Stuart Rex

With 17 years of marketing experience Stuart has worked with some of the world’s best-known brands, including many in the financial services sector, supporting and guiding their digital strategy.

Via his role at Webtrends Optimize, he helps companies thrive in their conversion optimisation journeys, often guiding them from inception to mastery.

His talks join the dots often missed by subject specialists with a focus on actionable takeaways rather than theoretical ramblings.

Gary Hunter

Gary has been working to deliver technology based solutions for businesses for over 25 years. He is a Chartered Management Institute Certified Professional Consultant and Business Analyst with experience of working on multitude of transformation projects.

Gary is currently working within Kainos to help insurers digitally transform to deliver better customer and employee experiences across multiple client projects. With a particular focus on elevating the customer and employee experience in insurance by innovating the claims process using Azure OpenAI.

Richard Gray

Richard Gray is a Managing Partner at Dassault Life Sciences, engaged across the full portfolio including the market leading Medidata brand. He has been serving the life sciences & healthcare industry for over 30 years, inspired by the opportunity to accelerate productivity across the value chain and improve outcomes for patients.

With a background in process optimization, data, and technology, he has enabled many European and US sponsors to uplift their capabilities, and in his current role he is driving innovation in areas including early-stage research and discovery, through preclinical and clinical, out to manufacturing, supply chain and commercialisation.

Richard believes that data [strategy] holds the key to accelerating the value of technology, creating the opportunity to connect physical and digital worlds to advance virtual twin experiences, enabling the promise of AI to be democratized, and fueling in silico approaches that will revolutionise the science of tomorrow.

Polly Cooper

Polly brings her perspective on clinical trials from 34 years of experience in drug development with roles in Research, Early Compound Evaluation, Formulation Development, Resource Management and Clinical phase I – IV. Polly holds an MBA (specializing in Marketing, Finance and Strategy), a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a BSc (hons) in Pharmacology. Energized by the CRO world of constant learning, she is currently part of ICON Biotech since May 2021, where she is supporting sponsor’s outsourcing decisions, listening and interpreting sponsor requirements into successful and enjoyable study delivery.

Robbie Turner

Robbie has worked directly for several large commodity companies including Fonterra (NZ) as well as consulted in the field of commodity risk management and supply chain planning.

Experienced leader in SaaS, commodity markets, portfolio optimisation, price risk management, and qualitative and quantitative economic analysis.

Proven track record of delivering results through client and stakeholder engagement, tenacity, and thought leading analysis.

Holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Auckland, lectured Economics at the Auckland University of Technology, and served as an auditor for the Foundations of Commodities course at the JP Morgan Business School at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Lindsey Casella

Lindsey holds an MBA in Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability from NYU and is a strong advocate for sustainability on and off the job. For instance, she has not bought new clothing for nearly five years and has contributed to a documentary on Hulu, encouraging a more ethical fashion industry.

Since 2018, she’s held multiple leadership roles at various Fortune 500 organizations committed to making a positive change on the environment and its inhabitants. That included a role as Director of Global Marketing and E-Commerce at Loop, which has been recognized by Fast Company and Fortune Magazine as one of the most innovative companies for its work helping organizations such as Ulta Beauty, Unilever and Burger King divert waste from landfills by reusing packaging materials. She also currently serves as an adjunct professor at Rutgers Business School, lending her voice to very important societal issues around sustainability.

At DLL, Lindsey leads the relationship with prominent partners and customers within the company’s LifeTech division, acting as a trusted advisor and supporting them with their journey towards a more sustainable future.

Dhiraj ‘DJ’ Singh

DJ Singh is Vice President Of Sales at Canary Technologies and has led the global sales team for the past 5 years. DJ has partnered with leading hotel brands, including Four Seasons, Rosewood, Wyndham, Club Quarters, Millennium, and many more.

Rob van den Bergh

Rob is the Regional Director, sub-Saharan Africa for the OXIMIO Group, a global End-to-end logistics provider for the Clinical Supply Chain. Oximio provide GDP storage and distribution, procurement, and comparator sourcing as well as reverse logistics for Biospecimens throughout EU, Europe, CIS and MENA regions, as well as sub-Saharan Africa.

​OXIMIO Kenya provides a Gateway IN2Africa as a Customs Bonded Depot, for faster turnaround time, reduced costs and substantially improved access to medicine, to the difficult to reach areas and the marginalised throughout all regions.

​Rob’s 22years experience in Clinical Supply Chain, has fostered successful, long-term relationships with local and international Pharma. His insatiable appetite as a Solution Provider for business growth, prompted him to travel abroad, resulting in attracting multiple distribution contracts for Clinical Trial Projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Bojan Jokic

Business innovator bringing ‘first mover’ tech-driven solutions for leading travel companies since 1997, including a European first B2B e-commerce solution.
Bojan is co-founder at Epteca, an emerging technology company bringing unique ‘smart selling and personalization’ capabilities to airlines, hotels, and premium brands worldwide, resulting in new revenue streams and enhanced guest experience.