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Janneke Niessen is a founding partner at CapitalT, an entrepreneur who has started and exited two international technology companies, and an angel investor and board member. She co-initiated InspiringFifty, an initiative to raise the visibility of female role models in technology, authored The New Girl Code, and helped launch #Fundright to improve diversity in venture capital. She advises the government and writes and speaks on technology, talent, investing, and diversity.

Aurore Belfrage is a tech investor, political advisor, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and international affairs. In 2011 she co-founded the gift card startup Wrapp, which counted Skype founder Niklas Zennström and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman as early investors. Her background includes venture capital at EQT Ventures, an industrial advisory role at EQT, and work at Stena Metall, and she hosts a podcast covering environment, geopolitics, governance, and technology.

Corinne Vigreux is a co-founder of TomTom, the navigation technology company focused on mobility, autonomous driving, and smart cities. She founded CODAM, a tuition-free coding college in Amsterdam modeled on Paris's Ecole 42, and advocates for education and social mobility. She serves on the supervisory boards of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD.

Ebi Atawodi leads product management at YouTube and has previously led product teams at Netflix and Uber, with earlier roles at Etisalat and a background as a full stack engineer. She holds a master's in computer science from Imperial College London and a bachelor's in engineering focused on artificial intelligence and information visualisation. As an operating partner at CapitalT, she supports portfolio companies on product-related matters.

Garry Turkington is a technology industry veteran with 20 years of experience building and leading software development teams, specializing in distributed systems and large-scale data processing. He previously served as CTO at Improve Digital and led software teams at Amazon.co.uk, and earlier held government roles in the UK and USA. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Queens University Belfast and a MEng in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and has authored books on Hadoop.

Marta Krupinska leads Google's UK startup support organisation, having taken on the role in December 2018, where she runs residency programmes for growth companies with an emphasis on diversity. She co-founded the fintech startup Azimo in 2012 and later co-founded FreeUp.io, an ethical fintech firm acquired by Greensill in October 2019, and served as entrepreneur in residence at govtech accelerator Public. She is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University.

Seb Goddijn is an engineer and investor who moved from Europe to study Computer Science at Stanford. He previously spent a year at 8VC, an early-stage fund in San Francisco, where he worked with CTO Bhaskar Ghosh and invested in technically focused companies. He focuses on technical teams working on hard problems and has a network spanning Europe and the United States.