In 2009 I founded the social enterprise Noise Solution to use music technology for social impact. In 2019 it was named one of the UK's top performing social enterprises (Natwest SE100).
Timothy Hill
Timothy Hill has a long-standing research interest in alternative approaches to and understandings of mental health, ranging from his 2004 doctoral work on ancient Roman suicide and concepts of the self through to developing software to support new teaching methods for counsellors and psychologists. Currently he works at the Open Data Institute, helping to develop open ecosystems to support information-sharing in the sport and health sectors.
Hsuan-Ying Huang
Alina Ivan
Kumar Jacob
Kumar is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Mindwave Ventures, a technology company that develops digital products and services that have a positive impact on people. Kumar has an extensive background in healthcare, having sat on the board of South London and Maudsley and worked with a number of mental health charities.
Ann John
Megan Lam
Yolanda Lannquist
Yolanda is an AI Policy & Ethics Researcher at The AI Initiative of The Future Society, a think-and-do-tank incubated at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her research focuses on governance and policy to shape the rise of AI to benefit society broadly while mitigating societal risks, including algorithmic bias, fairness, inclusion, privacy, security, safety, and impact on employment and inequality.
Maria Liakata
Maria has a DPhil from the University of Oxford on learning pragmatic knowledge from text and her research interests include text mining, natural language processing (NLP), related social and biomedical applications, analysis of multi-modal and heterogeneous data (text from various sources such as social media, sensor data, images) and biological text mining.
Cara Lisette
I’m Cara. I’m a twentysomething year old mental health nurse who has also experienced mental illness for most of my life. I’m incredibly passionate about breaking down stigma and fighting the discrimination attached to mental health problems, and I hope to do that by not only sharing my own experiences, but creating a platform for others to share theirs too.
Alex Little
Peggy Loo
Andrew MacKenzie
Andrew MacKenzie is a director in the Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research at the Public Health Agency of Canada. Andrew's portfolio of surveillance activities include positive mental health, suicide, family violence, injuries and physical activity. Prior to joining the Public Health Agency in early 2018, Andrew spent 18 years managing health and disability surveys at Canada's national statistical agency.
Michael Matania
Michael’s spent 5 years designing and delivering various frontline programmes for the national mental health charity Mind. Specialising in prevention and mental resilience, he co-created the UK’s biggest peer-led resilience programme, established the Employee Champions professional network for the 'Time to Change' national mental health campaign and was a co-designer of Minds 'Whole School Approach' to Mental Health National Strategy for England & Wales.
Faith Matcham
Faith Matcham is a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. She manages the major depressive disorder work package of the Remote Assessment of Disease and Relapse-Central Nervous System (RADAR-CNS) study, coordinating an international multi-centre prospective cohort study examining the use of digital technology to measure symptoms and predict relapse in people with depression.
Bilal Mateen
Matthew Matero
Raphaël Mazet
Raphaël is a social tech entrepreneur at the convergence of the blockchain and impact sectors. He is the CEO of Alice, a startup that leverages decentralised finance to bring transparency to social and environmental ventures. Prior to Alice, he worked for 10 years in advocacy, first as a corporate consultant in Europe and Latin America, before founding his first digital campaigning startup. Raphaël is French and British, and currently living in London.
Glenn Melvin
Glenn is an Associate Professor and practising clinical psychologist at the School of Psychology, Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia and an honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on developing and evaluating novel suicide prevention strategies and treatments for youth depression that range from exercise to brain stimulation.
Yamiko Msosa
I am a digital health researcher that also has extensive technical and engineering management experience in the digital health landscape. My research interests are in the broader areas of software engineering, and in particular, model-driven engineering as it applies to health information systems engineering. I am particularly interested in how clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) can be formalized and supported in health information systems using model-driven engineering methods.