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Naïri Usher is Chief Scientist at Flare Networks. Previously Postdoctoral researcher in Quantum Machine Learning UCL. Worked in collaboration with Siemens on applications of quantum algorithms to healthcare and image recognition. She completed her PhD in quantum computing, where her thesis considered models of quantum computing, probing the connection between physical resources and computational power. She was then a postdoc within UCL’s Department of Computer Science, working in quantum and classical machine learning, where she collaborated with Siemens in order to study how quantum algorithms could be harnessed for learning tasks.
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Hugo Philion
Hugo Philion is Co-founder and CEO of Flare Networks. He was previously the Founder of the modular building system Future Generations, and a Commodity Derivatives Portfolio Manager at two funds with assets of over $1 billion. He holds a BSc in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Cass Business School, and has studied Machine Learning at UCL.
Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward is the founder of Enumero and the former CTO of Fetch AI. Previously, he received a PhD in machine learning from University College London, where he studied protein folding problems. He was also involved in applying machine learning algorithms to problems such as time series and machine vision.
Cais Manai
Cais Manai is co-founder and head of Product at Ten and was previously Principal Product Manager at R3 and associate Director of prime brokerage at UBS.
Bobby Ong
Bobby Ong is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of CoinGecko, an established cryptocurrency data analytics and research platform. He has been in the industry since 2013 and was recognized as a recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from University College London and Singapore-GCE A-Levels from Anderson Junior College. Previously, Bobby worked as a Digital Marketing Manager at Sime Darby Property Berhad.
Helena Gagern
Helena Gagern is a graduate of UCL who worked in software development and product design before co-founding Salsa in 2022.
Vance Gong
Vance Gong is the Founder & CEO of MAY.Social. He graduated from the University of London in the UK and holds an MBA degree from Peking University.
Brendan Playford
Brendan Playford is co-founder and CEO of Masa and previously was co-founder and CEO of Pngme and founder and CEO of Constellation.
Mustafa Al-Bassam
Mustafa Al-Bassam is the co-founder and CEO of Celestia, a UCL Blockchain Scaling Ph.D. He is also a co-founder of Chainspace, which was acquired by Facebook.
Ben Caselin
Ben Caselin is chief marketing officer at VALR and was previously vice president and chief strategy officer at MaskEX and vice president at AAX.
Oliver Sleafer
Oliver Sleafer is CFO of Backpack and previously served as Head of liquidity Management for Asia Pacific at Stripe. He is a graduate of Birkbeck College, University of London and the University of Westminster.