New Voices

Abi is the Co-Founder and Tech Lead of Community Growth Ventures which invests in ideas from minority and underestimated founders. She is also Programme Manager at Tech Nation and a venture scout for Backed VC.

Alicia leads EY’s Eco-Innovation movement, a group of activists who are inspiring and supporting EY’s professionals and its clients to use smart thinking and smart technology to fix environmental problems.

Alvin is the Chief Executive of The Fourth Group, a global community committed to shaping the fourth industrial revolution for good. He advises governments, NGOs, and businesses on leadership, social policy, and impact.

Amrit is the Co-Founder and CEO of Aceleron which builds advanced lithium batteries. He has been recognized for his work with accolades including the Hawley Award for Engineering Innovation by HRH Princess Anne.

Anna is Director of Speculab, helping clients understand the implications of emerging social and technical innovation. She has worked with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Neopost, and the Government Office of Science.

Ben is a Principal at Atomico, a Venture Capital fund focused on partnering with Europe's most ambitious technology entrepreneurs. He sits on the boards of Spacemaker, Automation Hero, Hinge Health and Bitmovin.

Carina is a Partner at Episode1 Ventures. She previously co-founded HelixNano, one of the first companies to apply AI to genetic data.

Charles works at LSE, building evidence informed policy strategies around African health systems. His writing and commentary on science, policy, and global health issues has appeared in The Guardian and other outlets.

Daisy is the Head of Scouting at Backed VC, an Adviser at Roam and Emerge, and board member of global charity, Future Brilliance. She also co-founded Refugee Info Network.

Dama is a Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures, Europe’s leading early-stage investor in tech for good. She is also a Director at Chayn, a community-led social enterprise, building online resources for and with survivors of domestic abuse.

Darryl is an award-winning Digital Transformation Consultant. She spoke at the 2018 IRM European Conference of Business Analysis about the importance of diversity in driving innovation.

Devika is the Founder of Vida and has a passion to innovate and disrupt in the care industry. She has developed two award-winning health tech start-ups and was chosen as a representative of the United Nations #sheinnovates campaign.

Donna is a Technology Reporter at New Scientist magazine. Her writing has previously appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, VICE and more.

Don Wallace is a Public Policy Manager leading on public policy and government relations for the UK at Google DeepMind. He joined from the advisory firm Teneo where he was an associate director specialising in tech, energy and infrastructure policy.

Emma is a Campaigns Manager at Possible (previously 10:10), a solutions-focused NGO working to tackle climate change.

Ezra is an Analyst in the UK government’s Cabinet Office, leading work on national risks. He previously worked on analytical and strategy teams across government, including the secretariat of the PM’s Council for Science and Technology.

Fey is a self-taught Software Developer who founded CodePossible and CodeandStuff. She now works as a Senior Developer for DWP Digital.

Francesca is the Co-Founder and CEO of Diversity VC which seeks to increase diversity of thought in the venture and tech industry.

Frederike is a researcher, a 2019-2020 Mozilla Tech Policy fellow and a commentator on emerging technologies.

Gemma is a Science & Technology Journalist covering deep tech and is Co-Founder of Science: Disrupt. Her work can be found in Forbes, The Times, BBC and Quartz. She also advises the European Commission and Innovate UK.

George is a Data Journalist at The Times and The Sunday Times who specialises in using freedom of information requests and analysing open data for investigative reporting. He started his career at BBC News.

Grace is a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, an award-winning social entrepreneur, writer, and speaker. She is Founder of Healing Boxes CIC, Trailblazing Wellness (Un) Ltd and a Future Young Leader of Wales Award winner.

Greg is a Science Presenter and Producer of TV and radio programmes for the BBC, an educational YouTuber, a public engagement trainer, and Creative Director of sciencemedia.studio.

Harrison is a junior medical doctor. He was Chair of the UK medical student's committee at the British Medical Association, and sat on the group overseeing junior doctor contract negotiations in 2016 and 2018/2019.

Hera is the Founder of CHAYN, a global volunteer-run project crowd-sourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence. When Hera isn’t running CHAYN in her spare time, she works with governments and civil society to open data sets to fight corruption.

Kaitlin is an Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Early Career Fellow at the Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bath, working on the integration of human genetics in population health sciences.

Katy is a Senior Advisor at The Behavioural Insights Team. She was previously a Junior Policy Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.

Kayisha is an Associate Scientist at AstraZeneca. In 2018, she founded BBSTEM, Black British Professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths to address the lack of Black individuals in STEM from education to industry.

Kike is the Founder and CEO of BYP Network, a platform that connects black young professionals with each other and corporations. For her work as a BAME leader in tech, she has received international recognition.

Kim leads EYX, EY UK&I’s innovation skunkworks which help clients navigate technology disruption and create the future of their businesses, and helps EY leverage emerging technologies.

Lauren is Wellcome’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion, leading the health and science sector in making research open.

Lilian is the Programme Lead for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Science and Health coalition. She has shared her work with the Science Museum, Wellcome Trust, the Social Innovation Exchange and the UN’s He for She Arts Week.

Lindsey is the Co-Founder of Gather, an award-winning non-profit start up using data to get toilets to people who need them. She previously worked to empower young people at Restless Development.

Martine is a Junior Research Fellow in Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford who has received recognition for her scientific achievements and entrepreneurial initiatives including for her work on antibiotic resistance.

Maxine is a Neuroinformatics PhD student and Co-Founder of One Health Tech, a community which champions underrepresented groups as future leaders in health innovation.

Melissa founded Women Like Me, a collective to support underrepresented groups in tech. She has produced content for the Cyber Security Research Institute podcast, Future Intelligence podcast and Artificial Intelligence Conference.

Mike is Founder and CEO of The Common Sense Network which combats cyberalkanization. He also founded the Apex Group.

Michael is a Lecturer in Digital Rights and Regulation at UCL’s Faculty of Laws, and a Digital Charter Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

Peter is the CEO & Co-Founder of Deep Branch Biotechnology, leading their mission to transform polluters into producers.

Priyanka is a biochemist at the University of Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases, former Everitt-Butterfield Research Fellow at Downing College and the co-founder of education-centred initiatives in India.

Rashada is an Enterprise Technologist at Amazon Web Services in the UK and Co-Founder of the award winning Your Future, Your Ambition (YFYA) STEM initiative which helps corporate organisations and students connect.

Rebecca is the VP Operations & People at Riverlane. She co-founded THIS Institute and has held positions at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge and the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

Richard is a Senior Analyst at the Committee on Climate Change whose work includes advising on the Science, International and Greenhouse Gas Removal briefs.

Shwetal currently works at MediaCom, connecting tech start-ups to large Fortune 500 clients. She makes documentaries and organises public science lectures, and is a UN Empower Women Champion.

Susie is working at the Science Media Centre in London. She is also currently awaiting final examination of her PhD in climate physics undertaken at the University of Oxford.

Tobi is the Delivery Manager at Kaluza, a platform for smart domestic devices and recognised thought leader on the application of low carbon technologies in our electricity grids.

Vimla is a Service Designer at DigitalBridge, bringing user-centred services to tech innovation. Vim has been an adviser on international government tech missions, a mentor for various startup programmes and an international keynote speaker.

Vittoria is a Master's student and policy analyst at the social enterprise AI for Good where her work has focused on AI and government.

Yomi is a multi-award winning journalist, The Guardian newspaper women's columnist, and co-author of the bestselling book, Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible.

Zhifu is a Lecturer in Economics at Univeristy College London. He has received international recognitiaton for his innovative research on the economics of climate change.

Zuzanna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sixfold Bioscience, a Y Combinator and venture-backed biotechnology company focused on developing drug delivery systems for cell and gene therapeutics.