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Kate is Director of Culture at Chess Kate is passionate about supporting people to maximise their potential whatever their situation or experience. She sits on the IAMCP ( International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) Board, the Women of the Channel advisory board and is also a member to be part of the steering groups for both Women in Technology North and Women in Technology UK.

Richard is the CEO at Octopus Wealth. Octopus Wealth is a wealth management company that helps its customers ask more of their lives. They help clients tackle some of the big, personal questions in life, by putting a plan in place that maps towards their answers. Octopus Wealth believes that some questions are too big to tackle alone, and that financial advice can transform lives for the better. They also think that getting help should be a positive and uplifting experience: an aspiration, not an anxiety.

Tim is Vice President of Professional Services at Elsevier. Tim is a technology and life science management professional, with more than 20 years leading products and teams in industry-leading data and analysis products and services, in the life science and adjacent chemical and material science fields.

David has just left Purple Bricks, after over 6 years, and is starting building something secret and awesome for 2019! David is a senior hybrid IT professional with over 20 years’ experience of development technologies. He enjoys looking at and implementing IT strategies and architectures and has worked with small and medium-sized businesses, government departments, the EU and multinational corporations such as IBM, Tesco, BT, and AMEX.

Richard is CTO at MatsSoft Throughout his career Richard has focused on web development and has over 16 years experience in this speciality. He thrives on working with new technologies, many self-taught, and has a proven ability to define strategy, manage significant programmes and lead teams. He currently heads up the development organisation for MATS where he is responsible for ensuring the solution maintains its recognised position as an industry-leading Low-code development platform.

Josh Cole is CEO & Founder of Voxis Engineering and Recombix. With not one but two tech startups under his belt, it is safe to say that Josh epitomises the entrepreneurial spirit. His main driver in business is to build automated DevOps platforms that reduce development and staffing costs for companies by freeing developers from non-creative tasks.

Piers is CTO at MoneySuperMarket.com What does the acronym CDO mean? Whilst we now know it to stands for ‘Chief Data Officer’ that wasn’t always the case. Piers and Andy latch on to this change and use it as a springboard to talk about the creation of the CDO’s role in the C-suite. Piers also tells Andy about his strategies for convincing board members of the power and usefulness of data. They also discuss how a CDO can transform a business into a data-driven organisation. MoneySuperMarket.com MoneySuperMarket is an established member of the FTSE 250 index. Through our three leading and trusted brands, MoneySuperMarket, MoneySavingExpert, and TravelSupermarket, they are committed to providing customers with the services, tools and products they need to grow their money.

Paul is the CTO at Sopra Steria. We’re all so busy nowadays that it can be really difficult to think about your job creatively and innovate new solutions for your business. No matter how many ‘creative sessions’ you book in with your team sometimes the best way to get into a creative mindset is in your own time. Finding time for strategic, creative thinking is a key focus of this podcast. Paul and Andy talk about how automation could hold the key to relieving us from monotonous tasks. They also discuss the skills gap between ‘early career’ workers who are target driven and reactive and ‘mid-late career’ employees and how they need to be more thoughtful and proactive to move a business forward.

William is Head of Future Technology at Bank of England William is responsible for looking at how new technologies are influencing the financial system and how they can be exploited to meet the Bank of England’s mission. This involves work on distributed ledger, artificial intelligence as well as conventional technologies with a particular focus on payment and settlement platforms. The Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. Sometimes known as the “Old Lady” of Threadneedle Street, the Bank was founded in 1694 with a founding charter that stated its purpose was to “promote the public good and benefit of our people”. Podcast In this episode, William talks to Andy about the positive effects Artificial Intelligence is having on the banking sector. Working with Fintech’s is another area of discussion on the show. William lays out how legacy banks are working with fintechs for the good of the public.

Nada is Information Security Manager at Six Degrees Group. Nada is a highly organised Information Security Manager with over 10 years experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, delivering modern, cost-efficient customer focused processes whilst maintaining key stakeholder and customer requirements.