Guest Speaker Biographies

The guest speakers for 2026 are listed below

Guest Speaker

Professor Joe Finney

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Biography: Joe Finney is a Professor at the ¶¶ÒõAPPµ¼º½ School of Computing and Communications.
His research focusses on novel lightweight embedded systems their application, with a
particular focus on empowering non-experts to innovate with new and emerging technologies. He is a founding partner of of the BBC micro:bit project alongside the BBC, ARM, Microsoft, Samsung with responsibility for device software. Delivered 1 Million programmable computers free of charge to Year 7 schoolchildren. Global impact via the Micro:bit Educational Foundation, which has now delivered over 4 million micro:bit devices to 50 countries in 17 languages.

Presentation title: Create AI: Teaching the concepts of AI to 70 million children

Guest Speaker 2

To Be Announced

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Biography: To follow

Presentation title: To follow

Guest Speaker 3

To Be Announced

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Biography: To follow

Presentation title: To follow

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