For 20 years, Nicky Wake has been building communities and leading award-winning events. After facing profound loss, she turned that experience into purpose. Now, Nicky creates spaces where people can connect during life’s hardest moments. As a speaker, she brings strength and empathy to every stage. Her story shows that sometimes life’s most extraordinary chapter begins when we think the story is over.

One of the most influential women in tech, Naomi Timperley has unparalleled connections into the UK’s innovation community, as a consultant, mentor, and advisor. She helps new companies emerge and established ones to incubate entrepreneurship and creativity.

Beckie Taylor breaks the ‘rules’ of business. And in doing so, she proves how wrong they are. Success doesn’t need to come from aggressive practices and punishing schedules, at the expense of everyone and everything else in your life. As a successful CEO, Beckie is the role model for a more progressive approach to work, one that she is helping many other people, and companies to adopt.