building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
A digital transformation leader with over two decades of experience advising government and industry on complex, technology-enabled change, Emma’s career spans senior roles at KPMG, Deloitte, Accenture, and PwC, building and leading practices, shaping national programmes, and supporting C-suite clients through enterprise-wide transformation.
Emma is currently serving as Deputy President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, for which she was elected by peers in the technology profession. This role allows her to contribute to the national conversation on technology professionalism at a pivotal moment. As AI and emerging technologies reshape business and society, she is working with government, industry leaders, and BCS members to help define the standards and ethics that will guide our digital future.
A background that includes coding ABAP for global SAP implementations to advising C-suite executives on enterprise transformation has given Emma a unique perspective on technology’s evolving role in organisational success.
She is a proud member of International Women’s Forum, and has launched and led diversity networks across a number of organisations.
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.
Chris has worked in Risk, Resilience and Security Advisory since retiring from a 21-year military career in 2012. Having worked initially as an independent consultant, then in Sungard Availability Services, Chris joined Databarracks in 2022 to lead the company’s expanding Business Resilience and Continuity services. In May 2024, Databarracks acquired the award-winning and long-established team from PlanB Consulting.
Initially engaged in high-hazard industries, notably the UK’s nuclear sector, Chris specialises in helping Board-level executives to improve their leadership in a crisis. Chris also helps clients develop their strategies and frameworks for organisational and operational resilience, Business Continuity and Information Security. He has worked with leadership teams in investment banks, life insurance, car manufacturers and motoring organisations, energy providers, critical national infrastructure firms, the legal sector, national banks and companies across the renewables sector.
Chris is a fluent French speaker and had a number of clients in Ireland, France, Belgium, Sweden, and Luxembourg, in addition to clients in the UK. His current team in Databarracks work globally, from the Far East to the Caribbean and North America.
Chris holds MBCI status with the BCI, and CISM with ISACA. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Leadership (FIoL) and the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI). He is a certified Level 7 Executive Coach and Mentor. He’s a Committee Member in the Continuity and Resilience workstream of the British Standards Institute. Happily married for over 25 years with children at university, he lives in Wiltshire.
Marcel Lukas is Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance and Vice-Dean of Executive Education at the University of St Andrews Business School, where his work sits at the intersection of finance, behavioural science, and AI. He designs and delivers executive education on AI and fintech governance for organisations including Deutsche Börse, Nest Corporation, Scottish Enterprise, and the IoD’s Global Certificate in Company Direction. His parallel research programme on family financial socialisation in the digital age has informed evidence to the House of Commons and the Money and Pensions Service, and he serves on UNICEF Innocenti’s strategic advisory board. His headline theme is helping people and organisations make better decisions in a digital world.
Rebecca has a broad public law and regulatory practice and a particular interest in data privacy and cyber security. Rebecca is recognised as an accredited specialist in freedom of information & data protection law by the Law Society of Scotland, and is a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Privacy Law Sub-Committee. Rebecca regularly supports clients in managing their response to data breaches and cyber attacks. She has acted for clients subject to some of the most serious and high-profile ransomware attacks in recent years. Having recently completed a secondment to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, Rebecca can offer valuable insight regarding engaging with the regulator, including managing the risk of enforcement action.
Nick specialises in English law disputes, corporate crime and regulatory investigations. Nick spent over ten years at Slaughter and May in London, before joining Burness Paull. He has experience of advising individuals, corporates, public bodies and financial institutions in connection with a range of complex and high-value investigations and disputes (both internal and external) across a variety of sectors. He frequently advises on regulatory and compliance issues, and is experienced in managing extensive, complex and sensitive data collation, review analysis and production exercises.
Kostandino Kustasis a Cyber Security Consultant at N-Able, where he spends his days helping businesses navigate the wild world of cyber security tools and services with cyber resilience in mind — occasionally explaining why “turning it off and on again” isn’t a security strategy.
With over 20 years in IT and 7 years focused on cyber security, he’s worked with organisations of all shapes and sizes across the UK — from punchy SMBs to sprawling enterprises, and everything from retail to public sector.
Whether he’s demystifying threat detection or cracking a dry joke about firewalls, Kostandino brings a refreshingly human touch to tech. If you’re looking for someone who knows his stuff and doesn’t take himself too seriously, you’re in the right place.
Laure is an energy industry professional, with more than 20 years experience. Her career started as an engineer in the Oil and Gas industry, in mainly operations engineering and commercial roles. She expanded her career to waste heat recovery and geothermal in 2019 and subsequently worked in green hydrogen. Using her cross-energy knowledge, she led an energy start-up programme at the Net Zero Technology Centre before joining Offshore Energies UK in 2024 as Business Growth & Transformation Manager. In this role, she heads the various OEUK data and digital groups and organises the yearly OEUK Data and Digital Conference. She is passionate about the proper implementation and use of digital tools across the whole energy industry to improve project delivery.