OUR FULL SPEAKER LINE-UP   

With a background firmly in CSPs, Paul now leads Nokia’s marketing and government relations in the UK&I, and Nokia software marketing across Europe.  Starting his career at Cable and Wireless, then at Colt during start-up, Paul subsequently moved to Newbridge Networks and Alcatel, where he...

Ian is a Principal at Analysys Mason and one of its leading experts in broadband, with extensive experience in developing policies, building network cost models, appraising commercial models and designing delivery strategies. He has managed over 40 broadband projects for public authorities that...

Arun Bansal was Senior Vice President and Head of Business Unit Network Products from April 2016 to March 2017. Prior to that role he was Head of Business Unit Radio from 2014 to 2016, and from 2010 to 2014 he was Head of Region South East Asia and Oceania.Bansal joined Ericsson in 1995 and has...

Aimee is Innovation Lead in BEIS’s Smart Meter Implementation Programme. She is responsible for policy development supporting data innovation and integrated smart energy looking across the nexus of telecoms, IT and the energy sector. Before joining Government, Aimee worked with Internet of Things...

WIG is an independent wireless infrastructure operator with a portfolio of over 2,200 shared infrastructure assets including communication towers, indoor networks and fibre.  WIG pioneered the neutral host business model in the UK market and its networks now serve offices, hotels, retail and other...

As London’s first Chief Digital Officer, Theo will play a leading role in realising the Mayor’s ambition to make London the world’s smartest city, ensuring that the capital’s status as a global tech hub helps transform the way public services are designed and delivered, making them more...

Richard Bourne is the CEO of StrattoOpencell. Richard has been a tech company leader for 20 years and has spent the last decade innovating in the in-building wireless sector at two telecoms start-ups. First through Ubiquisys who pioneered small cells and then Stratto which Richard helped found and...

Meri Braziel is Managing Director of Student and Residential and Group COO at Glide, a communications, internet, and utilities service provider to public and private sector organisations across the UK. Key markets include higher education, purpose built student and keyworker accommodation, and...

Randolph is the Head of Innovation & Development at the Energy Networks Association, and has over eight years of experience in the electricity and energy sector in the UK, Europe and Australia. Randolph is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a broad range of strategic...

Jeff Brown is the Director of Global Field Marketing for Calix.  His responsibilities include driving strategy and positioning for 5G, Next Gen PON, and Software driven network and Unified Access Architecture solutions to strategic global and innovative disrupter network operators.  . Previous to...

Sara Budge is Programme Director for Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband and is currently on secondment from Scottish Enterprise.Over 30 years ICT industry experience in strategy, commercial and programme management and leadership  has equipped her to successfully lead the Digital Scotland...

Ben Carpenter is the chief executive of Social Value UK and Social Value International leading a global network of practitioners to develop principles and standards for social value accounting.Ben is part of the National Social Value Taskforce and the British Standards Industry committee for Social ...

Professor Jyoti Choudrie is a Professor of Information Systems in University of Hertfordshire’s Hertfordshire Business School. She is affiliated with the Management, Leadership and Organisation (MLO) department. She co-leads the Managing Complex Change research unit and is known as the...

Charlotte Collyer Heart of the South West Digital Skills Partnership Manager. My background is Digital, Business & Community and this role brings together my enthusiasm for helping individuals and communities keep pace and be their 'digital best' for productivity and good. Previously...

Ian is a Director with Plum Consulting, with over twenty years of experience in strategy and technology consulting in the telecoms and digital sectors.Formerly with PwC Strategy Consulting (TMT) London, Coopers & Lybrand MCS (Telecoms) London, and with extensive industry / international...

Jon is CDO for the City of Salford leading an ambitious vision to position Salford as a truly Digital City across infrastructure, inclusivity, skills, enterprise, health and smart city integration. He will determine strategy, priorities, themes and investment areas that will make a difference to...

David has broad international general management experience having worked across a number of sectors and regions. David has been at Arqiva 5 years, initially running the Satellite & Media business which included providing satellite data solutions to remote locations; he currently runs Arqiva’s...

Ian Cunningham is Zayo’s Senior Vice President, overseeing the European sales team. Ian joins Zayo with extensive experience in both the telecommunications and technology sectors, having held high profile roles at Experian, Vodafone and BT over the past 20+ years. Ian has successfully built and...

Fiona Deans is Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Government Digital Service (GDS). She has worked in digital for 20 years and joined GDS from Barbour Logic, an organisation that provided local government with automated software solutions, where she was Managing Director.Prior to that role, Fiona ...

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...

David has over 30 years’ experience in the water industry and joined Wessex Water in 1985. David has held a number of posts over his career, including 20 years in operations.  He was appointed a Director of Wessex Water in 2007. David has recently been appointed Chief Innovation Officer, an...

Tim Ensor is Commercial Director for Cambridge Consultant’s Artificial Intelligence capability. Tim works with clients across many sectors to help them achieve business impact with world-changing AI technology innovation. Tim has had a string of commercial leadership roles working in fields...

Matthew is CEO of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the government-industry forum tackling strategic issues across the converging broadband value chain. Matthew joined the BSG in April 2014 and has led work on future bandwidth demand modelling and industry input to the Government’s Digital...

Jean-François (JF) Fava-Verde is Innovation Lead (Digital) in the Artificial Intelligence & Data Economy division of Innovate UK, part of UK Research & Innovation. He works with businesses, the research community and across government to turn innovation into economic impact. In this...

Ehsan has joined Cisco in 2010 as consulting engineer. He achieved number of expert level Cisco certifications with wealth of experience in architect, design and operating of carrier class networks. Ehsan has delivered number projects for the UK’s critical national infrastructure in transportation...

John has been with Citizens Online since its formation in 2000, and with 19 years’ experience working on Digital Inclusion is recognised as an expert in his field. He is responsible for business development, growth and governance. He has been a member of more steering groups and task forces than...

Grant Forsyth is a Partner at Plum, having spent over 20 years leading corporate in-house teams addressing telecommunications policy and regulatory challenges. Prior to joining Plum he focused on strategy, policy and regulation of communications and the Internet as part of Sky’s Strategic Planning...

Until 2016 Maxine was Senior Partner Networks at Ofgem overseeing all aspects of regulation of the gas and electricity networks. She is now an independent consultant and thought leader working through her own company Grid Edge Policy and as an Associate with the charity Sustainability First. In...

Head of collaboration at the Swedish Lokal Fibre Alliance, former board member. Experience as a business developer and marketing manager at the lokal fibre network in the municipality of Västerås.

Kate is responsible for the One Digital Community of Practice, supporting both the internal and external sharing of digital inclusion learning arising from the One Digital programme and projects.  The Community of Practice also facilitates digital inclusion projects from across the UK to come...

Avi is the Head of Digital Inclusion Policy and Diversity in Tech at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Before working in government he spent two years in and around the Israeli tech R & D ecosystem and also worked for 10 years in international NGO's building educational...

Prior to joining the National Infrastructure Commission, Phil Graham worked on many of the UK’s most important infrastructure projects for the Department for Transport. He led the development of the government’s high speed rail strategy from its inception and took it through one of the country’s...

Svetlana has over 20 years of experience in mobile industry. She has been a part of the GSMA’s IoT / Connected Living Program since 2009, working on the development of the Embedded Mobile Guidelines and managing the Smart Energy and Smart Cities market development projects.  Thereafter, Svetlana...

Tracy Green is an independent Agile and digital delivery consultant, coach, trainer and strategist. Her focus is on helping organisations to take full advantage of the opportunities of the internet age, giving people the skills they need, and creating the right environment to deliver...

Hans has broad experience of Mobile networks having worked in the area for 20 plus years in countries such as Sweden, China and the UK. As Head of Radio Networks for Europe and Latin America at Ericsson, Hans spends most of his time talking to mobile operators across the Market Area.

Matthew Hare OBEMatthew is the founder and Chief Executive of full fibre operator Zzoomm plc.  Zzoomm builds and operates new full fibre infrastructure in towns and suburbs across the UK delivering high quality broadband at up to 10Gbps to homes and businesses.  Matthew founded Zzoomm at the end of ...

James is a Managing Director of Infracapital, the infrastructure investment arm of M&G Prudential.  James has over 16 years of infrastructure investment, and advisory experience.  Infracapital has four funds under management targeting European infrastructure with over 30 current...

Kerry Harrison is the Regional Coordinator leading Lancashire’s Digital Skills Partnership (LDSP).Before taking up her new position she was a Curriculum Manager across a range of subjects at a Lancashire College, and led digital skills development and innovation for the large staff body of the...

A highly experienced management consultant and business director, specialising in the telecoms industry.  He has held senior posts in management consultancy, business and marketing management, and has extensive international experience as a consultant.    He specialises in the identification and...

David is the CEO and founder of Mentor, a professional services business specialising in delivery of complex business-critical programs. He’s a hard-core specialist in program execution - winning the trust of many CEOs across industry with his battle-tested execution wisdom. A down-to-earth...

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.  ...

Neil has track record of helping company’s accelerate top line growth by redesigning their business models, creating strategies to enter new markets and territories and by speeding up the introduction of new products and services. He blends his analytical and problem solving skills (honed while...

Martin has experience of building success under for profit and NfP governance regimes and his 25 years senior leadership experience and 13 years working with organisations with purpose offers a unique insight into the sector. Martin has worked with organisations in and out of the sector in a...

Tracey is Chief Information Officer and Managing Director of the Parliamentary Digital Service. A joint department of both Houses of Parliament, the Digital Service is responsible for the strategic direction of Parliament’s digital offering, transforming ways in which citizens can connect with...

Gavin Jones is a senior executive who has always worked in companies innovating in industries going through major technologically led change.  For the last 15 years he has worked in the Energy Industry around the development of Smart Energy and Smart Grids.  This included responsibility for growing ...

Connie is a senior programme manager at Essex County Council and leads the Superfast Essex programme, part of the Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme working to increase access to superfast broadband nationwide. So far the Superfast Essex programme has enabled 120,000 Essex homes and businesses...

Darren heads up FarrPoint’s Policy Practice designed to engage meaningfully with policymakers and key influencers to make a positive impact on Digital Inclusion and ultimately Social Inclusion.   Darren currently  represents FarrPoint at the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Digital...

James set up Host in Scotland as part of his role within Scottish Futures Trust ("SFT"). James leads SFT's work in the International Connectivity, Datacentres and Internet Exchange space. James is passionate about growing the Scottish market and identified the need for an umbrella...

Appointed as Sector Director for Enterprise, Steve’s objective is to develop our go to market strategy for large enterprises across the UK. As SSE Enterprise Telecoms continues to grow it is essential we continue to deliver class-leading services to large enterprises who have very unique and...

Appointed as Sector Director for Enterprise, Steve’s objective is to develop our go to market strategy for large enterprises across the UK. As SSE Enterprise Telecoms continues to grow it is essential we continue to deliver class-leading services to large enterprises who have very unique and...

Simon Leather is the Head of Product Development for TalkTalk Business. He oversees the product management team, covering Broadband and Ethernet. He has been working in the telecoms industry for over 15 years and is passionate about digital transformation.“

Yannick Leboyer is VP of Fiber Solutions Europe. He leads our product, business development and operations teams across Europe. Yannick joined Zayo in 2018 with the target to accelerate our revenue growth and our network expansion. His teams are engaged on multiple network expansion projects in...

Yan Li is the IoT Business Manager at China Unicom Global, responsible for developing the EMEA region. We help Smart Solutions of European companies to enter the Chinese market, as well as enable Chinese enterprise to deliver their Smart Products abroad. We provide eSIM (eUICC) based global...

John has been involved in the communications industry for over 20 years. He currently holds the Commercial Director - Water position at Arqiva. With accountability for Product, Business Development, Sales and Commercial functions as Arqiva looks to build on its reputation in the M2M market. Already ...

Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist has a broad background in engineering and business development of ISP and worldwide carrier networks. He has spent the past 20 years working actively in the Internet community in several varied roles.From 2002 to 2015 he was the CEO of Netnod. Kurt Erik has been the...

Lewis is a Researcher at the Institute for Government, an independent, non-partisan think tank working to make government more effective. He is currently working on the IfG’s Digital programme, considering how government can use technology more effectively in policy making and public service...

As head of telecoms and mobile at Cambridge Consultants, Derek leads the company’s collaboration within the sector. Central to Derek’s role at Cambridge Consultants is helping create breakthrough innovation that transforms the delivery of high-performance communication for their partners; from...

Carlos joined Prysmian Spain in 1995, after finalising a MBA in ESADE Business School (Barcelona). Carlos began his career in the finance department, becoming financial controller of the company in 2005. In 2010 he was promoted to Procurement and IT Director, always in Prysmian Spain. In 2012 he...

Iagan is the Head of Policy at Smart Energy GB, the body charged with public engagement of the smart meter rollout and encouraging behaviour change among energy consumers. Iagan leads on all policy positions and interventions that will create and environment for the greater uptake of smart meters...

Daniel is Programme Director for Economy & Infrastructure, managing and representing members across multiple sectors. Daniel also leads on projects relating to the digital and utility sectors as well as issues surrounding the funding and financing of infrastructure. Before joining London...

Derek was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Telefónica UK Limited in January 2011 and is responsible for customer service, network, IT, cross business transformation, fraud & security and property for the Group. Derek has 34 years' experience in the telecommunications industry in various ...

Raf Meersman is the CEO and co-owner of Comsof, a software company which has developed Comsof Fiber. Comsof Fiber is GIS-based automated planning and design software for FTTx deployment. Raf has over 20 years of experience in FTTx planning and design software. He is currently project manager of the ...

With over 35 years of telecom, internet and technology-based experience, Greg is expert at business plan development, management team building and the capital formation of high growth, communications infrastructure companies.As one of the founders of Esat Telecom in Ireland – which sold to BT for...

Adam leads Good Things Foundation’s Digital Social Inclusion directorate, which includes responsibility for a range of programmes and projects that help people to improve their lives through digital. Adam leads on growing new partnerships, and ensuring the activity we deliver has real impact on the ...

Guy’s career has seen him work in all aspects of the communications industry, from customer to reseller to wholesaler and now carrier. Through this journey, he has gained a breadth of knowledge, vital in helping TalkTalk operate with the end customers and partners in mind. He is now Director of...

As Sector Director for Network Operators, Sarah joins SSE Enterprise Telecoms with over 15 years of mobile network experience. Prior to joining us she worked for 8 years at O2 UK followed by 7 years with Telefonica Global Solutions, leading business development and strategy across Latin...

Helen Milner OBE is the Group Chief Executive of Good Things Foundation, an international social change charity whose mission is a world where everyone can benefit from digital. Good Things Foundation works with thousands of hyper-local community partners to help people make the most of...

Ravi graduated with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Construction Management & Engineering and has received numerous awards from the CIOB, BeC and for construction and project management during his career. Ravi has worked solely within the wireless industry for 20 years and developed a trusted...

Stephen is an experienced Civil Engineer who has procured, designed and delivered multi-million pound infrastructure projects across the UK. In previous roles he led Kirklees Council’s road adoptions team working with planning, highways and development control to negotiate and approve hundreds of...

Kevin is responsible for the delivery of fibre and network infrastructure for all our residential and business customers Before OpenreachKevin began his career with Ericsson before joining the start-up cable TV industry as it rapidly expanded in Britain. As director of TV and media for NTL, Kevin...

Denis Onuoha is the Chief Information Security Officer at Arqiva LTD, a major UK infrastructure company which supports 40% of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure spanning the Broadcast, Finance, Energy and Utility markets; including the communications network for the world’s most advanced...

Iwan is Market Development Lead for New Mobility at TRL (the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory), providing a leading role in the development of TRL’s connected & automated vehicles and mobility technology projects.   This has included includes projects on automated last mile mobility and...

Leeland has 25 years experience within the telecoms industry, currently as CEO of Optimity, a business that specialises in fast connectivity & other managed IT services to various sectors including the commercial property sector.  Before Optimity, he was Chief Operations Officer at Zayo, and a...

Graham Payne is CEO of The Freshwave Group and uniquely placed to comment on mobile networks and services. Advisor to global mobile connectivity groups, Graham previously provided executive level support to Vodafone on the Beacon project with Telefonica and CTIL, was the former key negotiator and...

Redmond Peel founded Airband in 2009 and has grown it rapidly to its current incarnation as one of the UK’s largest rural broadband providers, specialising in delivering high speed broadband to rural and remote areas, and business parks.   Before Airband, Redmond was a pioneer in the emerging...

Xavier Priem currently holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at University of Bristol for the Smart Internet Lab (Smart). Together with Smart’s Director Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou, he is in charge of co-defining a long-term vision (horizon 2040) and developing the research, funding and...

On 1 February 2018, William was appointed a Director in the Cabinet Office and CEO of the newly formed Geospatial Unit. In addition, he is a member of the Geospatial Commission, an independent, cross government agency that will set policy for, and drive the UK geospatial agenda, reporting up into...

Wendy is the Digital Infrastructure and Smart City Lead for Aberdeen City Council.  Her work includes running the Digital programme for Aberdeen’s City Region Deal.   The City Region Deal provides the opportunity to create a sustainable infrastructure from which the region can transform into a...

Andrew has spent the predominant part of his career in technology infrastructure sectors driving business transformation for enterprise clients and major cities.He first got involved with Here East in 2011 as a founding member team and successfully acquired a 200-year lease from the London Legacy...

David started his career as a technology recruiter, and spent a decade exploring the role people play in shaping the sector. 3 years’ ago he felt that there was a lack of content available for leaders in the space, nothing explored the challenges they face without adding an instagram gloss to...

Tony Sceales (pronounced Scales) is the Sector Coordination Lead on the DCMS 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme.Tony has spent over 25 years in the telecoms and technology industries, working on major projects at global firms including BT, IBM, Telstra, KPN, Swisscom, Prudential and China Gas, as...

Richard Sinclair MBE is Executive Director, Connectivity, at Virgin Media, responsible for broadband, WiFi and associated products. He was previously General Manager, Ultrafast Broadband at TalkTalk PLC, running the technological and commercial deployment of TalkTalk’s FTTP network. Richard was...

Rosalind Singleton is the Chair of the UK5G Innovation Network Advisory Board. She is also the Managing Director at UK Broadband and has previously held senior roles at multiple wired and wireless international operators from start-ups to incumbents, and specialised in business design and...

James is a passionate business developer and strategist across the energy, services and digital / connectivity sectors. With over 12 years of experience working within ENGIE he is a strong leader with a continuous improvement mindset and keen strategic outlook; Extensive track record in large scale ...

Dr. Emma Stone is Director of Design, Research and Communications at Good Things Foundation, helping to ensure the organisation is delivering programmes and informing policy and practice in an informed, evidence and user led way. Before working at Good Things Foundation, Emma worked at Joseph...

She is currently Head of Internet of Things Sales (IoT) at O2, Telefonica UK, where she leads a dedicated team. Vinnett is a recognised IoT  thought leader and a regular speaker at Government policy and industry conferences. She represents O2 for several Government-funded project boards, Driven...

Eugenie's role focuses on building strong partnerships with leaders and organisations in cities across the south, west and east of England, finding opportunities to support projects that are fast-tracking the future of travel—making it more sustainable, affordable, reliable and...

Dr Charles Trotman is Chief Economist at the CLA, a national rural trade association representing 30,000 members in England and Wales. Together with his overall responsibility for rural economic policy, he is responsible for telecommunications policy and chairs the rural industry Rural Connectivity ...

Jason has worked in digital leadership roles in Leeds Libraries for over ten years.  He is currently leading the city’s “100% Digital Leeds” digital inclusion programme.  100% Digital Leeds is increasing the digital confidence, capacity and connectivity of organisations across Leeds with the...

Gerlas van den Hoven started his career at Philips Research in the area of semiconductor optical amplifiers. He worked as product line manager for optical amplification at JDS Uniphase, where he was the JDSU Netherlands management team. After JDSU, Gerlas worked for Genoa Corporation as VP...

Stephen was appointed Chief Executive, UK and Ireland in March 2016. He has been with Sky for 12 years and has delivered much of the product diversification strategy that Sky embarked on over the last decade, either leading or was part of the launch team that delivered Sky Broadband and Talk, Sky...

Matthew Vickerstaff is the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Head of Government’s Project Delivery Function.Previously, Matthew spent over 10 years at Société Générale, leading teams responsible for advisory, banking, equity investment and the capital...

Ian is a Partner at Mentor, a professional services business specialising in delivery of complex business-critical programs. He is an experienced Telco executive with a proven track record of developing and implementing pragmatic strategies that deliver concrete results. Ian believes solid...

Julian Watson is the senior principal analyst of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity research at IHS Markit. He is responsible for analyzing IoT technologies, applications and business models. Prior to this, Julian was Director of Operators research with IHS Technology’s Mobile and Telecom...

Chris Welby is Head of Regulation at Bristol Energy, an Independent energy supplier wholly owned by Bristol City Council.  Bristol Energy’s mission is to deliver sustainable energy whilst helping those in fuel poverty. This includes working with other stakeholders to create a smart energy city for...

Evan Wienburg is co-founder and CEO of TrueSpeed, a full fibre infrastructure and broadband provider focused on providing a futureproof, full fibre broadband solution for homes and businesses across the South West of England. In July 2017, Evan secured a £75 million investment from Aviva to deploy...

Sean is Chairman of G.Network, Chairman of Grain Connect, a founder shareholder of Nosy Crow and a Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group. He was formerly Chief Strategy Officer and member of the Operating Committee of BT Group plc (2008-17), an executive board member and competition partner ...

Paul is a Senior Manager with broad experience across the UK Telecoms industry, having worked on Infrastructure delivery programs for a number of the UKs leading providers. Paul’s experience covers the full range of Network deployments, from ultra rural deployments in the far reaches of Scotland...

Tim leads the Technology Strategy team in the Wireless and Digital Services Division. He has 20 years' experience in the high-tech sector, ranging from product development to commercial strategy. He has worked with both large and small organisations around the world, and on applications of...

Eric Woods is a research director leading Navigant Research’s coverage of smart cities. In this role, he brings together his research experience across the energy, mobility, buildings, and government technology sectors.  As well as authoring a series of ground-breaking research reports on the smart ...

Ben Woods is the technology, media and telecoms correspondent for The Sunday Times. He reports on areas such as the newspaper industry, digital connectivity, artificial intelligence and the business of sport.