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James Dening is a seasoned technology executive and people leader. After having led Minit as a CEO to a successful acquisition by Microsoft, James continues to evangelize about process mining as a Partner at Microsoft. Thanks to his role as VP Europe for Automation Anywhere, his professional life also includes significant experience with digital transformation and Robotic Process Automation. Today, his mission is to shed light on how business processes actually work and enable organizations to automate, improve, and transform with focused precision and without wasted efforts.

Greg Adams is the Lead Solutions Consultant at Sprout.ai. Prior to joining Sprout, Greg worked at DocuSign for over a decade, where he was in charge of sales engineering.

Lars Müller has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15 and is currently one of the youngest CEOs of a publicly traded cannabis company. With SynBiotic SE, he is building a European platform to drive the research and development of new cannabinoid and terpene-based solutions to major societal problems such as pain, sleep and anxiety.

Toby is an ex-management consultant and veteran of the health supplements industry and has been at the helm of Grass & Co. since early 2019. Leading this dynamic, fast-growing business, Toby’s role has been to establish a trusted, premium British CBD brand with a strong platform for continuing growth. The award-winning range combines the highest quality CBD blended with complementary botanicals and vitamins to produce the best tasting CBD oils.

Under Toby’s leadership, Grass & Co. has secured high profile retail listings including Holland & Barrett, Ocado, Amazon, Revital, as well as driving direct sales through the brand’s own e-commerce site.

With a background steeped in knowledge of the health and consumer goods industries, Toby previously spent seven and a half years as Strategy Director for Glanbia’s Performance Nutrition division in EMEA, and prior to this at Diageo where he worked in Global Business Support across India, Vietnam, France, Poland, Turkey and Mexico. He also spent time at Bain, a management consultancy well known for its entrepreneurial ethos. Toby holds an Engineering degree from the University of Cambridge.

An internationally experienced executive with Corporate and Entrepreneurial experience. A career across 6 different countries, including developing markets, in a range of business sectors, and an ability to deliver above expectation results.

For over 25 years Hilary has developed brands across the health, wellness, and beauty sectors. Hilary has now chosen to channel her innovative direction and creation into the CBD industry, which is not only a new venture but an intersection of all her prior experiences.

Glen joined Luxoft in 2021 from IBM. His work is focused on insurance analytics use cases, and supporting and guiding data science, engineering and sales colleagues in partnering with clients. Before moving to the technology sector, after serving in law enforcement Glen first entered the insurance industry in Australia. This was followed by roles in insurers operating in the UK and Europe, with exposure to other regions too. He has held four Executive Director positions and Senior Management roles, worked for some of the world’s largest businesses, prominent brands, a scale-up, not-for-profit organization, formed part of industry strategy and milestone initiatives and also as an independent consultant to insurance and wider clients. Glen is viewed by peers as a source of creativity, pragmatism and fresh/different thinking and perspectives. He possesses comprehensive knowledge of insurance and the supply chain, including the wide opportunities for change and modernization. In particular, he’s widely regarded as a specialist in mitigating insurance fraud through the full policy life cycle; point of quote, sale, mid-term adjustment and claim.