer. As an architect, he worked with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on their pioneering building, 9 Stock Orchard Street, winner of many awards including the 2004 RIBA Sustainability Prize, and recently featured on the front cover of the Architects Journal with the headline: “Is this the most influential house of its generation?”

As an educator, Jeremy is Head of Central Saint Martins and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Arts London. As a writer, his extensive work focusses on the social and environmental aspects of architecture. His influential books Flexible Housing, Architecture Depends and Spatial Agency all won the RIBA President’s Award for Research – a unique run of success in this prestigious international prize. He curated the UK Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale and also at the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Tao Baker

Head of Digital Innovation & Fintech, Permanent TSB

Tao Baker is Head of Digital Innovation & Fintech at Permanent TSB, reporting directly into the Group CTO and part of the senior leadership team of the Bank. She is responsible for all digital innovation across the Retail & Business Bank and driving innovative change and ways of working across the organisation, positioning the Bank to be a challenger in the local market and to create first to market innovative propositions.

She is working on creating an Innovation Hub with leading edge Technology partners and key vendors to deliver profitable solutions to the market and exploring partnerships with relevant Fintech partners, design schools and Universities to deliver innovation in an agile manner from design sprints to implementation.

She is also responsible for helping grow talent across the Bank and shaping the future for female leaders; working together with Communities to deliver impact at grass root levels.

Malcolm Norman

Chief Information Security Officer, Wood

Malcolm Norman has been the Wood CISO since 2017 and is an accomplished Executive leader with substantial logical and physical security experience within the public and private sectors.

Malcolm has a military background, having served in the British Army for 20 years and has built and led converged, global corporate security organisations in several FTSE 150 Companies.

Ndidi Okezie

CEO, UK Youth

Ndidi is the CEO of UK Youth; a leading national charity with a growing network of over 7000 organisations who use the disciplines of youth work to support the social and personal development of young people. Prior to this; she worked as a teacher and school leader for ten years, spent six years as the Executive Director of the charity Teach First, and lead on Digital and Customer Voice Strategy for Pearson PLC. She is a Non Executive Board Director for the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, The Mulberry Schools Trust and The National Citizen Service.

Session:
Rethinking our workforce - do we have what it is going to take? 

Prof. Sally Eaves

Chief Technology Officer, Professor in Advanced Technologies and Global Strategic Advisor, Author and Speaker on Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Social Impact, Global Foundation of Cyber Studies & Research

Prof. Sally Eaves is a highly experienced Chief Technology Officer, Professor in Advanced Technologies and Global Strategic Advisor, Author and Speaker on Digital Transformation, Sustainability and Social Impact. She specialises in the application of AI, Cloud, CyberSecurity, Blockchain, IoT & 5G disciplines for both business and societal benefit at scale. Sally is Senior Policy Advisor for the Global Foundation of Cyber Studies & Research and has founded ‘edtech' enterprise Aspirational Futures to enhance accessibility, inclusion and diversity in education, technology and beyond. 

Alison Davis

CIO, Natural History Museum

Alison is a former lab chemist who made the transition to IT early in her career. Although she moved discipline, she has remained close to her scientific roots and is currently the CIO of the Natural History Museum, where she has accountability for delivering the digital, data and technology capabilities that underpin the Museum’s strategy.

Prior to joining the Natural History Museum, Alison was VP-CIO for GE Life Sciences, where she was the IT workstream lead for the $21Bn divestiture of the GE Biopharma (now Cytiva) business to Danaher. She has also held CIO positions at the Francis Crick Institute, the MHRA, Bristol Myers-Squibb and DuPont. As the Crick’s inaugural CIO, Alison led the team in successfully establishing its core and scientific computing capabilities, for which she was recognised with the 2018 Women in IT "CIO of the Year" Award.

Alexandra Willis

Head of Communications, Content & Digital, IBM, Wimbledon

Alexandra has achieved industry-wide recognition in her use of content and technology to transform the perceptions of a traditional brand in her role at Wimbledon, building an award-winning digital and communications strategy that is at the heart of the long-term future of the brand. Through the combination of a content-first, platform second approach, a data-led audience strategy, and placing value on consistent innovation as well as continuous evolution, Alexandra has led Wimbledon to become one of the most well-respected digital brands in sport.

Joe Morris

Director of Innovation, Home Bargains

Joe Morris is Director of Innovation at TJ Morris Ltd which trades as Home Bargains, a UK based discount retailer. His prior role at TJ Morris Ltd was Operations Director. Joe has worked at the family run company for over 20 years. When he joined TJ Morris Ltd the company had 50 stores, it now has 550+ stores across the UK. Prior to this, he spent twenty years working in industrial automation: industrial robotics.

Anthony Painter

Leader of the Research and Impact team, RSA

Anthony Painter leads the Research and Impact team at the RSA, and its social change work ranging from economy to education to the future of work and public services.

His own work focuses on a range of policy issues including the impact of new technology on the economy and society, reform to welfare, work, learning and skills, and reform to public services and a range of public institutions. Research into Universal Basic Income was awarded the Prize for Social Policy at the Prospect Magazine Think Tank of the Year Awards.

He previously directed the Independent Review of the Police Federation. He is author of three books, most recently 'Left without a future? Social Justice in anxious times' and has written a number of very high impact policy and research reports such as “Creative citizen, creative state: the principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income”, “The New Digital Learning Age”, “The Fear and Hope Report”, and "Democratic Stress, the populist signal, and the extremist threat". He regularly appears in national and international media and presents at high profile conferences in the UK, Europe, and the US.

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Tom Stockwell

Chief Operating Officer, Vodafone

Tom Stockwell is currently Vodafone Chief Operating Officer of the Vodafone/IBM Venture focused on Cloud based solutions. This venture focuses on bringing innovative solutions to market bringing together the connectivity and multi-cloud strengths of the two organisations.

Prior to that, he has lead a number of initiatives in Vodafone including the expansion of the Cloud business into multiple markets around the world.

With a background in various Product Management roles in IT and Telecoms, Tom has extensive industry experience of service provision to Enterprise clients looking to transition to Hybrid Cloud services.

Prior to Vodafone, has held a variety of operational, technical and commercial roles in organisations including British Oxygen Company, The Boots Company and Energis.

Session:
Connectivity and continuity amidst disruption

Roni Brown

Head of London College of Fashion and Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of the Arts London

Before joining London College of Fashion, UAL Roni Brown was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Visual & Educational Cultures at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), where she led their academic strategy. In 2019, UCA was awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework by the Office for Students.

Since 2017, Roni has been South East Area Chair for Arts Council England and a member of its National Council. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She returns to UAL having previously served as Dean of Academic Development at London College of Communication.

Roni holds a PhD in the History of Architecture and Design from De Montfort University and is published across the disciplines of Design History and Material Culture Studies. Roni's research focuses on user-led content in art and design practice and everyday creativity, broadening the field of design history to consider the role of the user in design development and the social value of participatory creative experience. More recently Roni’s work has focussed on the particular pedagogical environment of teaching and learning and quality assurance in Higher Education Art and Design.

Leading and championing creative partnerships and networks throughout her career, Roni was an Executive member of the Group for Learning in Art and Design (GLAD) from 2008 to 2013, taking forward debates nationally about the student experience in higher education art and design. She has been a Trustee for Artswork, the national youth arts agency and Bridge Organisation for Arts Council England South East and the Open College of the Arts. Roni is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Jon Pike

SAP Support Manager and Automation Lead, Avon and Somerset Constabulary

Jon Pike is the SAP Support Manager and Automation Lead at Avon and Somerset Constabulary (ASC) with nearly 20 years’ experience in the Public Sector including Local Government, Shared service and Policing.

As a delivery leader within ASC 's IT directorate, Jon has extensive experience in successful implementation of technology. His strong understanding of business services gives him a unique insight into how technology can be best applied to improve business outcomes.

Jon is leading an ambitious Process Automation Project freeing users from repetitive administration and empowering them to focus on the higher value human judgement and creative tasks and deliver better business outcomes.

Session:
Building a smarter police force

Glyn Costello

Senior Lead Engineer, GE Power Conversion

Glyn Costello, Senior Lead Engineer at GE Power Conversion has led and delivered large bespoke Engineering development projects for 12 out of his 14 years with GE covering a range of products types and systems including rugged embedded computing systems, power electronics converter systems, shaft line systems and large rotating machines for both Commerical and Military customers.

Drawing on the skills and experience of the world class engineers in the GE team, Glyn aims to always be pushing the benchmark for Engineering project execution and delivery and exceeding customers' expectations.

Session:
GE Power Conversion: Engineering Assurance with IBM ELM 

Emma Smith

Global Cyber Security Director, Vodafone Group

Emma joined Vodafone in 2015. As Global Cyber Security Director, she is responsible for all aspects of information and cyber security. The global security teams in Vodafone are responsible for setting security policy in line with local laws and regulations, implementing security technologies and controls, securing new products and services and 24x7 cyber defence capabilities. Emma is passionate about security, specifically, about evolving security to protect customers and society against changing threats and the opportunity to contribute to improving the safety of the communities we operate in.

Alongside her role in Cyber Security, Emma is active in her pursuit for inclusion for all. She believes people thrive when they can be themselves and feel that they belong. She has worked to develop a diverse security workforce and is LGBT+ sponsor for Technology in Vodafone.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Emma was Security Director at the Royal Bank of Scotland. In her role, she was created an integrated security function including fraud prevention, information & cyber security, intelligence, physical security, business resilience and records management. Emma spent over a decade leading internal audit teams who specialised in security, technology and risk management.

Chris Davis

Chief Operating Officer at The Co-operative bank

He joined the Bank as COO in June 2019.

An all-round Executive Director with over 30 years banking experience and currently Chief Operating Officer at The Co-operative bank. Immediately prior to this Chris was Vice President at IBM responsible for the Banking consulting practice. Previously, Chris held a series of high profile banking COO roles at W&G, Ulster and RBS. He has a proven track record in start-ups / challenger banks, business turn arounds, cost reduction, strategy, managing operations, transformation programmes, account / relationship management, payments and technology. He is qualified as a Certified Banking Director and has been a NED at Chetwood Financial and Chairman of Ulster Bank Commercial Services Limited (invoice finance business).

Chairman / Non Executive Director
Experienced Bank Chief Operating Officer
Executive committee member since 2006
Startup / challenger bank experience
Business / Bank transformation
Networking & stakeholder management
Culture carrier & role model
Bank regulator experience (UK & Ireland)
Delivery track record
Organisational design & restructuring
IT, payments & digital experience
Risk management
People leadership / team building skills.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking business for a new pandemic-informed world

Rich Karlgaard

Publisher and Futurist, Forbes Media

Rich Karlgaard is the former publisher and current editor-at-large and futurist of Forbes Media. His writing is known for its keen assessment of technology, economic, business and leadership issues. He is a regular commentator on the Fox Business channel, a speaker and panel moderator at business events, and a Silicon Valley investor and advisory board member. Karlgaard holds a B.A. in political science from Stanford University. He and his family live in Silicon Valley. He is a past winner of the Northern California E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award for his cofounding role in the Silicon Valley Churchill Club, the premier Silicon Valley public forum.

Professor Ronan Cahill

Director of the Centre for Precision Surgery, UCD and the Digital Surgery Unit, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital

Professor Ronan Cahill was appointed Professor of Surgery at University College Dublin (UCD) and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (MMUH) in June 2014 before taking over leadership of the Section and Subject of Surgery in UCD in 2017.  In 2019, he was appointed Director of the Centre for Precision Surgery, UCD and the Digital Surgery Unit, MMUH.

Ronan graduated MB,BAO,BCh (Hons) from University College Dublin in 1997 and then completed his basic and specialist surgical training in Ireland, gaining both MD by thesis (Health Research Board Clinical Research Fellow) and FRCS by examination. Thereafter, he was a clinical fellow at the IRCAD/EITS Institute in Strasbourg, France from 2007 to 2008 before moving to the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals as senior fellow and then consultant and senior clinical researcher from 2008 to 2010. Ronan returned to Ireland in 2010 as consultant general surgeon (specialist interest in colorectal surgery) at Beaumont Hospital before moving to the Mater and UCD. He is a recipient of both the Bennett and Millen Medals (RCSI Millen Lecturer 2010) and was the ASGBI Robert Smith Lecturer in 2014. He has authored over 200 peer reviewed publications, five book chapters and four National Guidelines. He is an editorial board member of five indexed surgical journals, including Colorectal Disease and the European Journal of Surgical Oncology and is a member of the SAGES Research Committee (SAGES Career Development Award recipient 2009). He has a major academic interest in Surgical Innovation and New Technologies and active basic science, clinical and device development research partnerships both nationally and internationally. Most recently he is co-awardee of a major Disruptive Innovation and Technologies Fund (DTIF) award by the Irish Government for a project entitled "The Future of Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment", a consortium including UCD, RCSI, IBM Research and Dechiphex using artificial intelligence for decision support in surgery and pathology.

Luke Beeson

Global CISO, Aviva

Luke Beeson is Aviva’s Global CISO. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Luke joined Aviva in April 2018 to take on the role of CISO for Aviva’s UK businesses. Prior to joining Aviva Luke worked for BT where he had several roles all with a focus on Service Delivery.Previously General Manager of BT’s Cyber Defence Operations Luke spent two years in this role building and running a team of Security specialists to counter the cyber security threat to BT and its customers. Before this Luke was General Manager of BT’s Metal Theft Task Force responsible for all BT’s activities to minimise the impact of cable theft on its customers. As well as driving several internal initiatives to minimise the service impactof cable theft he also worked externally with Industry partners, Law Enforcement Agencies and Government to help increase the level of collaborative working to tackle the problem ultimately resulting in changes to UK legislation. In his final role at BT as Vice President of Security for Europe and the Global Financial Services sector Luke worked to take BT’s cyber security solutions to market.

Fiona Morris

Head of Service Delivery & Operational Resilience, NatWest Group

Fiona joined NatWest Group in 1996, as part of the Technology graduate programme. She is currently Head Service Delivery & Operational Resilience for the Group and has over 20 years’ experience in the Bank, leading and working predominantly in IT, change management, business management, audit and operational risk. Fiona holds Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Strathclyde Business School and during her time with NatWest Group has worked in many different functions and franchises including Personal Banking, Group Change Management, Technology and Citizens Financial Group in the US. Prior to being appointed in her current role, Fiona was Head Technology Controls, the first line IT risk function.

Session:
How to enhance your IT resiliency and business continuity in such changing times - Fireside chat with NatWest Group and IBM

Neil Giles

CEO – Traffik Analysis Hub

Neil has been working with STOP THE TRAFFIK www.stopthetraffik.org since 2008 and his knowledge of organised crime and human trafficking is extensive.

He is an expert member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime and has a strong history in Law Enforcement with New Scotland Yard, Regional and National Crime Squads, National Criminal Intelligence Service and as Deputy Director, Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). His specialist area is intelligence collection.

STT philosophy is to collect stories trafficking from across the globe, aggregate those through analysis into hot spots and characteristics and share them innovatively with every type of vulnerable community to build resilience to trafficking. Traffik Analysis Hub www.traffikanalysis.org is a new stand alone cross sector initiative developed in partnership with IBM and Clifford Chance to bring diverse data sets together and enable the production of a tailored analysis in a highly consumable visualisation for all participants.

Traffik Analysis Hub offers a highly accessible analysis of trafficking risk to financial institutions and businesses to make their systems more resilient to trafficking money flows and supply chains less vulnerable. Through TAH analysis, audits of all descriptions are more focused and law enforcement and NGOs are able to conduct their work in greater context as they address the threat of trafficking. Early participants include Interpol, several major banks and universities, and a wide range of NGOs from across the globe.

Session:
Destabilising the global human trafficking economy

Professor Sam Turner

Chief Technology Officer, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Professor Sam Turner is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult. Sam works across the HVM Catapult centres and stakeholders, including government, to develop manufacturing strategy for the UK. He is part of the Made Smarter strategy implementation group led by Juergen Maier and was part of the review team. In this role Sam has chaired the D4I digital industry group, the Through Life Engineering Services (TES) Council and the IMechE Manufacturing Industries Division.

He joined the HVM Catapult team in 2017 from his role as CTO of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) with Boeing, where he worked on a range of projects and capabilities including the flagship digital facility Factory 2050, machining, casting and composites technology.  As a founding member of the AMRC, Sam led the growth of the AMRC’s Machining Group, with successes in delivering impact to UK industry, before moving into the CTO role. Sam has over 20 years experience in manufacturing working across the aerospace, steel, defence, automotive sectors.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking Manufacturing for the future

Caroline Gorski

Group Director of R2Data Labs, Rolls Royce

Having graduated from Oxford University with an MA, Caroline has spent 25 years analysing, advising and managing strategic change at the leading edge of technology development, and the transfer of emerging technologies to the commercial market. She has experience of both public and private sector settings, including as Head of IoT and Digital Manufacturing for Digital Catapult, at global communications player Telefonica, and for the technology strategy firm Forrester Research.

Most recently, she holds the role of Group Director of R2 Data Labs, the global data innovation division of Rolls-Royce, where she is charged with developing the strategy and implementation of data innovation technologies and capabilities for Rolls-Royce that lead to new insights, new solutions and new business models, generating substantial value for the Group.

R2 Data Labs was formed in 2017 to be a catalyst and accelerator for Rolls-Royce data innovation and is made up of team of around 300 working across the Rolls-Royce Group as federated community of practice. Working collaboratively with Business Units, they identify, test, prove and accelerate new technologies and business models that best position Rolls-Royce to adopt, deploy and industrialise market-leading data innovation, creating change and positive disruption. R2 Data Labs develops and matures the new data innovation expertise capabilities and digital first culture needed to achieve Rolls-Royce’s digital strategy.

Don Scott

CTO, Mayflower Autonomous Ship and Marine AI

Don Scott is the Director of Engineering at Submergence Group and is the CTO of MarineAi. He is a pioneer in the world of ocean engineering, with a passion for pushing the boundaries of technical innovation in his field. His primary focus is on the design of autonomy systems for the US Navy. As a logical extension to this work, Don is exploring how machine learning and cognitive systems can help solve problems at the intersection of the business world and ocean engineering. He is currently leading the design and development of the AI based marine autonomy systems for the Mayflower Autonomous Ship. An IBM Champion, he and his team have been working closely with the engineering expertise at IBM towards the launch of the Mayflower Autonomous Ship.

Session:
Rethinking the Mayflower

Dame Alice Hudson

Executive Head Teacher, Twyford CofE Academies Trust

Executive Head Teacher of Twyford CofE Academies Trust since 2012, having previously been Head Teacher at Twyford CofE High School since 2002. She joined Twyford in 2000 as Deputy Head Teacher then progressed to Acting Headteacher.   Prior to Twyford High School she was Deputy Head Teacher at Brentside High School, and previous to that she taught at Central Foundation Boys’ School in Islington and Maria Fidelis School in Euston. Alice was educated at Slough Girls’ High School, Leighton Park School and St Hilda’s Oxford where she read English.

Will Vaughn

VP Global Operations, International Post Trade, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Will Vaughn is VP Global Operations, International Post Trade, Broadridge Financial Solutions. Will joined Broadridge in 2007 and oversees a wide range of multi-asset solutions, with responsibility for strategic initiatives and post-trade solutions internationally.
He comes from a financial services technology background with experiences spanning early stage venture-backed start-ups to S&P 500 companies.

Michiel Verhoeven

Managing Director, SAP UK & Ireland

Michiel Verhoeven has been UK & Ireland Managing Director of SAP SE since July 2020. He leads the 5,000 strong UK & Ireland team, executing SAP’s UKI growth strategy with a focus on delivering customer success and innovation in the region, together with SAP’s ecosystem partners.

With over 25 years of experience in growing technology sales and services organisations, Michiel is a trusted advisor to clients and board members pursuing digital transformation to differentiate their competitive strategy and improve internal capabilities. Michiel is passionate about people development and growth, as well as SAP’s commitment to social entrepreneurship and sustainability, having been a member of the Board of Advisors for Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and SAP executive sponsor for the 1 Billion Lives social entrepreneurship program.

Michiel has been with SAP for the past seven years working in sales and services roles and, prior to that, spent eight years at Microsoft. Most recently, Michiel was responsible for leading services across Asia Pacific and Japan, whilst establishing the global Services Business Office (SBO), where he brought together multiple teams and shaped the offerings, go-to-market, innovation and ecosystem direction of the business.

Paul Watts

Group CISO for Kantar

Paul is a senior Information Security and Technology executive with over twenty-five years’ experience across a range of sectors including Media, Transportation, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, Retail, Food & Beverages and Telecommunications and is also a non-executive director within the education sector.  Recently named by hottopics.ht in the 2020 ‘Global CISO 100’, he is currently the Group CISO for Kantar and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Stefan Simis

Earth Observation Scientist at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK)

Stefan Simis specialises in the interpretation of biological and biochemical water quality from water colour observed with satellite sensors. He leads the production of global inland water quality products from satellites including over 4000 lakes for the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service and for the Lakes Climate Change Initiative of the European Space Agency. His research interests include the ecology of phytoplankton (algae and cyanobacteria) in lakes and coastal waters, automation and integration of optical sensors and the increasing role of citizen science in monitoring the environment in his role as coordinator of the H2020 MONOCLE research project. He presently works as a Merit Scientist in Earth Observation at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and is Associate Professor at the University of Stirling.

Siân Sutherland

Co-Founder - A Plastic Planet

Igniting social change, creating brands, campaigns and businesses with soul is Sian’s passion. Multi-award winner, including Female Marketer of the Year, CEW Achiever Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, UK Point of Light Award and British Inventor of the Year; Siân is a serial entrepreneur with a varied background in advertising, Michelin Star restaurants, film production, brand creation design agencies and the beauty business..

In 2017, Siân and Frederikke Magnussen founded A Plastic Planet; a global social Impact movement with a single goal - to ignite and inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap. As entrepreneurs, they bring a different fresh pro-business approach to environmental issues focusing on solutions and the power of business to impact change at speed and scale.

A Plastic Planet are highly vocal in the media, working collaboratively with industry, retailers, Governments, legislators and the UN. Recognised in The 2019 and 2020 Fast Company Awards and  winners of International Campaign of the Year, A Plastic Planet created the infamous Plastic Free Aisle campaign, opening this catalyst for supermarket change in Amsterdam early 2018. They also launched the Plastic Free Trust Mark for brands, with over 1000 already certified, and the Industry Commitment Mark ‘Working Towards Plastic Free’. During 2020, they commenced a pivotal project with Skiathos, instigated by the island's inspirational new mayor.  From plastic hackathons for Unilever and WPP to creating new laws banning export of plastic waste, from lobbying for plastic taxes, and the planned launch of the first PlasticFree.com materials library with blockchain partner IBM, A Plastic Planet have created global impact in just 3 years

Ben Leaver

Co-Founder and CEO, Piximedia

As co-founder and CEO, Ben leads pixitmedia’s vision and strategy. Founded in 2012, pixitmedia crafts smart solutions for organisations with complex data needs.

Ben holds an extensive background in business development, sales, pre-sales and product management and is responsible for driving huge growth for the company, delivering award-winning software that gives freedom for innovation. Customers include global media and entertainment giants, broadcast companies and media agencies that require data solutions in an increasingly complex world.

Ben is passionate to deliver beyond expectations for pixitmedia customers to succeed.

Ben is also CEO & Founder of Aracstream, that delivers data solutions to life science and research institutions world-wide. Both companies have a long standing collaboration with IBM to ensure we provide the optimal solutions for our customers.

Paul Cameron

Global Managing Director, Piximedia

Paul has extensive career within the IT industry covering a wide aspect of responsibilities, managing hardware and sales teams, vendors and developing company strategies for the future business. Paul has a long history career history with IBM, as Business Unit Executive for the Storage divisions for UKI he developed his passion for selling solutions to clients who needed to improve the way they stored, managed and protected their most valuable asset....data.

In 2012 Paul moved to Sales Director for one of IBM's most prolific storage VAR's, Tectrade. As a member of the main Board of Directors Paul helped Tectrade expand into USA and eventually sell the business to CSI Ltd.

Paul recently joined the pixitmedia and Arcastream to lead the company visions and global strategies. Paul is driving the business to constantly push boundaries to facilitate seamless collaboration to enable the power of ideas for customers.

Pieter Lindeque

Chief Engineer, Nationwide Building Society

Pieter Lindeque is Chief Engineer at Nationwide Building Society in the United Kingdom. He provides technology leadership for Nationwide’s new IT Engineering capability and engineering oversight across Nationwide’s IT portfolio. Prior to Nationwide, he worked in the IT services industry, consulting to CIOs and CTOs on digital transformation, integration, resilience and architecture of complex systems integration. His clients included some of the largest Financial Services and Public Sector organisations. Topics from his publications include complex systems, digital transformation, resilience and Open Banking.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking Operational Resilience in Finance

Dr Nicole Mather

Partner - GBS, IBM UK & Ireland

Dr Nicole Mather leads IBM’s Life Sciences team in the UK, which deploys deep expertise enabling digital reinvention across digital strategy, analytics, cognitive technologies and cloud technology solutions across innovative pharma and growing SMEs.Before IBM, Nicole was the founding Director of the Office for Life Sciences, leading for UK government on the development of the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy focusing on Genomics, Digital Health and early diagnosis. Nicole previously worked at Deloitte and AT Kearney.Nicole is an Executive Board member of NHS DigiTrials,a Non-Executive Director of the Wellcome Sanger Centre and the Health Research Authority and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Andy Stanford Clark

Chief Technology Officer, IBM UK & Ireland

Andy Stanford-Clark is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM in UK and Ireland. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor with more than 40 patents. Andy is based at IBM's Hursley Park laboratories in the UK, and has a long background in Internet of Things technologies. He has a BSc in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southampton, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking Manufacturing for the future

Prashant Jobanputra

Promontory Financial Group, Managing Director, IBM UK & Ireland

Prashant leads Promontory’s Operational Risk and Resilience practice. He has advised major global financial firms on corporate-wide international change programs, with a focus on technology-related business change and on managing operational and technological risks. He has in-depth expertise in assisting financial institutions on large-scale regulatory change projects. Prashant joined Promontory after an extensive career in the risk and compliance field, most recently at an international investment bank where he has occupied positions in operations, change, risk and controls. In his roles, Prashant led global teams on improving process controls, business resilience, operational risk in a number of asset classes.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking Operational Resilience in Finance

Andrew Brown

General Manager IBM Cloud & Cognitive Solutions EMEA

In this role Andrew is responsible for leading, transforming and expanding IBM's Cloud and Cognitive business in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Andrew is focused on delivering superior client success and client experience and making IBM the #1 Hybrid Cloud provider in EMEA.

Andrew has EMEA responsibility for the sales, strategy, management and delivery of IBM’s Public Cloud, Cloud & Cognitive Software including Integration, Data & AI Solutions, Security & Watson Applications used by over 35,000 clients throughout EMEA to run their enterprises efficiently and securely, and to deliver engaging experiences for customers and employees, for Private, Public, Dedicated, Local clouds and on premise solutions. In this role Andrew also oversees all of the Software compliance business for EMEA and overall covers $6.5bn of IBM revenues annually.

Andrew is a proven, globally experienced, results oriented senior executive in the IT industry with extensive leadership experience in multiple business areas such as: general management, business transformation, organizational and people development, integration, sales strategy and execution, building high performance sales teams, partner management, operations, technical solutions leadership.

Andrew is also a member of IBM’s Acceleration Team which consists of IBM's top 300 senior executives, designed to lead and deliver growth and transformation across the entire company.

Andrew’s previous senior leadership roles in Software include VP IBM Cloud & Cognitive Europe, Software VP WW Hybrid Cloud Software, VP WW Sales Systems Middleware & Director of Worldwide Sales Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure. He has held these positions working out of the UK and Canada during 25 years in IBM starting in an internship at the IBM Warwick Lab in 1994.

Andrew graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Edinburgh Napier University in 1997 and received an IBM Executive MBA from Henley Management College in 2005. He has spoken at industry and executive events on leveraging information technology to deliver customer transformation, to accelerate the client’s journey to cloud whilst also embracing AI and Watson to deliver true competitive differentiation. Andrew has worked across many industries but has a close affinity to Banking & Insurance, Telecommunications and Government.

Andrew currently lives in Twickenham, London, and has a daughter of 8, in his spare time he teaches spinning and enjoys long distance road cycling, boxing and golf.

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Felicity March

Security and Resiliency Director, IBM Services, IBM Europe

Flick (Felicity) has spent her life immersed in technology and is passionate about ensuring the world builds Resilience right into the core of Technology and Services. She strives to ensure companies can ensure they can "maintain core purpose and integrity under duress" which has become especially important since the arrival of the Pandemic.

Flick is skilled in Business Continuity, Resilience and majors in Cyber Resilience, and she fully understands the importance of the need for rapid transformation into the Digital World as well as the risks of not having services available and has been supporting many businesses during this Pandemic.

She started her career as a hacker, and has worked for technology giants for over 30 years, in that time she has worked and advised Companies, Governments and Standards bodies on the emerging IT trends and she works to ensure integrity and sustainability is baked into the heart of IT.

Flick has a wealth of expertise and experience throughout her career and her insights and perspective are refreshing. She also is an advocate of driving STEM skills in to the younger generation and is an active mentor and coach to the next generation of technologists. This year she won the Women in IT, Security Champion of the Year due to her diligence and focus on Resilience.

She also is passionate about Personal Resilience, and is a qualified Mental Health First Aider supporting her work colleagues, she lives in Winchester with her family, three dogs and not enough motorbikes!

Session:
How to enhance your IT resiliency and business continuity in such changing times - Fireside chat with NatWest Group and IBM

Mark O'Herlihy

Vice President for Healthcare, Life Sciences & Government, IBM, Watson Health & Watson Health Consulting

Mark is Vice President for Healthcare, Life Sciences & Government for IBM, Watson Health & Watson Health Consulting. He has over 25 years experience, clinically and commercially and has worked in the NHS as well as many senior leadership positions in global, European and start up healthcare companies throughout his career.

Mark is responsible for the strategy & team, for Watson health software products and Watson Health consultancy services to their customers. This includes the full software portfolio of Life Sciences, Oncology, Genomics, Imaging, Government, Value Based Care & Population Health Management solutions. As well as leading the team to provide deep industry consultancy services to clients, focussed on digital, clinical and operational transformation.

Mark advises many companies and bodies, to ensure that the industry is focussed on providing the best outcomes for the patients and citizens that it serves. Mark brings a wealth of experience and perspective and he is passionate about health and social care for everyone.

Mark Cox

Public Cloud Leader, IBM UK & Ireland

Mark run's IBM's Public Cloud business in UK & Ireland. He has extensive experience in the IT market having led Watson AI, and multiple services teams during his almost 20 year IT career before taking over the leadership of IBM's Public Cloud business last year. He is passionate about technology and how it can transform all parts of our society by bringing new ideas and tools to everyone.

Dr. Murray Simpson

Global Lead, Sustainability, Climate & Transition, Executive Partner, IBM

Dr Murray Simpson is Global Lead of IBM’s Sustainability, Climate and Transition practice providing direction, strategy and development for climate, sustainability and net zero services with a focus on the integration and growth of this business stream. He has a wealth of experience and expertise at the most senior international level with over 25 years working on climate, sustainability and the energy transition in over 75 countries on more than 200 projects around the world. 
Murray has a D.Phil. (PhD) from Oxford University, School of Geography and the Environment, excellent analytical, project management and business development skills. He has worked extensively with industry and government, private sector corporations and multiple international stakeholders. 
He has an outstanding record of accomplishment in negotiating, developing and delivering multiple high-value international contracts working with developed countries and emerging market economies, governments and international companies. 
Murray has a wide-ranging senior network and an in-depth knowledge of climate risk assessment, impact analyses, sustainable development the journey to net zero carbon and climate finance; he is proactive and highly experienced at managing multi-disciplinary teams, delivering practical, positive and successful solutions to the challenges of complex multi-sectoral initiatives. 

Session:
2020...The Wake Up Call For Climate Change.

Anne Leslie

Senior Managing Consultant in the European Centre of Competence at IBM Security

Named as 'One to Watch in Security' by the IFSEC Global Influencers in Security & Fire 2020, Anne Leslie is a Senior Managing Consultant in the European Centre of Competence at IBM Security. Passionate about cybersecurity, she has spent much of her career at the intersection between financial services, regulatory policy and IT. She holds an Executive MBA from HEC School of Business in Paris and the CCSP in Cloud Security from (ISC)². Today at IBM, her focus is on Security Intelligence & Operations Consulting where she accompanies enterprises in transforming their security operations to augment their business value in the face of a volatile threat landscape. An accomplished public speaker, Anne is frequently invited to address audiences of executive leaders in both the public and private sector on strategic issues, such as cyber risk management and operational resilience. A member of the volunteer-led CEFCYS association in France which promotes gender diversity in cyber, she is also leading several upskilling initiatives at IBM related to Cyber Talent Transformation and champions the application of Design Thinking to some of the most wicked problems facing Security practitioners.

Session:
Security Lessons from the global pandemic

Julian Burnett

Vice President, Distribution Sector Leader, IBM UK & Ireland

Julian is a digital, technology and business transformation leader ranked in the CIO Top 40 in 2018 and has executive and C-level experience across retail, consumer products and supply chain industries. As VP, Global Markets - Distribution, he leads IBM's business in the UK covering these market sectors.

Julian has held CTO, CIO and Supply Chain leadership positions at Sainsbury’s, John Lewis and House of Fraser, where in each he designed and led large scale digital and technology enabled business transformation initiatives. Julian sits on the GS1 Apparel Board, is an Advisor to Retail Week Tech, an international conference on digitally enabled commerce, and advises and campaigns with Business Disability International upon the role of technology in enhancing the opportunities and experiences of disabled customers and colleagues in the work place.

Before holding senior roles in industry, Julian held consultancy leadership roles at both CapGemini and CSC where he focused on Business Transformation, Digital & Technology Strategy and Enterprise Architecture. He is a trained coach and facilitator, with experience of coaching and mentoring senior business, technology and digital executives. He is a regular industry speaker and also guest lectures on Oxford Brookes University Executive MBA course, where he is also collaborating on a research based book project.

Session:
Emerging Smarter: Rethinking retail for a new pandemic-informed world

Dr. Pol Mac Aonghusa

Research scientist and senior research manager, IBM Research Laboratory in Dublin

Pol Mac Aonghusa is a research scientist and senior research manager at the IBM Research Laboratory in Dublin. Dr. Mac Aonghusa’s research interests are in applications of Data Privacy and Artificial Intelligence to augment human decision making in Healthcare and Medicine. In addition to making research contributions to IBM, Dr. Mac Aonghusa oversees several externally funded research projects including the H2020 ProAct project (Assisted Independent Living for people with Multiple Co-morbidities with TCD), the Human Behaviour Change Project (with UCL, University of Aberdeen and Cambridge University and funded by The Wellcome Trust), and most recently The Future of Colorectal Surgery project (in conjunction with RCSI and UCD and funded by the Irish Government Disruptive Technology Innovation Fund). Dr. Mac Aonghusa holds a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.

Session:
AI in Colo-rectal Surgery

Karolin Nakonz

Automation Practice Leader, IBM Services, IBM UK & Ireland

Karolin Nakonz is an Executive Partner at IBM, with over 20 years’ experience of providing consulting services to public and private sector organisations. She leads IBM’s Automation Practice in the UK, working with clients to transform their organisations with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

Prior to joining IBM, Karolin worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and at the German Development Bank KfW.

Karolin holds a Masters Degree in Economics, and a Postgraduate Degree in Development Economics. She also holds the Oxford Diploma in Strategy and Innovation.

John McGrath

Senior Solution Architect & Tech for Good Team Leader, IBM Ireland

John is a Senior Solution Architect for IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software leading the IBM Centre of Excellence for Corporate Social Responsibility. Based in the IBM Ireland Software Lab, he was previously the Worldwide Practice Leader for IBM Security and Smarter Cities related project delivery. Prior to joining IBM, he was the Enterprise Program Director for Portal for TransAlta in Canada.

Session:
Destabilising the global human trafficking economy

Vikki Bradney-Spencer

Corporate Social Responsibility Lead, IBM

Vikki is the newly appointed CSR Leader for IBM UK. She is responsible for the UK strategy and business execution of IBM's CSR Programmes such as P-Tech, Open P-Tech, SkillsBuild & SkillsBuild Reignite. Building relationships and recognising ways to collaborate with external partners and nonprofit organisations is critical to ensuring the impact of these programmes. She is passionate about enabling IBMers, using talent & technology and working with others, to make a difference to some of the world’s most pressing challenges around education, skills and community resilience. #GoodTechIBM. Vikki has over 25 years marketing, communications & consulting experience developing and delivering strategies and campaigns. Her previous roles at IBM include Corporate Communications Lead for Europe, Brand & Communications Lead for UK and Ireland and leading a team of marketing professionals to drive lead & revenue generation for IBM's Software Group products & services. Prior to IBM, previous employers include PwC and Barclays. Outside of work Vikki lives in East London with her husband and teenage daughters. She is active in her community as Chair of Governors at a local school where she is a critical friend to the highly able and ambitious team of staff and governors. And, as well as playing football herself, she manages a feisty U17 girls football team.

Jonathan Jessop Batty

Head of Content & Storytelling, IBM Europe

Jonathan is a storyteller and corporate communications leader with two decades of international experience. His expertise is in helping companies communicate their value and leadership to key stakeholders across business and society.

He is IBM’s Chief Communications Officer for Mayflower Autonomous Ship project responsible for media and public engagement and for building the MAS400.com mission portal.

Focused on the intersection of technology and society, Jonathan has built his career in the world’s fasting-moving markets - from Warsaw & Moscow where he was responsible for establishing IBM’s communications function in Central & Eastern Europe, Russia & CIS; to Nairobi where he introduced the world to IBM Research-Africa; to Beijing where he showcased IBM’s leadership in air pollution management.

He lives in London and spends his free time climbing walls and tightening his grip on two of the world’s most difficult languages.

Joseph Kearins

Strategy Manager and member of IBM’s Global Consumer Industry Centre of Competence

Joe Kearins is a Strategy Manager and member of IBM’s Global Consumer Industry Centre of Competence. He is passionate about how new technologies and new ways of working can move industry forward, from raw materials sourcing to end-consumer experience.
Joe works internationally with Retail and Consumer Goods companies, helping to solve challenges in new business models, supply chains, customer experience and sustainability. He recently initiated and led the IBM partnership with University of the Arts London on UAL Graduate Showcase, a digital interpretation of the graduate fashion and arts shows that were cancelled due to COVID-19.
Joe has spoken at conferences on sustainability and innovation, and is a contributor to the upcoming Second Edition of Fashion Merchandising: Principles and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan.

Martin Borrett

IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO Europe, IBM Security, IBM Europe

Martin Borrett is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO IBM Security EMEA. He advises at the most senior level in clients on policy, business, technical and architectural issues associated with security. Martin is co-author of the IBM Redbooks “Introducing the IBM Security Framework and IBM Security Blueprint to Realize Business-Driven Security” and “Understanding SOA Security”. He is Chairman of the European IBM Security Board of Advisors, represents IBM at GFCE and the Industry Advisory Board of LORCA, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and member of the IET. Martin has a passion for sailing and has represented Great Britain; he is also a keen tennis player.

Danny Bagge

Executive Partner. Global Business Services, IBM

Daniel has 25 years retail and digital experience, having led IBM UK retail and digital practices and now uses these skills within Consulting Services to develop key client accounts to advise and deliver digital transformation. Alongside his work at IBM, he has chaired the Government initiative for Digital High Streets, a Board advisor for start-ups and works with Universities to develop talent.

Tony Doyle

Automation Specialist, Insight2Value

Tony has been involved in the area of Business Process improvement for more than 30 years working initially in the public sector and Outsourcing before moving to work for the leading software vendor in that space at the time, FileNet.

Tony joined IBM in 2006 when IBM acquired FileNet and took up a number of leadership roles in the IBM Automation business before joining Insight 2 Value, IBM’s leading European Automation partner, in 2016.

He has worked with many companies in Financial Services in redesigning and implementing Case based solutions for core business process such as Complaints Handling, Fraud Investigation and Customer Services.

More recently he has supported Banks to add Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Assistant capabilities into those solutions particularly as an urgent response to the challenges incurred due to the outbreak of Covid19.

Stephen Leonard

GM, Cognitive Systems, IBM

Stephen is responsible for the development, sales and marketing of IBM’s multi-billion-dollar Power Systems franchise, as well as IBM's offerings which serve cloud computing platforms and data centres. Cognitive Systems empower clients to easily apply AI or advanced analytics to elevate their understanding of market and consumer trends, enabling IBM and its partner customer partners to advance innovation for the application of analytics technology.

Hayden Bamber

Executive Partner leading the SAP Practice of IBM UK & Ireland

Hayden Bamber is an Executive Partner leading the SAP Practice of IBM UK & Ireland;  helping IBM clients to achieve their business transformation needs by shaping innovated enterprise, cognitive and cloud solutions, working in partnership with SAP and are other strategic market partners.

Having worked across multiple industries with a career over the last 23 years in SAP and 11 years at IBM. Hayden has become a trusted partner, enabling clients to address the challenges of the changing industries and markets that clients face, whilst ensuring structured delivery of transformation programmes to achieve the outcomes clients envision and expect.

Hayden’s practice leadership brings together the go-to-market strategy, the alignment of complimentary IBM offerings, the people skills and capability development that ensures IBM remains the leading global SAP implementation partner.

David Hogg

Sterling Supply Chain Sales Leader, EMEA IBM

For the last 15 years through marketing, commerce, order management and supply chain solutions, David has helped clients capture the opportunities and overcome the challenges offered by digital reinvention. His experience spans variety of industry sectors including Retail, Consumer Products, Distribution, Telco, Manufacturing and Financial Services in Europe and South East Asia.

Having joined IBM from Sterling Commerce, David has led IBM Commerce & Supply Chain sales in Europe and Asia since 2011. Sterling Supply Chain gives omni channel professionals the power to create seamless experiences that customers want and value, provide visibility of inventory over an extended network and utilise artificial intelligence to help optimize actions in real time.

Gordon Summers

UKI Sales Leader for IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software for the Financial Services sector

Gordon is the UKI Sales Leader for IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software for the Financial Services sector. He is responsible for leading, transforming and expanding IBM's Cloud and Cognitive business in Financial Services key accounts. He is focused on delivering superior client success and client experience and helping organisations modernize and transform during their journey to the cloud.

Doug Coombs

Digital Business Automation, European Leadership Team, IBM

Doug Coombs has over 25 years’ industry experience. Based in the UK, he is primarily responsible for supporting IBM’s digital business automation (dba) strategy to clients across any industry sector, our business partners and IBMers. DBA drives a mandate to redefine, automate, optimise and innovate business operations, their processes, decisions and content.

Coombs joined FileNet in 1996, acquired by IBM in 2006, as a pre-sales consultant and progressed to leading the technical sales team for the Europe North region. He joined Product Marketing in 2003, specialising in Business Process Management, before taking the lead role for Product Marketing in EMEA for FileNet and subsequently IBM’s Enterprise Content Management portfolio. In 2009, Coombs completed an Advocacy role for IBM’s Information and Analytics strategy, consulting on IBM’s information management, integration and analytics capabilities, before joining the Business Agility Tiger Team, today IBM Automation.

Paul Hughes

IBM Account Manager, IBM Storage

Experienced IBM Account Manager with an 11 year track record of success working in the information technology and services industry. Paul is skilled in delivering Big Data solutions, Partner Relationship Management, Consulting and Systems Integration.

Paul has been Pixit Media's IBM Account Manager for 4 years, helping them deliver world class storage solutions for their clients across the world.

Kevin Farrar

IBM UK Sports Partnerships Lead

Kevin is the IBM Sports Partnerships leader for the UK, which includes our partnerships with Wimbledon/AELTC and England Rugby/RFU.

He has responsibility for managing the client relationship for all the services that IBM provides to The Championships as part of its role as the official IT provider to the AELTC. He also has responsibility for the IBM marketing and innovation programme for the partnership with Wimbledon.

Kevin is also responsible for managing the IBM sports rights relationship with the RFU, where IBM are the Official AI and Analytics Partner.

Session:
Recreating The Greatest Championships; Wimbledon 2020

Stuart Parker

Cloud and Cognitive Account Manager, IBM UK & Ireland

Stuart Parker is an Account Manager in IBM’s Cloud and Cognitive business, with responsibility for IBM’s Engineering Lifecycle Management portfolio. He has in excess of 20 years experience supporting clients in the Systems and Software Engineering solutions space, and prior to that spent 13 years as a practitioner within the Defence sector. He is passionate about helping clients to achieve better engineering and business outcomes by improvement in engineering practises facilitated by technology. In his spare time Stuart can often be found on (one of) his bikes: cycling's n+1 rule applies.