meet the speakers
Deputy President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Jon Hope is a seasoned cybersecurity expert and one of the most in-demand speakers at Sophos, a global leader in IT security. Since joining the company in 2011, Jon has held a variety of technical and strategic roles, including Channel Manager, Firewall Specialist, and Sales Engineer.
In his current role as Senior Technology Evangelist, Jon leverages his deep passion for the field to translate complex threat intelligence into accessible, actionable insights for audiences across Europe. He is a regular contributor to industry discussions on the evolving threat landscape, frequently presenting Sophos’s primary research, such as the annual State of Ransomware report.
Curiosity has always gotten the better of Tim, particularly when someone tells him that’s just how things are. With an MA in Religious Anthropology and an MSc in Data Science, he brings an unconventional perspective to the question of how organisations actually work, and why they so often resist the changes meant to improve them. His career has taken him from international Energy Sector to the cutting edge of Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graph techniques, driven throughout by the same underlying preoccupation: the messy, fascinating relationship between human behaviour and the systems built around it. In his current role at Katoni Engineering, Tim focuses on digital technologies that genuinely empower the workforce rather than simply land on it. That collision of social topology, graph-based thinking, and on-the-ground transformation is what drew him to Organisational Network Analysis.
Martin Weides is Professor of Quantum Technologies at the University of Glasgow and co-founder of Quantcore and Kelvin Quantum. He specialises in superconducting qubits and works with the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre to develop scalable quantum hardware and translate research into real-world technologies.
Nick Finch is CTO and co-founder of inmydata, an Edinburgh-based company building agentic AI infrastructure for enterprise clients. With around 20 years in data analytics and business intelligence and four years of hands-on LLM experience, Nick’s team builds production AI systems that go beyond chatbots, from expert knowledge capture platforms to intelligent buying systems that synthesise ERP data, commodity markets and weather patterns. inmydata’s work spans clients in manufacturing, engineering and software, proving that small teams with AI-first engineering practices can deliver what used to take entire departments.