NEW: These 10 Tech Leaders are coming to Turing Fest this May.
Experts from Wise, Lamini, Simple Online Healthcare, Mixpanel, Picsart, SYSTM, Paddle and more.
From sessions driving growth to optimising the founder-VC relationship and redefining what you measure and how you get there, Turing Fest 2025 is shaping up to be THE MOST important systems update for founders, product leaders, investors and growth experts who are serious about succeeding in an increasingly competitive and AI-driven landscape.
And bringing you these cutting-edge insights and field-tested learnings, is a NEW round of top tech minds and leaders from Wise, Lamini, Simple Online Healthcare, Mixpanel, Picsart, SYSTM, Paddle and more.
Ready to become the best in your field? Join the best at Turing Fest 2025 (May 7th-8th, Edinburgh). 💥💥
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Dr. Sharon Zhou, Founder & CEO, Lamini
Dr. Sharon Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of Lamini, which has won this year’s VentureBeat Gen AI Startup Award and has been recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Star.
As a former faculty member at Stanford, she led a 50+ person Generative AI research group and published award-winning papers in generative AI. Sharon teaches some of the most popular AI courses on Coursera, including Fine-tuning LLMs, reaching millions of professionals.
She earned her PhD in AI from Stanford, where she was advised by Dr. Andrew Ng. Before her PhD, she worked as an AI product manager at Google. She received her bachelor’s degree in computer science and Classics from Harvard.
Additionally, Sharon has served as an AI advisor in Washington, D.C., and has been featured in MIT Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list.
**Cian Weeresinghe, Chief Marketing Officer, Wise
Cian Weeresinghe is the Chief Marketing Officer at Wise, where he leads global marketing and growth strategy for one of the world’s leading fintech companies.
With extensive experience in scaling high-growth businesses, Cian has held senior roles at Treatwell and The Guardian.
At Wise, he focuses on driving customer acquisition and brand growth, helping millions of people and businesses move money internationally more efficiently.
**Fred Destin, Founder, Stride.VC
Fred Destin is the founder of Stride.VC, an artisan seed fund operating out of London and currently investing out of its second £124M fund, and is one of Europe’s most highly regarded early stage VCs.
Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice, the lead investor and board member at Cazoo, Deliveroo, Pillpack (acq. AMZN for $1BN), Zoopla (IPO, $3BN sale), Integral Ad Science ( $4.5BN IPO), TheCurrencyCloud (acq. VISA for $1BN) and others.
**Rebecca Moore, Chief Operating Officer, Simple Online Healthcare
Rebecca Moore is a highly regarded Ops and Growth exec with extensive experience in both travel and healthcare tech. Currently COO at Simple Online Healthcare, Rebecca oversees operations and drives strategic growth for one of the UK’s leading digital healthcare providers. Previously, she was COO at TravelNest, and Senior Growth Director at Skyscanner, where she played a key role in scaling the business globally.
**Nopadon Wongpakdee, Co-Founder, SYSTM
Nopadon Wongpakdee is the Co-Founder of SYSTM, a leading growth accelerator programme helping startups and scaleups drive revenue and market expansion.
Before SYSTM, Nopadon was an Entrepreneur In Residence with Citi Ventures and Growth Hacker in Residence for 500 Startups. He’s been a SEO and inbound GOD since the late 90s (before it was cool) and has worked with over 100 companies.
**Amy Hsuan, Chief Customer & Revenue Officer, Mixpanel
Amy Hsuan is the Chief Customer & Revenue Officer at Mixpanel in San Francisco, where she leads global customer success and revenue growth strategies.
With a strong background in data and analytics, Amy has held senior leadership roles driving customer engagement and business expansion. At Mixpanel, she focuses on helping companies unlock insights to build better products and drive growth.
**Andrew Davies, Chief Marketing Officer, Paddle
Andrew Davies is the Chief Marketing Officer at Paddle, where he leads global marketing strategy and demand generation for the leading payments and revenue platform for SaaS businesses.
Previously, Andrew was Co-Founder of Idio, a content intelligence platform that was acquired by Episerver (now Optimizely) in 2019. He then served as VP of Corporate Marketing at Optimizely, helping scale the business post-acquisition. Andrew brings deep expertise in SaaS growth, go-to-market strategy, and scaling global teams.
**Oren Greenberg, Growth marketing Advisor, B2B SaaS
Oren Greenberg advises B2B businesses, specialising in SaaS marketing. He has supported global brands including British Telecom, Lenovo, and Canon. As well as funded category leaders such as Peakon, SeedLegals, and Kite. Oren spends his days helping CEOs build scalable, predictable marketing engines that drive sustainable growth.
**Thibault Imbert, Chief Product Officer, Picsart
Thibault Imbert is the Chief Product Officer at Picsart, the largest all-in-one creative platform with over 150M creators worldwide.
He previously spent 15 years in SV, where he led Marketing & Growth at GitHub and before that incubated Adobe’s first Product Growth team, generating millions in incremental revenue. He shipped multiple 1.0 products at Adobe and authored best-selling programming books.
**Keith Bradbury, Co-Founder, Ember
Keith Bradbury, Co-Founder of Ember, is a deep generalist, futurist, a rock climber and interested in efficiency. His company, Ember, is building the future of intercity transport – fully electric and tech enabled.
Top tech minds will be speaking at Turing Fest this May, coming to you from across the product, growth, leadership and investment world including:
🎙Head of Forward Deployed Engineering @OpenAI
🎙Chief Product Officer @Intercom
🎙Senior Machine Learning Engineer @Spotify
🎙Chief Marketing Officer @Paddle
🎙Senior Director of Product and Engineering @Vinted Go
🎙Ex-CFO @Shopify
🎙Chief Customer & Revenue Officer @Mixpanel
🎙Chief Product Officer @Picsart
🎙Chief Marketing Officer @Wise
🎙Founder @Stride.VC
🎙Founder & CEO @Lamini
🎙Co-Founder @Ember
🎙Chief Executive Officer @Elliptic
🎙General Partner @Angular Ventures
🎙General Manager @Zoe
🎙Author @Shape Up
🎙Author @Radical Product Thinking
🎙Founder @Aperture
🎙General Manager @Agent.ai
🎙Chief Commercial Officer @Resourcify
🎙CEO & Co-Founder @KOOS.io
🎙Co-Founder @SYSTM
🎙Chief Operating Officer @Simple Online Healthcare
See all speakers @ https://turingfest.com/speakers/