meet the speakers
Ian Ritchie is the non-executive Chairman of Tern plc, Computer Applications Service, and Krotos; he serves on the board of the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
He founded OWL in 1984 which pioneered hypertext technology (a forerunner to the World Wide Web) and which was sold to Panasonic in 1989. Since then, he has been involved in over 50 start-up high-tech businesses.
In the late 1980s he was a founder of ScotlandIS (then the Scottish Software House Federation) and was its Chairman from 1988 to 1990. He was President of the BCS in 1998-99.
His writes a monthly column in The Herald BusinessHQ section and his TED talk has been viewed over 600,000 times. His book, ‘The Web before the Web’ describes the early development of the graphics-based personal computer.
A former Gartner analyst, Richard Marshall has over 30 years of experience in the field of software design and innovation, including 18 as an entrepreneur.
As an inventor of software technology, Richard has lectured, written papers, articles and reports for many years. He has held a variety of leadership roles including VP, CTO, CMO, and CEO.
Richard regularly acts as an expert witness, including deposition, court testimony, and voir-dire and Daubert challenges, with an unbroken record of success for clients, including winning record damages of over $2bn for willful and malicious misappropriation of trade secrets.
Gary is the Founder and Chief Advisor at Owendale Advisory, where he helps leaders navigate AI’s impact on business strategy, operations, workforce and customers. He’s led large-scale business and technology transformations for some of the world’s best-known brands and loves working at the intersection of strategy, technology, and design.