2010s Archives - Page 17 of 18

Sir Kenneth Olisa

Sir Ken Olisa was born in Nottingham to a white mother and an absentee Nigerian Father. Today he is Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, a partner in a privately-owned merchant bank focused on technology and a philanthropist focusing on the homeless.

25 May 2018

Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Computing Science at the University of Oxford and Principal of Jesus College. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2012.
He is also a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. During the course of his career he has made significant contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Semantic Web and Web Science.

6 February 2018

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Anne-Marie was a child prodigy who simply ‘got’ maths and computing at first go and moved swiftly on to achieve her Masters from Oxford University, aged just 19, the youngest ever. Realising the potential for IT and young people, Anne-Marie founded Stemettes in 2013 and inspires thousands of young women to follow STEM careers

30 January 2018

Mike Lynch OBE

Mike Lynch founded Autonomy in Cambridge which swiftly became Europe’s largest software company selling its expertise in analysing large data sets. Autonomy was later sold to Hewlett-Packard. In 2012 Lynch formed Invoke capital which believes that entrepreneurs should focus on the technology and not have to manage the sales force or the customer sales desk, which Invoke does for them.

4 August 2017

Jim Norton

Professor Jim Norton is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, an external member of the board of the UK’s Parliament[sic] Office of Science and Technology, a governor of Coventry University, a Visiting Professor of electronic engineering at Sheffield University, a board member and trustee of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, FIPR. He was President of the BCS 2011-12

4 August 2017

JP Rangaswami

Retired from full-time employment, concentrating on board/advisory roles and fulfilling long-standing personal dreams the former Chief Information Officer Deutsche Bank and self-confessed ragu expert talks about his career in information

4 August 2017

Jacqueline de Rojas

President TechUK and Chair of the Board of Digital Leaders, Jacqueline is also an ambassador for Girl Guides, the 30 % club and the Founder’s Forum AccelerateHer.

4 August 2017

Geoff Shingles CBE

Geoff Shingles CBE joined Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) UK when it had three people in 1965. DEC was a Boston-based minicomputer company mostly then serving the technical and scientific communities. In his first year the PDP-8 was launched. It was the first commercially-successful minicomputer with over 50,000 sold worldwide during its life. He was soon MD of the UK and stayed with DEC until he was 55 after which he split his time between IT start-ups.

3 August 2017

Duane Jackson

The fascinating story of the successful entrepreneur of Kashflow and Patron of the Princes Trust, Duane speaks openly and frankly about how his life took some unexpected turns and he found himself in prison, teaching IT to fellow prisoners. Using a combination of skills Duane is director of the charity Code4000 which teaches inmates web development skills to help them find work on their release.

1 August 2017

Eben Upton CBE

Dr Eben Upton is world renowned for inventing the bare-bones computer named Raspberry Pi which is based upon the ARM processor. One of his fondest memories at school was of programming the BBC Micro, and the Raspberry Pi model numbers follow those of the BBC Microcomputer series.

28 July 2017

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Sir Kenneth Olisa

Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE

Mike Lynch OBE

Jim Norton

JP Rangaswami

Jacqueline de Rojas

Geoff Shingles CBE

Duane Jackson

Eben Upton CBE