Digital evangelist and champion of outsourcing, Paula is a seasoned executive with more than 20 year experience in global customer management and is reshaping success for Convergys Europe by transforming and growing successful partnerships with Blue Chip leaders, innovative start-ups and next-gen/emerging markets, around the world. A 115,000 people strong global leader, Convergys has been living in the digital future ahead of time, redefining the critical role that humanization plays in creating and delivering the future digital journeys of forward-thinking organizations and their customers.  Herself a linguist, turned curator of multi-lingual customer and BPO solutions, Paula is a true advocate of the game-changing AI-Human fusion in today’s anytime-anywhere customer experience. Not only a proponent for the digital future, Paula is a recognized influencer for the workforce of the future – a driving force for gender equality in the industry, Paula is the founder and Global Lean In Chapter Leader for Convergys as a partner for the LeanIn.org Lean In Program, championing diversity and inclusion and apostle for progressive female leadership.

Søren Rode Andreasen is Chief Digital Officer and member of the Executive Committee at Danske Bank UK. He has more than 10 years of experience within the Nordic financial sector and a deep technical understanding. His primary interests are innovation within retail/wholesale banking and commercialisation of disruptive ideas and technologies.

Leo Johnson leads PwC’s Disruption practice and co-presents the Radio 4 series “FutureProofing”. Leo explores the cutting edge in exponential technology, probing game changers both short term and long, from autonomous transport and payment by data to radical life extension, quantum computing, and the RFID chipped workforce. Leo aims to demystify what in the world of exponential technologies is real, what is hype, and what will have long-term impact on business. Formerly at the World Bank, Leo is the co-Founder of the advisory firm Sustainable Finance, now part of the PwC group. He is the co-author of “Turnaround Challenge: Business and the City of the Future” (Oxford University Press, 2013) and a Visiting Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment at Oxford University.

Mike Barrett is the Co-Founder and CEO of Unosquare LLC, providing healthcare and financial services clients with IT consulting and software engineering services from offices in the USA, Mexico and Belfast, UK. Mike has over 30 years sales and marketing experience with 12 years in tech leadership roles working with offshore and nearshore companies.

Serial startup founder, angel investor and mentor, Ash Ali sold his first internet business aged 19. As the first marketing director of Just Eat UK, he ‘growth-hacked’ it at breakneck speed, leading to a staggering £1.5 billion IPO in 2014. Next, he founded Fare Exchange, a bootstrapped startup that generated over £25 million in revenue in just a few short years. Currently, he mentors and advises several startup investments globally, and has spoken at TEDx, business schools and technology expos, where he shares his unique lean startup and marketing insights. His new book “The Unfair Advantage: Boost your Chances of Startup Success” is out soon.

Jamie Bartlett is the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at the think-tank Demos, where he has become one of the UK’s leading thinkers on politics and technology. Jamie’s most recent book The People VS Tech is released on the 19th April and discussion the precarious future of democratic society in the tech age. He is also author of Radicals (2017) about political outsiders and best-selling The Dark Net (2014) about internet subcultures, which has been translated into 13 languages. He writes regularly for several national media outlets, and recently presented a major BBC2 documentary series The Secrets of Silicon Valley.

Quinn Buchanan’s professional experience has never been dull. From bringing Baywatch to Asia to working on the original Grand Theft Auto, to revolutionizing the cultural training of the U.S. military, Quinn’s career has been dedicated to the creation, management, and distribution of the some of the most compelling content on the planet.

Founder of TMQ and pioneer in the use of gamification, Buchanan’s award winning engine powers over 80 simulations and serious games in use globally.

Buchanan’s development philosophy is based on the concept that we build experience by creating a “safe virtual sandbox” for the user to fully immerse himself in the environment.  Armed with an understanding of the fundamental nature of the shift from passive to active entertainment and training; that we are no longer following a story but that we are the story. People learn naturally by doing and Buchanan’s engine, driven by his Do-Learn Master mantra of the 3-C’s:Control, Confidence, Comfort, his engine allows formerly static content come alive and the user to participate in the experience by virtually immersing themselves in a digital immersive learning experience.

“Joanna Jarjue is a Final 5 Candidate on BBC’s The Apprentice, leaving the business process with the best statistical record of series 13 of 8 out of 10 task wins and the only candidate with two wins as project manager. A Digital Marketer by trade, Joanna graduated with a Politics degree then started her career working on behalf of Google supporting and consulting Digital Agencies on their business growth. Post The Apprentice Joanna is a fashion Entrepreneur at heart and is now building a modern women’s workwear brand which hopes to support females in poverty globally”

Brendan Monaghan, CEO of Neueda – Digital DNA’s Best Large Tech Company and Company of the Year 2018

Across his illustrious 30-year career, Brendan Monaghan held senior roles spearheading several successful business units in market-leading companies but always had a desire to build his own company. Brendan founded Neueda in 2006 with the aim to empower great people to build innovative, disruptive solutions and create customer success.

Headquartered in Belfast, Neueda has a growing talent pool of around 350 experienced staff and associates delivering large-scale, mission critical software projects for clients internationally. With Brendan at the helm, this privately-owned and socially conscious company has grown organically at 35% per year since 2012. Brendan and his team have ambitious plans to continue on this tremendous growth trajectory.

Dr Liberty Vittert is an incredibly bright mathematician and statistician specialising in facial shape analysis. She has a PhD in mathematics and statistics and is keen to bring her enthusiasm for maths to a wider audience.

As an approachable, intelligent young woman in the male dominated STEM world, Liberty is often asked to share her knowledge within the media and has appeared on STV Scottish news, BBC Radio Scotland, Channel 4, Fox News Channel, and PBS. In 2017, Liberty was one of twenty women chosen from hundreds of applicants to become a BBC Woman Expert Contributor for BBC Television and Radio Programs. She is also an Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society. 

Ciaran Quilty is Vice President of Facebook’s Small & Medium Business division across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has responsibility in this region for driving advertising sales and service for millions of businesses who use Facebook’s family of apps and services to connect with their communities.

He has significant expertise in the global technology sector, with over 17 years’ experience. Ciaran joined Facebook in 2010 and held several roles in its advertising business before becoming Regional Sales Director for Gaming & Central and Eastern Europe. He previously worked as a management consultant with Accenture.

Ciaran is dedicated to helping small and medium businesses and showcasing how mobile can accelerate business success. His focus as Vice President is to continue building Facebook’s presence in the region, developing the opportunity it gives businesses to engage with customers around the world – helping local business become global and small business become large.

A born storyteller, Rock has produced music videos for the top artists in the world including Nicci Manaj, Ice Cube, Lil Wayne, Tinchy Stryder, LL Cool J and many others, has worked with the biggest and best global brands and most recently was Digital Producer of Hollywood blockbuster ‘DeadPool’.

Now Rock is leading the charge on old models of Hollywood storytelling, through VR, AR and multi-channel media models in Film & TV.

“Joanna Jarjue is a Final 5 Candidate on BBC’s The Apprentice, leaving the business process with the best statistical record of series 13 of 8 out of 10 task wins and the only candidate with two wins as project manager. A Digital Marketer by trade, Joanna graduated with a Politics degree then started her career working on behalf of Google supporting and consulting Digital Agencies on their business growth. Post The Apprentice Joanna is a fashion Entrepreneur at heart and is now building a modern women’s workwear brand which hopes to support females in poverty globally”

Seamus is primarily focused on helping clients understand and shape how blockchain can be applied to solve real-world problems, and why this nascent and disruptive technology should be part of their business strategy in the digital age. He is also responsible for establishing and leading the PwC Digital Delivery Centre, focused on delivering successful outcomes for clients by designing and building new innovative digital experiences.