UC Expo 2021 | Imago Techmedia | 6 October 2021 | ExCeL, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, Royal Docks, London E16 1XL, UK

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2021 Speakers

Louis Theroux
International Documentary Presenter

Bruce Daisley
Former VP EMEA, Twitter and Author of The Joy of Work

Stephanie Roddy
Global IT Program Director, Digital Workplace, Kellog's

Stephanie Bloor
Director, Workplace Strategy, PwC

Adam Steltzner
Chief Engineer: Mars 2020 Project, NASA

David Germain
Group UK&I CIO, RSA

Jamie Snaddon
MD EMEA, 8x8

Charlie Forte
CIO, Ministry of Defence

Mark Richer
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, StarLeaf

Charles Ewen
CIO, Met Office

Dax Grant
Global CIO - Operations, HSBC

Konstantin Denishev
Head of Workplace Technology, TSB

Matthew Walton
Lead Product Manager - UC

Matthew Higham
Chief Digital Officer, UK, Microsoft

Prachi Nema
Principal Analyst, Omdia

Sumit Kohli
Head of Collaboration Platforms, EF

Jas Cartwright
Head of Digital Innovation Strategy, NHS

Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect, Modality

Mark Grady
Head of Meeting Solutions and Channel Sales, EMEA, Google

Chris Styczcynski
Group Head of Collaboration, Clifford Chance

Sharon Boyd
Chief Customer Experience Officer, MKL

Ben Mitchell
Senior Unified Communications Specialist, NHS

Jeremy Slater
Director of Sales, Dialpad

Suresh Chandra
Head of Quality and Automation, New Day

Katherine Hurst
Customer Experience Director, Cazoo

Leighton Hughes
VP Sales, UK&I, Pexip

Richard Aylmer-Hall
Lead Business Analyst, BBC

Karen Beasley
Head of Customer Services, Halfords

Marilyn Chaplin
Chief HR Officer, NTT

Simon Matthews
Founding Partner, Knight Matthews Consultancy

Sarjo Touray
VP Unified Communications Architect, SMBC

Carl Thompson
Senior Product Owner, Department for Work & Pensions

Andy Green
Land Speed Record Holder

Hasani Jess
CTO, Simply Business

Jack Laidlaw
Programme Manager, Middlesbrough College

Nathan Piratheepan
CTO, LCP

Jay Gupta
Director, Product Marketing, AI & Automation, Talkdesk

Darren Hardman
VP and General Manager, Aws

Katie Rolfe
Head of Customer Experience, InPost

Gail Smith
Director, Cavell

James Spencer
EMEA North Video Solutions Director, Jabra GN

Thea Stevenson
Multimedia & Audiovisual Production Manager, Wellcome

Richard McPhee
CTO, Exactive

Marc Magnin
Head Of Product, CPaaS

Owen Ellis
Managing Director, AV User Group

Matthew Leathley
Unified Communications Engineer, Mediabrands

James Temishe
Enterprise Technology Specialist, CleverTouch

Abdul Rafique
Team Lead, London AV/Mobile/Special Ops, Bloomberg L.P

Eve Thompson
AV Lead, Wavemaker

Christian Toon
CISO, Pinsent Masons

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Professor of Computing at Oxford University; Principal at Jesus College and Co-Founder of Open Data Institute

Randeep Sidhu
Former Head of Product, COVID-19 App and Health Tech Specialist, NHS

Mark Martin MBE
Founder, UK Black Tech

Professor Peter Francis
Deputy Vice Chancellor, Birmingham City University

Steve Brown
Director, Cyber Security, Mastercard

Matthew Gould
CEO, NHS

David Sirignano
Chief Risk Officer, Ebury

Ben Aung
Chief Risk Officer, Sage

Professor Hannah Fry
Author and Broadcaster

Lauren Sager Weinstein
Chief Data Officer, Transport for London

Pete Cooper
Deputy Director, Cyber Defence, Cabinet Office

Ming Tang
Chief Data Officer (Interim), NHS

Jean Carlos
Group Head of Information Security, Nomad Foods

Sarah Janes
Managing Director, Layer8

Lisa Forte
Partner, Red Goat

Holly Grace Williams
Founder, C

Neil Smithies
Head of Digital and IT Architecture, ICO

Alina Timofeeva
Principal (Associate Partner), Digital & FS, OliverWyman

Lisa Varga
Head of Growth, Upskill Digital

Kevin Millwood
Cyber Risk Manager, Hargreaves Lansdown

Ian Thornton-Trump
Chief Information Security Officer, Cyjax

Wendy Ng
Cloud Security Architect, OneWeb

Bill Mew
CEO, The Crisis Team

Ange Johnson de Wet
Head of Cloud and Technology Change Risk, Lloyds Banking Group

Gavin Barton
VP of Engineering, Booking

Christina Finlay
Director, Data & Analytics, Nest

Caroline Barnett-Phillips
Senior Data and Analytics Manager, Lloyds Banking Group

Richard Webb
Director Network Infrastructure, CCS Insight

Xhafer Krasniqi
Senior 5G Technologist, Catapult

Daren Fulwell
Product Evangelist, IP Fabric

Steve Glasgow
Director, Wavestone

Bola Rotibi
Research Director, Software Development, CCS Insights

Tom Bragg
Infrastructure Automation Architect, KMPG

Spencer Marsden
Research and Development Engineer, BBC

Ian Golding
Founder, CGA

James Perryman
Founder and Director, Momentus

Alan Pennington
Deputy Chairman, SuiteCX

Kirsty Kiezebrink
Dean for Educational Innovation, University of Aberdeen

David Lefevre
Director, Edtech Lab, Imperial College Business School

Nick Barniville
Director, EdTech Lab, ESMT Berlin

Leonardo Caporarello
Professor of Negotiation, SDA Bocconi and Delegate Rector for eLearning at Bocconi University

Ashley Gray
Learning Partnerships Manager, Loughborough University London

Matteo Kotch
Product Marketing Manager, Ring Central

Dr. Ioannis Kypraios
Associate Professor in Games and Artificial Intelligence, De Montfort University

Jen Stirrup
Founder & CEO, Data Relish, Data Relish

Simon Bullmore
Co-founder and CEO, Mission Drive

Professor Stephanie Marshall
Vice-Principal (Education), Queen Mary

Gary Littledyke
Project Manager, 5G RuralDorset

Anthony Basiel
Head of Computing and AI, Regent College London

Gemma Murray
Scrum Master / L+ Lead for Lloyd’s Rainbow Network, Lloyds Banking Group

Alison Bainbridge
Founder, Kokoro

David Corbett
Visitor Service Assistant, Royal Museums Greenwich and Barbican Centre

Professor Peter John
Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of West London

Tracy Lightfoot
Pro Vice Chancellor, University of York

Norbert Pachler
Pro-Vice-Provost: Digital Education, UCL

Dr Ebenezer Amusa
Network Security Architect, FedEx

Matt Brown
VP Product Management - Enterprise, Bandwidth

Iain O’Neil
Digital Transformation Director, NHS

Sonya Moisset
Lead Security Engineer, Photobox

Sophia Adhami
Business Executive to Chief Risk Officer, Sage

Zaheer Ahmad MBE
Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion, GSK

Peter Makar
Audio Visual Technician, Peachy

Roddy Gye
Managing Director, GHA Group

Duncan Bowles
AV Manager, St. Mary's University

Chris Petryna
IT Manager, Cote

Oliver Kadel
Co-Founder & Audio Lead, 1.612 Digital

Zohaib Razvi
Head of Customer Experience, Colliers International

Rob McCargow
Director of AI, PwC

Jay Wyatt
UC Consultant and Alliances Manager, EMEA, Audiocodes

Robin Smith
Head of Cyber and Information Security, Aston Martin

Guy Morell
CISO, The Francis Crick Institute

Deborah Haworth
Chief Information Security Officer, Penguin Random House UK

Peter de Norville
VP of Belong, Sage

Glen Hymers
Head of Data Privacy and Compliance, Cabinet Office

Nick Patience
Founder and Research Vice President, AI & Machine Learning, 451 Research

Kathy Harvey
Associate Dean, MBA and Executive Degrees at SAID Business School, University of Oxford

Alvin Birdi
Associate Pro Vice Chancellelor (Education Innovation and Enhancement), University of Bristol

Chris White
Electrification and Global Engineering Alignment Manager – Europe, Ford

David Reed
Knowledge and Strategy Director, Data IQ

Sue Daley
Director of Tech and Innovation, TechUK

Premal Desai
Head of Data & AI, The Gym

Puni Rajah
Principal, Six Revolutions

Jess Sandham
Head of Research, Design & Transformation

Peter Goodwin
Sales Engineering Manager, UK and Northern Europe, Efficient iP

Martin Hodgson
Country Manager, UK & Ireland, Paessler

Michael Rapley
Managing Director, Mediatron

Richard Hearn
Enterprise Account Manager, Pexip

Chris Holt
Contact Centre Practice Lead, RingCentral

Stylianos Taxidis
Head of Data Science, CDP

Zahraa Kadri
Senior Consultant, Arup

Katie King
CEO, Inbusiness

Edward Newman
Head of Cloud Services, NatWest

Lucy Thornton
Head of UKI Solutions & Technology Market Development, Google Cloud

Jonathan Sharp
Sales and Marketing Director, Britannic

Pete Atherton
Senior Lecturer, Teacher Education, Liverpool John Moores University

Sophie Gray
Customer Success Director, Data and AI, Microsoft

Ismail Amla
Head of Global Services, NCR

Shoaib Laher
Group Head of IT, Dennis

Adam Scott
Executive Creative Director & Founder, Freestate

Gori Yahaya
CEO & Founder, UpSkill Digital

Karen Dooley
Deputy Director for Cyber Security, NHS

Sam Humphries
Head of Security Strategy, Exabeam

Harry Powell
Director of Data Analytics, Jaguar

Raphael Sofoluke
Founder | Advisor, Digital Transformation EXPO, UK Black Business Show

Fox Ahmed
Global Head of Cyber Security, Technology, Data Protection & Regulatory Risk, BNP Paribas

Oge Udensi
Principal - Cyber Security, UK Finance

Madeline Howard
Chair and Director, Cynam

Zoe Mackenzie
Board Member, WiCys

Edmund Shee
Head of Developer Relations, Seldom

Adri Purkayastha
Group Head of AI and Digital Risk Analytics, BNP Paribas

Stijn Litjes
Data Analytics Lead, AngloAmerican

Mayur Pitamber
Product Marketing Director, 8x8

Matthew Bell
EMEA VP CPaaS, 8x8

Simon Greenman
Partner | Member, World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council, Best Practice AI

Tim Gordon
Partner | Trustee, Full Fact, Best Practice AI

Minesh Tanna
Global AI Lead and Solicitor Advocate, Simmons+Simmons

Graeme Massey
Managing Director, JacobsMassey

Andrew Skinner
Data Centre Transformation and Migration Technical Lead, Google Cloud

Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE
Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group of Artificial Intelligence

Sebastian Wilson
Director, Hankin Consulting

Alpesh Doshi
Founder & CEO, Fintricity

Heather Dawe
UK Head of Data, U.ST

Sabreena Ali
UK&I Commercial and Enterprise Sales Engineer, BlueJeans

Gareth Johns
Senior Director, Vertical Solutions, RingCentral

Justyna Lebedyk
Vice President Senior Product Owner Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Commerzbank

Justin Morris
Senior Customer Success Manager - Modern Communications, Microsoft

Cate Pye
Partner, Digital Trust & Cyber Security, PA

George Webster
Executive Director, Global Cybersecurity & Analytics, HSBC

Jonathan Kidd
Chief Information Security Officer, Hargreaves Lansdown

John Rouffas
Chief Information Security Officer, Intelliflo

Jon Gray
Technical Information Security Officer, PwC

Kinnari Ladha
Chief Data Officer, Iagle

Caroline Cardozo
Director of Group Product Management, Discovery & AI, Sky

Aubrey Stearn
Chief Technology Officer, Undercoat

Professor Prashant Pillai
Director of Wolverhampton Cyber Research Institute, WolverHampton

Adam Lalani
Head of IT, WFS

Vladimir Jirasek
Deputy Chair, CSA

Dr. Rob Sparrow
Lead Cloud Security Engineer, FCA

Louise Taggart
Senior Manager - Threat Intelligence, PwC

Saad Syed
Head of Enterprise Security Architecture, Maersk

Carla Baker
Senior Director, Government Affairs | Trustee, UK Cyber Security Council

Sheen Brisals
Senior Engineering Manager, Lego

Laura Wellstead
President, WiCys

Natasha Harley
Co-Founder & VP, WiCys

Garry Ovenell
Director EMEA Solution Engineering, Talkdesk

Daniel Bass
CTO, Zeti

Laura Mills
Segment Marketing Manager Workplace, Barco

Imre Csuri
Strategic Alliance Manager, Epos

Matt Howell
Head of Cyber Defence, Hargreaves Lansdown

David Cox
Director, European Cyber Resilience Centre, Mastercard

Daniel Oates-Lee
DevSecOps Evangelist, Punk Security

Jon Greatbatch
Head of Engineering, PwC

Sedar Cabuk
Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte

Emma Button
Director: Cloud, DevOps & Security, Slalom

Bob Layton
Chief Channel Officer, Esentire

Alex Jinivizian
VP Strategy & Corporate Development, Esentire

Matt Ellison
Principal Solutions Architect, Esentire

Calum Dickson
Principal Consultant, Infinity Works

Liz Rice
Chief Open Source Officer, Isovalent

Steve Giguere
Developer Advocate, Theodo

Alex White
Cloud Architect, Theodo

Ben Ellerby
VP of Engineering & AWS Serverless Hero, Theodo

Phil Basford
Head of Solution Engineering, Inawisdom

Josh Davies
Product Manager, Alert Logic

Rob Grieg
Group Chief Information Officer (Global), Arup

Sean Atkinson
Co-Founder, Cyber House Party

Marc Avery
Co-Founder, Cyber House Party

Steven Tripper
Group Chief Information Security Officer, Anglian Water

Thomas Mackenzie
CEO, RankedRight

Robert Black
Deputy Director, National Cyber Deception Laboratory

Lucy Neal
Co-Founder, Women in Devops

Francesca Pollard
Co-Founder, Women in Devops

Philip Wright
Head of Security, Auden

Ian Burton
Head of DevOps & Release Management, Saint-Gobain

Marc Ueckermann
Chief Technology Officer, Xenith

Mike Fowler
Chief Technology Officer, Synalogik

Sylvain Cortes
Security Strategist, Tenable

Marc Claxton
Head of EA Infrastructure and Technology, E-On

Gill Rowbotham
Director and Managing Consultant, 4C Strategies

Paul Ridge
Director, 4C Strategies

Dave Mailer
Founder and Principal Consultant, 4C Strategies

Anima Verma
Cloud Transformation Leader, EY

Juan Lyall
UK/Ireland and MEA Country Manager, Centreon

Sean McAvan
Managing Director EMEA, Navisite

Andrew Tsonchev
Director of Technology, DarkTrace

Zeus Kerravala
Founder, ZK Research

Sherin Mathew
CEO & Founder, Innovation Exchange

David Young
Vice Chief Executive, Innovation Exchange

Adam Hill
Global Director SD-WAN TSA, Cisco

David Goff
Head of Enterprise Networks, UKI, Cisco

Sammi Adhami
Chief Operation Officer & Co-Founder, FiiT

Professor Madeline Carr
Professor of Global Cybersecurity & Politics, UCL

Nigel Page
Senior Manager for EMEA Specialist Solution Architecture, AWS

Jurgen Hofkens
EMEA Head of Compute Solution Architecture, AWS

Will Hall
Principal: Cloud, DevOps & Security, Slalom Build

Nash Kapoor
Director, Sales EMEA, Tenable

Gary Cox
Security Sales Specialist, Infoblox

Wilson Sanders
Head of Business Development, EMEA, IT Glue

Gary Bennion
Managing Director, Cloudm

Peter Berry
CTO of Cloud Technologies, Navisite

James Cadman
VP of Customer Success, Luware

Rob Woodall
CTO, Kallik

Andy Garwood
Systems Developer, Dover District Council

Josh Cone
Web Developer, Dover District Council

Matt Rider
Director of Sales Engineering, International, Exabeam

Peter Claxton
Senior Director EdTech Solutions, ViewSonic

Stephen Green
Chief Technology Officer, UKI, NTT

Hanan Belarbi
SVP Global Client Solution EMEA, Kinesso

Andy Carter
Head of IT, MacIntyre Hudson

Magnus Faulk
CIO Advisor, Zoom

Rob Scott
Publisher, UC Today

Imran Idrees
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cisco Meraki

Aamar Hussain
Contact Center AI Solution Lead - UK&I, Google

Alan Greenberg
Venture Partner, EDT&Partners

Timo Korkeamäki
Dean, Aalto University School of Business

Steve Rafferty
Managing Director, UK & Ireland, RingCentral

Georgie Barrat
Presenter, The Gadget Show

Annette Sercombe
Chief Information Security Officer, Met Office

Tom Geraghty
Open Innovation Labs, Transofrmation Lead, Red Hat

Sandrine Lagrange
Senior Solutions Engineer, OneTrust

Matt Aldrige
Lead Solutions Consultant, Carbonite + Webroot (OpenText Business Solutions)

Jen Ellis
Vice President of Community & Public Affairs, Rapid7

Luke Hebditch
Technical Solutions Architect, Cloud Security, Cisco

Graeme Stewart
Director UK & Ireland, Cisco Secure, Cisco

Matt Houghton
Data Architect, CDL Q

Mark Thompson
Director, Platforms and Services, Cabinet Office

Iain Patterson
Former CTO | CTO, London 2012 Olympics and DVLA | Alcedo Technology

Mary Towers
Policy Officer, TUC

Martin Hill-Wilson
Owner, Brainfood Consulting

Simon Cuthbert
International Business Development, Tenfold Security

Kati Gohlam
Enterprise Architect, TUI

Sara El-Hanfy
Innovation Lead - Machine Learning & Data, Innovate UK

John Easton
Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Vaughan Klein
Director, Cisco Collaboration EMEAR, Cisco

Dominic Black
Head of Research, Cavell

Mark Needham
EMEAR Hybrid Workplace Lead, Cisco

Helen Wilson
Customer Success Director, Modern Work, Microsoft

Nick Hedderman
Modern Work Business Group Lead, Microsoft

Ben Lye
Enterprise Architect, MathWorks

Chris Ellen
Unified Communications Service Leader, Arup

Amir Hameed
VP, WW Solutions Sales & Engineering, RingCentral

Michelle Azzopardi
Cloud Native Product Marketing Lead, Microsoft

Casandra Marrero
Teams Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

David Dungay
Editor in Chief, UC Today

Joseph Walsh
Director of Product Marketing, LogMeIn

Andreas Chatzakis
Startup Solutions Architecture Leader, EMEA, Aws

Richard Archdeacon
Advisory CISO, EMEA, Duo Security

Duncan Peberdy
Consultant – Digital Learning Spaces, DroitwichNet Limited t/as Learn From Anywhere

Jude Sheeran
Principal, Education (International), Aws

Kevin Greenway
CTO, 10ZiG Technology

Danny Jenkins
CEO & Co-Founder, ThreatLocker

Rob Forster
IAM Lead, LastPass

Stuart Player
Head of Commercial Collaboration Sales UKI, Cisco

Jay Jay Davey
Tier 2 SOC Analyst, CyberClan

Dr Andrea Cullen
Co-Founder, Capslock

Jo McLear
Talent Outreach Programme Leader, EMEA, Routes to Market Expert

Paul Baird
UK & North EMEA Chief Technical Security Officer, Qualys

Laura Louthan
Founder, Angel Cybersecurity

James Constable
Senior Manager, Baringa

2021 Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Department for International Trade
• Innovation Exchange
• JISC
• Middlesbrogh College
• Modality
• NHS
• Omdia
• Tech UK
• UK BlackTech
• Women in Cybersecurity
• Research
• Six Revolutions
• AV User Group
• Aws Community Summit
• The Crisis Team
• Cyber House