3.40pm – 4.40pm, 27 March 2025 ‐ 1 hour
Room: Rosalind Franklin Pavillion
Breakout 2
Government can help build a foundation for resilience, guiding both public and private sectors toward systems that are robust, adaptable, and secure in the face of future challenges. It plays a significant role in the development of policies and regulations that ensure the security, reliability, and safety of critical infrastructure, including standards for data protection, cyber security, and system interoperability. These regulations ensure that technology systems are resilient to threats and able to recover quickly from disruptions.Division Head Assured and Resilient PNT, GMV
Richard leads GMV’s UK team responsible for assured position and timing technology, services, and solutions. He has over 15 years experience in leadership, technical delivery, and sales for assurance in PNT, cyber, working extensively across defence, space, and critical infrastructure domains. Through his work in PNT and space, Richard has contributed to national and internation initiatives to develop policy, regulation, and best practice as a means to manage risk.US Advisory Partner, Frazier and Deeter
James Douglas, CPA, brings over two decades of experience and leads FD’s Office of the CFO service line. Focusing on assisting growing organizations across the CFO suite, he specializes in helping organizations prepare for transactions and fundraising, execute expansion strategies and business & financial process improvement.
Prior to joining FD, he served large, highly acquisitive multinational public companies as an Audit Partner at a Big Four firm and as a CFO at a pre-IPO Softbank-backed Fintech in the United States.
CEO, Cambridge Sensoriis
Dr Steve Clark is the founder and CEO of Cambridge Sensoriis. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics at Loughborough University, and his PhD at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney. He has over 25 years’ experience as a founder and entrepreneur in radar technology for industrial automation. Steve co-founded Navtech Radar from 1999, where he designed and manufactured radar solutions for the security, industrial automation, and traffic safety markets. World first systems include radar navigation for autonomous straddle carriers at Australian container ports; radar for tunnel and motorway stopped vehicle detection in the UK and internationally; and radar on autonomous iron-ore bulk carrier trains for obstacle avoidance. Steve is now delivering all weather micro radar systems at Sensoriis, to support autonomy and Beyond-Line-of-Sight flight, for commercial drone services.CTO & Co-Founder, Pragmatic Semiconductor
Richard has over 25 years experience in the development and commercialisation of a wide-range of new technologies based on novel processes, materials and flexible electronics. Richard has a BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Durham. He is inventor/co-inventor on over 25 patent families. Richard is a non-executive director at the Henry Royce Institute – the UK’s National Institute for advanced materials research.Principal Associate, Mills & Reeve LLP
Katrina helps her clients find a path to compliance when launching new products, advertising products, entering new markets, and finding new routes to market, such as DTC and subscriptions.
She also helps businesses and products come into compliance with new regulation and deals with investigations by regulators. This includes the Advertising Standards Authority, Trading Standards, Competition and Market Authority consumer investigations, Medicines and Healthcare products, Regulatory Agency, and the EU's Consumer Protection Corporation network.
Katrina’s practice typically includes helping clients launch new products, setting up DTC e-commerce platforms, advising on how to engage on proposals for new regulation, drafting consumer terms and conditions, promotions, copy clearance, labelling, and compliance with consumer, equality and antidiscrimination, and food & alcohol regulation.