Speakers
#VFS25 SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Tom Rushby
Senior Enterprise Fellow, Future Towns Innovation Hub
Professor Clint Styles
Associate Dean Enterprise at University of Southampton
Rahul Misra
Investment Principal at Creative UK
Kate Beal Blyth
Founder & CEO of Woodcut Media
Matthew Tullett
Business Development Executive at Blake Morgan LLP
Thomas Rushby
Senior Enterprise Fellow for Future Towns Innovation Hub
Emmanuel Kirunda
COO & Commercial Director at Olsights
Lou Williams
Innovation & Growth Specialist at Innovate UK Business Growth
Sue Elliott
Senior Manager at British Business Bank
Lucy Taylor
Founder of Make Work Play
Ben O’Nion
Co-Founder at Echo
Charlie Gray
Co-Founder of Echo
Daniel Sawko
CEO and Co-Founder
Sam Simpson
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Lee
Co-Founder
Rosy Jones
SETsquared Partnership logo Head, Innovate UK, ICURe Delivery Partner
Claire Hemmings
Managing Director
John Bradshaw
Director of Strategy
Matt Albans
CTO at Roke
Hazel Biggs
National Security and Defence at Innovate UK
Ali Mosayyebi
Biomedical Engineer
Simon Davies
Tec-Safe
Esme Brinsden
Co-Founder and Project Coordinator of the Phage Collection Project
Roxanna Ramnarine
R&D Lead Scientist
Shaun Robertson
CEO & Co-founder at Microbial Diagnostics
Fred Basset
Founder at Lateral Edge Consulting
Dr. Aamer Khan
Chair at RegenSphere
Hannah Cook
Research Lead for the HEAL Diabetic Wounds AI LLM
Alan Wright
Commercial Development at NOC
Daniel Hook
CEO at RAD Propulsion
Ryan Mowat
Chair of the Marine Science & Technology Council at Society of Maritime Industries
Ashley Stehr
Director and Principal Consultant at Stehr Consulting Ltd
Roya Croudace
Innovation Leader & Growth Strategist
Mike Lovegrove
Founder at Snowballn'
Elisabeth Bell
Commercial Partner, Blake Morgan
Nicola Murgatroyd
CEO at Kuradocs
Mike Hawkyard
Founder & CEO of Ace High Sports
Janet Hadfield
Business Innovation Manager, South Hampshire College Group & Innovate UK
Roya Croudace
Director, Hampshire Growth Hub
Chris Hill
Investment Programme Coordinator at SETsquared Partnership
Gareth Miller
Managing Director at Carswell Gould
Timo Peach
Artist and social impact storyteller at Momo:zo
Dr Louise Butt
Director – Space South Central