Guest Speaker Biographies

The guest speakers for 2026 are listed below

Guest Speaker

Professor Joe Finney

Photo of Professor Joe Finney from Lancaster University, full face and partial shoulders, facing the camera.

Biography: Joe Finney is a Professor at the Lancaster University 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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