2020 Speakers

Silviya is Head of Policy, Research and Projects at Campaign for Better Transport - the national charity seeking to make high quality, affordable sustainable transport available to all. Silviya is responsible for building the organisation's policy and research programme and leading project...

▪ Iqbal has been digital and telecoms advisor to public and private sector clients for 25 years and is well know to policy makers and telecoms companies. He is the only consultant to have advised Nicola Sturgeon and Boris Johnson among other government ministers and local authorities on telecoms...

Appointed in 2017 as London's first Chief Digital Officer, Theo leads on London-wide digital transformation, data and smart city initiatives at City Hall. His role involves:•Strategic leadership on the digital transformation agenda for London's public services, across the GLA group and the...

Paul is responsible for developing the SSE Enterprise Telecoms strategy in line with the growing needs of the Energy and Utilities market, particularly as Distribution Network Operators transform into Distribution System Operators and their reliance on telecoms and networks becomes more...

Matt Clifton is the Smart City Programme Manager at Leicester City Council.Previously he worked with the Greater London Authority, Milton Keynes Council, South East Midlands LEP, Department for Communities and Local Government, New Local Government Network and the European Parliament.Matt's...

Ceren Clulow MBA Currently leads the Digital Connectivity Service in Nottinghamshire County Council. Ceren worked for the Council for over a decade.  Most recently Ceren has brought together a consortium for a 5G testbed in Sherwood Forest (and its surround area). Council led £10 million project...

Ian is a Director at Plum, bringing over 25 years of experience in industry and consulting within telecoms and technology. He specialises in the intersects on strategy and transformation, technology, engineering, and architecture, and policy and regulation, with a particular focus towards...

Julian is the Programme Manager for Superfast Cornwall, the ground-breaking partnership programme currently funded by the EU, BDUK, Openreach and Cornwall Council. Julian has worked on publicly funded broadband partnerships in Cornwall since 2004, including the £132m Superfast Cornwall programme...

Arun is the Managing Director of Red Dawn Consulting, experts in digital growth strategy. Arun is a pioneering management consultant with 25 years of experience in telecoms, media and technology. After gaining industry experience from roles at BSkyB and Orange, Arun became a trusted advisor within...

Fabienne is Chief Strategy and Product Management Officer at Smart DCC. She joined Smart DCC in March 2018 from Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, where she was the senior civil servant in charge of security and resilience of the telecoms industry. Prior to this, she...

Anna Dixon is the Chief Executive of the Centre for Ageing Better, an independent charity thats brings about lasting changes in society so more people can enjoy later life. Anna joined the organisation in September 2015 and has taken it from start-up to become an established organisation. With an...

Boris has unparalleled experience navigating the complexities of the telco market. He previously served as Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Company’s Recovery and Transformation Services advising telco clients globally on defining and executing global transformation strategies. At...

Dr Simon Earl is the Operations Director for South East Water accountable for providing water to over 2 million people every day across the South East of England. Simon’s first degree was in Genetics from the University of Liverpool and he went on to complete an MSc and PhD in Advanced Plant...

Alexis is the Head of Strategy and Transformation for Connected Nottinghamshire; Connected Nottinghamshire is the digital programme across the Integrated Care System (ICS) in Nottinghamshire.  Alexis has significant experience across a variety of public sector organisations including NHS, Local...

Matthew is CBI Chief UK Policy Director.As Chief UK Policy Director Matthew is responsible for developing and shaping the CBI’s domestic policy agenda, including on People and Skills, Infrastructure and Innovation. He also leads the CBI’s work on industrial and regional policy.Matthew is the CBI’s...

Robert is Managing Director of West Midlands 5G Limited. Prior to leading WM5G, he held senior general management and strategy positions at O2, T-Mobile and Orange. At O2, Robert led the company’s new business portfolio where he launched and scaled a number of new business in sectors including...

Roy has enjoyed a career that has spanned both commercial and public sector, starting life as an accountant in the confectionary world, before moving into the ICT sector.As Head of ICT for City of York Council, he oversaw the adoption of a landmark city-wide dark fibre network that has enabled...

Naleena is strategic HR thought leader with an execution mindset to deliver and operationalise a company’s people strategy. She has an incredibly successful track record in building a people’s agenda for growth organisations, making them fit for purpose and re-energising them to invest, acquire or...

Jonathan Harris has over 25 years of experience working in the ICT industry holding a number of senior positions including IT Director for a multi-national support services company and IT Programme Director for a FTSE100 PLC. Jonathan currently manages the Connecting Cumbria superfast broadband...

Matt is a well respected commentator and technology industry expert with over 20 years experience at the cutting edge of technology research and consulting. He is a thought-leader in Digital Transformation and the Internet of Things. Matt is widely quoted in trade publications and a frequent...

Clare is a successful businesswoman and entrepreneur focused on leadership and strategic engagement who has coached boards, senior management teams and leaders across the globe over the last 25 years. A highly competent chair and facilitator, Clare was the co-founder of Academee, a successful...

James has over 30 years’ experience in project and programme management across the government, postal, data centre / cloud and fixed and mobile telecoms sectors. Today, he works for the GSMA leading delivery of their portfolio of mobile technology industry programmes. These cover areas including...

Anthony Impey is a technology entrepreneur who has built Optimity into the London’s leading provider of Wibre- a wireless alternative to fibre that offers small businesses gigabit connectivity.  He leads Tech London Advocates Infrastructure Group, which aims to improve connectivity in the capital.  ...

Professor Kerensa Jennings is BT Group Director of Digital Impact. She serves on the Institute of Coding Diversity and Inclusion Board and the Advisory Board of Digital Access For All. Until recently, Kerensa was CEO of the Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA), an international programme...

Joysy John is the Director of Education at Nesta, bringing together Nesta's work in education across innovation programmes, research and investment. Joysy is the former Chief Industry Officer of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills where she led the college’s industry engagement and...

Raj is the CEO of Building Digital U.K. (BDUK) leading delivery of digital infrastructure programmes for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. The portfolio has 2 overarching programmes, The UK Fibre Programme and The UK Mobile Programme with total capital budgets of £7Bn. The UK...

With more than 20 years of experience in the telecoms industry, Steve Leighton is CEO at Voneus, the champion of rural community and leading provider of wireless superfast broadband infrastructure for poorly connected or difficult to reach communities. Prior to working at Voneus, Steve co-founded...

Graham is currently leading Thames Water’s asset digitization strategy and transformation across 450 sites and 150,000 km of network.

Rupert McNeil was appointed Government Chief People Officer on 1 January 2016, joining the Civil Service from Lloyds Banking Group, where he was the Group HR Director.As Government Chief People Officer, Rupert is responsible for delivery of the Civil Service People Strategy, which sets out what the ...

Phil is a Director of Clarion Housing Group, the UK’s largest Housing Association with 125,000 homes and 300,000 residents.  Phil is responsible for Clarion’s charitable subsidiary Clarion Futures which delivers a wide ranging socio/economic development programme for social housing residents and...

Jim is a respected Digital Transformation and Internet of Things industry expert, with over 20 years’ experience of strategy consulting, operations management and telecoms research.  Previously he was a Founder and the Chief Research Officer of Machina Research, the world's leading IoT analyst ...

William joined WiredScore ahead of the company’s London launch, in partnership with the Mayor of London, in October 2015. William won EG’s Rising Stars Award and Property Week’s Young Personality of the Year Award in 2016 with his UK business partner, Tom Redmayne. William began his career at...

Dr. Rick Robinson is Director of Smart Places, Digital Infrastructure and Telecommunications at Jacobs, having previously worked as the Leader of Arup’s Digital Property and Cities business. He advises cities, infrastructure operators, property developers and investors on the use of technology to...

Jonathan joined our management team having previously worked in a strategy consulting firm focusing on Telecoms, Media and Technology. With over 25 years’ industry experience, Jonathan has been brought into the role to help deliver accelerated growth plans, working with sales, marketing and...

With over 35 years of experience in IT, Andy is an award-winning business technologist holding a special interest in the evolution of new technologies in the interconnected world.Andy is responsible for BT's Digital Manufacturing Strategy, his goal being to help his customers exploit and scale...

Martin leads SSE Enterprise Telecoms’ Public Sector engagement.  Martin has over 30 years’ experience in the ICT services industry, most recently at BT, where he worked with a wide range of UK Government departments, including: HM Revenue and Customs; The Department for Business, Skills and...

Dimitra Simeonidou is a Full Professor at the University of Bristol, the Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, and the Director of the Smart Internet Lab.  Her research is focusing in the fields of high performance networks, programmable networks, wireless-optical...

Philip Steele is the Future Technologies Evangelist at Octopus Energy where he researches, experiments & launches innovative new Energy Tech solutions such as half-hourly time-of-use import and export tariffs, integration to world leading platforms such as IFTTT and Amazon Alexa, and various...

As joint founder and Managing Director of Be* Un limited, the record-breaking 24 Meg broadband provider of 2006, Dana took the business from start to launch in just six months. By placing the consumer at the heart of success, and generally refusing to take no for an answer, Dana has been building...

Simon Warburton is the Transport Strategy Director at TfGM, leading on the development of a forward transport policy, investment and funding strategy that will support the city region's ambitious growth programme and dovetail with major national interventions including HS2 and Northern...

Tom’s role at Newcastle is to lead the policy, communications, economic development, culture & events and public health functions.  In this role he takes a lead role in all council policy matters including digital transformation, smart cities and climate change. Tom is also chair of the New...

Crissi Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals. She first joined the organisation in 2011 and worked across a variety of functions, making her uniquely placed to step into the Chief Executive role in 2016. Prior to joining the ITP, Crissi worked...