Christine Hudson

Christine Hudson is the founder of Fort Collins New Tech, a local community group dedicated to startup education and engaging the community in helping local startups refine their canvas and pitch. She brings over thirteen years of startup software products experience to the group.She is also an executive committee member with Startup Colorado, representing Startup Fort Collins, and an occasional guest lecturer for entrepreneurial classes for computer science and engineering students.In addition to her passion for startups and software, Christine likes to travel, and speaks several languages.

Daniel Hulme

Daniel Hulme is the Founder and CEO of Satalia (NPComplete Ltd), a spin-out of University College London that provides a unique algorithmic technology and professional services to solve industries data-driven decision problems. He is passionate about emerging technology and regularly speaks at events with interests in Algorithms, Optimisation, Analytics, BigData and the Future Internet. Daniel has been awarded a Masters in Computer Science with Machine Learning and Doctorate in Computational Complexity from University College London. He has Senior Researcher and Lecturing positions in Computer Science and Management Science at University College London. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Big Innovation Centre, reading Big Data and Policy, and also one of the founding members of the IMPACT team tasked with pioneering University College London’s impact initiatives. Daniel has Advisory and Executive positions across world-wide companies in the area of Education, Analytics, Big Data, Data-driven Decision Making and Open-Innovation. He holds an international Kauffman Global Entrepreneur Scholarship and actively promotes entrepreneurship and technology innovation in the UK and US.

Robert Reich

Robert Reich is an entrepreneurial executive with over 15 years of experience directing product life cycles from concept, development and launch, to feedback and refinement. He has a unique blend of creativity, design, strategy, and senior executive management skills. He was the Founder / VP Product at OneRiot, which focuses on real time search, and was the the Founder / CEO of Ecosystems, a content management software. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor on Media and Business Design at University of Colorado (CU), was named inventor and contributor on 6 patents, is an advisory board member of Silicon Flatirons, and is a board member of OneRiot and Boulder Digital Works at CU

Hugh Varilly

Hugh Varilly has wide experience of the design and implementation of information technology infrastructure. He uses his broad technical, project and consulting skills to ensure that clients’ IT infrastructures support the clients’ IT Strategies, Projects and Architectures to support business needs at minimal technical risk. Previously, Hugh was a Distinguished Engineer with IBM and European Vice President of the IBM Academy of Technology.  He was the most senior technical employee in IBM’s Strategic Outsourcing Delivery organisation in Europe, with a troubleshooting role across IBM’s IT outsourcing accounts in Europe and an emphasis on facilitating the development of the organisation’s technical community. Hugh is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and an Open Group Certified IT Architect. In 2012, Hugh was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London.