Archives: Speakers

Alex Guillen has extensive experience and expertise in cold chain; as SME – Life Science and Pharma at Tive, Alex leads sales and business development within the company’s rapid-growth Life Science division. Previously, Guillen served as a Board Member and leader of Corporate Strategy at SWITRACE S.A, a developer of temperature and humidity data loggers compliant to the Pharma and Biotech industries. Alex’s extensive experience also includes serving as Global Cold Chain Director of Fisher Clinical Services, CEO of Escort Cold Chain Solutions SA, and Director for Commercial Operations for Novartis Vaccines.

Peter Graham, Managing Director at Unipro Ltd, the bespoke software studio, is driven by a focus on providing clients with an enduring technological advantage and true digital autonomy. His team specialise in partnering with wealth management firms to solve their most complex challenges, allowing them to take control of their solution roadmap and end the waste of generic solutions.
Bespoke technology is the key to stopping companies from being held to ransom by data complexity and confused access, leading to a faster, more flexible, and ultimately human-centric client experience.  He is a key voice at the Dragon’s Den session, sharing insights on how firms can achieve this bespoke advantage to transform their digital destiny.

Alice Pike is a Fire Engineer and the team lead for the Rail Fire Team at Mott MacDonald with 5 years’ experience in fire engineering, specialising in the railway sector. She has worked on a range of major rail infrastructure projects – including Liverpool Baltic Station, HS2, and Birmingham University Station – incorporating fire safety design to create practical, reliable life‑safety solutions for complex transport environments.

Lauren Teague is a Fire Engineer at Mott MacDonald with four years of experience delivering fire‑safety solutions across the rail, buildings, and nuclear sectors. Her project portfolio spans both major national schemes and smaller, specialist commissions, including the Cardiff Central Enhancements Project, Holtec’s Small Modular Reactor SMR-300 development, multiple Access for All programmes, and works at Heathrow Airport.

As Vice President of MAFEX (Spanish Rail Industry Association) since 2018, María Concepción Ortega Ortiz has channelled her 28 years of experience in rail delivery, spanning high-speed, metro and light rail, as well as her ENVISION Sustainability Professional certification, to champion a collaborative, technically exacting and future-ready agenda for Spain’s rail ecosystem. With a global portfolio spanning Europe, North America, LATAM, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and assignments in 22 countries and 54 cities, together with her current corporate market leadership at IDOM and her earlier hands-on engineering experience, she provides MAFEX with a pragmatic, internationally tested perspective to advance standards, integration and inclusive, efficient mobility.

Sofia Magnusson is an AI strategist, entrepreneur and City Lead for Women in AI Gothenburg. She works at the intersection of business transformation, AI adoption and human-centred change, with a strong focus on how organisations build skills, trust and leadership capability alongside emerging technologies.

With a background as a tech founder and digital strategist, Sofia has over a decade of experience working with digital transformation and value creation in technology-driven businesses, including building and scaling ventures with external capital. Today, she focuses on AI education, internal capability building and practical use of AI tools, while driving competence development through initiatives such as workshops, hands-on sessions and hackathons.

Kristine Bjørnstad is SVP Technology & Insight Commercial at Gjensidige. She leads overall digitization strategies for Nordic B2B customers, heading interdisciplinary agile teams and translating technology into measurable business value. Previously, she served as CEO of NoA Ignite Norway, an agency specialized in digital services and customer driven growth. She has also held leadership roles at Microsoft in product management and public‑sector sales, and has previous board experience. Bjørnstad’s focus areas include governance models, value driven modernization programs, and building effective team structures.

Lezgin is a technology leader in the techcnical forefront with experience within innovation, security, architecture and a passionated problem solver. He had the OpenAI GPT-3 model on the radar 2 years before chatgpt release. Besides that he have a year of agentic development experience and is currently rolling out agentic way of working for the compan