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Ian Foddering is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) & Technical Director for Cisco UK & Ireland

James Gill is the 23 year old CEO of GoSquared

James Layfield is the punchy CEO behind Central Working which strives to provides the ideal environment for growing businesses in Bloomsbury, Shoreditch, Campus (Google) & Whitechapel.

E-commerce Big Data specialist and Bitcoin fanatic Ivan Mazour of Ometria and Hugh Halford-Thompson the Founder of QuickBitcoin

Emily Brooke often gets called Emily Blaze by mistake...and it's no wonder.  When this woman goes on a mission there is fire on her trail and anyone in her path best get out of the way.

Clare Sutcliffe co-founded Code Club when she was still working for the digital advertising agency Albion in 2012 and it has since grown to 2,297 clubs (as of this publish) in the UK alone that teach children aged 9-11 how to program computers.With a £120,000 investment from Google this year Code Club Pro will also help teachers in schools transition to a new coding curriculum in the UK.With over 250 Code Clubs now outside the UK, expect to see Clare and her organisation to soon be a household name around the world.

Dan Crow is the CTO of Songkick and formerly worked at Apple Computer and Google

Andy McLoughlin has been a fixture of the Silicon Roundabout since the early days of Co-Founding Huddle in 2006

Yonatan Raz-Fridman is one cool dude.  Armed with a warm Mediterranean smile he strikes you as a the perfect guy to party with but the wrong dude to cross.

Benjamin Southworth is the former Deputy CEO of Tech City, 3 Beards Founder & Host of Chew the Fat, and Founder of Ada Lovelace Academy.

Sherry Coutu serves on the boards of The London Stock Exchange, Cambridge University, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Founders4Schools and the Advisory Board of LinkedIn.

Eze Vidra is the Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe and Google Campus London.  He is the Founder of TechBikers and writes at vccafe.com 

Monty Munford is a Technology Writer for The Economist, Wired, Telegraph & Mashable and Founder of Agency Mob76.

Anil Stocker is the Founder & CEO at MarketInvoice which offers a fast and flexible online method for SMEs to access the capital locked in their long-dated invoices that would otherwise be tied up for 90-120 days.

Jenny Griffiths is the Founder and CEO of Snap Fashion, a visual search engine that allows consumers to search for fashion items using images instead of words using a unique algorithm to find similar items from over 110 UK retailers online.

Matt Clifford is the Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First which identifies and invests in Europe's top technical students.

Matt Heiman is the Founder and CEO of Diagonal View which produces over 2 million hours of short-form videos for YouTube that have been watched over 2 Billion times.

Bernhard Niesner is the Founder & CEO of Busuu, the world's largest social network for language learning with more than 40 million users.

Divinia Knowles is the COO & CFO of Mind Candy, the British entertainment company that created Moshi Monsters.

Robyn Exton is the Founder and CEO of Dattch, the Lesbian Dating App for women to date who they want, when they want, where they want.