Amy Wallhead

Partner Culver Law

Chris Patnoe

Christopher Patnoe is the Lead for EMEA Accessibility and Disability Innovation at Google. He leads Google’s efforts around the accessibility of product, policy and partnerships across EMEA – with a particular focus on Emerging Markets. He has 30 year’s experience in Tech working at companies like Apple, Sony Ericsson and Disney where he’s built hardware, […]

Craig Crowley

Chief Executive Officer, Action Deafness Craig has pioneered many prominent leadership and management positions over the past 25 years within the Deaf and Disability Sectors, obtaining an MBE in recognition of his work. Craig has served as co-chair of the BSL Advisory Board under the UK Government’s Disability Unit from 2022 to 2025, and is […]

Dr Sarah Powell

Clinical Lead/Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist Signhealth Dr Sarah Powell is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead at SignHealth, the UK’s leading deaf health charity, where she oversees and delivers specialist psychological therapy services for deaf people across England. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience across mental health and deaf‑sector organisations and informed by her own lived experience as […]

Emma McQuillan

Chief Interpreting Officer (CIO) SignWoW Emma McQuillan is Chief Interpreting Officer at SignWow, leading interpreting operations, onboarding, and quality standards. She plays a key role across service delivery, working with both interpreters and operational teams to ensure consistent, high-quality and reliable access across multiple sectors.

Joel Kellhofer

Founder & CEO SignWoW Joel Kellhofer is Founder and CEO of SignWow, with extensive experience building VRS services from the ground up. He has led the journey from early development to a scalable platform, and now focuses on driving innovation and shaping the future of accessible communication through technology.

Semhar Beyene

Global Head of Brand Experience Convo

Rt Hon Chloe Smith

Rt Hon Chloe Smith legislated the British Sign Language Act 2022 while Minister for Disabled People in the UK government.  She sees this as one of her proudest achievements in her 15 years service in Parliament. After Parliament, Chloe is Special Ambassador for the British Deaf Association. She’s also a trustee of RNID and chair […]

Andrew Hearn

Andrew Hearn is a seasoned software engineer specializing in visual computing and graphics programming, with extensive experience in developing high-performance algorithms optimized for GPU architectures. Due to his skills in leveraging general-purpose GPU (GP-GPU) techniques to accelerate complex computations, he brings a deep understanding of parallel processing paradigms and modern graphics pipelines which also is […]

Catherine Drew MBE

Catherine is the Deputy Headteacher of Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children, the UK’s leading dual-language Deaf school. With over 20 years’ experience in Deaf education, she has overcome barriers related to class and Deafness to become a teacher, leader, and mentor, drawing on her lived experience to support and inspire others. She was a […]