GAEA Talks

Abigail Heley is a seasoned leadership coach and trainer with decades of experience dedicated to unlocking potential and driving success in individuals and teams. As the Director and Co-Founder of ATHENA EVOLVE LTD, Abigail leads a team focused on empowering people to achieve their goals and realize their full potential. Her approach is grounded in a commitment to lasting change, self-belief, and...

Edward Webster is a Director at Plurimi Wealth, where he specialises in providing bespoke wealth management and investment advisory services to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals. With a deep understanding of global financial markets and sophisticated investment strategies, Edward helps clients navigate complex financial landscapes to achieve their long-term wealth objectives. Bef...

Graeme Gourlay is an experienced leader, project manager, and technologist with a deep background in both technology and business strategy. With nearly 40 years in the IT sector, Graeme is well versed in technical architecture, systems implementation, and client-facing positions with large multinational organisations such as Oracle, Accenture and Hewlett Packard. Graeme brings a wealth of expertis...

Mike Sharples is Emeritus Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University, UK. He gained a PhD from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh on Cognition, Computers and Creative Writing. His expertise involves human-centred design and evaluation of new technologies and environments for learning. He provides consultancy for institutions worldwide including UNESC...

Professor Deiary Kader is a knee arthroplasty and arthroscopy (Sports) surgeon, researcher, academic, educationalist and humanitarian. After completing his fellowship training in knee and sports surgery in Australia and the UK. He was invited to accept a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon post at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead and to become a team doctor for Newcastle United footbal...

Andrew Levers is the Chief Marketing Officer at GAEA AI. Andrew is an accomplished CMO and business leader with expertise in traditional and digital marketing, brand growth, communications, and preparing businesses for successful exits, achieving sales of £18m–£210m in the technology sector.. In this episode Andrew discussed 'The Currency of Your Data in Exchange for Revenue'.

Raoul is a Partner in the Technology, Corporate & Commercial teams. He is a specialist commercial technology lawyer who helps his clients with a wide range of contractual, data protection and intellectual property issues. His clients range from start-ups to listed multinational companies and include software developers, digital agencies, virtual reality producers, crowdfunding platforms and on...

Mark is Chief Partnerships Officer at FourthRev, bringing together world-leading universities, technology companies and employer partners to deliver learning experiences with direct pathways to qualifications and jobs in the digital economy. Previously, Mark was co-founder and Managing Director of Universities and Educational Partnerships at FutureLearn, one of the world's foremost massive ope...

Yi-Zhe Song is a Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, at the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), one of the UK's oldest and largest research centres on Artificial Intelligence. He leads the SketchX Lab within CVSSP - a large research group of 3 academics, 2 postdocs, and 14 full-time PhD students. His vision for SketchX is understanding how seeing can be explained...