AI Growth Summit

Tom Goodwin is a globally recognised expert in digital transformation, innovation, and the impact of emerging technologies on business and culture. He is the founder of innovation consultancy AWHIN and host of The Edge on Euronews. Author of Digital Darwinism, he has built a large global following and is a leading voice on how organisations can harness technology for growth. With over 20 years’ experience across media, marketing, and digital industries, Goodwin advises companies on applying technology to drive practical, immediate transformation and rethink how business operates in a rapidly evolving digital world.

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg technology columnist covering AI, social media and regulation. Her book "Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World,” won the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year award for 2024 and became a Sunday Times Bestseller. She was previously a technology reporter with the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, and is also the author of “We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous and the Global Cyber Insurgency.”

Dr. Daniel Hulme is a globally recognised AI expert, investor, and Chief AI Officer at WPP, following its acquisition of his company Satalia in 2021. He is also Founder and CEO of Conscium, a pioneering research organisation focused on machine consciousness, and co-founded Faculty AI, acquired by Accenture in 2026. With over 25 years in AI, he holds a PhD from UCL and serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence. A leading keynote speaker and advisor, Daniel focuses on applying AI to drive innovation, ethical impact, and positive societal change.

Tracey Pilon, is Microsoft Advertising’s AI Acceleration Director for EMEA & LATAM. Tracey helps brands operationalise AI—across Copilot Ads, Ads Studio, and Brand Agents—and is a leading voice on how search is shifting from queries to companions.

Matt is GM for ElevenCreative in Europe where he leads GTM for ElevenLabs' creative products. He has spent his entire career in content creation and creative tools. He has been focused on creative AI tools since their inception. 

Shruti Dube is the UK Country Director for Meta where she leads the company’s business across platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Threads and Messenger.  
Shruti is part of the EMEA Leadership team and has been with the company for over a decade. Prior to her current role, she was the EMEA Director for Commercial Strategy and Operations and a Group Vertical Director for UK/Ireland.
Prior to Meta, Shruti  worked at McKinsey & Company and Sequoia Capital, focusing on strategy, innovation, and venture capital in the tech industry. She holds an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. 
Shruti is the Patron and ex-Chair of the board of trustees for a girls and young women’s charity, BelEve UK since 2020. She is the senior executive sponsor for Meta’s Asia-Pacific-Islander community group in EMEA. She is based in North West London and is a mum to two boys who she is raising to be staunch allies.

Amelia leads strategic thinking across Ogilvy’s client portfolio, shaping brand, business and communications strategy. Widely recognised for thought leadership on modern marketing, creativity and effectiveness, and a frequent industry speaker.

Wesley ter Haar is co-founder and Chief AI Officer of Monks, the 6,500-person global marketing and technology services company he started over 25 years ago as a digital production house. He's spent that time growing it — through expansion, mergers, and a persistent war on mediocre digital experiences — into an end-to-end creative, production, and technology partner for the world's most innovative brands.

Wesley is the inaugural president of the Cannes Lions Digital Craft jury and has served on the Cannes Titanium jury. He's spoken at Cannes, Adobe MAX, CES, Advertising Week, and FIAP, among others. Recognized as an AI Trailblazer by Business Intelligence (2024), an AdAge Creativity All-Star (2018), and inducted into the ADCN Hall of Fame.

Zehra Chatoo is an award-winning strategist working at the intersection of AI, creativity and responsible growth. After two decades shaping global brands, including senior leadership roles at Meta, she founded Code For Good Now to help organisations grow responsibly in the age of AI. A global keynote speaker, Zehra has shared her work on responsible AI and the gender adoption gap on stages including Davos at the World Economic Forum. She is the creator of REP IQ, an AI-powered tool linking representation to commercial performance. Zehra focuses on turning responsible AI into action, helping organisations reduce bias, strengthen cultural relevance and build trust in a rapidly evolving landscape. She serves on the Board of UN Women UK and the Effie Council, and was named in Campaign Magazine’s 40 Over 40.

Widely regarded as a leading voice on ethical AI, inclusive innovation, and the future of brand growth, Zehra is helping shape a new standard for responsibility, representation, and trust in modern marketing.

Ant Hill is a distinguished creative leader with over 24 years of industry experience at the intersection of advertising, technology, and innovation. Having held pivotal roles at top global agencies and Google’s in-house creative solutions team, he now leads Create With Cloud, a unit dedicated to helping creative businesses of all sizes integrate Google’s Generative AI into their workflows.

Ant’s mission is to reshape the agency business model, leveraging technology to secure a more viable and sustainable future for commercial creativity. With a PGDip in AI for Business from Saïd Business School, Oxford University, he possesses a rare vantage point that bridges the gap between human ingenuity and machine intelligence. He is a leading voice on how organisations can evolve and succeed within the rapidly augmenting creative landscape.

Freddie Turner is Managing Director, EMEA at Chalice AI, where she launched and leads the company's European operations. With over 15 years in agencies and ad tech where she held leadership roles at MiQ, WPP and independent agencies - she brings deep expertise in programmatic, sell-side decisioning, and AI-driven media optimisation. Freddie writes a monthly column for New Digital Age and is an active member of WACL, the network championing gender equity across advertising and communications, where she leads the partnerships division.

Juliana leads the integration of generative AI across Skin + Me, Hair + Me and Renew + Me. She specialises in embedding AI into creative and growth workflows across paid and social channels, driving a 35% increase in team efficiency and reducing reliance on physical photoshoots by 60%. Juliana builds scalable AI-powered production systems, develops internal AI playbooks and enables cross-functional teams to adopt AI-driven ways of working across creative and performance marketing.

Ollie Presswell is the Global Innovation Lead at Wanderlab, Tripadvisor’s in-house creative studio.

Ollie leads the charge in developing bold, future-facing ways for brands to connect with Tripadvisor’s community of travellers through storytelling, insight, and innovation. With a career spanning both agency and publisher worlds, Ollie has honed a strategic mindset that fuses creativity with data to deliver big thinking that resonates.

Beyond Wanderlab, Ollie draws on a background in music and scriptwriting, bringing the
foundations of storytelling and songwriting into his creative outlook.

Rachel Vardon is the Director of Commercial Development at Tripadvisor—the company's strategic growth engine. Over the past decade, she has rapidly progressed through the commercial ranks, previously founding the Global Agency Development function and co-founding Wanderlab, Tripadvisor's brand studio. A dedicated mum of three and a massive yoga nut, Rachel brings balance, high energy, and a fiercely human-first approach to everything she does.

As Global Director of Insight & Data Science at Captify, Sam Coates is responsible for driving data-led innovation and measuring real-world campaign impact using Captify's unique consumer intent dataset. A hands-on leader who bridges the gap between technical data science and the C-suite, Sam has spent nearly two decades building award-winning intelligence capabilities for major global brands. His background covers the full spectrum of the media industry - from digital auditing to creative strategy - and he is now dedicated to integrating advanced automation into the ad tech ecosystem.

Emma is Head of Client Strategy at Captify. With over 13 years experience in the industry, she is an expert in providing consultative commercial solutions for some of the UK’s leading brands. At Captify she drives strategic growth across the UK while building deeper partnerships with key agency partners and advertisers such as Sky, Amazon, John Lewis & Heineken. Emma is passionate about helping businesses solve their marketing challenges through technological innovation, working closely with key partner stakeholders to leverage the power of Captify’s unique search data asset to deliver business outcomes.

Niall Moody, Chief Revenue Officer at Nano Interactive, is responsible for shaping and executing the company’s global commercial strategy. He leads the go-to-market rollout of Nano’s AI-powered, ID-free solutions, helping advertisers navigate signal loss, increasing platform complexity, and evolving performance demands.

Prior to joining Nano, Niall led the sales organisation at YuMe, where he also oversaw the company’s relationship with GroupM, its largest agency partner. During this time, he played a key role in shaping the UK business - driving growth while establishing a strong culture, clear values, and strategic direction.

Captify, part of Verve, enables brands to understand, activate and measure real-time intent across the entire consumer journey, thanks to its proprietary search intent dataset. Leveraging over 15 years of machine learning expertise, Captify’s AI technology ingests over one billion daily search events from open-web publishers and LLMs, transforming search signals into actionable audiences. Captify’s exclusive, first-party search intent data fuels pre-campaign strategy and audience development, multi-channel activation across quality and brand-safe inventory, and unique measurement and insights for the world’s biggest brands.

Innovid is the leading independent ad tech platform, empowering marketers to create, deliver, measure, and optimize ad-supported experiences that people love. In 2025, Innovid and Flashtalking merged to create a transparent, scalable alternative to big-tech, walled-garden, and point solutions across CTV, digital, linear, and social channels. As part of Mediaocean, Innovid is tied into Prisma, the industry’s core ad infrastructure for omnichannel planning, buying, and billing as well as Protected for verification, fraud detection, and brand safety.

Nano Interactive is a global leader in privacy-friendly intent data intelligence, helping brands and media partners activate high-performance audiences without relying on personal identifiers. Operating across more than 100 markets, Nano powers scalable, intent-driven programmatic campaigns across display, video, and CTV. Its proprietary AI-powered LIIFT™  platform enables SSPs, agencies and brands to plan, activate, and optimise campaigns with speed, transparency, and control. Visit nanointeractive.com.