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Dr. Indranath Chatterjee is working as a Senior Lecturer of AI at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. Currently, he is also attached to Woxsen University, India, Chitkara University, India and Mody University, India as Adjunct Professor, and as a Collaborating Faculty at the International Center for Neuroscience Research, Georgia. He also holds the position of AI Research Consultant at Korea Aerospace University, South Korea and as a General Director (International Collaborations) of The Korea Multimedia Society (KMMS), South Korea.
His research areas include Computational Neuroscience, AI and Healthcare, Medical Imaging, and Machine learning. He has authored and edited 12 books on Computer Science and Neuroscience published by renowned international publishers. To date, he has published numerous research papers in international journals and conferences. He is a recipient of various global awards in neuroscience. Throughout his career, he has presented more than 40+ keynote/plenary talks at various international conferences and seminars worldwide.
He is currently serving as a Chief Section Editor of a few renowned international journals and serving as a member of the Advisory board and Editorial board of various international journals and Open-Science organizations worldwide. He is presently working on several projects of government & non-government organizations as PI/co-PI, related to medical imaging and machine learning for a broader societal impact, in collaboration with several universities globally.
AI Strategic Counsel to Law Firm Leaders | AI Governance & Compliance Architect
Richard Dawson is an AI Strategic Counsel to law firm leaders and professional services consultancies, helping them navigate the AI transition safely, profitably, and compliantly. Through his practice, aiadvantage.legal, he advises managing partners, CEOs, and senior in-house counsel on where AI sits within their organisations and how to build the governance and compliance architecture that regulators, courts, corporate clients, and insurers now expect.
He is also a speaker and writer on AI governance and adoption more broadly, known for his "Five Languages of Successful Legal AI Adoption" framework — the idea that defensible AI adoption depends on fluency across five domains at once: the legal practitioner, the legal tech vendor, MSP and infrastructure, AI capability, and governance and compliance.
With an LLB (Hons), 25+ years in professional services, and CPD-certified specialist focus on AI governance, Richard works at the intersection of law, technology, and risk — translating fast-moving AI capability into practical, defensible strategy for the firms and consultancies adopting it. He is also a charity trustee.
Effa Ettah is an innovation consultant and international advisor with over 20 years of experience building partnerships and helping organisations harness digital transformation, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies to drive sustainable growth. With over a decade of experience working in UK higher education, Effa has contributed to teaching, research, stakeholder engagement, ecosystem development, and the delivery of complex innovation projects spanning eco-innovation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. As Chief Innovation Officer at InVerison, he has advised governments, universities, SMEs, and organisations across the UK, Africa, and Asia, supporting AI strategy, innovation ecosystems, capacity building, and technology adoption.
A speaker and facilitator, Effa is passionate about translating emerging technologies into practical, inclusive, and impactful solutions that strengthen organisations, develop talent, and accelerate innovation across sectors and continents.
"Edafe Maxwell Damatie is a Cybersecurity Operations Automation Specialist at Novacoast, where he designs the automation pipelines and playbooks that investigate, enrich and triage security alarm use cases before escalating them with full context to specialist analysts. Based in Manchester, UK, he is also the founder and principal engineer of two AI startups: Kweve, an autonomous multi-agent revenue coordinator for early-stage founders and SMEs, and Knoledg, an AI-driven study platform he built and shipped solo. With over seven years of commercial experience building scalable, low-latency, production-grade systems across the full stack, Edafe previously served as Lead Frontend Engineer at Prestmit, where he spearheaded the architecture for digital asset, crypto, and payment systems operating at scale across Africa. His professional repertoire spans modern web ecosystems, including Next.js, React, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and Python, with a strong operational focus on performance optimisation, accessibility, and fault-tolerant production infrastructure. Edafe holds an MSc in Cybersecurity, awarded with Distinction, from Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a published IEEE researcher and lead author of peer-reviewed work on real-time email phishing detection using a fine-tuned transformer model (DistilBERT), achieving 99.29% detection accuracy. His technical expertise lies at the intersection of security operations automation, AI-agent orchestration, full-stack system design, and practical cybersecurity."
"Sufian Kaki Aslam is an AI and cloud technologist, educator, and international keynote speaker based in Manchester, UK. Across a 13-year career he has worked at the meeting point of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and practical problem solving, helping organisations turn AI from an idea into working, production systems. He is known for two things: building AI capability inside businesses, and teaching the technology to others at scale. He conceived the award-winning Modern Worker for the Modern Workplace programme, which has guided more than 250 businesses from AI literacy through to deployed AI use-cases, and he authored Udacity's Future AWS Agent Engineer Nanodegree, an agentic AI programme open to 100,000 learners through the AWS AI & ML Scholars Program. He has advised 25+ manufacturers on AI and cloud adoption and overseen government-funded skills programmes worth more than £15 million. An electronics and communications engineer by training, his earlier work spanned healthcare IoT and embedded systems, including published telehealth research and a Best Healthcare IoT Project award. He has founded two technical Centres of Excellence, holds professional AI and cloud certifications across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and is an authorized instructor for all three. He speaks regularly at international and industry events, including MCT Summit Japan"
"Stephen Owojori is the founder of Kydos Digital, an AI automation studio building custom workflow and automation solutions for clients, and founder of RONKE AI, a clinical voice platform applying AI to healthcare delivery. He is also co-founder of Luwados, where he develops custom CRMs for businesses. Alongside these ventures, he is Senior Digital Marketer at Cornerstone Design & Marketing, where he leads AI-driven marketing systems spanning paid media, SEO, GA4 and CRM automation for multi-client retainers. Stephen's work sits at the intersection of AI implementation and measurable business outcomes, from voice AI in clinical settings to marketing automation and HubSpot architecture. He is passionate about how AI is reshaping operational systems across sectors, and regularly directs AI-assisted development to build practical, production-ready tools rather than treating AI as a theoretical exercise."
"Sara Simeone is a forward-thinking entrepreneur and the Founder of NoCodeLab.ai, an Innovation Lab dedicated to helping businesses leverage the power of intelligent automation. With a deep background in business intelligence, technology and systems design, Sara is a passionate advocate for democratising technology and bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical, applied business solutions. Recognised as a prominent figure within the Manchester digital ecosystem and beyond, Sara works closely with startups, academic institutions, and industry leaders to foster inclusive, human-centric innovation. Her work focuses on empowering teams to streamline complex operations, accelerate digital transformation, and build resilient, scalable models without the traditional barriers to entry. Through her work at NoCodeLab.ai, Sara demonstrates how applied AI can be harnessed not just for efficiency, but as a catalyst for creative growth and societal impact. She is a dedicated mentor, academic, speaker, and contributor, committed to spotlighting regional talent and showcasing how collaborative, community-driven technology strategies can serve as a blueprint for global innovation."
Dr. Jamal Nassar is a Lecturer and module leader in Innovation and Enterprise Management in UKMC, he is an ICF Certified leadership coach, and international trainer with experience in over 14 countries. Holding a PhD in Finance and an MBA, with certifications from AWS, Cisco and Facebook, Dr. Jamal Nassar works at the intersection of technology, leadership and organisational transformation
