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.
‘Hopeful sceptic’ K D Adamson’s inspirational performances have been described as a TED talk on
steroids and a Tarantino movie where no one died, challenging our assumptions about geopolitics and
society, business, the environment, economics, technology, and ourselves.
Sharp, funny and straight-talking on stage, screen, and in print she is a regular commentator on global
events renowned for her simple yet powerful ideas, thought-provoking opinions, and ability to distill
complex, hot-button issues as a contributor to BBC World News, Bloomberg, CNN, The Sun, Financial
Times, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Channel News Asia, and BBC R4 Today.
A visionary who reframes the future as a value problem that no technology can solve, K D’s candid
pragmatism and practical commercial acumen guides and influences sustainable value creation for
leaders and organisations around the world.
Expert in sustainable organisational transformation, digitalization, AI, innovation, agility, ESG, leadership,
and the blue, green and circular economies her stellar clients include major global brands, tech giants,
multi-nationals, governments, non-profits and NGOs.
Visionary yet pragmatic she reframes the future as a value problem that no technology can solve. Her
motto is ‘dubito ergo sum’ – ‘I doubt, therefore I am’.
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.
Cheryl Hung is Senior Director, Head of Infrastructure Ecosystem at Arm, and thought leader in open source and ecosystem strategy.
She was VP Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, engaging organisations such as Apple, Airbnb, CERN, Intuit and Spotify in the End User Community. She was an early pioneer in the Kubernetes community, founding the Cloud Native London meetup in 2017 and growing it to over 9000 members. Previously she managed engineering teams at Apple and Google.
Cheryl holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.
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.