Natasha McKenzie
Natasha McKenzie is a strategic brand and marketing professional with 25+ years’ experience building creative and tech ventures. She works with founders to unlock clarity, momentum and market impact. Natasha speaks on brand-led growth, marketing strategy, the future of work, investment and building purposeful, high-performing teams.
Dani Palmer
Financial wellbeing business helping everyone to access a richer life. Specialisms: startup and scale up, leadership and management, marketing and growth, brand, consumer finance.
Sarah Brett
I have previously grown brands for exit into major global organisations, currently 1 of 2 female founders building an AI consultancy and growth strategy business
Judge Singh
Judge is a Chartered Accountant and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years experience in the IT, Saas, Education and Creative sectors. He has a passion to share his hard earned business knowledge and experience with new and developing entrepreneurs, especially those from diverse backgrounds and ethnic minorities.
Ellie Yates
Ellie oversees the customer support and success divisions at Signable and collaborates with the product team to continuously improve the platform and to advocate for customers. Ellie has over 10 years of Customer Success experience in start-up to scale-up SaaS organisations and has been in the e-signature space for nearly 5 years.
Lucy Heskins
I talk about: startup growth, from zero customers to acquisition, go to market strategy, product market fit mistakes, validation, customer research, startup marketing, experience as employee number 1.
Weronika Stelmach
Weronika is the CEO of Weaving Change, a social enterprise slowing down fast fashion. She is an advocate for tech for good/ social change, the use of AI in enhancing creativity as well as diversity & inclusivity in the start-up sector.
Vicky Brophy
Vicky has given talks on creativity in China with the British Council, chaired the Final Word panel at the Children's Media Conference, given panel discussions at the Cheltenham Film Festival and with Women in Animation & given the Keynote for the Centre for Digital Entertainment.
Dulcie Jackson
I'm Innovation Lead at Gravitywell, Bristol's Venture Studio. I co-ordinate our internal R&D activities, and recently launched the Gravitywell Incubator program. Alongside that, I'm a hands-on engineer, building new tech start-ups and supporting founders through ideation, discovery, prototyping, launch and innovation.
Monica Shupikai Simmons
Monica Shupikai Simmons is an investment banker at ICON Corporate Finance. With 20+ years of experience, Monica has an MBA from the University of Oxford, and a bachelor’s from the University of Cape Town. Women in finance are rare. Black women in finance are…. unicorns!