Project Kairos 2018 | 12 June 2018 | ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL, UK

Project Kairos is KNect365's dedicated startup programme, aimed at connecting startups with industry and investment to empower the next disruptors in tech.

What's Involved?

Pitch-Off for the ‘Innovation of Things Award’
All of the startups who joined the Project Kairos programme were entered into our pitch-off competition.

Founders showcased their business in front of our panels, comprised of industry experts and investors, with the chance of winning our coveted ‘Innovation of Things Award’.

2018 Speakers

Irina Alabina
Representative in London, Run Capital

Jurgen Appelo
Founder & CEO, Agility Scales

Noaa Barak
4YFN Strategy Manager, Mobile World Capital Barcelona

Imo Berman
Partner at Think Plan Thrive

Mark Billige
Board Member & Managing Partner UK, Simon-Kucher & Partners

Ben Blume
Principal at Atomico

Richard Blakesley
Partner at Capital Pilot

Gareth Burchell
Partner at Sure Ventures

Eamonn Carey
MD at Techstars

Jules Chappell
MD, Business, London and Partners

Siobhan Clarke
Investor at Episode 1

Itxaso del Palacio
Partner at M12

Daniel Dilger
Ventures Director, Plug and Play

James Eastell
Partner, Moore Stephens

Philippe Fremont
Vice President, IoT Europe at Avnet

Ross Fretten
BBC Apprentice Candidate 2017 and Founder, Kibble

Sarah Friend
Partner at Moore Stephens

Chris Haley
Deep Tech Investor at 01 Ventures

Christopher Haley
Head of New Technology & Startup Research, Nesta

Mike Hayes
Partner at Kingston Smith

Alexander Horrowell
Senior Analyst at Ovum

Mat Hunter
Managing Director, Central Research Laboratory

Jey Jeyasingam
CTO at Y-cam Solutions

Kalinka Kay
Investment Associate at True.

Peter Keenan
CEO atApexx Fintech

Matt Kennedy
Early Stage Investor, Northzone

Brian Kinane

Partner at Sure Ventures

Ed Lascelles
Partner at Albion Capital

James Lewis
Investment Director, Downing Ventures

Rose Lewis
Co-Founder, Collider

Sharlene Lopez
Founder at Eye Catcher

Rodrigo Mallo Leiva
Program Director, RebelBio, SOSV

Arielle McKenzie
Head of Digital, Crosby Textor

William McQuillan
Partner at Frontline Ventures

Herve Mottais
Director, Innovation & Technology Group at Moore Stephens

David Murray-Hundley
Founder at Tech London Advocates - Automotive

Keji Mustapha
Head of Founder Network at Connect Ventures

Zara Nanu
CEO at Gapsquare

Eeswaran Navaratnam
Deep Tech Investor at 01 Ventures

Todd O'Brien
CEO of MENA, Startupbootcamp Smart City

Christophe Pelerin
Investor, Glenshore

Kate Pringle
UK Business Developer, Tilkee

Shadi Razak
CTO, CyNation

Damian Ryan
Corporate Finance Partner, Moore Stephens

Dr. Nicolai Schättgen
CEO at Match-Maker Ventures

James Somauroo
Founding Partner, HS. Accelerator

Mike Tattersall
CCO at True.

Duncan Turner
Partner at SOSV

Jonny Voon
Innovation Lead - Digital (IoT & Blockchain), Innovate UK

Check Warner
Co-Founder, Seed Investor, Seraphim Capital, Diversity VC

Andrew White
European Patent Attorney, Mathys & Squire LLP

Leila Zegna
Founding Partner, Kindred Capital

Bill Ablondi
Director Smart Home Strategies, Strategy Analytics

Alexandra Alden
Founder at Common Ground Labs

Rich Anson
Founder at Reevoo

Gen Ashley
Director at Women Who Code

Laura Aymerich-Franch
Advanced Research Fellow, Pompeu Fabra University

Spencer Ayres
Head of Apprenticships, Makers Academy

Oli Barrett MBE
Co-Founder, StartUp Britain

Juliet Bauer
Chief Digital Officer, NHS England

Erik Beijnoff
Long Term Strategist for Music Rights at Spotify

Tania Benade
Head of Analytics, BrandsEye

David Bent
Sustainability Advisor, Independent

Nishant Bhaskar
Managing Director at Manthan Capital

Bobby Bhatia
CEO & Founder, TrakInvest Group

Matt Bird
General Manager,InLinkUK

James Bruegger
Managing Partner, Seraphim Capital

Alix Brunet
Associate at Finch Capital

Peter Busch
Distributed Ledger Technologies Mobility, Robert Bosch Group

Eric Béranger
CEO at OneWeb

Imer Cakiroglu
Global People Strategy Director, Farfetch

Carin Campanario
Technology Innovation Strategist, TUI GROUP

Maria Campbell
Head of People at Monzo

Clem Chambers
CEO & Founder at ADFVN

Amy Chow
Technology Council Member, GLG

Pierre-Henri Chuet
Founder, Mach 3 Management

Dr Katy Cook
Founder at Center for Technology Awareness

Sherry Coutu CBE
Chair, Founders4Schools

Richard Crook
Head of Innovation Engineering, RBS

Fernando Da Cruz Vasconcellos, PhD.
Director of Investment Strategy and Intellectual Property (IP) Valuation, Coller IP

Jacqueline de Rojas
Execeutive VP & Managing Director, President, SAGE PLC, TechUK

Melissa Di Donato
Chief Revenue Officer, S/4 HANA Cloud at SAP

Rebecca Dibb-Simkin
Marketing and Product Director, Octopus Energy

Louise Doherty
CEO at PlanSnap

Manos Dramilaris
Digital Experience Developer, LV=

Brian Duffy
President, EMEA North, SAP

Semyon Dukach
Managing Partner, One Way Ventures

Rioch Edwards-Brown
Founder, So You Wanna Be In Tech?

Matthew Evans
Executive Director, Smart UK and Internet of Things Programme, TeckUK

Francesco Federico
EMEA Digital Director, JLL

Nadia Filali
Head of Blockchain Programs, Caisse des Dépôts

Tom Fogden
COO & Co-Founder, Ada, the National College for Digital Skills

Christina Franzeskides
Director of Operations, Uspaah

Christopher Freeman
Augmented Reality Technical Lead, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

Avi Gillis
Head of Tech Diversity and Digital Inclusion Policy, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Nicole Glaros
Partner, Chief Produce Officer, Techstars

Jillian Godsil
Blockchain Speaker and Journalist, Independent

Dil Green
Digital Anthropology Blogger, Independent

Sam Gyimah
Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation,UK Government

Matt Hancock
Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Gov UK

Will Harborne
Ethereum Projects Lead,Bitfinex

Rashada Harry

Founder at Your Future Your Ambition

Alex Harvey
Creative Director, Infinite Pixel

Brian Heinen
Strategy Advisor,Conda Crowdinvesting

Brad Hintze
Senior Director of Product Marketing, Control4

Peter Hopwood
Presence, Impact & Keynote Speaker Coach & Founder, Hopwood Communications

Chris Howard
Strategy Lead, Intertech LGBT+ Diversity Forum

Christina Huang
Managing Director, Advertising & Media at BT

Paul Imre
Independent Futurist

Margot James
Minister of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Michael Jary
Managing Director, Verv

Wendy Jephson
Head of Behavioral Science, Nasdaq

Sukhi Julta
COO at Market Orders

Pablo Junco
Nokia, Microsoft

Matti Kahola
Senior Analyst, Connected Home Service Manager, Delta EE

Monica Kalia
Co-Founder, Neyber

Laurence Kemball-Cook
CEO and Founder at Pavegen

Henrik Krohn
COO, XM Reality

Charlene Laidley
Founder and CEO, FutureProof Foundation

Martha Lane Fox
Co-Founder , lastminute.com

Andrew Lawson
Executive Vice President & General Manager, UKI, Salesforce

Suzanne Lee
Founder, Pivotal Reality Ltd

Paige Leuschner
Research Analyst, Navigant Research

Triin Linamagi
Head of Ecosystem, Rainmaking Colab, Startupbootcamp FinTech

Ellis Lindsay
Senior Principal IOT - Corporate Strategy and Development, Nokia

Tom Loeffert
UK HR Director at SAP

Stephen Lorimer
Smart London Strategy and Delivery Officer, Greater London Authority

Lawrence Lundy
Head of Research & Partnerships, Outlier Ventures

Emannuel Marchal
Managing Director, ConsenSys

Marco Marchesi
CTO, Happy Finish

Justin Marshall
Associate Director, YouGov

Mark Martin
Urban Teacher, UKBlackTech

Dion McKenzie
Chief Revenue Officer, HATCH

Jeremy Millar
Founding managing board member, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)

Simon Miller
Co-Founder & CEO, Scalable Capital

Ambarish Mitra
CEO and Co-Founder at Blippar

Massimo Morini
Head of Interest Rate and Credit Models, Banca IMI

Jim Nasr
Vice President - Technology and Innovation, Synchrogenix, a Certara company

Peter Nixey
Venture Partner, Breega Capital

Matt O'Neill
Independent Futurist

Jim O'Reilly
Strategist at Vital Growth

Mark Oleynik
Founder & CEO, Moley Robotics

Tom Ollerton
Innovation Director,We Are Social

Parmy Olson
Staff Writer, Forbes Magazine

Ally Owen
Founder & CEO, Brixton Finishing School & Hoxton United

Jack Parsons
CEO at Big Youth Group

Devina Pasta
Chief Digitalization Officer, Siemens

Amit Patel
Director of New Ventures, Bupa

Gavin Patterson
Chief Executive, BT

Wayne Piekarski
Developer Advocate, Google

Caroline Plumb
Founder & CEO at Fluidly

Gerhard Pluppins
Head of Sales Augmented Automation, Essert GmbH

Boris Polania
Payments and Blockchain, Honda Innovations

Tim Potter
Senior Product Innovation Manager, Dixons Carphone

Jamie Qiu
Director - Fintech Accelerator, Dubai at Startupbootcamp

Colin Rhys
VP, Middle East & Asia, Virgin Hyperloop One

David Richards
Chairman, President, CEO and Co-founder, WANdisco

Matt Robertson
Senior Account Director UK & Africa, BrandsEye

Jan Rombolotto
Team Lead Digital Business Innovation, E.ON

Lariane Rossanese
UX Designer & Researcher, Samsung R&D Institute

Jared Ruddy
Partner, Think Plan Thrive

William Ruh
Chief Executive Officer, GE Digital & Chief Digital Officer at General Electric

Melissa Sabella
CEO at The Honeycomb Works

Becky Sage
CEO, Interactive Scientific

Pelin Sahin
Director - Smart City Dubai, Startupbootcamp

John Salmon
Partner, Hogan Lovells International LLP

Nicole Sandler
Vice President (VP) Resolution and Recovery Planning and FinTech - EMEA Legal Lead, Barclays

Tamoaki Sato
Founder at Starbase

Bjoern Schwerdtfeger
Founder at AR Experts

Neil Sebire
Chief Research Information Officer (CRIO), Great Ormond Street Hospital

Wolfgang Senges
Co-Founder, Blockchain Working Group of the German Music Industry

David Seoane Vilarino
Project Manager, FundingBox

Sam Shah
Director of Digital Development,NHS England

Farabi Shayor
CEO and Co-Founder,ImmVRse

Luke Shipley
Co-Founder,Zinc

David Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO, Pillar

Rohan Silva
Co-Founder, Second Home

Stewart Southey
Independent Consultant, Independent

Gary Stewart
Director, Wayra UK & Telefonica Open Future

Phil Stuart
Co-Founder, Preloaded and Founder, BAFTA Games Committee

Anna Surricchio
Customer Success Manager, Siteimprove

Don Tait
Lead Analyst, IHS Markit

Rohit Talwar
CEO, Fast Future

Nitesh Thadani
CTO, TRENIQ

Michelle Thomas
Executive Headteacher, The New Wave Federation

Laura Thomson
Training Director, Phenomenal Training

Jason Touray
VP, Talent & Culture, Huckletree

Theo Turner
Master's Student, University College London

Paul van Zyl
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer,The Conduit

Jonny Voon
Innovation Lead for IoT and Distributed Ledger, Innovate UK

Jimmy Wales
Co-founder, Wikipedia

Francesca Warner
Co-Founder, Diversity VC

Michael Wignall
UK CTO, Microsoft

Greg Williams
Editor, Wired

Karen Winton
Managing Partner, NEST.vc

Darya Yegorina
CEO, Cleverbooks

Mariana Zamoszczyk
Senior Analyst Consumer Services, Ovum

2018 Partner & Sponsors

PROJECT KAIROS PREMIUM PARTNER:
• Russian Export Center
• Skolkovo

PARTNER SPONSOR:
• Avnet
• Berlin Partner
• IMPACT Connected Car
• Mobile World Capital

PROJECT KAIROS SUPPORTER:
• CyNation
• Mathys & Squire
• Moore Stephens
• WATIFY

PROJECT KAIROS ACCELERATOR PARTNERS:
• Startupbootcamp
• Plug n Play
• Tech London Advocates
• HS Live

PROJECT KAIROS 2018 STARTUPS:
• Alcan
• Appcent
• Bioself Technology Ltd (BTL)
• Bugwolf
• Ceeblue Media Services
• Central Research Laboratory
• CopPay
• Cynation
• Datapare
• Divido
• eContractHub
• Edvent
• Gizmos International
• Hevo
• Hiyacar
• Innovation Wire
• InoCrowd
• iNovar Corporation
• Inventify
• Kibble
• KORUZA
• Local Electricity Project
• LookHealth
• MentalUp
• nTh Network Technologies to Help
• Nuzdah
• Parkbob GmbH
• Pentasity
• Pipeep
• Poly Magnus
• Prodaft
• Qourier
• Quant Co
• Qurate
• Reengen
• Room One
• Savortex
• ServoKiosk
• Sezame
• Shopitag
• Siccura
• Styloplay
• TAMPLO
• Tekkredi
• Teraki
• Tilkee
• UFA
• Unmanned
• Vestd
• WiTraC Communicaciones Inteligentes SL
• Witt Energy