Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FRS is a British AI researcher, neuroscientist, chess prodigy, and game designer who co-founded DeepMind in 2011 and serves as CEO of Google DeepMind. He won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's protein structure prediction, was knighted for services to AI, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the development of artificial general intelligence.
Tom Blomfield OBE is a British serial entrepreneur best known as co-founder and former CEO of Monzo, the UK's most-loved challenger bank that grew to serve 15% of the UK population. He previously co-founded GoCardless (now valued at $2.3B) and today serves as a Group Partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he advises the next generation of billion-dollar company builders. An Oxford-trained lawyer turned product obsessive, he raised £1 million in 96 seconds for Monzo's crowdfund, burned out spectacularly at the top, and re-emerged as one of tech's most candid voices on AI, the future of work, and entrepreneurial risk.