Sylvia Lu

CEO & Founder, YOOVIP

Sylvia Lu is an award-winning Chartered Engineer and Non-Executive Director. Sylvia has over 16 years of experience in the Telecom industry for four mobile generations with semiconductor vendors. Sylvia provides guidance on the impact of emerging technologies on products and corporate strategy, influences global standards, accelerates the adoption of new technologies, and provides independent advice to industry and policy stakeholders.

Sylvia serves on several national and global industry Boards: she is an elected board director of CW (Cambridge Wireless), and serves on the Advisory Board of UKTIN, which provides independent advice on the telecoms sector, champions the opportunities in telecoms research, development, and innovation for the UK, and helps UKTIN provide impartial input to government. She also served on the Board of 5G-ACIA (5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation), joined forces with global industry stakeholders to influence 5G development and deployment in line with industrial imperatives to accelerate Industry 4.0.

She holds a first-class Electronic Engineering degree, a Master of Science degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Bristol. She graduated with a Distinction from the University of Oxford in PGDip Strategy & Innovation, and an Executive MBA degree from the University of Cambridge. Sylvia is also an artist.

Professor Tony Kenyon

Director, Neuroware, UCL

I am Professor of nanoelectronic & Nanophotonic Materials, and Vice Dean (Research), heading the Nanoelectronic & Nanophotonic Materials group. My group’s work focuses on the application of nanostructured materials to nanoelectronics and photonics. I am particularly interested in resistance switching devices (memristors) based on oxides (mainly silicon oxides, but other CMOS-compatible oxides as well), and how they can be used in novel non-volatile memories, hardware acceleration for Machine Learning, and neuromorphic devices and systems. My work on resistance switching earned me a nomination for a personal World Technology Network Award , a “one to watch” UCL business award , and I have set up a company to commercialise this technology – Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies.

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Gary Graham

Professor in Operations Management, Liverpool John Moores University

Prof. Gary Graham has recently joined Liverpool John Moore’s University from Leeds University Business School. Prior to that he worked at Manchester Business School and was a visiting research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing. His main area of research passion and impact relates to the manufacturing sector. Specifically, with respect to strategic operations, supply chain fragility, geopolitical shocks and structural breaks.  

Dr Andy Sellars

Director of Strategy – CORNERSTONE, University of Southampton

Andy is Director of Strategy for CORNERSTONE, the world-leading photonics foundry at the University of Southampton. He serves on the UK Government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel and chairs the UK Semiconductor Expert Working Group. He has given expert advice to the UK Parliament on five occasions, including the National Security and Investment Act, the Telecom Security Act and the select committee on semiconductors. He has also advised the OECD Semiconductor Informal Exchange Network, and is an Advisor to Silicon Catalyst UK.

Andy was the Founder of the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, securing a £54m investment from UK Government. He built a high-performance organisation of over 100 professionals; he represented the Catapult during roundtable discussions with the Prime Minister and high-level delegations to Hong Kong, India, Taiwan and the US White House.

Andy holds an Executive MBA from Glasgow University, a research doctorate from Strathclyde University and is a Fellow of the IET.