Mo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer for Google [X], a serial entrepreneur, author of Solve for Happy, and founder of One Billion Happy.

Mo has an impressive combined career of 27 years, starting at IBM Egypt as a Systems Engineer before moving to a sales role in the government sector. Venturing in to the UAE, Mo joined NCR Abu Dhabi to cover the non-finance sector. He then became acquainted with the consumer goods industry as Regional Manager of BAT. At Microsoft he assumed various roles over a span of seven and a half years, in his last role at Microsoft he headed the Communications Sector across Emerging Markets worldwide.

Mo joined Google in 2007 to kick-start its business in Emerging Markets. He is fascinated by the role that technology plays in empowering people in emerging communities and has dedicated years of his career towards that passion. Over a period of 6 years, Mo started close to half of Google’s operations worldwide.

In 2013 he moved to Google’s infamous innovation arm, Google [X] where he led the business strategy, planning, sales, business development and partnerships. [X] does not attempt to achieve incremental improvements in the way the world works, but instead, it tries to develop new technologies that will reinvent the way things are and deliver a radical, ten fold—10X—improvement. This leads to seemingly SciFi ideas such as: Project Loon, which aims to use high-altitude balloons to provide affordable internet access to the 5 billion people on every square inch of our planet, Project Makani, aiming to revolutionize wind energy generation using autonomous carbon fiber kites as well as Self driving cars, Google Life Sciences, and many more. The business team under Mo’s leadership has designed innovative business models analogous to the disruptive technologies [X] creates, and has created deep partnerships and global deals that enabled [X] to thrive and build products fit for the real world.

Alongside his career, Mo remained a serial entrepreneur who has cofounded more than 20 businesses in fields such as health and fitness, food and beverage and real estate. He served as a board member in several technology, health and fitness and consumer goods companies as well as several government technology and innovation boards in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He mentors tens of start-ups at any point in time. In 2019, Mo co-founded T0day, an ambitious project that aims to reinvent consumerism for the benefit of consumers, retailers and our planet. In 2020, Mo launched his successful podcast, Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat, in which he conducts interviews that explore the extraordinary lives of everyday people.

Mo Gawdat is the author of “Solve for Happy: Engineer Your Path to Joy” (2017). Through his 12 year research on the topic of happiness, he created an algorithm and a repeatable well engineered model to reach a state of uninterrupted happiness regardless of the circumstances of life. Mo’s happiness model proved highly effective. And, in 2014, was put to the ultimate test when Mo lost his son Ali to preventable medical error during a simple surgical procedure. Solve for Happy is the pillar for a mission Mo has committed to as his personal moonshot, a mission to deliver his happiness message to one billion people around the world (#onebillionhappy).

Martin specialises in structured credit and asset management acting for many of the world's leading private equity credit funds, banks and corporations, on complex funding structures, portfolio sales, securitization, derivative products and technology investment. He has over 25 years' experience working for and advising funds and financial institutions.

Leading a team of over 700 lawyers in more than 90 offices worldwide. The group provides advice on tax efficient structuring, vehicle formation and management, regulatory issues, vehicle funding and lending, asset acquisition and disposal including NPLs and consumer assets, capital markets listings and reporting, and asset management including portfolio repackaging and trading.

Martin is recognised as one of the world's leading FinTech lawyers (ranked in Legal 500) and advises on technology solutions for emerging and traditional funding structures. He is at the forefront of alternative investment strategies and products including applying new techniques through platform structures, digitalization and fund driven investment.

David Bell is a Director at Hampleton Partners and is based in London, UK. He has over 15 years’ experience providing investment banking advice to technology companies and entrepreneurs, including M&A, minority sale and fundraising transactions. David is also a qualified lawyer, enabling him to bring to his clients a rare combination of world class legal and financial expertise. Since 2012, David has advised and invested in a range of technology and tech-enabled companies in the UK and internationally. He has advised on a broad range of established and nascent technology transactions, including enterprise and industrial software, health and medical technology, deep tech (Cyber, IoT, AI) marketing and tech-enabled services.

Most recently, he advised on the sale of Thoughtonomy (Intelligent Automation) to Blue Prism, and Dictate.IT (cognitive neural network powered medical speech recognition) to Clanwilliam, as well as funding rounds for two growth technology companies in financial intelligence and cloud services.

David qualified as a lawyer at Linklaters where he practised for five years before his transition into investment banking. He spent his formative years in corporate finance at Goldman Sachs and Evercore Partners, before moving to advise technology companies, investors, and entrepreneurs in the mid-market.

David holds an MSci and BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, is a qualified non-practising lawyer and obtained a PGdL and LPC from Nottingham Law School. He lives in London with his better half, consultant head of neuroradiology at a leading London hospital; makes a weekly attempt to train his son's football team; is an amateur sailor; and where possible, travels extensively – the DPRK (North Korea) being particularly “memorable”.

Daphne Bens, head of the Dutch Corporate group, has over 20 years’ experience in advising (multi)national corporations as well as listed companies in complex cross border M&A transactions. Daphne's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and general corporate law.

Daphne has a specific focus on the Technology sector and the Hospitality and Leisure sector and is member of the DLA Piper core teams in these sectors. She has also been a member of the jury of the Philips Innovation Awards in recent years.

In 2002 Daphne was seconded at DLA Piper Hong Kong and Singapore.

Anja Blumert is the Chief Financial Officer of Global Cloud Xchange, responsible for global finance organization and financial activities, based in London.

Ms. Blumert has 20 years of experience in finance, with a focus on TMT and emerging markets. Ms. Blumert previously served as Head of M&A and portfolio management at Millicom International Cellular SA, TMT investment professional at Warburg Pincus International LLC, and as an investment banker with UBS. Anja is currently a board member of Axian Telecom and most recently served on the board of GCX, BIMA, and Helios Towers Ltd.

Kit Burden has extensive experience in the areas of outsourcing and complex technology transactions, advising both users and suppliers of IT, commercial and outsourcing services and in relation to all aspects of the procurement process.

Kit's work ordinarily involves him on business critical projects frequently valued in the hundreds of millions of pounds.

His clients include major retail banks, airlines, high street and online retailers, pharmaceutical companies, investment banks, outsource and IT service providers, and various name brand and multinational companies.

Gianfranco Cecconi leads the Capgemini Invent NL team responsible for data strategy and technology transformation in international public sector organisations. This includes the programmes that Capgemini Invent leads for the European Union in the space of open data and data sharing, such as “Data.Europa.EU” and the “Support Centre for Data Sharing”.

He is an experienced strategists and programme manager, an open and shared data advocate and a data scientist who brings together an interdisciplinary skill set with a creative approach and has a unique profile between technology, strategy and advocacy.

Chris is Senior Faculty in Management Practice at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches Strategy and Entrepreneurship. In 2019, he founded Carbon13, the Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency, a talent-first startup accelerator which brings together scientists, engineers and commercial people to generate startups with the potential to take at least 10m tonnes of CO2e emissions out of the emissions base.

Mike Conradi is co-chair of the international telecoms practice. He focuses on providing regulatory and commercial advice to global governments, regulators and businesses in the sector.

He is ranked as one of the leading telecoms lawyers in the world by all the various legal guides, with Chambers and Partners having said he is “bright, has strong market knowledge and is an effective negotiator” as well as commending his “skill in navigating through the constraints of a tough regulatory environment”.

Marco de Morpurgo focuses on government regulation of the Life Sciences industry. He helps companies doing business in the EU navigate the complex regulatory structures governing the sector, counseling such clients on regulatory strategies and compliance matters.

His practice covers the regulation of pharmaceuticals, biotechnologies, medical devices, and other health-related regulated products in the EU. He provides strategic advice on a broad range of regulatory issues, including clinical trials, product approvals, market access, promotion and advertising, post-market obligations, as well as on industry-specific ethical and behavioral rules. Most of Marco's work is multi-jurisdictional and he has broad experience assisting clients manage regulatory divergence within the EU and globally.

He regularly speaks and writes on Life Sciences topics. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Pharmaceutical Law Review and teaches Life Sciences Law at HEC Paris.

Sylvia Ebersberger advises German and international corporate clients on all aspects of commercial matters including comprehensive cross-border projects and strategic co-operations. She focuses in particular on the support of transformation processes and innovation based projects and accompanies data-driven business models on a regular basis.

Given her long-term and continuous consulting for clients in the automotive industry, she has specific expertise in the automotive sector and is very familiar with the key issues along the entire value chain. Her advice ranges from drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts within the framework of development and manufacturing co-operations to supplier management and the optimization of processes and product portfolios on the basis of intensive usage of data.

Sylvia is recommended by JUVE Rechtsmarkt as one of the "Top 40 under 40" lawyers across law firms, industry and the judiciary in Germany, because "with her specialization the Munich based lawyer hits the nerve of the times".

Sylvia is head of DLA Piper’s international Sub Group Automotive.

Luca Gori advises clients on a broad range of corporate transactions for corporate venture house, venture capital houses, private equity houses and emerging growth companies.

Luca's significant experience includes acting on private equity acquisitions and disposals both in the UK and cross border, pre-IPO investment and venture capital investment for institutional and strategic investors in fields ranging from clean tech, oil and gas, and high tech companies.

Sunita Grote leads the Ventures team within UNICEF’s Office of Innovation and co-founded its Venture Fund. UNICEF Ventures explores how emerging frontier technology can accelerate results for the most marginalized children, including through investments in open source solutions from emerging markets. She steers UNICEF's co-leadership of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a network of partners who collectively contribute to the discovery, development, and deployment of open source digital public goods. Sunita has a background in innovative financing and previously spent 10 years working in the global HIV and health response based mostly in the UK and in South Asia. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and lives in NYC with her partner and daughter.

Hossein did his Ph.D at Stanford. He was at JP Morgan with the portfolio credit risk analytics team. Following that he has been with 5 start ups with highly successful exits, including Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform, an AI based credit risk modelling platform, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine. He is a co-founder at Luther Systems, a distributed automation platform for complex enterprise processes in the Deep Process Automation space.

Folake Shasanya is the Head of EMEA Warehouse Financing in SVB’s UK Branch and joined in July 2019 to establish this new high growth business area for the bank.

A 15 year veteran in structured finance, Folake previously led acquisition financing at Royal Bank of Scotland providing funding solutions to non-bank lenders and private equity firms. She was also director of the credit division at SIFMA helping to shape regulatory and market structures in the fall out of the Global Financial Crisis. She began her finance career in 2005 as a structurer in the asset backed financing group at Credit Suisse, having joined under a special winter internship program and never looked back.

Folake is deeply passionate about propelling small businesses for under-represented minorities across the African diaspora. She is an advisor board member for Little Tigers Football Club, and Investment Eight, an initiative to dispel the fears around finance and encourage women in Africa into investing.

Folake earned a BEng Hons in Computer Systems Engineering and a postgraduate in Financial Mathematics at Cass Business School, London.

Gary is the Founder and CEO of FounderTribes, an innovative learning platform that empowers you to raise capital and upskill your business. Prior to FounderTribes, he served as CEO and co-founder of “The Nest”, a mobile app that could be called “Masterclass for founders.” He is the former CEO of Wayra UK, a corporate accelerator backed by Telefonica (O2), where he invested in 185 start-ups that raised $265m and were valued at more than $1bn.

From 2010-2014, Gary was an associate professor at entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Madrid in addition to being the CEO of Wayra Spain. He launched his first start-up in 2005, which was a property search engine that raised $4m before eventually being acquired by a publicly listed company. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Gary worked as a lawyer in NY, London, Madrid and Barcelona. He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College and was the executive editor of The Yale Law Journal at Yale Law School. He is a Governor of the University of East London and has been twice on the Power List of the most influential black people in the UK.

Gareth Stokes focuses on information technology, outsourcing and intellectual property-driven contracts.

Gareth's experience spans numerous complex major procurement and sourcing projects within heavily regulated industries. Most such engagements involve elements of service delivery on-shore, with other elements delivered further afield, whether near shore within the newer EU Member States or offshore in India, China and emerging economies. These projects tend to involve innovative contractual structures, including joint venture arrangements, multi-level framework and call off structures, trust arrangements and other multi-contract arrangements.

Angelique Strong Marks serves as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. Before joining REE Automotive, she served as Director, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Compliance Officer for MAHLE Gmbh’s North American operations. She served in the role at MAHLE after MAHLE acquired Behr America, Inc., where she served as Director, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Compliance Officer. In both positions, she was responsible for legal operations, including corporate governance, contracts, compliance, commercial transactions, employment, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions. She has also held several senior-level positions including Vice President, General Counsel & Assistant Corporate Secretary at Handleman Company, an international distribution company and Chief Legal Officer & Assistant Secretary at Frank’s Nursery & Craft, Inc., which was then the largest lawn & garden retail operation in the United States. She also held senior-level corporate securities and corporate governance positions at Fortune 500 companies, DTE Energy Company and CMS Energy Corporation. She began her legal career representing General Motors Corporation and Delphi Corporation in employment and labor matters.

She has had several distinguished legal leadership positions, including serving on the State Bar Michigan Commissioners, American Bar Association House of Delegates, Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly Board of Editors. She has also been honored by Crain’s Business Detroit first as 40 in their 40’s and then in the inaugural class of Notable Women in the Law. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Akron, her Master of Business Administration with a dual concentration in Finance and Management from Miami University, and her Juris Doctor from the Ohio State University College of Law.

She enjoys running and outdoor adventures. In 2016, she completed the Mt. Kilimanjaro Triathlon, which included her reaching Mt. Kilimanjaro’s summit, completing a 28-meter Bike race and completing a marathon over six days. She is also actively engaged in community service projects. She is the proud mother of two loving high school daughters, Amari and Jalia. In 2017, she completed the Tough Mudder.

Bryony Widdup has 15 years' experience in the financial markets sector and has spent time working in-house at a major European bank as well as in private practice. Bryony has lived and worked in London and the Cayman Islands and advises on alternative credit, including structured finance, fund finance, tech-enabled finance and funding platforms.

Bryony advises a range of investment managers and sponsors on matters including secured loans, capital call facilities, hybrid facilities, asset-backed facilities, whole-fund facilities, levered/unlevered portfolio segregation and security, securitisation-structured asset backed facilities, managed account leverage arrangements, management company and GP facilities and co-invest structuring and leverage. In her work with lending institutions and alternative credit providers, she advises on lending to funds and fintechs using vanilla products and more structured solutions, including NAV-based facilities, structured note products, repurchase transactions and derivatives, as well as fund credit support matters including fund guarantee arrangements and equity commitments.

Bryony’s background combines experience in fundraising from multiple equity and debt angles, which has supported more recent expansion into fintech advisory work, in particular from an alternative credit perspective, including advising sponsors on platform based crowdfunding, advising issuers and investors on token offerings, the structuring and issuance of stablecoins and establishment of other asset-backed products including real estate backed. She is also on the Advisory Council for Global Digital Finance, working with industry and regulators on the development of industry driven codes of conduct in the digital assets market covering security tokens, stablecoin, digital assets custody, crypto funds and exchanges, amongst other topics.

Sean Williams is Chairman of G.Network UK Communications, the fibre network and internet services business in central London. Since he joined in 2018, G.Network has grown from about 5,000 premises passed with its network to about 175,000 premises. He led the board through a successful £1bn fund-raising in December 2020, to finance a plan to pass 1.3 million premises.

Until 2017, Sean was Chief Strategy Officer of BT Group and a member of its Executive Committee. He played an instrumental role in BT’s £12.5bn acquisition of EE (2014-15) and its clearance by the UK Competition & Markets Authority (2015-16); he led the negotiations with Ofcom regarding BT’s ownership and control of Openreach (2017); and he drove BT’s fibre broadband strategy (2011-2017), negotiating public subsidies with the UK government and state aid clearance with the European Commission.

Sean was formerly a member of the board of Ofcom (2003-2007), responsible for the economic and competition regulation of telecoms and broadcasting in the UK, and the board of the Office of Fair Trading (2007-08), where he was responsible for merger control and competition law enforcement. Sean has also been a non-executive director of fast-growing private companies for 20 years: in Williams Lea Group, a £1bn business services company (1991-2008), and as a founder shareholder and Senior Independent Director Nosy Crow, a £20m children’s publishing company (2010 to the present). He is also Chairman of Grain Connect, a fibre network business focus on areas outside London.

Sean has three Masters degrees, in Economics and Politics from Oxford University, Public Administration from Harvard University and Buddhist Studies from SOAS University of London, and one in Philosophy at King’s College London in progress.