Masahiro (Hiro) Ono is the Group Leader of the Robotic Surface Mobility Group. His broad interest is centered around the application of autonomy for space missions, with an emphasis on enhancing the safety, efficiency, and performance of robotic mobility though the applications of risk-aware decision making and machine learning.

Since he joined JPL in 2013, he has led a number of research projects on Mars rover autonomy, as well as three NIAC studies on Enceladus Vent Explorer (Phase I and II) and Comet Hitchhiker (Phase I). Hiro was a flight software developer of M2020's Enhanced AutoNav and the lead of M2020 Landing Site Traversability Analysis. He also led the development of a machine learning-based Martian terrain classifier, SPOC (Soil Property and Object Classification), which won JPL's Software of the Year Award in 2020.

Claire is the UK Network and Edge Group Sales Director at Intel. She is passionate about partnering with customers to develop and scale technology that improves the life of everyone on the planet.

With over 20 years in the industry, Claire has a wealth of experience to bring to her business engagements. She has a highly technical background in ASIC design and FPGA development and has recently been elected Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Away from work she is keen to inspire the next generation into a career in STEM and is a Governor at a local school.

Richard is an experienced leader with a track record of building teams and delivering solutions. Starting at Plantronics, then Poly, and now at HP, Richard was an early adopter of hybrid working and the benefits this brings to individuals and business. His experience covers innovation, product launches, and thought leadership across telecommunications hardware – headsets and phones, and systems - unified communications and contact centers.

Simon Pearson is Professor of Agri-Food Technology and Founding Director of the Lincoln Institute of Agri-Food Technology (LIAT).

LIAT are an interdisciplinary research group that delivers solutions for the agri food sector. A key focus of the research has been agri-robotics and digital systems to drive productivity. Simon's group were the academic leads on the Innovate UK Robot Highways programs that demonstrated 6 robotic applications on a single farm in 2022, one of the worlds largest commercial demonstrations of multi tasking robotics. Simon co-chaired the 2022 DEFRA Automation and Robotics Review for Horticulture with former SoS George Eustice.

Prior to joining Lincoln, Simon spent 15 years in industry working for Marks and Spencer pls and running a large farming company.

Paul has held various operational and sales positions within the robotics team at ABB. He currently manages the education sector and the collaborative product portfolio in the UK.

His background is in manufacturing engineering having spent 20 years with GKN Aerospace developing robotic manufacturing systems for safety critical components for civil and military aerospace programmes.

Currently Vice President of Sales for Nozomi Networks, Marcus is responsible for helping large industrial organisations and national critical infrastructures in EMEA to secure and monitor their OT & IoT networks.

Marcus has a long background in Cyber Security and Enterprise Networking and has built, over the past 13 years, several security practices across Northern Europe (Stockholm), UK&I (London) and the GCC. Prior to Nozomi Networks, he was the Cybersecurity lead at Cisco and served as the Director at Lancope for MEA and APAC.

Marcus holds a Master in Business and a BA in Informatics from the University of Lund.

Lisa is director of BT's Adastral Park and research realisation.

She is accountable for showcasing and commercialising the world class innovation and research at the Park to derive value for the business. She drives research into TV content and media and around connected smart technologies. She manages key partnerships with world-leading universities and industry in conjunction with research programmes to encourage and develop premier class expertise.

Lisa leads innovation Martlesham, a thriving tech cluster of 150+ companies. She actively promotes and drives an education enrichment programme, working with schools to encourage children and teachers to develop a love of technology.

As well as being chair of Tech East and co-chair of the University of Suffolk DigiTech Centre, Lisa is a board member of UEA's Productivity East and the Innovation board for New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, vice chair of East Suffolk Council Community Partnership Board and a trustee for Lapwing Education. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Suffolk.

He is a consultant colorectal surgeon at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich since 2014. He trained in Scotland, Southeast Thames London rotation for higher surgical training and RSO fellowship at St Mark's Hospital for a year and completed Ethicon sponsored laparoscopic fellowship at St Mark's Hospital and training in locally advanced rectal cancers including pelvic exenteration.

He leads Robotic colorectal surgery, locally advanced rectal cancer surgery and jointly leads anal cancer surgery. He is a European/UK robotic colorectal proctor and has supported starting robotic colorectal programs in numerous hospitals in the UK. In addition has published extensively in peer reviewed journals.

Jas Bhogal is currently the Director of UK Enterprise & Government Sales and is responsible for providing innovative solutions, together with partners, to enterprise customers across multiple industry verticals, public sector and Government.

Jas Bhogal joined Intel in 2001 and has held a variety of sales management positions. Prior to joining Intel Bhogal held sales and management positions at Cap Gemini.

Jas Bhogal holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB Hons) and a Master's Degree (MSc) in Business Information Systems and has also completed the International Executive Programme in General Management at INSEAD business school.

Hemachandra Bhat has 30+ years of industry experience in the development and deployment of products that include Computers, Integrated Circuits, Embedded Systems and AI / Robotics systems for consumer, automotive and industrial applications.

He is currently leading the development of Robotics platforms in the office of CTO of Wipro Limited. In this role he is responsible for strategy, development, deployment of Robotics platforms at scale. He has 3 patents granted.

Maria leads the Networks Research directorate in BT's Applied Research. Her team's mission is to identify and co-develop new technologies to enhance BT's networks and services in terms of capacity, efficiency, coverage, security and customer experience.

The research work programme led by Maria underpins BT's mid-to-long term best converged network vision. The role of her team is to develop new technologies to support future product and services, Maria also advices the business on the impacts of emerging network technologies, standards and regulation.

Her team's areas of research include 5G revenue opportunities and evolution into 6G, the convergence of cellular and Wi-Fi access, the application of AI and ML to network automation, virtualisation and disaggregation of network functions, the evolution of M-MIMO, future optical access and fibre technologies, low power network technologies as well as the applicability of emerging quantum technologies for telecoms amongst other areas.

Maria has worked in BT for 22 years, she has played multiple roles across design, architecture, technology strategy and research. During that time, she has been involved in a number of key transformational programmes and projects including all-IP transformation, spectrum acquisition and platform procurement amongst many others. She has also played a key role in standards and industry bodies, including ETSI, the GSMA and more recently the Telcom Infrastructure Project, where she is member of the Technical Committee. Maria was awarded the "Women in Telecoms" Award by the ITP and is now part of the Distinguished Engineers community within BT. Maria is also a Director in the Board of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).

Sarwar is the Global Head of Digital Sustainability for BT. He is responsible for integrating sustainability into the way we design, build, sell, market, and measure the performance of digital products and propositions as well helping BT Group accelerate its own journey to net zero alongside some of the other key sustainability commitments. Sarwar has been with BT since Jan 2020, starting off as Strategy Lead for our Enterprise Business.

Prior to joining BT, he worked for both SSE in the UK and E.ON residing in the Nordics and Germany for over 8 years leading on the development of non-core energy propositions for both residential and enterprise markets globally focused on digital decarbonisation solutions covering virtual power plants (VPP) and ancillary services, Solar PV and Battery storage, heat pumps and electric vehicle charging infrastructure and other distributed energy resources.

Sarwar is passionate about building a more sustainable and equitable world and firmly believes that digital and sustainable complement and accelerate each other and should be seen as inseparable growth drivers. He holds a Masters in Renewable Energy Technology from Loughborough University and an Executive MBA from Cranfield.

Ben is a consultant urological surgeon with a special interest in the minimally invasive treatments of prostatic diseases. He is the Guy's & St Thomas' MDM urological cancer and clinical robotics lead, a UK robotic surgery mentor and robotic fellowship director.

He trained at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, The Royal Marsden Hospital and with Professor Tony Costello at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was awarded the prestigious Rowan Nicks Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was the British Association of Urology (BAUS) Oncology Section Chairman 2018-20 and in 2019 was awarded the BAUS Golden Cystoscope for contributions to British urology within 10 years of consultant appointment. He is an RSM urology section committee member and was secretary 2019-20.

He has learnt both laparoscopic and robotic surgical approaches and performed the first randomised trial of telerobotics between Guy's and Johns Hopkins Hospitals, in 2002. This formed part of his Master of Surgery thesis on robotic surgery and telemedicine. Ben has been associate editor of the BJUI 2012-2020, with over 240 peer-reviewed publications (h index 39), 3 books, and 25 book chapters on minimally invasive and robotic urological techniques.

Brad Hayward is the Commercial Lead for the Expeditionary Robotics Centre of Expertise (ERCoE) within the Ministry of Defence. Based out of Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) in Abbey Wood, Bristol, the ERCoE is responsible for collating and cohering the approach towards Robotics, Autonomy and AI in partnership with, and delivering for, the British Army.

Brad is primarily the lead on the design and implementation of novel and agile Commercial approaches, to help mature and support the potential incorporation of these capabilities into service, at a tempo that affords the ability to remain relevant to the pace of technological change.

With a career in Defence spanning over 20 years, Brad has had a broad exposure in high tempo delivery roles, as a senior Engineering leader on in-service platforms such as Eurofighter Typhoon and Tornado GR4, safety management on in-service Maritime vessels, and more recently utilising these experiences to drive innovation into Project and Commercial processes for the British Army.

Through the successful delivery of a number of these agile and novel Commercial approaches at smaller scale, Brad and the ERCoE team have provided the necessary confidence to Army HQ and the Cabinet Office to embark on a 3-year, £300M project entitled Human Machine Teaming (HMT), which now looks to accelerate the experimentation with, and subsequent exploitation of, these technologies across both the MoD and other Governmental Departments.

A business development strategist with strong creative drive and 20 years of experience in the High Technology field. Focussed on Industry 4.0, leading innovation and digital transformation with some of the largest suppliers to the manufacturing sector.

John is also a digital business leader with substantial experience building, transforming and growing successful digital businesses with the world's major manufacturing brands. He brings a unique insight into the challenges of digital transformation in manufacturing.

Dave Pankhurst is Director of Drones at BT, part of Etc. the newly formed incubation arm of the business.

Dave is an accomplished senior leader with 20 years of experience in the telecommunications sector. Dave has built and grown BT's drones team over the last 4 years, creating the foundations for BT within the UK drone industry and developing capabilities through in house development and market leading partnerships. Prior to this Dave ran a product management team in BT, developing growth opportunities for corporate and public sector markets and previously worked as a Technology Partner within EE, driving complex change management programmes.

Dave sits on the Drone Industry Action Group (DIAG), and is one of the founding members of the Future Aviation Industry Working Group (FAIWG). Dave was responsible for BT's Future Flight Programme in Phase 2, with BT now in three projects in Phase 3.

Pippa joined the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in November 2020 as Deputy Director for Technology Strategy and Security.

Prior to this, Pippa was Head of the MOD Negotiations Hub, working on post-Brexit trade and security negotiations, and MOD preparations for leaving the EU. Previous jobs include Head of Lawfare at the MOD, secretary to the Defence Board, Deputy Director of the NATO Secretary General's office where she was responsible for deterrence and capability policy, and Private Secretary to the Minister for Defence Equipment. She is a Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies, and completed a Masters in International Security and Strategy in 2018.

After more of 20 years of experience in the telco and media industry (the last 10 as CTO of the Digital Division of one of the largest Italian publishers) in 2019 Luigi joined Bridgestone as IT Digital Innovation Leader.

He is actively contributing to the digital transformation of Bridgestone EMIA. He leads the IT team that supports the Bridgestone EMIA R&D operating in the European Technical Center located in Rome.

Business Development Manager - DTSCS – Dell Technologies Solutions Co-Creation Services

Rodrigo has 20 years+ experience in the technology industry in varying technical and commercial roles at Alcatel Lucent, Huawei and Vodafone. He has been with Dell since March 2020 in the Solutions Co-Creation team, part of Telecom Systems Business.

Rodrigo has managed the joint creation and joint go-to-market of several solutions with Dell's partners, including Private Wireless and Edge Compute solutions.

Simon leads the deployment of Digitalization and Robotics to DHL's logistics operations across the UK and Ireland.

With over 250 operations to support and the opportunities created by a global supplier network, making the right technology and investment choices is vital. Working with operations, IT, functional and commercial teams, the aim is to design, develop and deploy solutions that improve the employee experience and create value for DHL's customers. This includes digitalization of processes using software robots, apps and smartforms, the adoption of Internet of Things devices for asset monitoring, condition monitoring and shipment tracking as well as a wide range of innovative robotics including AMRs, AGVs and robot arms.

For the last 20 years Marc has run international technology businesses across a number of industries.

Having started his Telco career at 3, he spent 10 years on the Exec team of EE/ Orange UK where he built the Wholesale and IoT business. He then moved to become the GM Europe, Middle East and Africa for First Data, a 5,500 strong organisation which he helped transform from a payment processing to a merchant solutions company through Cloud based IoT solutions. Following this he ran the international operator business for Jasper, the world's largest IoT cloud platform before taking over as MD of the IoT business upon their acquisition by Cisco. Joining Sierra Wireless, a leading IoT device company, he became the Chief Solutions Officer where as well as running the international business he built the world's largest IoT MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) business.

He joined BT as Managing Director of Division X earlier this year. Responsible for establishing this new growth Division, he has both a portfolio of e2e businesses and is tasked with delivering solutions around 5G and IoT that enable businesses to accelerate their digital transformations.

Nikhil Malhotra is the Chief Innovation Officer and creator of Maker's Lab, a unique Thin-Q-Bator space within TechMahindra with 22+ years of experience. Nikhil is also a World Economic Forum AI Fellow working on responsible AI and Quantum ethics.

Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI, robotics and Quantum Computing research within Tech Mahindra. His area of personal research has been how quantum Computing and neuroscience would inspire the growth of AI. He consults various businesses and academic organizations on the future of AI and Quantum. He has won numerous awards including the 2020 and 2021 Innovation Congress award for most innovative leader in India.

Nikhil is also a TEDx speaker and an author of a best seller book - Courage, the journey of an innovator.

John J. Leonard is Samuel C. Collins Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

His research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Science from the University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (1994). He is an IEEE Fellow (2014).

Sertac Karaman is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) - interdepartmental research center committed to advancing research and education in the analytical information and decision sciences.

His research interests lie in the broad areas of robotics and control theory. In particular, he studies the applications of probability theory, stochastic processes, stochastic geometry, formal methods, and optimization for the design and analysis of high-performance cyber-physical systems.

The application areas of his research include driverless cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed aerial surveillance systems, air traffic control, certification and verification of control systems software, and many others.

He serves as the technical area chair for the Transactions on Aerospace Electronic Systems for the robotics area, a co-chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee of Algorithms for the Planning and Control of Robot Motion. He serves on the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Foundation Board and acts as the Secretary of the RSS Foundation. He is also co-founder of Optimus Ride, a Boston-based MIT-spinoff startup company that is developing self-driving vehicle technologies to enable accessible, equitable, safe and sustainable mobility for all.

Amanda is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College.

She has been honoured by numerous research awards, including an ERC Starting Grant, an Amazon Research Award, the EPSRC New Investigator Award, the Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Award, and several Best Paper awards. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) prize for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science. She serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL) and Associate Editor for Autonomous Robots (AURO). Prior to joining Cambridge, Amanda was a postdoctoral researcher at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, where she worked with Prof. Vijay Kumar. She completed her PhD at EPFL, Switzerland, with Prof. Alcherio Martinoli.

Mike Wilson has 40 years of experience in the application of automation to manufacturing across a broad range of industry sectors and is widely recognised as one of the leading authorities on the application of industrial robot systems in the UK.

Mike is Chief Automation Officer at the Manufacturing Technology Centre, leading the drive to increase the adoption of automation in UK manufacturing. He is also past Chairman of the British Automation and Robot Association, a Director of the Manufacturing Technologies Association and has previously been Chairman of the International Federation of Robotics. His book "Implementation of Robot Systems" was published in 2014.

Karol Janik is the Technology Manager for Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics at the Manufacturing Technology Centre.

He is responsible for the internal robotics and automation technology development strategy and is focused on the wide adoption of robotics, automation, and intelligent systems in manufacturing and hazardous environments. Karol has been working in Research & Development for nearly ten years in multiple industrial sectors including Aerospace, Agritech, Nuclear, Marine & Offshore, and General Manufacturing. He is an active member of the UK and European robotics community and organisations such as euRobotics focusing on developing technology strategy and roadmaps for future innovation programmes.

Alistair Duke is a Research Manager in the Future Smart Business Research Team at BT. His interests include the Internet of Things and drones and robotics. He has contributed to numerous projects in these fields including the Robot Highways and MK:5G projects and is currently leading the Innovate-UK funded In-DePTH project as part of the Future Flight programme.

He is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, has an MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering from Aston University and a PhD from Loughborough University.

Ismail AKA Ish has spent the last 15 years working in the Unified Comms space with most of his time spent on understanding how audio transforms the experience for users on contact centre platforms & cloud platforms. He recently joined Jabra GN having spent 11 years working for BT within voice devices business called BTUC.

Now equipped with a greater insight into how AI in audio and video are transforming how we operate with Hybrid working, Ish is somewhat now a subject matter expert who is always happy to have a conversation on how Jabra GN can help.

Ish is currently Head Of Telco for Jabra North EMEA team

Dr Duncan Russell is the Head of External Collaborations, Ocado Technology, part of Ocado Group, an online grocery technology company providing end-to-end ecommerce, logistics and fulfilment solutions to some of the world's largest grocery retailers.

In parallel with Ocado Technology, Duncan is a serial technologist, currently managing collaborative projects and engagements in robotics, AI, simulation, autonomous vehicles, drones and personalised nutrition. Before joining Ocado 6 years ago, Duncan worked in academia and industrial R&D in mobile radio receiver design, pro-audio, secure grid computing for engine diagnostics, medical imaging and risk modelling.

Dominic Keen is the Founder and CEO of Britbots.

Having previously successfully floated a technology business on the London Stock Exchange, Dominic launched Britbots in 2016 to support best-in-class UK-based robotics, AI and automation ventures, capitalising on British technical expertise in these areas. Since then, Britbots has backed nearly forty companies, attracting over £50 million in new investment.

He is also a director of New Anglia LEP and is a member of the Robotics Growth Partnership.

Vishen is a well-respected senior medical leader who has worked in a number of national roles across the NHS including most recently as Senior Clinical Lead for NHS Digital. He has experience of leading and delivering large complex programmes and his achievements include implementation of the National Covid -19 Vaccine Programme, the first video consultation service in Urgent Care in England, delivering Controlled Drug functionality into the National Electronic Prescribing System (EPS), transitioning e-Referral Service (eRS) to the cloud to unlock its benefits, overseeing the largest private mailbox tenancy migration with NHSMail2 and clinically assuring the roll out the Health and Social Care Network (HSCN) providing high speed internet access across the system.

As a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics he is recognised as a clinician with a comprehensive understanding of the governance and risk management aspects of data flows in the healthcare space and has a track record of success in complex and politically sensitive programmes of work, engaging with multiple external stakeholders and technology providers in a dynamic environment, providing high level clinical and strategic input. More than anything else, Vishen enjoys making a difference to healthcare outcomes and continues to see patients as a practicing GP.

Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier is the Head of the Robotics and Embedded System Research Group at the University of Essex.

Klaus has successfully led, managed and contributed to a number of large industrial, EPSRC, ESRC and EU funded research projects, including as Co-Investigator of the £42M EPSRC National Centre for Nuclear Robotics and two EPSRC Digital Security by Design projects. Klaus has delivered significant economic impact from UK and EU funded research with the two successful startup companies he has founded: UltraSoC Technologies, a silicon IP company where he was CTO and Chief Scientist, which was acquired by Siemens in 2020 and Metrarc where he is CEO.

His work to-date has also resulted in more than 350 scientific journal and conference publications and 20 patents.

Prof John Davies is a Senior Research Manager in BT Research where he leads the Future Business Technology team. His current research interests include Internet of Things, data analytics, and cyber-physical systems.

He has published more than 90 papers and written and edited several books in his areas of expertise. He is the inventor of 10 patents. Prof Davies is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer. He is a frequent speaker at business and academic conferences and has had chairperson roles at international scientific conferences on several occasions. He is a European Commission expert evaluator and a visiting Professor at the University of Manchester.

Paul joined BT from University and has had several roles, spanning optical fibre communication systems, software engineering, commercial management of a range of services and more latterly research on IoT and Smart Cities.

Paul's current role is to lead on the BT Health Innovation Hub, with a specific focus on co-creation of new digitally based services with partners and organisations who deliver Health and Social Care services

José is the managing director of the team that helps the largest global manufacturing companies on their digital transformation journey and is also responsible for BT's business in Spain and Portugal.

José thrives on partnering with clients and building a motivated team focused on delivery excellence for BT's customers.

José's father was an industrial engineer and he was raised in a nuclear power plant village. His mother was a history and language teacher. Whilst Jose developed an appetite for literature, music and sports – he chose telecoms engineering as a career. He attended Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and studied Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering.

José lives in Madrid with his wife and three children.

Gary joined QiO from Rolls-Royce, having spent 25 years developing real-time safety-critical control systems for aero engines. As a keen strategist and innovator, Gary was a key leader in the adoption of 'Lean Product Development' and the 'Internet of Things' within Rolls-Royce, deeply engaging with the associated culture change.

Gary is responsible for all commercial aspects of software deployments where he utilises his deep domain expertise to unlock customer value through advanced analytics and AI-infused software.

Dr. Duncan Robertson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dogtooth, a technology start-up that develops and sells autonomous robots for picking delicate berry fruits such as strawberries and raspberries. Dogtooth’s robots reduce farmers’ dependence on difficult-to-recruit harvest labour, using state of the art machine learning and computer vision technology to achieve near-human visual acuity and dexterity. Dogtooth is pioneering the commercial exploitation of intelligent robots in environments that are far less carefully controlled than the factory production lines in which conventional robots are in widely used.

After completing a PhD in computer vision (Cambridge University), Duncan established an engineering consultancy business with the goal of facilitating the commercialization of cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision technology. He has worked closely with a variety of clients including Microsoft Research, Cambridge where he was responsible for developing cutting edge technology for geometric scene modelling and medical image analysis. Over the last two decades, he has had a pivotal role in the success of several high-growth technology start-ups created to exploit emerging machine learning capabilities in new commercial applications. Duncan has authored numerous patents and high-profile academic publications.