Sam Talks Technology

Tiffany St James is the founder & CEO of Transmute, a consultancy that helps large businesses deliver digital change programmes.

Transmute Clients include: Cabinet Office, Google, Market Research Society, National Trust, Parliament, Prudential, UAE Government, Viacom and many more.

Tiffany is the former Head of Public Participation (Social Media) for the UK Government and was the strategic lead in Cabinet Office for Social Media.

She ran the world's largest web-rationalisation programme, was the first Director of Communications for Directgov and the first Head of Digital Policy Communications for the UK Government.

She launched Data.gov.uk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Together, they continue to work towards making the UK Government the most transparent in the world.

Tiffany is one of the inaugural Tech City100 and a TED Speaker. She sits on the Central Council of the British Interactive Media Association as Group Chair of Universities helping graduate employability and is regularly listed as 1 of the Top 100 Influencers in UK Digital Marketing including the Drum’s Digerati and Girl

James Poulter is the CEO and co-founder of Vixen Labs, a Voice Consultancy and Design studio which helps brands and businesses tell stories, solve problems and sell products and services through Voice First interfaces and Conversational commerce.

He is an innovation and strategy consultant with over 10 years experience specialising in Voice, Conversational AI Technologies and emerging platforms such as Immersive AR/VR, 5G and Blockchain.

Previously James was Head of The LEGO Group’s Emerging Platforms & Partnerships team, as part of the Digital Consumer Engagement division.

Prior to that he was the Head of Social Media for LEGO’s social network for Kids, LEGO Life – which launched globally in 2017 and has since grown to over 2m active users regularly posting their content to the world’s first global and safe social network for kids.

Before joining LEGO, James worked for a number of the world’s leading marketing, advertising and public relations firms including Edelman and Ogilvy leading digital marketing, mobile and social campaigns both in EMEA and globally as well as new business efforts for clients such as Diageo, Unilever, Bose, PayPal, HP and Adobe.

Katie King is a Board Advisor, published Author and Keynote Speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation.

Her new book 'Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing' is packed full of 1st hand interviews Katie conducted with companies currently using AI to solve real world problems in order to give them a competitive advantage.

Katie is also the founder and MD of Zoodikers an award winning business consultancy and content marketing agency.

Sam Liang is the CEO/Founder of Otter.AI based in Los Altos, California. Otter.AI is funded by some amazing VC's and Angel Investors.  They include Horizons Ventures (DeepMind, Waze, Zoom, Facebook), Tim Draper, David Cheriton (Stanford Professor Billionaire, the very first investor in Google).

With its core team coming from Google Speech team, Otter is building Ambient Voice Intelligence™ technologies with deep learning that understand human-to-human conversations.

David is the co-founder of a boutique consultancy called Agile Elephant that specialises in Digital Transformation.

He is known as a thought leader in digital transformation, social collaboration, ERP and cloud computing.

David started on mainframes and minicomputers, but he has now embraced the shift to cloud, social, and mobile in a world gone digital.

He combines more than 30 years of business experience with over 15 years of social media and digital marketing expertise.

I'm passionate about helping people understand the shift to digital, the implications of new business models, and how businesses can do more with less. - David Terrar

David is a regular speaker at events like Enterprise Digital Summit Paris and London, CeBIT, Cloud World Forum, Cloud Expo Europe, IOM Summit, Enterprise 2.0 Forum in Italy, and i2 in Zurich.

He is involved in running meetups like the Combined Social Business Sessions London, London Wiki Wednesdays, he was co-founder of the CreativeCoffee Club, and the co-founder of Amplified - the network of networks.

David has been blogging and writing about business and technology since 2005, and is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars group.

He is also a director & chair of Cloud Industry Forum, was a director of EuroCloud UK, chaired techUK's SaaS Group, and a judge for the UK Cloud Awards in 2016-2019.

Hermione Way is a new media journalist, Reality TV personality and entrepreneur.

She co-founded Vibease the world's first remote control smart vibrator "bringing fantasies to life with an immersive pleasure experience."

She was until recently the Head of Communications at Tinder

She has worked for CNBC, The Next Web and Techcrunch as well as running several of her own media companies. - Startup World, Newspepper, TechFluff, Hollywood meets Silicon Valley, TechDrive and she even had her own TV Series in America on Bravo TV.

She famously kite surf's with Richard Branson and was infamously photographed in a hot tub with Harry Styles after his breakup from Taylor Swift.

It seems Hermione knows everyone, she is one of those verified people that have 5,000 friends on Facebook and could easily have 5,000 more if allowed.

Her personal friends are the who's who of the Web 2.0 London & Silicon Valley tech scenes. Alex Tew, Michael Acton Smith (Calm), Oli Barrett, Stewart Townsend, Paul Walsh, Steve Karmeinsky Andy McLoughlin (ex-Huddle), Randi Zuckerberg (Facebook), Chris Saad, Michael Birch (Bebo), Mike Butcher (Europas), Robert Scoble and the list goes on and on.

Today she is married to Serhan Perincek and has two beautiful children. But that has not slowed her down.

Hermione still causes headline news, having recently breastfed her baby on stage at The Europas tech conference while simultaneously moderating a panel.

First time I’ve ever had to breastfeed on a panel but hey! Gotta feed the next generation of entrepreneurs.” - Hermione Way

Andy Evans a serial entrepreneur and a good friend. He is now semi-retired after selling two successful startups or as he says on LinkedIn "Investigating my next era".

Dave Isbitski is the Chief Evangelist for Alexa and Echo at Amazon. He has been a professional speaker, trainer, and evangelist for over two decades.

He has taught full-day courses on many topics including voice design, natural language understanding, mobile, and the cloud.

Dave has helped launch numerous technology platforms and devices while at both Microsoft and Amazon.

He hosts the Alexa Podcast, Wisdom with Friends podcast, The DaveDev Show YouTube channel and can also be found on Twitter.

Richard Edwards is the CEO DataShaka, a data cleansing and data aggregation company.

I'm a digital entrepreneur and am happiest when building a business...with all the heartache and chaos that involves. My goal is to build something that matters! - Richard Edwards

Marcus Cauchi is a sales training expert for Sandler Training. He calls himself 'The fitness trainer for sale people'

He works with CEOs & Channel Chiefs of technology vendors who recognise that success is not a function of having dozens of channel partners who occasionally uncover a piece of business, but rather it’s a function of having a handful of select partners who share a common vision, have common goals, and can be counted on to work collaboratively to effectively, efficiently, and consistently uncover new opportunities.

Marcus provides those CEOs & Channel Chiefs with the framework, strategy, and tools to build, develop, and sustain those productive, mutually-beneficial partnerships.