Erika Lewis was a founding member of London Government, moving from the voluntary sector to join the set-up team in the London Development Agency in April 2000.  At the LDA she delivered regeneration programmes across London, in particular working with the Finsbury Park Partnership and on the Olympic Park delivery programme.  Subsequently the Director of Strategy at the LDA, she was responsible for the development and delivery of the Mayor’s Economic Development Strategy.

In 2012, Erika became a Project Director at the Competition and Markets Authority where she delivered two merger investigations and led the Private Motor Insurance and Energy Market Investigation.

Erika joined DCMS in 2018 to deliver the National Data Strategy, in addition she was responsible for Data Policy and Ethics. In December 2019 Erika was appointed Director, Cyber Security and Digital Identity.

Chris has worked in cyber security for nearly 30 years in a variety of roles, all of which have involved building new capabilities to help organisations protect themselves. As Deputy Director for Cyber Growth, he is charged with using the NCSC’s expertise and brand to build national cyber security capabilities in education, skills, research, innovation and industry.

Helen joined Innovate UK in 2020 to lead on the Healthy Ageing Challenge Investor Partnerships program and more recently an initiative to support Social Ventures working in the ageing sector. The Healthy Ageing Challenge is investing up to £98 million in healthy ageing to help businesses and social enterprises create products and services to help people as they age and deliver them at scale. Helen has 20 years’ experience in industry within a range of markets including healthcare, wellness, academia, the life sciences and more recently medical device start-ups. She also has a deep understanding of the pathway to commercialisation for emerging disruptive healthcare technologies, the key challenges that companies in this sector face, the technologies involved, and a passion to see the U.K. achieve further success in the area.

Victoria Nash is the Director, an Associate Professor, and Senior Policy Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). In the latter role, she is responsible for connecting OII research with policy and practice. Her research interests draw on her background as a political theorist, and concern the normative policy implications of evidence characterising children’s use of Internet technologies. Recent projects have included an analysis of age verification policies as a tool for balancing the interests of children and adults online, and a review of the risks and harms faced by children online. She is currently concluding a funded research project examining the concept of the ‘algorithmic child’ and the data risks posed to children by connected toys and the Internet of Things. She holds several digital policy advisory roles, including membership of the UK Government’s multi-stakeholder UK Council on Internet Safety (UKCIS) Evidence Group, and serves on the Advisory Board of COADEC. She is frequently called on to give expert evidence in UK and EU policy consultations on broader issues such as platform governance.

She is also Course Director of the OII’s annual course for digital policy-makers, the Internet Leadership Academy and the Summer Doctoral Programme for international PhD students.

Prior to joining the OII in 2002, Vicki was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy Research. She received her D.Phil in Politics from Nuffield College, Oxford University in 1999, having completed an M.Phil in Politics from Magdalen College in 1996, and a BA (Hons) Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics before this.

Cordia is a Director leading on Public Sector Digital with experience advising international governments about their digital strategy, building capability, cloud hosting, and leading agile teams. Having worked at the UK's Government Digital Service, she has advised the governments of UAE, KSA, Brazil and Jersey on digital service design and the success factors/lessons learned from the government digital transformation of the Digital 9 nations.

Cordia leads on Government digital human-centred service design including expertise in GDS approaches creating complex end-to-end user journeys with an emphasis on meeting users’ needs.

Cordia also has extensive experience in sensitively negotiating stakeholder environments and developing stakeholder engagement strategies for C-Suite public sector clients.

Cordia has experience in International Trade having worked on the early phases of the UK-US Free Trade Agreement and developed DIT's FTA and Trade Disputes collaboration platform.

Tom King joined IBM in the UK as Director of Government and Industry Affairs in late 2014 reporting to the Chief Executive of IBM UK. The role requires broad engagement across government, industry and trade associations in order to shape a supportive environment for digital technology as an enabler for innovation and growth across the UK economy.   Before joining IBM, Tom had an extensive international career at British Airways, and held a number of senior leadership roles including Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs, EVP for External Relations (Brussels and North America), and General Manager for International Relations. He also previously managed the airlines operations in Poland and Bulgaria.   Tom graduated from Trinity College Dublin with an MA in Economics and Philosophy.