Speakers

Freddie Quek is Research Associate at Henley Business School (HBS), Tech Leader, NED and Advisor to AI startups. Previously he was CTO at Times Higher Education. He is recognised as UK’s top IT leaders by CIO100 and Computing. He founded the #JoiningTheDots initiative to address digital inclusion, became Community Board member of the Digital Poverty Alliance and Chair of BCS Digital Divide Specialist Group. He co-founded The NextPath Device Consortium as a tech sector-driven initiative to address affordable devices at scale. He serves on the boards at University of Bristol, BCS Influence Board, eLife and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Freddie is a Fellow of BCS and judge for the UK IT Industry, IT Apprenticeship Awards, Women in IT Awards and CIO100. He has Masters degrees from the LSE and HBS and is an alumnus of Oxford University.