Silicon Real

Rytis Vitkauskas is the Founder and CEO of YPlan which enables users to buy tickets directly from their smartphone with just a few taps.

Jason Goodman is the Founder & CEO of Albion, a creative partner for clients who want to build challenger brands, products and communications.

Gareth Davies is the Co-Founder & CEO at Adbrain, the world’s first real-time, multi-screen advertising platform.  He prevoiusly worked for Google and Doubleclick.

Lauren Sherman is the London Head of Community for TaskRabbit, an online marketplace that allows users to outsource small jobs and tasks to others in their neighbourhood.

Kirk Wylie is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Open Gamma, a London based Financial Technology startup that provides open-source risk and trading analytics software for the Capital Markets industry.

Alastair Paterson is the Founder of Digital Shadows which offers a cyber-monitoring service that secures companies’ “digital footprints” and protects companies and individuals from cyber-attacks.

Gary Jackson is one of the Founders of Hailo, a smartphone app which puts people just two taps away from a licensed taxi.  Launched in November 2011, Hailo is available in 14 cities worldwide and has carried eight and a half million passengers with $100M in annualised sales.

Jon Bradford is a Managing Director at TechStars, the #1 Startup Accelerator in the World.  They provide companies with $18,000 of funding and a 13 week "Boot Camp" in exchange for a 6% equity stake in 7 cities worldwide.  Over 300 companies have completed their program.

Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria, an e-commerce analytics software company, and is a Founding Partner of Innova Kapital, an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups.

Brian Taylor is the CEO and Founder of PixelPin which uses personal pictures to replace passwords.

Federico Pirzio-Biroli is the Founder & Director of Playfair Capital, an early stage investment fund started in 2011 specialising in web based technology and digital media startups that are capable of disrupting a market and scaling globally.

Fernando Ripolles is the CEO & co-founder of Wayra Accelerator company Hiyalife.com, a place to recall and organise personal life stories privately or together with friends and family.  He formerly worked in finance for Bloomberg, UBS and Nomura.

Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's leading micro-seed investment and mentoring programme with over 100 of Europe's most promising startups.

Roxanne Varza is a "Startup Lover" for Microsoft in Paris in the Bizspark division which provides free software, support, and visibility to help startups succeed.

Andrew McDonough is the CTO and Co-founder of Tribesports, a social network for sportspeople connecting active people everywhere in the world to revolutionise the sportswear industry.

Max Niederhoffer is a venture capitalist with Sunstone Capital, a $1BB fund based in Copenhagen.

Alex Hoye is the Co-founder and CEO of The Faction Collective and former CEO of Latitude Digital Marketing.

Simon Devonshire is the Director of New Business Ventures for Wayra, a startup accelerator (owned by communications giant Telefonica)  launched in 2011 with 14 academies in 12 countries in Europe and Latin America.

Stef Lewandowski AKA Stef the Hacker is a Founder of Makeshift, a startup studio building digital products that give a leg up to the little guy.

Hussein Kanji is a partner at Hoxton Ventures, a Venture Capital company that helps entrepreneurs disrupt existing industries and invent new ones.