Dr Lawrence Ampofo is the founder and CEO of Digital Mindfulness, helping people around the world better engage in the worlds of digital wellbeing and responsible innovation.

Kelly Widdicks is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. She is interested in understanding and mitigating the negative impacts of technology on society and the environment. Kelly holds a First Class BSc in Computer Science and a PhD within the field of Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Her PhD research explored how the demand for the Internet relates to, and impacts, users’ everyday lives, as well as the opportunities for technology designers and wider stakeholders (e.g. policymakers, network engineers) to mitigate the environmental and societal impacts of Internet traffic growth. Kelly is currently funded by her EPSRC Doctoral Prize, awarded due to her outstanding PhD achievements in order to continue her leading research at Lancaster University.

Cennydd Bowles is a designer and futurist with nearly two decades of experience advising companies including Twitter, Samsung, Accenture, and the BBC. He is the author of Future Ethics – ‘a must read for anyone who is inventing the future’ – and now runs ethical design and futures studio NowNext.

Cennydd has lectured on responsible innovation at Facebook, Stanford University, and Google. He is a frequent keynote speaker at technology and design events worldwide, and a regular commentator on ethical design and technology, quoted by The Guardian, Sky News, The Wall Street Journal, and WIRED.

Cennydd has been an invited futurist for the UN, a contributor to the BSI’s Responsible Innovation steering group, and a reviewer for MIT Press. He holds a Masters in Information Technology from the University of Nottingham, and studied Innovation & Future Thinking at IED Barcelona.

MIT-trained scientist Dr Indranil Ghosh is a sustainable investor, author, and strategic advisor to governments and leading global corporations.

He is the author of “Powering Prosperity: A Citizen’s Guide to Shaping the 21st Century” which brings together a decade of experience and research at the intersection of socio-economic development, sustainable investing, and business disruption.

In his investment advisory work, Dr Ghosh partners with visionary leaders to build multi-asset class sustainable investing platforms and businesses with a societal impact mission.

Nicolas Waern, also known as the Smart City Shaper, helps decision makers to create a path to excellence in a Smart City context, predicting what the world might do a week, a month, a year from now.

Nicolas has a comprehensive understanding of the Smart Building space, a Digital Twin and IoT specialist, coupled with a background in strategy, management consultancy and Entrepreneurship. Nicolas knows for real what it takes to get started, get going and succeed with corporate strategies,
enabling companies to create the future they want to see, believing it’s the data companies don’t have and don’t use, that will change their life for real.
Nicolas is the person to call if it’s anything that deals with innovation in a Smart World context, with problems that no one can solve, simplifying complexity, and just getting holistic future-proof advice in a fast-moving future based on a global understanding of technology and business.

Hamza is a Fellow in Strategy at Cambridge University, where his research and teaching focus are in digital disruption and multi sided platforms. He is also the founder of strategy consulting firm, called Platypodes.io where he works with both start-ups and established firms on solving their toughest digital transformation challenges. Hamza has held senior roles in product management and strategy functions in companies such as Amazon, Jagex and Adstream. His articles on digital disruption have been cited and published in The Economist, The Conversation and Entrepreneur - with the latter recognising Hamza as a world leading business thinker and included him on the magazine’s cover in July 2020.

Travel Product Lead for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Machine Learning Fairness Program Manager with over 15 years experience spanning across Advertising, Retail, Not-For Profits and Tech. With a proven track record on business success and project management, Toju is the Project Manager for Women in AI Ireland and #Black and Brilliant AI solutions, Tech start-ups mentor and founder of Refyne. Toju is also a public speaker and advocates for transparent and bias free AI aimed at reducing systemic injustices and furthering equality.

From the age of 8 Steve begun a journey into the world of design and technology tampering with BASIC on a Sinclair Spectrum 48k. Fashioning basic games and modifying code and sound opened the digital door where Adobe, OpenSource, and data became an obsession.

Aspergece like drive and focus took on a flare for communications and consulting delivering projects and initiatives for the likes of Channel 4, BBC, KPGM, BWIN, Diageo and Bupa as well as award-winning community workshops, collaborations and innovations.

Language agnostic engineer with deep insights and hands-on experience in DevOps, Security, Risk Management, and development including managing JavaScript, ActionScript, C#, Java, PHP and data teams across the globe.

Technical design and Architecture have become the role Steve has assumed in many organisations applying tried and tested productivity improvements and best practices across disciplines and industries with innovative approaches that make learning fun and Agile easy.

We are a specialist recruitment firm with an office network that covers: London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Reading, Surrey and Dublin.
Founded in 1988, and joining Gi Group in 2018, we are a heritage recruitment brand, innovating and leading by example for 32 years and counting. We specialise in sourcing the very best talent for a variety of businesses - from global organisations through to growing SMEs, or high potential start-ups. We offer a full multi-channel recruitment service for interim and permanent positions across the following divisions:

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