From 7-Eleven TV to augmented reality in shopping malls, Darren Mann has built media around the moment a customer decides what to do next. At ARIA, that work now includes an AI shopping assistant.

Yoyo Chang is the Taiwan-born British founder and CEO of Kody, a payments and physical-commerce platform he started as a high-school cafeteria project to kill lunch queues. A self-taught teenage stock trader who ploughed his own trading profits into the company, he raised the business through a $20M Series A in 2024 and pushed its annualised processing volume toward $1 billion, all before turning 25.