Known as a serial entrepreneur running IT service related companies for 25 years. An expert in cyber security and natural language, appointed first Prince of Wales Innovation Scholar at University of Wales and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Glyndwr University. Editor of ISO standards, chair BSI and ISO committees, contributor IETF standards. Advisory board member to HPC Wales, a £40 million project and was Advisory Board Member to Wikipedia.

40 years experience in defence and security, was CTO across entire QinetiQ Group, was Managing Director of QinetiQ’s UK defence and technology business (£700M revenues pa) through QinetiQ’s IPO in 2006, was Director General of Information and Communication Services in UK MOD. Deputy Chair to the Security Advisory Group to the European Commission Framework Programme 2007-2012, appointed to the Advisory Group for the Horizon 2020 programme

Jim is an expert in defence technology, security, sensing, natural language and speech. He was Head of Software Commercialisation at SRI in Silicon Valley, led a $200M project funded by DARPA, he conceived and led the development of the SIRI programme before being spun out to Apple. Based in the USA visiting the UK monthly, he provides strategic direction and detailed oversight of the development team and is responsible for R & D and IP roadmap.

Kully is an FCA registered Chartered Accountant, an experienced finance director who has worked with a number of PLCs and start up companies.

MD of CGIP, a company investing in a portfolio of high growth technology businesses. Successful entrepreneur, took iVillage, an internet business in the US, to IPO. Co-founded Reuters New Media and Reuters Greenhouse. Extensive experience in business creation, building and growth investment. Responsible for Reuters early stage investment into Yahoo!

co-founder of GeoLang, one of original inventors of the core IP used by GeoLang, is an expert in cloud computing based at University of Surrey. Research interests include Cloud Computing, Ontology Learning, Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications (JoCCASA), an editor of a Springer book on Cloud Computing.

28 years experience in creating new businesses, funding start-ups, identifying investment opportunities, leveraging corporate innovation.
Focus on innovation through new business models, new customer experience and technology.
Broad exposure to a wide number of industries. Specialties: New business creation, start-ups, innovation strategy, innovation tournaments, investment strategy, 'Blue Ocean' and technology scouting.

Paul is a highly skilled and experienced Lead software developer, an expert in agile methods and a scrum master, paul has been building commercial software for 15 years and is an exceptional Team Lead.

Arjun is an innovations engineer and a PhD scholar developing a secure military social networking solution. He has a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews (Ranked 2 in UK)
and is Co-founder of Student Software Solutions, India. Arjun and Debbie form the core innovation engine within GeoLang.

Arjun is an innovations engineer and a PhD scholar developing a secure military social networking solution. He has a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from University of St Andrews (Ranked 2 in UK)
and is Co-founder of Student Software Solutions, India. Arjun and Debbie form the core innovation engine within GeoLang.