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Chi Onwurah MP & Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology Bio Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West, and has been an MP continually since 6 May 2010. Current: Representation: Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West [4 July 2024-Present] Party Affiliation: Labour […]

Anastasia Stasenko Co-founder & CEO, Pleias Bio Anastasia Stasenko is the co-founder of the French startup Pleias, which developed the first LLMs trained exclusively on permissively licensed data. She has also coordinated the collection of CommonCorpus, the largest open dataset for training LLM. Among her recent projects is the development of Albert, the first sovereign AI

Alex Newson Senior Lawyer, Networks and Research at BT Bio Alex is a senior lawyer at BT. He supports BT’s Networks & Research area, working on complex contracts, disputes, and a range of other subject matters. Previously, he was the senior lawyer for litigation & IP at another FTSE 100 business, and has also worked

Dr Laura Gilbert Head of AI for Government, the Ellison Institute of Technology, and Expert Advisor in AI to the Digital Centre of Government (formerly director of data science and AI at no10), DSIT Bio Dr. Laura Gilbert is the Head of the AI for Government Program at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford.

Paula Hunter Executive Director, Mojaloop Foundation Bio Paula Hunter is the Executive Director of the Mojaloop Foundation – a charitable nonprofit organization focused on extending the financial inclusion efforts of the Mojaloop open source software project. She leads the organization’s strategic planning and direction; grant, membership and strategic partnership development; and evangelism for the organization

Anandhi Bumstead Director of Engineering at OpenSearch, AWS Bio Anandhi Bumstead, director of engineering at OpenSearch within Amazon Web Services, brings nearly three decades of experience in distributed systems and open-source software. With a background in cloud computing, Anandhi made significant contributions during her tenure at Microsoft and most recently at AWS, where she leads

Andrew Reddikh Lead Software Engineer, WhitelabelAI Bio Passionate software engineer and tech leader with more than 15 years in software development, microservice architecture, and cloud infrastructure. On daily basis, Andrew uses Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, and DevOps best practices to build a better tech world by contributing to open-source projects and building various fintech startups.

Monica Sasso Global Finance Services Lead, RedHat Bio Monica provides strategic support to customers as they look to open source and adopt open hybrid cloud technologies to drive business transformation initiatives. Monica’s focus areas are digital transformation and compliant infrastructure. Previously, Monica worked for prestigious organisations on a global scale – from Nationwide and Barclays

Ann Schlemmer Data Sorcerer in Financial Services Bio Ann Schlemmer is the CEO of Percona, a leader in open source database software, support, and services. In this role, Schlemmer builds upon Percona’s legacy of open source excellence, leading the company on its mission to help businesses make databases and applications run better through a unique combination of expertise and

Lee Fulmer Data Sorcerer in Financial Services Bio Lee is an experienced business technologist who has been creatively disrupting the technology, media and finance industries throughout his career. His blend of business acumen, creativity and technology experience brings a unique perspective on driving business change. From helping decentralise the Internet on the board of ICANN