Kye is responsible for Major Impact Initiatives with AI Sweden, currently focusing on accelerating applied AI in Swedish healthcare and Media & Democracy.  He is also a delegate of the Swedish AI Council, as well as the Nordic AI Alliance, holds an innovation Grand Prix Winner from Cannes Lions, and has 20 years of experience in digital transformation, international advertising, PR, PA and product and service development. 

Kye is convinced that AI will change our world more than any other technology we have seen before. That AI will save millions, and improve the lives of billions. That AI will fundamentally impact health, food production, energy, business and creativity. Everywhere. Across the planet. AI will allow us to do things we haven’t even thought were possible. He is a frequent public speaker and works regularly with international AI organisations and communities across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.

Simone’s focus is on driving industry adoption of AI. At Digital Catapult she leads commercial engagement and strategy for AI and ML.  She works with industry and the start-up and scale-up ecosystems to champion AI and ML innovation and experimentation in the UK across the manufacturing and creative sectors as it relates to optimisation, sustainability, and resilience.  Simone has over 14 years of experience in technology consulting and strategy at tier 1 management consultancies where she led programmes in the US, UK, and sub-Saharan Africa and developed a variety of technology commercial offerings.

Matthew is a committee member of the Young Professionals at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce. He is the Head of Product at British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), an independent, not-for-profit organisation, here to help everyone in the UK choose age-appropriate films, videos and websites. In his role he forms the product strategy and manages the delivery of innovative solutions using the latest technology (Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)) to support and enhance the BBFC's classification work. Matthew is also a member of the Artificial Intelligence committee in both the British Standards Institute and International Standards Organisation. Prior to the BBFC, he has managed product development at several companies and run his own tech startup. He studied International Business at the University of Hertfordshire.

Tech entrepreneur, political advisor and investor Aurore Belfrage spends her time in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and international affairs. She’s an Industrial Advisor to Europe’s leading PE house EQT, she’s a syndicated columnist with leading Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and a contributor to Politico, she writes, vlogs and hosts a podcast on pressing issues like the environment, geopolitics, ethics, governance and labor/future of work. Born in London, raised partly there as well as in Saudi and Sweden, with previous lives in venture capital with EQT Ventures, scrap dealing at Stena Metall, speechwriting and attempts at stand up comedy.

Carlo Biggio is a Venture Capital Investor at Accel Partners, who focuses particularly on financial technology and SaaS businesses. Prior to joining Accel, he worked for the investment team of Anthemis Group, a fintech-focused venture capital fund and Rocket Internet. Carlo holds an MSc in Finance from Bocconi University and the Rotterdam School of Management, with a focus on investment valuation.

Julie is known internationally for driving the ethical framework development at Yoti digital identity platform. Leading regulatory and government relations for Yoti, she develops policy approaches for fraud prevention and safeguarding, liases with national and sectoral trust frameworks, in conjunction with Yoti's internal and external ethics boards.

Julie is an authority in digital identity policy, ethics and governance, representing Yoti at numerous fora such as the World Economic Forum Digital Identity Innovators; techUK Public Sector, Data Ethics and Digital Identity Boards, ADA Citizens Biometric Council Oversight Board, the All Party Parliamentary Group for Digital Identity and the EU SHERPA Stakeholder Board.

Vinoth is a Partner at Draper Esprit, having joined the team in 2016. Prior to that he worked at a boutique management consulting firm in London and was an angel investor in various startups.

He leads Fintech investing at Draper Esprit, leading investments into companies like Thought Machine, Form3, PrimaryBid, Revolut, Freetrade and Ravelin. He is focused on investing against a thesis that is built around the future of financial services covering how people interact with money, all the way through to the infrastructure software behind the architecture of banks.

Magda joined Balderton in 2018. She is a principal and responsible for the Nordics, with a particular interest in fintech. Prior to Balderton, Magda was at Goldman Sachs, starting in the financing group, and later moved to the Consumer, Retail & Healthcare M&A team. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Magda was involved in Swedish politics and worked in start-ups. Magda has an MSc in Business & Economics from Lund University. 

After studying for his Bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations, and his Master’s in Politics and History at the University of Nottingham, Josh moved to France for ski season before joining a travel risk management firm on the south coast of the UK. There he spent two years helping coordinate global travel projects and emergency response tasks before moving on in 2019 to cycle from Bordeaux to Florence. Josh was looking for an organisation that would have a real impact on the world, which led him to join what3words. Outside of work, he likes keeping up to date with international affairs, chasing the snow in winter and the sun in summer.

Hamid Zarghampour is currently responsible for the Swedish Transport Administration’s strategies and related activities for the introduction of connected and automated road transports. It includes coordination of the ongoing national projects and collaboration with the EU member states in various areas of connected and automated road transports. Mr. Zarghampour started his career at the Swedish Road Administration about 25 years ago and has worked within the field of transport planning in general and road asset management in particular. He has also been actively working for the implementation of innovative solutions, encouraging sustainable development globally. Since 2013, he has mainly worked with research and innovation within the field of connected and automated transports.

Harry built and runs Tech Nation's Applied AI programme, a Government-backed initiative to support the UK's leading AI companies as they scale. The first cohort included companies like SenSat, which closed $10m with Tencent, and Latent Logic, which was acquired by Waymo. Previously, Harry was Head of Investment at Wayra, Telefonica's startup accelerator, and managed a number of different programmes across the country, including the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator.

Peter Sandberg is Managing Director at the Swedish Chamber of Commerce since 2018. He holds an MSc in Political Science and Economics from Lund University and has previously worked in press and communications roles at the Swedish Embassy and Chamber of Commerce in London respectively. He has worked at the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce in New York City as Director of Program and VP, and when returning to London, joined the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association where he was part of the management team in his role as Director of Commercial Development & Membership.

Rikard is currently CEO of GoodTrust and Senior Advisor for Autonomous Electric Transport company Einride. Former President of Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality at HTC, built Viveport which is the world’s first and only “Netflix of VR” subscription service. Before joining HTC, Rikard successfully built up several international businesses in Video on Demand and eSports, as the CEO for MTGx. At Google, he was Global Marketing Director of Ads, Mobile and Social Advertising and prior to this ran marketing for all Google’s products in Europe. Rikard is the founder of Europe's largest Women in Tech event. He is a future Astronaut with Virgin Galactic.

Having exited his first start-up (123-registration) at 19, team leader William Sachiti (34) has since founded and exited 3 businesses including Clever Bins, a business he pitched aged 24 on the BBC Dragon’s Den show. Before he turned his attention to AI and robotics his last business, MyCityVenue was acquired by Secret Escapes in 2015.

Whilst studying at the University of Aberystwyth, William invented world’s first AI robot librarian. He has since devised several patents on driverless vehicle technology, including drone delivery systems such as SkyHighway, but is now focused on ground-based solutions to the challenge of last-mile delivery. Under his leadership, Academy of Robotics has developed Kar-go, a fully operational self-driving car that can deliver packages.

Magnus Strand is associate professor of European law and senior lecturer in commercial law at Uppsala University. He is also director of research in the law and business unit at the Department of Business Studies, managing two research projects on the use of artificial intelligence in the financial markets (FinTech and RegTech, respectively). Both projects are funded by The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program — Humanities and Society (WASP-HS).