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Niki Buys
Niki Buys is the co-founder and partner at Pledge Ventures, the venture capital arm of Founders Pledge, which invests in high-growth technology companies whose founders have made binding commitments to give a meaningful portion of their proceeds to charity. She spent over six years at Founders Pledge in roles including Chief Experience Officer before co-launching the fund in 2023 alongside CEO David Goldberg. Pledge Ventures operates on a rules-based model across sectors and geographies to create a flywheel between entrepreneurial success and social impact.
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Nikolay Storonsky
Co-founder and CEO of Revolut, which he scaled from a multi-currency card into one of the world's most valuable fintechs, with tens of millions of customers and a full UK banking licence. A former derivatives trader, he is among Europe's most prominent fintech founders.
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Paul Polman
Dutch business leader who was CEO of Unilever from 2009 to 2019, where he launched the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan and dropped quarterly earnings guidance. He co-authored Net Positive and co-founded the London-based foundation IMAGINE, advocating sustainable and equitable business.
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Paul Taylor
Founder and CEO of Thought Machine, the cloud-native core-banking platform. He previously founded a speech-technology company acquired by Google, where he built voice systems before turning to banking infrastructure.
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Philippe Botteri
Partner at Accel investing in cloud, SaaS, AI and security across Europe and Israel. He authors Accel's influential annual Euroscape report tracking the region's cloud and AI momentum.
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Piotr Dabkowski
Co-founder and CTO of ElevenLabs, leading the research behind its speech-synthesis models. A former Google machine-learning engineer, he co-founded the company with Mati Staniszewski.
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Poppy Gustafsson
Co-founder and former CEO of Darktrace, the Cambridge cyber-AI company she led to a 2021 London IPO. One of the UK's most prominent tech executives, she was appointed a UK investment minister in 2024.
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Rafel Jorda Siquier
Rafel Jorda Siquier is the CEO of Open Cosmos, a UK-based space startup founded in 2015 that designs, builds, and operates small satellites and provides end-to-end mission services for governments and commercial customers. Under his leadership, Open Cosmos has grown into a notable player in the New Space sector, securing contracts with the European Space Agency and other institutional clients across Europe and beyond. Jorda Siquier is a recognized figure in the European commercial space ecosystem and advocates for democratizing access to space through low-cost, rapidly delivered satellite solutions.
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Ravi Silva
Ravi Silva is the Director of the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey, an expert in nanotechnology, carbon-based electronics, photovoltaics and energy materials. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
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Rishi Khosla
Co-founder and CEO of OakNorth, the SME-lending bank, which he started after struggling to get a loan for an earlier business. He previously co-founded Copal Amba, sold to Moody's.
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Rob Whitehead
Co-founder and former CTO/CPO of Improbable, where he led development of the SpatialOS distributed-simulation engine. He met co-founder Herman Narula at the University of Cambridge.
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Robin Tuluie
Co-founder of PhysicsX and a physicist who led performance and vehicle science at Formula 1 teams including Mercedes and Renault, where his work contributed to multiple championships.
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Simon Beckerman
Founder of Depop, the social marketplace for secondhand fashion that became a cultural phenomenon with Gen Z before its acquisition by Etsy. A designer by background, he also co-founded PIG magazine.
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Simon Knowles
Co-founder and CTO of Graphcore and the chief architect of its IPU processor. A serial chip designer, he co-founded Picochip and Element 14 before Graphcore.
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Sonali De Rycker
Partner at Accel and one of Europe's most influential venture investors, leading the firm's London office. She has backed Spotify, Monzo, BeReal and KRY, and focuses on AI, consumer and fintech companies across Europe and Israel.
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Steffen Tjerrild
Co-founder and COO/CFO of Synthesia, the AI video-generation platform. He runs the company's operations and finance alongside CEO Victor Riparbelli as Synthesia became one of Europe's most valuable generative-AI companies.
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Stephen Chandler
Managing Partner and co-founder of Notion Capital, the London B2B SaaS and fintech firm he started in 2009 with the MessageLabs team. He has backed European software leaders including GoCardless and Currencycloud and helped grow Notion to over $1bn AUM.
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Steven Bartlett
British entrepreneur, investor and author. He founded social-media marketing firm Social Chain in 2014 and later co-founded Flightstory, a media and investment company. He hosts The Diary of a CEO, one of the world's most listened-to business podcasts, and is an investor on the BBC's Dragons' Den.
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Thomas Anthopoulos
Thomas Anthopoulos is a professor at the University of Manchester specialising in printed and large-area electronics, semiconductors and optoelectronic devices for energy and sensing applications. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
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Tom Blomfield
Co-founder of Monzo and previously GoCardless, and one of the UK's best-known fintech founders. He led Monzo from a prepaid card to a licensed bank with millions of customers before stepping back; he is now a group partner at Y Combinator.