Christopher George - Growth Hub Manager , Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

Christopher George is the Growth Hub Manager for Cambridgeshire Peterborough Combined Authority, responsible for the delivery of some 200 government programmes through the growth hub network, with over a decade of experience delivering high growth programmes and consultancy, previously Christopher worked for many years with high profile Christies as Senior Sales Manager, working globally with high profile clients. Christopher specialises in delivering dynamic high growth sales strategy within businesses and turnround on poorly performing depts, also believing developing strong relationships are the foundation of everything both professionally and personally. In his spare time, Christopher can be found tending his herbaceous borders or refurbing yet another house.

Zahid Ghadialy - Senior Director, Technology & Innovation Strategy, Parallel Wireless UK & EMEA

Zahid Ghadialy is a Senior Director with a fast-moving and innovative US-based young company called Parallel Wireless (PW) that is on a mission to make deployment of any cellular infrastructure as easy and as cost-effective as Wi-Fi. With an extensive experience of over 18 years in the telecom industry as an engineer, programmer, analyst, researcher, architect, trainer, product manager and technical marketer, he is a technologist with a deep understanding of architecting world-class mobile products and solutions. Zahid is currently a member of Board of Directors at CW and 'Future Devices & Technologies' SIG champion. He has also previously been a 'Small Cell SIG' and 'Smart & Intelligent Cities SIG' champion. He is also a Non-Executive Director of eXplanoTech. In his spare time he blogs at 3G4G and you can also catch him on Twitter at @zahidtg.

Peter Whale - Founder, Vision Formers

Peter is Founder & CEO of Vision Formers, the specialist start-up consultancy that helps Founders and CxOs of visionary technology businesses take practical and purposeful action to get product to market and turn founder and shareholder vision into commercial market reality. Vision Formers provides significant expertise in building great software and digital products along with growing and coaching product and technical teams. Peter is currently working with Navenio, commercialising their breakthrough infrastructure-free location technology within the healthcare sector.

Peter has a long track record of conceiving, developing and marketing successful technology-based solutions, deployed at scale, globally. Innovative products Peter has brought to market in digital, cloud, AI, consumer electronics and telecommunications have been used by countless millions of people on a daily basis globally, badged by the world’s leading digital and technology brands. Peter is a board member of CW (Cambridge Wireless), and co-leads its Artificial Intelligence special interest group.