Robin Klein,
Founding Partner at VC fund LocalGlobe

Prior to LocalGlobe, a seed-focused venture capital fund, Robin was a Venture Partner at Index Ventures from 2010 until 2015.He has made over 100 early stage technology investments in the UK, US, Europe and Israel. His investments include Adzuna, Citymapper, Graze, MOO, Secret Escapes, Transferwise, Zoopla. He has also sat on on public company boards including MoneySupermarket and Zoopla. Robin is on the Tech City Advisory board and an advisor to Silicon Valley Bank.Prior to becoming an active and full time investor he built and sold 3 businesses, the last of which was the Innovations Group in 1995. Innovations conducted the first eCommerce transaction in the UK in May 1995.

Hal Watts,
Co-founder & CEO of Unmade

Hal Watts is the co-founder and CEO of London-based fashion-technology company Unmade. Alongside fellow founders Kirsty Emery and Ben Alun-Jones, Watts realised the untapped potential of industrial knitting machines whilst researching performance sportswear in the run up to the 2012 Olympics. Combining their programming and engineering skills, the trio and developed a new way to control the machines. What began as a consultancy project for UK Sport grew into an innovative business idea, and Unmade was launched in 2013 with the mission to create a more responsive, efficient and responsible fashion industry.  

Anne Boden,
Founder & CEO of Starling Bank

Prior to Starling, Anne was Chief Operating Officer of Allied Irish Banks Plc and Head of EMEA, Global Transaction Banking across 34 countries for RBS and ABN AMRO. She has more than 30 years experience in banking, having begun her career at Lloyds Bank, before moving on to Standard Chartered Bank and then UBS in Zurich.
Anne holds a BSc in Computer Science and Chemistry, an MBA and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of IT.

Recently Anne was recognised as one of the Global Power Women in FinTech.

Andrew Thompson,
VP of Engineering at Yoyo Wallet

Andrew Thompson is currently VP Engineering at Yoyo Wallet where he manages a team of 25 engineers, product mangers and designers. He previously co-founded of a machine learning startup and was VP Engineering & Growth for startups in Vancouver and London across fintech, social and medical products.

Will Bentinck,
Head of Careers at Makers Academy

Will Bentinck has co-founded or helped scale several commercial and social enterprises, usually with a focus on employment or education, or both. At Makers Academy, he works with tech employers large and small to help them attract, select and retain top software engineers. He's previously consulted with companies and candidates to improve recruitment processes and help people into jobs they love. He also chaired the Education subgroup of the Tech London Advocates; sat on the boards of EdTech UK, BCS Entrepreneurs, UnLtd SEE Change and Learning Futures; coaches at a variety of startup accelerators; and was one of 100 young people invited to the UN to tackle the global youth employment crises

Clementine Lalande,
CFO & COO of Once

Clémentine is an entrepreneur who has helped scaling various social & commercial ventures. She is currently COO/CFO at Once, a mobile app who breaks the rule of online dating. Before Once, she developed seed impact investing funds for social businesses in developing countries like Brazil, Uganda or Haiti. She was also an Investment Director for Idinvest in Paris in their Smart City venture fund. Prior to this she was a Project Leader at Boston Consulting Group for large industrial clients in Europe. She is mentoring young entrepreneurs in the development of their social & commercial ventures. Clémentine holds a Msc Engineering from Centrale Paris & TU Berlin.