Hassan Ugail
Hassan Ugail Visual AI Explorer @ugail bradford.ac.uk/staff/hugail Professor Hassan Ugail is the Director of the Centre for Visual Computing at the University of Bradford. He is a renowned computer scientist in the area of visual computing and artificial intelligence. He has undertaken prominent work in the area of human biometrics, especially the development of cutting-edge... Bio Details →
Kate Baucherel
Kate Baucherel Cryptocurrency Explorer @KateBaucherel galiadigital.co.uk Kate Baucherel is a writer, speaker, and digital strategist specialising in the application of emerging technologies, with a focus on the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency. She is the author of several books including Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, the What’s Hot in Blockchain... Bio Details →
Austin McCasland
Austin McCasland Reality Re-engineer @austastic austastic.com Austin McCasland is a designer and developer in spatial computing at Meta Reality Labs helping to uncover new use-cases for AR (augmented reality). Austin employs a user-first synthesis of technical understanding and UX practice to create effective and useful products in emerging tech and markets. He was previously part... Bio Details →
Maha Salem
Maha Salem Roboticist & UX Researcher mahasalem.net Maha Salem is a Senior User Experience Researcher at WhatsApp (previously at Google) focusing on International Research and Emerging Markets. Maha's personal international background fuels her passion for international research; she has experience moderating user interviews in 3 languages (English, German & Egyptian Arabic) and has conducted UX... Bio Details →
Amanda Prorok
Amanda Prorok An Autonomous Transport Technologist @aprorok proroklab.org/ The Future of Large-Scale Cooperation for Autonomous Mobility Amanda's research focuses on multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Her lab's mission is to find new ways of coordinating artificially intelligent agents (e.g., robots, vehicles, machines) to achieve common goals in shared physical and virtual spaces. This research brings in... Bio Details →
Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra Education Disruptor @ Sugatam cevesm.com/about-me Sugata is a legendary innovator in education. His 1999 “Hole in the Wall” experiment proved that kids could be taught computers easily without formal training and this method became known as Minimally Invasive Education. The Hole in the Wall Experiment became the inspiration for the novel and movie... Bio Details →
Antonia Forster
Antonia Forster Immersive Experience Engineer @AntoniaRForster ultraleap.com/ Antonia is a self-taught programmer and a Unity/C# Developer at Ultraleap. She works on the cutting edge of technology, using hand-tracking and ultrasound waves to create tactile, immersive experiences in VR, AR and more. She is an accomplished public speaker, with a TEDxBristol talk reaching over 98,000 views... Bio Details →
Andrew Szydlo
Andrew Szydlo An Explosive Chemistry Educator LinkedIn Combining his passion for teaching chemistry with humour and pyrotechnics, Andrew’s talks are explosively engaging. He's the only Thinking Digital speaker ever to require a minimum safe distance of 5 metres from the audience. About Andrew Andrew Szydlo is undoubtedly one of the world’s great science communicators... Bio Details →
