Helen Job
Helen Job People-centric Futurist @helen_job www.tcolondon.com Helen Job, a native Geordie, has been helping forecast the future for over 20 years. She is Head of Insight at TCO in London, the ‘fiercely independent media company behind premium culture and entertainment brands Huck and Little White Lies’. Previously she has led future forecasting and insight teams... Bio Details →
Tom Scott
Tom Scott Explainer Extraordinaire @tomscott youtube.com/TomScottGo Tom Scott has been making things for the internet for two decades. These days, he mostly makes videos about science, technology and interesting things in the world for an audience of two million subscribers on YouTube. On stage, he tells stories of possible futures, alternate histories, and – just... Bio Details →
Matt Grest
Matt Grest Tech Homesteader bbc.com/backstage Matt Grest is leading the creation of the BBC's new Technology Hub in Newcastle. Previous to the BBC, Matt was best known for establishing the Leeds Tech Hub for Sky in 2015. Sky@LeedsDock has gone onto develop into a huge success nearly doubling in size to 750 employees since its... Bio Details →
Emma Kendrew
Emma Kendrew Accenture Technologist @emmakendrew https://www.accenture.com/gb-en/ Biography Emma is the AI Lead for Technology UK/I, responsible for shaping and continually developing Accenture’s AI and automation solutions to address business needs at scale. She has played a lead role in operationalising new centres to drive innovation and embed the foundations for scaled delivery, including Accenture’s Intelligent... Bio Details →
Chris Stokel-Walker
Chris Stokel-Walker YouTube Investigator @stokel youtubersbook.com/ Biography Chris Stokel-Walker is a British journalist whose work regularly appears in WIRED, The Economist and Newsweek. Editors and peers say he knows YouTube better than YouTube know YouTube. He’s known for breaking major news about YouTube and often reports on the site for television, radio and podcasts. For... Bio Details →
Mark Bakowski
Mark Bakowski Industrial Light & Magic ilm.com/ Biography Mark Bakowski joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2014 as the studio’s Compositing Supervisor on Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. After his contribution to the MCU canon, he went on to serve as the studio’s Visual Effects Supervisor on Spectre 007 (ILM’s first venture into the world... Bio Details →
Sam Aaron
Sam Aaron Sonic Pi Creator @samaaron sonic-pi.net/ Biography Sam Aaron is best known for creating Sonic Pi, a new musical instrument that converts computer code into music. Sonic Pi is entirely free, open source and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux and can run on a Raspberry Pi among other platforms. Sonic Pi is... Bio Details →
Jylda
Jylda Singer Songwriter @jyldamusic soundcloud.com/jylda Biography ‘The storming synth-pop artist has a unique voice, matching her lyrical prowess to a brooding digital template.’ CLASH ‘Imagine being able to distill that particular emotion that only David Lynch is able to invoke (a sweet mixture of something blue, ominous, yet irreverent and utterly mesmeric) and now give... Bio Details → 