Jake Hegeman

Assistant General Counsel, Legal and Regulatory Affairs

Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America

Matt D’Aloia

Vice President

Martignetti

Mark Livings

Creator and Founder

Lyre's

Bill Ford

Group Director, Venturing and Emerging brands

Coca Cola

Tom Allison

Head of Investment Strategy & M&A

ZX Ventures

Dr Kevin Stickney

Interim Head of Technical

Harbro Limited

Prof. Roberto DeSimone

Manager, Strategic Innovation (Disruptive Technologies)

BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Roberto has 35+ years expertise in exploiting emerging technologies, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Quantum Technologies (QT), for government and commercial clients. He has a PhD in machine learning (1989) and pursued AI/ML research at world-leading institutes in the UK and US. Since 2010, he has been working at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, where he has been leading a team of maverick scientists, engineers and consultants that is exploiting these emerging technologies for disruptive business applications for government and commercial clients. He is also working part-time as an Entrepreneur in Residence for quantum engineering at Bristol University, funded by the Royal Society, and a visiting professor of quantum systems engineering at Loughborough University, having been a visiting professor for AI at the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham.