Turing Fest unveils speakers line-up
Turing Fest, which is billed as one of Europe’s top tech conferences for start-ups and scale-ups, has unveiled its speaker and partner line-up ahead of the event that takes place next month at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Turing Fest is this year taking a “hybrid” format, with organisers expecting around 700 inperson delegates, with a similar number of attendees joining online. The event was fully online last year due to the pandemic.
The latest speaker line-up includes Hannah Fleishman, director of employer brand and internal comms, Hubspot; Nilan Peiris, vice-president of growth, Wise; Ashley Faus, content strategy lead, Altassian;sailledasilva,headofuser experience, Cazoo; Chris Savage, co-founder and chief executive, Wistia; Varun Nair, cofounderortwobigearsandformerheadofaugmentedreality/ virtualrealityaudiosoftwareat Facebook,andclinicalpsychologist Dr Suzanne Brown.
Amajorthemeat2021’sturing Fest–whichtakesplacenovember 2 to 4 – is around diversity and inclusivity, and this year around half of speakers are femaleand20percentarefrom minority ethnic groups.
Turing Fest chief executive Brian Corcoran said the conference “is a practical learning and networking event, primarily aimed at helping people buildbetterstart-upsandscaleups, and it’s a win-win dynamic because the audience is keen to learn, the speakers are keen to teach”.
Former Turing Fest speaker Check Warner said: “We started Ada Ventures with the key objective of investing in overlooked founders and markets, following years of not seeing anyone be truly proactive.”