Digital Shark Expo

Andrew Grill

Actionable Futurist & Bestselling Author of Digitally Curious

Andrew is a globally recognised AI expert, futurist, and tech industry leader with over 30 years of experience driving innovation and success within technology companies. Ranked among the world’s top 10 futurist speakers and a finalist for AI Expert of the Year, Andrew is renowned for delivering insightful, action-oriented keynotes that resonate with audiences worldwide. As a former Global Managing Partner at IBM, Andrew has worked closely with senior executives from Vodafone, Adobe, DHL, Nike, Nestle, Bupa, Mars, Sanofi, Dell Technologies, and the NHS. His expertise spans critical topics such as Generative AI, Agentic AI, quantum computing, edge computing, digital transformation, and workplace innovation, making him a trusted advisor to organisations navigating rapid technological change across multiple industries. Andrew’s bestselling book, Digitally Curious and popular podcast of the same name explore how technology is reshaping society and business, offering tools to stay ahead of change.

Pritesh Gadhia

UKI MD, Accenture Song

Pritesh joined Accenture in 2001. Since then, he has helped shape and deliver large-scale digital transformations across some of the world’s biggest brands. In 2014, he helped to form Accenture Digital (now Accenture Song) and played an integral part in driving the team’s growth. Pritesh was the Accenture Digital UKI Lead, helping to pivot Accenture to digital across every dimension of our business. He was thrilled to have an extraordinary team of incredibly talented people committed to improving the daily lives of consumers by reimagining experiences with game-changing ideas. In this current European role, Pritesh continues to lead several client accounts undertaking significant digital transformation projects. He is also the global lead for the Digital Factory-as-a-Service offering.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organisations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. Accenture is a talent and innovation-led company serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and they are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change. They combine their strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. They are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of their broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song.

Tom Cole

Senior Lecturer in Games Development, University of Greenwich

Tom is Senior Lecturer in Games Development at the University of Greenwich. His research is situated at the boundary of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Games Studies, and focuses on the broadening and deepening of emotional engagement in videogames. He organises game jams, and for eight years directed AdventureX - the Narrative Games Convention, an internationally recognised sell-out event. Tom was previously at Supermassive Games where he was a designer on the BAFTA award-winning horror game Until Dawn and artist on Killzone Shadow Fall.

Peter Griffiths

Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Greenwich

Professor Peter Griffiths serves as Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Engineering and Science at the University of Greenwich. His scientific journey began with an undergraduate research project on ferrofluids, leading to a PhD from the University of Bristol (1991) focused on NMR and scattering methodology. His research expanded through postdoctoral positions at Bristol (1991-1993) and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1993-1995). Appointed lecturer at Cardiff University in 1995, Professor Griffiths developed research interests in drug delivery systems, including polymer-drug conjugates, small molecule gels, and vesicle dispersions. His significant contributions to science and education have been recognised with numerous honours, including a DSc (Bristol, 2005), a "docenture" (Stockholm, 2005), and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002). He has also received distinguished service awards from both the SCI and RSC for his outstanding contributions to the field of nanotechnology.