We are very pleased to be joined by Jon Reynolds, CEO & Co-Founder of SwiftKey, for a fireside chat about the company’s journey from inception to acquisition, key trends in the mobile tech space and the growth of artificial intelligence in day-to-day life.

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The SwiftKey Keyboard app for Android has been No 1 in 58 countries on Google Play and overall, the company’s software features on more than 200 million devices. It uses Artificial Intelligence to learn from each user and accurately predict their next word.

SwiftKey has been named the No 1 hottest startup in London by Wired magazine and ranked the 6th most innovative mobile business in the world by Fast Company.

SwiftKey was acquired by Microsoft in February 2016 for a reported $250m, and the 150 person organisation will become part of the Firms Technology & Research division.

This fireside chat will be moderated by Matt Brooke-Smith (CEO & Founder of Future Workshops).

There will also be demo presentations from two highly innovative companies:

• Coscale (Belgium) is a full stack performance monitoring solution that contains integrated server monitoring, container monitoring, application monitoring, and real user monitoring for production environments.

•  Logmatic.io (France) is a SaaS log management platform empowering users to troubleshoot and monitor applications better and faster. It is the “new generation” of log management systems that makes DEVs, OPS and BIZs people work together sharing the same operational intelligence.

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Jon Reynolds (CEO & Co-Founder of SwiftKey)

Jon co-founded SwiftKey in 2008 when he was just 22 years old, while working as a graduate trainee for the British government. He and co-founder Ben Medlock met at Cambridge University while Jon was studying for his Physics undergraduate degree and Ben was doing a PhD in the area of Natural Language Processing. They both shared the same vision – to make interacting with devices faster, smarter and more personalized.

Jon has won a series of accolades, including the European Commission’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2013.

Jon has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an Advanced Diploma in Management Accountancy, CIMA.

Matt Brooke-Smith (CEO & Founder of Future Workshops) - Fireside Chat Moderator

Matt is the Founder & CEO of Future Workshops, a mobile solutions agency focused on building iOS, Android and other platform Apps for various premium clients in both enterprise and consumer markets.  Founded in 2008, the company works with a range of top tier brands, including IBM, RBS, Microsoft, UBS, Timeout, Qlikview, Top Table and Open Table (to name a few).

Future Workshops was a nominee for Best Newcomer and Best Emerging Enterprise in the WCIT enterprise entrepreneurship awards 2011. They also built the multiple Pixel Award winning App The Open 2010 and won the Sun Java Mobile Application Video Contest in 2007.

Before founding Future Workshops, Matt began his career as an IT Analyst at global investment banking firm Goldman Sachs.  He holds a degree in computer science from the University of Southampton.

We are very pleased to be joined by John Newton for a fireside chat about founding a company in the UK, the future of enterprise software and the evolution of open source technologies.

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John is one of the UK’s most influential serial entrepreneurs in the enterprise tech space and a pioneer in the Enterprise Content Management space, having co-founded Documentum in the 1990s. Documentum had a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1996 and was subsequently acquired by EMC Group for $1.7BN in 2003. John then went on to co-found Alfresco Software in 2005, which is now a leading open source ECM/WCM, with the company being valued at an estimated $300m.

There will also be demo presentations from two highly innovative companies:

• Hadean (UK) is a cloud supercomputing technology that enables petascale compute on petabytes of data by unifying the performance and capabilities of HPC (high-performance computing) and the commoditisation and scale of ‘big data’, with easy-to-use development tools.
• Docuvo (UK) is a single place to organise all files from across multiple providers (such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc) with the ability to use meta search and multiple viewing modes to preview/compare any file instantly, without need for predefined taxonomy and using machine learning to better understand how data is structured.

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John Newton (CTO & Founder of Alfresco, Co-Founder of Documentum)

John Newton, CTO and Founder, has had one of the longest and most influential careers in content management. In 1990, John co-founded, designed and led the development of Documentum, the leader in content management acquired by EMC.

For the next ten years, he invented many of the concepts widely used in the industry today. In addition, he built Documentum’s marketing and professional services organizations in Europe. John has also been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital. John was one of the founding engineers at Ingres where he helped develop the world’s first commercial relational database.

John graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

The April LNETM will include a cloud computing discussion, looking at key trends in the infrastructure as a service space.  We have some great panel speakers lined up, including:

• Chris Swan - Chris is CTO for Global Infrastructure Services at CSC, a global leader in providing technology enabled business solutions and services. He has previously held CTO and Director of R&D roles at Cohesive Networks, UBS, Capital SCF and Credit Suisse, where he worked on app servers, compute grids, security, mobile, cloud, networking and containers.
• Leslie Muller - Leslie was Founder & CTO of Dynamic Ops, which provided management software for on-demand private, hybrid and public cloud services. Dynamic Ops was acquired by VMware in 2012 and Leslie became CTO of Cloud Management and Automation at VMware.
• Julian Levy (Moderator TBC) - Julian is a Partner at Key Capital, Senior Advisor at Wishtree Capital, Founder at Ayarma. Previously Julian was an Executive in Residence at Index Ventures and also worked in IT Strategy at Morgan Stanley and Research at Bank of America.

There will also be demo presentations from several highly innovative companies:

• BoardPacks (UK) was developed by eShare to promote the highest standards in governance practice for the pensions industry. Now it is used by over 300 organisations across the financial services, healthcare, education, housing, and corporate sectors, with a focus on providing high quality management & collaboration capabilities for boards.
• Force12 (UK) scales containers in real time in response to demand using your physical or virtual machines efficiently,  simplifying the task of managing infrastructure to maintain performance SLAs, optimising infrastructure efficiently and freeing up your busy and vital DevOps team

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The March LNETM will have an Irish theme, given it takes place during the week of St Patrick’s Day, and we have put together an amazing line-up of speakers including a fireside chat with Brian Caulfield (Partner at Draper Esprit and Chair of the Irish Venture Capital Association) and William McQuillan (Partner at Frontline Ventures).

There will also be demo presentations from three highly innovative Irish companies:

• Advanced Field Solutions is a SAAS based field service platform that enables companies to interact with their field service staff at the point of customer contact. The solution is focused on “grey collar” staff, allowing them to perform a mixture of service, inspection, estimates, installation, and delivery interactively with customers.

• Reward Technology has developed a seamless digital system linking shoppers, retailers, FMCGs and their customer analytics provider, which allows accurately targeted rewards and offers to be delivered immediately as a customer enters the store or shopping mall.

• SensiPass creates a 3-factor dynamic digital signature by capturing a real-time biometric image, and adding a simple-secret-trace over it, all on a smartphone. This provides strong multifactor authentication without passwords, PIN codes or extra hardware.

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Brian Caulfield (Partner at Draper Esprit and Chair of the Irish Venture Capital Association)

Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist.  He is a Partner at Draper Esprit, the leading European venture capital firm, and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Brian is the current Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association.

Prior to joining Draper Esprit, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where he sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L).  

Previously, Brian co-founded both Exceptis Technologies - sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000 and Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006.

Brian’s Draper Esprit investments include Movidius, Datahug, RhodeCode and Mobile Travel Technologies (sold to Travelport – NYSE: TVPT). He also sits on the boards of Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading daily newspaper.  He is a private investor/advisor to a number of early stage technology companies.

Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association’s “Technology Person of the Year” award and has been inducted into the Irish Internet Association’s Hall of Fame.  In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network’s “Business Angel of the Year” award.

William McQuillan (Partner at Frontline Ventures)

William is a Partner at Frontline Ventures.  He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Osmoda.com, an online sales platform targeting some of Europe’s top emerging fashion brands. Prior to this he was one of the founding employees of Ondra Partners, a start-up investment-banking boutique.

Ondra grew from a four-person team to being a profitable company, working on some of the largest mergers and acquisitions in Europe and having over 40 people in London, New York and Paris.

He is passionate about entrepreneurship and currently is the London Ambassador for the Sandbox Network, for which he has organised over 40 events in the last 2 years. He is also a mentor for Springboard and Imperial Incubators in London, and is a Startup Leadership Program Fellow.

February’s LNETM will have a Cyber Security focus and, in collaboration with the global VC firm Accel Partners, we have put together an amazing line-up of speakers, including a panel discussion with:

• Adrian Asher (CISO at HSBC)
• Alex Van Someren (Partner at Amadeus Capital)
• Elisabetta Zaccaria (Founder of CyberY)
• James Cameron (Investor at Accel Partners, Moderator)

In addition, there will be demo presentations from three highly innovative UK based Cyber Security companies:

• Darktrace uses new technologies to iteratively learn a pattern of life for every network, device and individual user, correlating this information in order to spot subtle deviations that indicate in-progress threats, creating a proactive enterprise immune system.
• Miracl’s open source platform (called Apache Milagro) will enable a distributed trust paradigm to replace commercial certificate authorities ushering in a new, more secure, post-PKI Internet.
• Panaseer provides beautiful, timely, explorable security Intelligence to enable better communication with key stakeholders, based on an extensible “Data lake” platform that collects and combines data from many sources.

There will also be some short talks from various industry professionals, including James Chappell (CTO & Co-Founder of Digital Shadows) and Dexter Casey (Expert Cyber Security Responder).

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Join fellow technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors for the January 2016 London Enterprise Technology Meetup (LNETM) on Monday 18th January 2016 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.

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We are very pleased to announce that Dr Anil Madhavapeddy, from the Computer Science Department of the University of Cambridge, will do a keynote presentation about new operating systems for a virtual/digital world.

We will also have demo presentations from three highly innovative companies:

• Cryptophoto offers legitimate web sites a means to strongly “authenticate” with users during the login process.  Sites do this by showing one image to the user from from their token.  Impostor sites are unable to guess images on users tokens, so this blocks phishing.
• Invasec’s UBolt is a physical security solution to remove the vulnerabilities possible through open USB ports. UBolt is the first and only effective way to provide client-less AV, monitoring, and white listing of communications through USB ports, in addition to providing a way to remotely upgrade software on devices that can only be accessed via USB.
• Demo3 TBC.

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Dr Anil Madhavapeddy (Systems Research Group, University of Cambridge)

Dr Anil Madhavapeddy is a member of the Systems Research Group in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. His research goal is to improve the security, reliability and performance of the Internet. He leads the OCaml Labs group at Cambridge, and is building the Mirage cloud operating system as a new foundation for networked, multi-scale applications. He also thinks about ubiquitous computing technologies, and develops open-source software such as the secureOpenBSD operating system.

After completing his PhD at the Computer Lab in Cambridge in 2006, he worked in a variety of senior architecture, engineering, product management, sales roles in industry, government and research.

Join fellow technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors for the November London Enterprise Technology Meetup (LNETM) on Monday 23rd November 2015 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm. 

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We are very pleased to announce that Dr Ray O Johnson (former CTO of Lockheed Martin) will join us for a fireside chat about key technology trends such as the future of Quantum Computing.

The fireside chat will be moderated by Carissa Christensen (Managing Partner of the Tauri Group), who is an expert in the technology industry and a regular speaker/author on the commercial space and satellite sector. She provides expert advise to many major US public sector bodies and has testified before the US Congress as an expert witness.

We will also have demo presentations from three highly innovative companies:

• Atoll Technologies SAMU product generates compelling diagrams about EA and provides the right platform to plan changes and assess their impact on your enterprise architecture. SAMU is a JAVA application storing all configuration and data in a single database, with the same functionality provided as on-premise software or as a cloud service.

• Immun.io secures your web applications against all attackers, seamlessly propagating attack details across the infrastructure, so that an attacker detected on one application is immediately flagged on every app server and for each monitored app in an account.

• TwigKit provides a suite of search modules that can retrieve data from any combination of search engines, databases and data providers simultaneously, without the need to move data into a central respository or shoehorn it into a rigid, out of the box solution.

We plan to continue piloting Glisser at the September Meetup, as it has great potential to enhance the user experience at LNETM events. If you have any feedback on the product from our recent events, please drop me a line.

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Dr Ray O Johnson (former CTO of Lockheed Martin)

Ray O. Johnson, a American executive focused on business, innovation, and diversity, is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Johnson guided the Corporation’s technology vision and provided corporate leadership in the strategic areas of technology, engineering, production operations, supply chain, program management, and sustainment, which included more than 72,000 people working on more than 4,000 programs that provided some of the USA's most vital security systems.

Johnson was a driving force behind the International Academy of Astronautics, Heads of Space Agencies Summit, held in Washington, DC in November, 2010. The heads of space agencies from 30 nations met to discuss the future of space collaboration in the areas of Human Spaceflight, Planetary Robotic Exploration, Disaster Management, and Climate Change.

He has also been a regular speaker regarding technology topics at the World Economic Forum.

Carissa Christensen (Managing Partner of the Tauri Group)

Carissa Christensen is an internationally-known expert on the space industry and technology forecasting. She led the creation of widely-used data tools now considered global metrics for the commercial space and satellite sectors. She is a frequent speaker and author on space and satellite trends, serves as a strategic advisor to government and commercial clients, and has been an expert witness and testified before the US Congress regarding market dynamics.

Carissa is a Managing Partner of The Tauri Group, an analytic consulting firm servicing science and technology that she cofounded in 2001. Tauri serves NASA, the FAA, Department of Defense agencies and services, the Department of Homeland Security, as well as space defence firms.

She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in science and technology policy. She also completed the General Course in Government at the London School of Economics, and was a Douglas Scholar at Rutgers University.

Join fellow technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors for the October London Enterprise Technology Meetup (LNETM) on Monday 19th October 2015 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm.  Sign-up here.

This will be our third anniversary event, so to celebrate we’re bringing together some of the entrepreneurs who have had successful exits for their companies since presenting at the LNETM. We’ve asked them to come and impart some of their wisdom about the key ingredients that made their venture highly successful.

The speakers will include:

• Alex Trewby - Co-Founder of Enterproid (Mobile device security/productivity technology), which was subsequently acquired by Google to form the cornerstone of the Android For Work product set.
• John Bantleman - CEO of Rainstor (Big data scalable database technology), which went from being a partner of Teradata to being acquired by them in late 2014 to augment their big data offering.
• Leslie Muller - CTO & Founder of Dynamic Ops, a company that specialised in data centre automation software - it was acquired by VMware in 2012 to help them provide tools for building out cloud-like elasticity for enterprises.

Faith Forster, CEO and Co-Founder of Pinipa (who presented a demo in October 2014) will moderate the panel.

In addition to the panel discussion, we will have two demo presentations from highly innovative emerging tech companies:  

• ConJur (USA) is a comprehensive cloud-native authorization and authentication solution that provides security orchestration software to manage, enforce and audit infrastructure applications with modern IT products such as AWS, Puppet, Docker, Cloud Foundry and Azure.
• NuoDB (USA) is a scale-out SQL database for the cloud and the modern datacenter. It is the NewSQL solution designed to meet the needs of cloud-scale apps and over 50 billion connected devices in use worldwide.

We plan to continue piloting Glisser at the October Meetup, as it has great potential to enhance the user experience at LNETM events.

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Looking forward to celebrating with you on Monday 19th October!

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We are very pleased to announce that our July event will include a panel discussion about raising VC funding with several prominent venture capital investors, including Gil Dibner (prominent tech investor who leads the largest AngelList syndicate outside the US), Alex Kayyal (Salesforce Ventures) and Michael Treskow (Accel Partners), with Stacy Kim from Orrick acting as moderator.

In addition, we will have two demo presentations from:

• Glisser ‘socialises presentations’ via a simple app. It pushes slides to audience devices and integrates voting, questions and feedback, providing the audience members with a more interactive experience

• Neo Technology is the company behind Neo4j, the fastest and most scalable native graph database, with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments

We plan to try out using Glisser at the July Meetup, as it has great potential to enhance the user experience at LNETM events.

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We are very pleased to confirm that Duncan Anderson (European CTO of IBM Watson) will be our keynote speaker this month (see Duncan’s biography below).

During his keynote, Duncan will provide an overview of what Cognitive Computing is, why it’s important and why it’s easier to use than many might think. If the demo-gods are on his side, he hopes to show some brief demonstrations to bring the conversation alive.  

The two demo presentations will be from:

•  Crate.io (Austria) is a distributed SQL data store that runs on one machine or a cluster of machines. Based on the familiar SQL syntax, Crate combines high availability, resiliency, and scalability in a distributed design that allows you to query mountains of data in realtime, not batches. It is also 100% open source.

•  Garrison Technology (UK) has created a network security solution that mitigates the risk of users accessing internet based resources, allowing them to click on links and open attachments without fear from malware, reducing the opportunities from phishing attacks.

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Duncan Anderson (European CTO for IBM Watson)

Duncan Anderson is the European CTO for IBM’s Watson Group, where he leads the technical conversation for cognitive computing across the continent.

Prior to taking that role, Duncan has performed a number of senior technical leadership positions in the finance sector in IBM.

He was also the Chief Architect for a UK Insurer, where he was responsible for the first e-enabled mortgage in the early days of the Internet. Duncan is also an amateur iOS app developer, having a keen interest in how technology can be applied in a practical way to bring about change.