Accelerate.This year’s theme aims to inspire and encourage young fresh minds to accelerate and gain momentum.

SW7 2AZ
London, Kensington and Chelsea, SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom

Idowu Anthony-Ajileye

Idowu Anthony-Ajileye holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration. He is a Civil Engineering Project Manager and a Public Speaker. He speaks on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Career, Family Values and Human Rights. He is also a Trustee of Charity Institutions in the UK. He is actively involved with local, national and global Organisations in several capacities which includes Amnesty International Trainer/Speaker, UNICEF Children's Champion, Kent Police Independent Critical Incident Advisor, Business Mentor for Mosaic, Business Mentor for Kent Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs and Mentor for Elevation Networks.

Declan Egan

Declan Egan, graduated from a Commerce degree in UCD in 2012. He worked for Google UK where he was google point of contact for the largest non profits in the UK and Google UK's largest software clients. Whilst in Google, Declan setup 100minds.org which takes a large group of students, challenges them to raise €1,000 each and provides a support infrastructure around them to implement an entrepreneurial type event / project to hit their fundraising target and gain real world practical skills in the process. To date 100minds has taken over 300 students to their programme and helped multiple students secure graduate roles and has fundraised €385,000 in just 18 months. Declan left Google in February to focus on 100Minds and a spinoff project called, GradAstra that connects students with real work experience, professional mentorship and online courses prepared by experts to create more opportunities for students to gain real world experience before they leave college.

Haibo E

Haibo is an Associate at McKinsey & Company in the London Office and Business Technology Office. She has served clients across multiple industries from telecoms to logistics to consumer products; she is particularly interested in Digital strategy and organisation. She has particularly enjoyed serving clients in female financial inclusion, and women's education, and is an active part of the London Office Women's Initiative.Haibo holds a DPhil from Oxford in Materials Science and a BA/MSci from Cambridge in Physics. She left the lab to find out more about the world and how she can make a more immediate difference in it. But you can't take the lab out of the woman: even the lessons learnt along the way can be best understood by the beauty of science.

Inmaculada Adarves-Yorno

Dr. Inmaculada Adarves-Yorno is currently working at the University of Exeter Business School. As an academic and practitioner she has specialized in what is 'underneath the surface'. She has worked as a CEO advisor, Human Resources manager, coach and leadership developer. For over ten years she has been working with a range of managers and leaders and has witnessed the contradictions between their inner and outer lives. One of her latest work revolves around both developing the next generation of authentic leaders (change agents) and understanding their tensions and paradoxes. She enjoys offering mindfulness training to a wide range of people from business managers and future CEOs to prison guards and prisoners. She dreams that we could all work together for a common cause.

Marily Nika

Marily taught herself how to code in BASIC at the age of 8. She gradually developed a strong passion for maths, computing and the internet. In 2011 she was the first Greek student to receive Google's Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, which enabled her to pursue a PhD at the department of Computing. She presented her work at TEDxAthens 2014: "Is Robin Thicke the New Swine Flu?". In 2011 she founded the Imperial College London Women in Computing group. She worked on initiatives such as helping organising the first UK's all-women hackathon that was held at Facebook London and in developing coding curriculums for teenagers. Marily is now directing of the London Geekettes and is working full-time at Google London in engineering. She has received various awards for being an inspirational role model and in 2013 she gave a talk at TEDxZurich "A futurespective of a life yet to be lived: My hypothetical daughter's career in tech in 2055"."

Naomi Bowman

Naomi Bowman is the winner of Women in the City's Future Leaders award 2014 and Head of Operations and Governance at HSBC. Before joining HSBC in January 2013, Naomi was Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP specialising in operations and regulatory advisory. Naomi is a qualified ACA (ICAEW) and completed her training contract at PwC - working in Financial Services Tax Advisory and latterly Financial Services consulting. She is currently studying for the ICA’s Postgraduate Diploma in Governance Risk and Compliance. Outside the office, Naomi is a keen cyclist and triathlete – recently completing the London to Paris bike ride in May 2014. She is also a School Governor for Tonbridge Federation and is a keen mentor of both colleagues and students alike.