Confirmed Speakers

Hussein Kanji

Founding partner of Hoxton Ventures

Hussein is a founding partner of Hoxton Ventures, a London-based early stage European venture capital firm. He currently represents Hoxton on the boards of bd4travel, Darktrace and TourRadar. Hussein is an angel investor in Bea's of Bloomsbury, GoCardless, Halo Neuroscience, Popxo, Shoto, Signpost and Yieldify. He is also an advisor to Tarmin and Wamli, and was an advisor to Eros International (NYSE:EROS). He occasionally assists the UK government with technology policy. He regularly appears on BBC, Bloomberg, CNN and Sky News.

Bonnie Chiu

Co­-founded Lensational

Bonnie is social entrepreneur who co­founded Lensational on the International Women’s Day of 2013, aiming to empower women through photography. Bonnie has received awards for Lensational in social venture competitions globally, notably in Amsterdam, Seoul and Melbourne, and is one of the 15 students to be endorsed LSE for the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa, allowing her to bring social enterprise, Lensational, to Europe. Bonnie has received global media coverage for Lensational in the Guardian in the UK, Asia Calling in Indonesia and the Express Tribune in Pakistan. by the LSE for the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa, allowing her to bring her social enterprise, Lensational, to Europe. Bonnie has received global media coverage for Lensational in the Guardian in the UK, Asia Calling in Indonesia, and the Express Tribune in Pakistan.by the LSE for the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa, allowing her to bring her social enterprise, Lensational, to Europe. Bonnie has received global media coverage for Lensational in the Guardian in the UK, Asia Calling in Indonesia, and the Express Tribune in Pakistan. by the LSE for the Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Visa, allowing her to bring her social enterprise, Lensational, to Europe. Bonnie has received global media coverage for Lensational in the Guardian in the UK, Asia Calling in Indonesia, and the Express Tribune in Pakistan.

Adnan Ebrahim
Founder and CEO of Car Throttle

Adnan is the founder and CEO of Car Throttle, the internet’s fastest-growing car community. What started as a blog in his university room quickly grew into a media platform serving over 5 million users every month, 850,000 subscribers on YouTube, and backed by London’s most prolific investors. Car Throttle has been featured by CNBC, BBC and Techcrunch, and has raised over $2 million since its inception.

Timothy Armoo
Co-founder of Fanbytes

At just 21 years old, Timothy Armoo is already onto his third tech company Timothy found success with the first two businesses he launched whilst still a teenager; a tutoring business he began aged 14, and a media company he was able to sell to a US company aged 17. Currently he is the co-founder of Fanbytes enables any brand to precisely target their audiences through age, gender, location and interests and engage with them creatively through social influencers they can trust across YouTube, Instagram Snapchat and Vine. Clients include Adidas, Go Pro, New Look and Popchips. Fanbytes featured in the Independent, the Guardian and Forbes.