Yewande is a chartered engineer, innovator and speaker. Her engineering experience includes the design and construction, innovation and manufacture of buildings and systems in the built environment. She's worked on projects in the UK, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia and has been named the UK Young Woman Engineer of the Year by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. She has also been awarded the Exceptional Achiever Award from the Association for BAME Engineers and the Association of Consultancy and Engineering, UK (ACE). She is passionate about STEM communication and has presented Engineering programmes for Television. In the 2020 New Year Honours list, Yewande was awarded an MBE for services to engineering innovation and diversity in STEM. She has recently been appointed the UK's Innovation agency (Innovate UK) Ambassador for Clean Growth and Infrastructure.

Salla is an industry pioneer and an innovation leader focusing on emerging technology and digital transformation. With the digital building lifecycle framework, she's continuing to support building up people's skills and organisational wisdom to respond to the requirements of the next generation built environment industry. To balance her work, she's actively volunteering in professional networks and leadership communities to learn and share experiences.

Xavier leads Hassell Studio's global design technology and innovation team, setting strategy and advising on the tools and knowledge it needs to succeed. Both an architect and technologist, Xavier harnesses technology to create more powerful, future focused design solutions. That means he’s responsible for overseeing work in computational design, building information modelling, visualisation and virtual reality worldwide. Over the past decade he’s forged a reputation as an industry leader in the exploration and adoption of parametric design and digital fabrication. Most recently, he was behind Hassell's concept for a ‘home’ on Mars – part of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. A TED talker and regular speaker at major design and tech events, Xavier is also a director of Smartgeometry, a non-profit, global educational network for computational and digital design specialists.

Sara leads the Passenger Experience function at Virgin Hyperloop. She established this function to drive research and design decisions that improve the safety, comfort, accessibility, and convenience of the hyperloop experience. Her prior experience at VH spanned initiatives related to business model definition, market research, product development planning, investor engagement, and strategic communications. On November 8, 2020, Sara made history as one of the first people ever to ride in a hyperloop. She has spoken at CES 2021, lectured at Harvard Business School, and been featured by The Today Show, NPR, The New York Times, BBC, Cheddar, and others. Prior to joining Virgin Hyperloop, Sara was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in New York City, where she advised both Fortune 500 and early stage companies on corporate strategy. 

Don Jacob is VP of Technology and Innovation for the Build Division at the Nemetschek Group and guest member of the Georg Nemetschek Institute of Artificial Intelligence for the Built World’s Scientific Advisory Board. He leverages decades of experience in technological innovation to achieve Nemetschek’s strategic goals. After more than a decade working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Deep Space Network and in the Mechanical Engineering Division, and following the development of PETsSMART.com’s e-commerce capabilities, Don was a founding team member of Bluebeam Inc., leading developer of solutions and services for architecture, engineering and construction professionals worldwide, in 2002. At Bluebeam he served as CTO for 17 years before moving into the Chief Innovation Officer role.

Having worked with a leading UK contractor, Fred founded The B1M to focus on sharing "the best of construction" - improving the industry while helping to attract more people to come and work in it. Fred has since grown The B1M into the world’s largest and most subscribed-to video channel for construction with over 1 million YouTube subscribers and 18 million viewers each month. It now employs an 11-strong team from its London headquarters. In September 2020, The B1M was named by The Times as one of the 20 best educational YouTube channels in the world. From interviewing Sir Richard Branson to filming inside London's Big Ben, Fred’s videos have amassed hundreds of millions of views making him a global figure in video publishing and a role model to millions of people interested or already working in construction. Fred’s mission is to fundamentally change the perception of construction on planet Earth.