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Meet some of the inspiring speakers who will be sharing their insights and expertise at Ox Tech Week 2026.

Ali El Kaafarani
Founder & CEO
PQShield

Bob Goodson
President & Founder
Quid

Bruno Leone
Physicist
European Space Agency

Carl Savage
Manager
ESA Business Incubation Centre & Deep Tech Catalyst Quantum Incubator

Ceri Morgan
HealthTech Investment Banking Advisor & NED
Independent

Cici Muldoon
Founder & CEO
Serox

Chris Kingsley
Co-founder & CTO
Rebellion

Constantin Coussios
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Oxford

Dave Norwood
Co-founder
Oxford Science Enterprises

David Mott
Founder Partner
Oxford Capital

David Gann
Chairperson
UK Fusion Energy Ltd

Emily Turner
CEO
HSBC Innovation Banking UK

Elisabeth Duijnstee
Founder & CEO
Compass Labs

Fabian Braesemann
Principal Investigator
The Science of Startups Initiative

Harriet Lester
Associate
The Pioneer Group

Hermann Hauser
Co-founder and Venture Partner
Amadeus Capital Partners

Husayn Kassai
Founder & CEO
ollo

Jonathan Milner
Founder
Abcam plc

Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes
Entrepreneur in Residence
Oxford Science Enterprises

Kyle Grant-Talbot
CEO & Founder
Oxwash

Lisa Flashner
Chief Operating Officer
EIT

Lionel Tarassenko
President
Reuben College

Maria Pohlman
Founder
Maria Group

Molly Stevens
Professor of Bionanoscience
University of Oxford

Riam Kanso
Founder & CEO
Conception X

Stuart Wilkinson
CEO
Knowledge Exchange UK

Susannah de Jager
Advisor & Founder
Oxford+

Tami Hoffman
Director of Public Policy
The Guardian

Tom Harty
Chief Technology Officer
IonQ

Tom Nugent
Managing Editor
Sifted

Tristan Valenzuela
Quantum Sensors and Technologies Programme Lead
RAL Space

Vanessa Colomar
Co-founder
Dalloway Partners

Zhanet Zaharieva
Co-founder & COO
Quantum Dice
More speakers
to be announced
*This is a preliminary speaker list.
More speakers will be announced in the coming months.