Founder of Missing Black People, featured in BBC, ITV, The Independent, Vice UK, RT, a platform that bringing awareness to missing Black people cases worldwide.
Head of Product, inside voices, backed by Entrepreneur's Roundtable Accelerator
On Deck No Code Fellow
#100DaysofNoCode creator-in-residence
University of London Graduate
Tuskegee University Graduate
Former Youth Led Decision-Making Panel, Peabody Foundation
Former Youth Advisory Board, partnership for young London
Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard is London’s Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice.Since taking office, Debbie has made it a priority to ensure London’s diverse communities have a voice in their city. She works to promote social justice and equality for all communities and has been a key player in driving London’s social recovery from Covid-19 and supporting households more impacted by the cost of living. Debbie chairs the Mayor’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory group, as well as London’s Strategic Migration Panel and is co-chair of the Diversity in the Public Realm Commission. She is also a member of the TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce and the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Systemic Inequalities and Social Cohesion.Debbie joined the mayoral team in 2018 from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where she led the organisation’s work on poverty and ethnicity with additional areas of expertise on labour markets, education, lone parents and young people. Prior to this Debbie worked at the Runnymede Trust as Head of Research, running their work on inclusive curriculum development, education attainment gaps and school exclusion as well as work on community cohesion, race and criminal justice and youth transitions.
Fadzai Madzingira is a Director in the Office of Ethical and Humane Use at Salesforce. My team is responsible for writing policies to ensure Salesforce technologies are not being used for harm and uphold basic human rights. Prior to this, she was the Global Hate Speech Content Policy Lead at Meta in the team responsible for writing and interpreting the community Standards. Her work is shaped and led in wanting to keep people safe online, especially historically targeted communities who are often the targets of abuse. As a Rhodes Scholar from Zimbabwe, she read for a Bachelor of Civil Laws and a Master in Public Policy at Oxford University.
Glenise Kinard-Moore (she/her) is the founder of SkiiMoo Tech and the creator of The VDOM. The VDOM is a prosthetic genital device that can go from flaccid to erect at the push of a button and can be worn comfortably throughout your day-to-day activities. Glenise holds an undergrad degree in Marketing and PR but with her having a deeply rooted passion for technology she decided to make a career change, going into the world of information and cyber security. She worked to obtain multiple certifications in the discipline and established herself as a subject matter expert in the field. At now, 13 years in her career and through her endeavors as the founder of SkiiMoo Tech, Glenise now adds product development to her skill set. Glenise, a self-proclaimed tech nerd, likes to say that her superpower is breaking apart many things to create new things.
Ifeoma is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Prime Video, Amazon and works with cross-functional teams to deliver exciting features for our customers who use Prime Video on their TVs and living room devices. She was recognised in 2021 by PMI UK as a Wonder Woman and an inspiration to women, and is also a winner of the 2021 TechWomen100 award. Ifeoma is passionate about giving back to the society and sharing her experience to help lift others. As a STEM ambassador she organised various workshops and conferences aimed at encouraging girls and young women into Technology roles, and as a career mentor for Anglia Ruskin University, she has mentored women from under-represented backgrounds towards starting a career in Technology.
Izzy Obeng is an entrepreneur and business coach. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Foundervine and sits as a Non-Executive Director for Traverse (Office for Public Management) and as a Non-Executive Director for Capital Enterprise. At Foundervine, Izzy leads a consultancy for creating systemic change in entrepreneurship. Foundervine has launched accelerators in the UK that support early-stage companies, providing entrepreneurs from under-represented communities with mentorship, training, and access to capital. Izzy has been featured in the BBC, The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and in 2022, Izzy was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Impact.
I am an experienced Product Manager and Entrepreneur with a passion for both consumer technology and business strategy. It brings me joy to solve human-centered problems on diverse teams using my technical, communication, and leadership skills. Whether it's building devices or formulating beauty products, I focus on creating delightful experiences that make a difference in people's lives.
Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022). During the course of writing her book, she and her sources uncovered who they believe was behind the biggest whodunnit in crypto — the 2016 DAO attack on Ethereum. Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had more than 30 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She lives in New York City.
Lawrence works as an engineer in Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities (FICC) Systematic Market Making. This involves building quantitative and technological front office systems across multiple asset classes (FI, FX, Credit and Commodities).Lawrence also leads a team in Cross Asset Engineering within the Global Markets Division. As a strategist, Lawrence works as part of the business and an engineer at the same time which is incredibly exciting.He is a co-lead for the Recruitment Pillar of the of the internal Black Engineers Network.
With a vast amount of experience in B2B sales, Lewis has worked with companies of all sizes to leverage SaaS solutions, ranging from SMEs to FTSE 100 organisations. With a Psychology degree at the core of his career he has excelled and progressed, and currently manages a sales team at PitchBook Data.
Lex Gillon (she/her) is the CEO and Founder of Modality Group, the market research firm making sex business more data driven. After graduating from Yale University, she started her research career in advertising as Strategic Planner at Ogilvy and Mather and has been conducting market research for 10 years. Lex splits her time between running her company and working in web3 as a project manager at Parity Technologies.
I've worked at Lioness for 6 years working to create something that will help people explore and understand their bodies. Early in college I realized that many of my friends and I had no idea how to get our bodies to experience pleasure. That pushed me into the sexual health industry, as there is no reason for people (predominantly those those with vaginas) to not understand their bodies.
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