Summer HI Tech Festival
Event Information
Event description
Description
Welcome to Summer HI Tech Festival - Tech for all.
Summer HI Tech Festival - Tech for All is part of the Panda Innovation series that will be organized 7-8 times in a year in London. It is embedded in a series of events to connect entrepreneurs and investors. Through these events we are seeking to provide UK talent and key opinion leaders with a platform to connect locally with Chinese investors. Join us on 16th of July to discover the latest tech developments and investment trends and join the global discussion.
Thanks to Balbir Judge in his capacity as advisor.
Summer HI Tech Festival - Tech for All kicks off at 9:45 am and runs until 9:00 pm.
Keep an eye on the page. New updates daily. And check our webpage somerco.com
Main media partner
Media partners
Main technology partner
- Global Financial Experts
Financial Services, Wealth Management, Technology and so on.
Beer sponsor German Kraft Beer
German Kraft was born out of the desire to revive the ceremony that traditionally surrounds beer drinking; to create a locally brewed beer, full of character, that is served fresh at its point of origin. Dowload their app that will give you a free beer when you visit them at Mercato Metropolitano.
Agenda
8:30 am Registration
9:30 - 9:45 am Welcome speech
9:45 - 10:30 am Panel Discussion Disrupt Cleantech
Chair: Anna Poberezhna founder of Smart4tech, a boutique technology & sustainable innovation venture. She is an innovation expert with a focus on the impact business, Sustainable Development, & blockchain.
Panelists
Derek Myers CEO at Zero Carbon Project. Energy blockchain tackling climate change. Chairman at West London Sustainability and Climate Change Commission. Director at Beond. An Energy Consultancy.
Paul Taylor Paul Taylor – CEO – Paul is an experienced renewable energy commercial executive, having spent12 years working on a variety of commercial projects in climate change, and renewableenergy. Currently, Director at Ayltor Digital and at BCL - a multidisciplinary agency to advise entrants into the crypto and blockchain space.
Richard Ardley Head of Experiental at Pavegen. Creates energy and data from footsteps. Kinetic technology to power brand experiences and empower people. He is a creative marketing strategist with 18 years’ experience in the media and communications industry.
Dr William Wu Innovation Insight Lead at Cisco Innovation EMEAR. In-depth knowledge of smart city planning, autonomous vehicle testbeds & HMI, precision farming, integrated health and social care, and urban resilience.
Agnes Czako Co-founder and Managing Director at AirEx, an innovative smart home technology that helps householders reduce their heating energy bills without compromising air quality. Agnes has a background in passivhaus design and has recently won 'Women in innovation' Innovate UK award.
10:30- 11:00 Coffe and tea break with networking
11:00 - 11:45 am Panel Discussion Let drones help us
Chair
Panelists
Nigel Camp founder of The Drone Dude which offers aerial videography services. He also runs an independent production company called DevilBoy Productions. Author of the The Video Effect which teaches brands how to use video to market themselves effectively.
Standards director of ARPAS the UK drone trade association, an independent consultant and founder of Neuron, a trusted data sharing platform for the transportation industry using distributed ledger technology Website: www.fleetuas.com
Jamie Allan CEO of Allan Panthera: world-leading drone consultancy, advising private equity investment firms and leading corporates such as McKinsey & Co on all aspects of the commercial UAV sector. Worked with bluechip clients such as Equinor and GE delivering world-first drone projects across the globe. He is a lawyer by trade and Master of Science in Management, Enterprise and Innovation.
Rufus Ballaster, senior partner of Carter Lemons Camerons and co-author of A Practical Guide to Drone Law came to drone and autonomous vehicle issues from a property law perspective and loves to talk about (a) ‘not a lot of people know that’ issues in terms of what is already possible and happening and (b) where next hopes and dreams
Michael Thompson Director of SkyFly Video and the UK Drone Company. Fully qualified Helicopter and UAV pilot. The Drone Company, the go to aerial filming and photography specialist’s in the UK. Skyfly are a Drone Aerial Filming, Aerial Surveying and Mapping.
11:45 - 12:30 pm
Panel Discussion Regulatory aspects on drones
Chair Jacqueline Watts Solicitor of A City Law Firm . Experienced Corporate solicitor that advise on specialist projects such as blockchain, cryptocurrency, AI, VR, AR, robotics, IoT, autonomous vehicles and drones.
Panelists
Michael Booth He joined Prettys as a trainee solicitor in September 2015. He has spent seats in the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Law department and its Shipping and Insurance department. He currently works in Prettys’ Commercial Property department.
Rufus Ballaster, senior partner of Carter Lemons Camerons and co-author of A Practical Guide to Drone Law came to drone and autonomous vehicle issues from a property law perspective and loves to talk about (a) ‘not a lot of people know that’ issues in terms of what is already possible and happening and (b) where next hopes and dreams.
Jamie Allan CEO of Allan Panthera: world-leading drone consultancy, advising private equity investment firms and leading corporates such as McKinsey & Co on all aspects of the commercial UAV sector. Worked with bluechip clients such as Equinor and GE delivering world-first drone projects across the globe. He is a lawyer by trade and Master of Science in Management, Enterprise and Innovation.
12:30 - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 - 1:30 Keynote
1:30 - 2:15 pm Panel Discussion CTOs project succes stories
Chair Jan Softa CEO of Somerco. Somerco organise technology and investorshows. At these trade fairs and conferences you can listen to speakers, meet exhibitors, see seminars and companies pitch for investment
Panelists
Nikos Katsikanis Director at Nikos Katsikanis Ltd. Your startup CTO partner (Building teams & Tech Strategy, Interviewing, Managing investors etc. QuantumJS.com
Alex Goodger Co-founder & CTO @ Cobidol. Provides an operating systems built on the blockchain that is used to supervise the mechanics of the supply chain and to provide transparency about production methods for consumers & the industry.
Chair: Jan Softa CEO of Somerco. Somerco organise technology and investorshows. At these trade fairs and conferences you can listen to speakers, meet exhibitors, see seminars and companies pitch for investment.
Panelists
Aran Hakki JAVA/Kotlin Developer at Cognitionbox. Detect and Prevent errors. Bugs in your code can cause repuation damage, lawsuits, financial loss and harm to humans. Problems Cogintionbox address.
Sami Start Building Incentive, where we are reducing barriers to financial services using blockchain technology. We're unblockingthe blockchain by fixing the user experience, payments and compliance that are needed to make it accessible fornormal people.
3:00 - 3:30 pm Coffe and tea break
3:30 - 4:15 pm Panel Discussion Effective marketing of Tech companies
Chair: Michael Edge Founder at Electric Digital - Helping businesses get more authentic with their digital marketing. Director of Innovation at Takeout. Strategic consultancy and new product development for a range of high-profile clients such Carlsberg, Pepsi, Lloyds Register, Thomson Reuters, Samsung, Telefonica and UKTI.
Panelists
Janina Lowisz Coinrivet ranks her among the 100 most influential people in blockchain. Co-founder and VP Marketing at Cashaa, a banking platform focused on banking the crypto economy, providing business accounts including fiat and crypto for businesses worldwide.
Damoy Robertson Founder Start Cr8tive. Business development specialist with a key focus on innovation. Highly experienced in working with startups and SMEsto create and implement effective business development solutions.
Ina Yulo Global Head of Fintech & Financial Services, Manager of UK Communities Team @ Bright Talk. She has grown BrightTALK's FinTech community to 400,000+ global professionals to become a leading sources of online content in the industry.
Raoul de Lantsheere Video marketer and UK country manager at Storyme. Need help with the right video strategy, content & distribution? At StoryMe, we help you win with video.
Modupe (alakiu) ajibola Blockchain consultant at #Decent help you build leading blockchain applications, block by block. Prior Blockchain Product Marketing Manager at Chromaway Postchain technology & relational blockchain platform Chromia.
Chair: James Roy Poulter CEO of The Reserve. After a professional career covering finance and technology, I am dedicated to improving society through distributed ledgers - the bedrock for a future based on Trust. Forbes 30 under 30.
Panelists
Freddie Ansah Cert CII (FS) Partner at Clearwater Wealth Management, Principal Partner Practice of St. James’s Place Wealth Management. Delivering quality, face-to-face wealth management advice with a commitment to building trusted and enduring relationships with clients.
Darius Greicius Business development @ Ecstatus Capital. A boutique multi-asset manager which offers systematic long-short funds across Digital Asset & FX markets. We cater to fund of funds, institutional investors, family offices, HNW individuals.
Omrit Sarangi Partner at St. James's Place Wealth Management. A holistic approach in all areas of wealth management and tax planning. My main objectives are to provide efficiency gains in your financial planning, to provide direction and purpose in your investment management approach, but most importantly, to ensure complete financial independence and security.
Sebastian Higgins Director at Vo1t. Combines cutting-edge system design with cybersecurity best practices to create the world’s most secure cold storage vault for digital assets. It is a security ecosystem that provides a custody and a depository solution with a market-leading infrastructure and system.
Alex Laughton-Scott Associate Director at Coinshares, member of ISO and BSI committees developing standards on cryptocurrencies. Europe's leading digital asset manager and pioneers of the first regulated cryptocurrency fund and first exchange traded cryptocurrency products on a regulated market.
5:00 - 5:45 pm Panel Discussion Blockchain in business
Chair: James Roy Poulter CEO of The Reserve. After a professional career covering finance and technology, I am dedicated to improving society through distributed ledgers - the bedrock for a future based on Trust. Forbes 30 under 30.
Panelists
Andrew Speers Director, Product and innovation at RBS. I have been working in the Financial Services industry for 15+ years. I have held various positions with leading global banks in roles ranging from Sales to Product Development.
Yakeen Prabdial Managing Partner: Fifth 9 focus on the main disciplines of tech disruption: IoT,digital transformation, blockchain applicability and digital Law allowing us to expend from our Telco and IoT roots into Aerospace & FinTech.
Kenneth Omoya CEO at Tripterium . Visionary entrepreneur focusing on the intersection of Fintech and blockchain technology. A tokenized cryptocurrency index fund, making it easy for anyone to own a diversecrypto-portfolio by owning a single token.
Sadiq Quasim runs Loyakk Ltd & iStrategies Ltd and is a public speaker on Blockchain in the Enterprise. He has assisted in driving business change alongside IT Solution implementations and worked with a variety of organisations.
Anish Mohammed Head of Research at Institute of Information Systems (IIS), SRH Hochschule Berlin . Advisor to multiple companies as Adjoint and ColliderX. Currently focusing on Blockchain and Cryptoeconomics.
5:45 - 6:30 am Panel Discussion What is new in smartgrids
Chair:
Panelists
Marco Poliafico Modeller Associate at General Electric. Financial modelling: Development of new financial models and analysis, coordination and auditing of modelling process for the regional teams.
Luke Brown Founder at Zhyga Worldwide Investment Group Ltd. The future industry of microgrids, power generation technology and how that can be fitted into financial markets with blockchain and crypto coins.
Graham Oakes Owner Graham Oaks Ltd. Systems engineer with 35 years experience working with organisations such as Cisco, Greenpeace, Intel, Oxfam to develop high tech products. Creator of Upside Energy gave deep insight into the energy system & the challenges it faces as it decarbonises & becomes more distributed & people-centred.
Akshat Kulkarni Experienced Co-Founder and CEO of Orxagrid with a demonstrated history of working in the energy sector. Skilled in Electricity networks,Power Systems and Renewable Energy. Expert in smart grids, IoT and grid optimisation.
See panels, speakers and agenda on the last conference
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
To be part of Tech for All you are a university student or a professional and if you look young you might be asked to show ID to get beer or other alcohol.
What can I bring into the event?
You can bring a smile, your laptop and a ticket.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
jan.softa@somerco.com
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
Yes
Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attend?
No
All attendees, sponsors, partners, volunteers and staff at our events are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to ensure a safe environment for everybody.
Our events is dedicated to providing a safe and comfortable environment and harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of the following:
-
gender
-
gender identity and expression
-
age
-
sexual orientation
-
disability
-
physical appearance
-
body size
-
race
-
ethnicity
-
nationality
-
religion
-
political views
-
previous hackathon attendance or lack of
-
computing experience or lack of
-
chosen programming language or tech stack
We do not tolerate harassment of events participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate at our events venue, this includes the following.
-
hacks
-
talks, presentations, or demos
-
workshops
-
any parties associated to the hackathon
-
social media
-
any other online media
Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the event without a refund (if applicable) at the discretion of the event organisers.
CoC violation are repoerted to jan.softa@somerco.com
