From Adoption to 10X Productivity: Tech Leaders Perspective on the AI-Era

Alex Cave is the Chief Data & AI Officer for Business & Commercial Banking at Lloyds Banking Group. With more than 15 years' experience leading analytics, data science and AI teams, he has helped shape the adoption of data and AI across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations. Having worked across banking, capital markets, consulting and technology, Alex brings a broad perspective on how organisations can use data and AI to drive innovation, improve decision making and deliver better outcomes for customers, colleagues and businesses. His work spans everything from customer intelligence and personalisation to emerging AI technologies and large scale data transformation.

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Renee Hunt is Chief Data & Information Officer at Mortgage Advice Bureau (mab), leading Technology, Product, Data, AI, Customer Experience and Change. With more than forty years in technology and transformation, including senior leadership roles at Sky and Compare the Market, she combines commercial thinking, a passion for people and culture, and a self-confessed geekiness about great engineering. Renee is particularly interested in how AI and data can reshape financial advice, creating better customer outcomes and making advisers and businesses more successful. Alongside her executive role, she is a Non-Executive Director at the Institute of Directors and Nando’s, as well as a strategic adviser and certified Executive Coach.

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A Top 100 Global Influencer in Technology (LEAP) and previously the Digital Ambassador of the Year (Computing), David is a film-maker and podcaster. An experienced conference chair and moderator, he brings sharp insight and a no-nonsense approach to dissecting technology’s biggest challenges and opportunities.

Since launching in 2015, ‘Tech Talks’ has published over 1,000 episodes and become a global hit with listeners as one of the world's leading technology podcasts, regularly appearing on the Apple’s Technology Podcast charts. ‘Tech Flix’ evolved out of the stories discovered on the podcast, with 6 documentaries published to date being screened at tech festivals and alongside world-leading brands and institutions such as NASA, Web Summit and Columbia University (in New York).

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Mel Unsworth is Chief Technology Officer at the Financial Times, leading technology strategy, engineering, infrastructure and platforms across the organisation. With more than 20 years’ experience across media, luxury retail and entertainment, she has led large-scale technology and digital transformations at organisations including END., YOOX Net-a-Porter, Merlin Entertainments, Warner Music Group and Virgin Media.
Mel is passionate about using technology, data and AI to drive commercial growth, improve customer experiences and transform how organisations work. Throughout her career, she has focused on building high-performing, diverse teams, creating opportunities for people from different backgrounds to thrive, and positioning technology as a driver of business value rather than simply a cost centre.

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Sunnie Gill leads Enterprise AI at Arm, whose compute platform helps power cloud, edge and physical AI from data centres and smartphones to robotics and autonomous vehicles. Within this deeply technical, engineering led business, he helps teams put AI into practice and rethink how work gets done.

His experience spans machine learning and generative AI across FTSE listed businesses in finance, aviation, energy, retail and technology. A self described AI nerd, he gets as deep into model architectures as he does into the human side of adoption. His passion lies in innovation, emerging tech and exploring the deeper world of AI, from its technical possibilities to its power to transform enterprises and people.

Outside of AI, he’s a Liverpool fan, boxing enthusiast and keen traveller. Having grown up around music producers and artists, creativity runs in the family. He’s also a dad with a surprisingly deep knowledge of the Moana soundtrack and all things Disney!

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