Strategic Partner

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 114 Availability Zones within 36 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs.  

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Premium Partner

Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere.

Premium Partner

AlixPartners is a results-driven global consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges – from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation. These are the moments when everything is on the line – a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters. 

Premium Partner

Glean is the Work AI platform that connects and understands all your enterprise data, to generate trusted answers and automate work grounded in company knowledge. Using Glean’s powerful search and RAG technology to retrieve the most relevant, up-to-date information, Glean's AI assistant generates highly personalised answers based on your company’s unique enterprise knowledge graph. All answers are secure, private, permissions-aware, and fully referenceable back to source documentation in your enterprise. Glean also empowers users to quickly and securely build multi-step prompts and custom generative AI apps, agents, and assistants that automate everyday workflows. With over 100 connectors, LLM options, and no need for costly professional services, data training, or manual fine-tuning, Glean delivers turnkey implementation of a complex AI ecosystem on one centralised platform.

Premium Partner

Omidyar Network is a philanthropic organization whose mission is to bend the arc of the digital revolution toward shared power, prosperity, and possibility. We engage, partner, and fund some of the world's brightest thinkers and innovators to guide our digital future toward the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Premium Partner

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is putting AI to work for people. We move with the pace of innovation to help customers transform organizations across every industry while upholding a trustworthy, human centered approach to deploying our products and services at scale. Our AI platform for business transformation connects people, processes, data, and devices to increase productivity and maximize business outcomes.

Lead Sponsor

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

Lead Sponsor

IFS is the world’s leading provider of Industrial AI and enterprise software for hardcore businesses that service, power and protect our planet. Our technology enables businesses to manufacture goods, maintain complex assets, and manage service-focused operations to unlock the transformative power of Industrial AI™ to enhance productivity, efficiency, and sustainability.

IFS was founded in 1983 by five university friends who pitched a tent outside our first customer's site to ensure they would be available 24/7 and the needs of the customer would come first. Since then, IFS has grown into a global leader with over 7,000 employees in 80 countries.

Lead Sponsor

IgniteTech is a global, AI-first enterprise software company helping organizations grow revenue, optimize expenses, and transform through advanced, AI-driven solutions. Backed by over 30 years of experience in mission‑critical software IgniteTech has built a track record of successful company and technology acquisitions with rapid innovation. Since retooling the company in 2024 to become an AI-First innovation organization, and along with adding AI capabilities across its entire portfolio, IgniteTech has created two new AI-powered innovations, Eloquens AI and MyPersonas, empowering employees to automate routine tasks while keeping humans in the loop, orchestrating workflows that escalate to real experts when needed. 

Lead Sponsor

Lead Sponsor

Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] specialises in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. With a network of highly specialised companies, Reply defines and develops business models enabled by AI, big data, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply offers consulting, system integration and digital services for companies in the telecommunications and media, industry and services, banking and insurance and public administration sectors. 

Insurance Sponsor

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading global multi-line insurer founded more than 150 years ago, which has grown into a business serving more than 75 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories, while delivering industry-leading total shareholder returns. Reflecting its purpose to ‘create a brighter future together,’ Zurich offers protection services that go beyond traditional insurance, to support its customers in building resilience, powered by a strong commitment to technology and innovation. Since 2020, the Zurich Forest project supports reforestation and biodiversity restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. The Group has more than 63,000 employees and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX.

Associate Sponsor

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm helping clients harness the power of AI with confidence. With a long history of advising technology leaders and disruptors, we understand the real-world complexities of AI and provide legal counsel that helps companies of all sizes, in all sectors, translate opportunity into reality. Whether you're building, investing in, or deploying AI technologies and AI driven products, the firm offers strategic legal guidance across IP, regulation, corporate, and dispute resolution - while simultaneously transforming the way legal services are delivered through responsible and innovative use AI.

Associate Sponsor

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere.

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Associate Sponsor

Softwire is a leading digital software development consultancy that offers consultancy, bespoke software development and support. Softwire has grown into a multi-million-turnover business, trusted by well-known organisations across the public and private sectors to deliver their high-profile digital projects. We are innovators and passionate problem solvers in both software engineering and digital design, working with some of the UK’s leading brands. With our in-depth technical skills and delivery expertise, we’ll ensure your project completes on time and within budget. 

Exhibiting Partner

In the race to harness the power of AI, the winners will be those who understand not just what AI can do—but what it truly costs. As IBM’s leading partner in AI and Cloud Optimisation, Integres delivers full transparency across AI initiatives, enabling smarter decisions, lower spend, and higher ROI. With granular cost metrics, continuous optimisation, and future-proof planning, we help leaders turn AI ambition into measurable business value. 

Exhibiting Partner

Advance your career with Imperial Executive. Education Executive Education at Imperial drives global business and social transformation through the fusion of business, technology, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Programmes with Imperial Executive Education allow you access to our transformative community which provides outstanding participant experience. We are pioneers for innovative learning experiences. Our programmes are designed for both individuals and businesses seeking to enhance the skills of their workforce, whether that be through On-Campus Learning, Online or bespoke, custom programmes. 

Exhibiting Partner

Expert-led learning for the future-shaping workforce. We help organisations develop critical skills and capabilities enterprise-wide, through on-demand, expert-led video platforms

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