Meet The Disruptors – Delivering Innovation
Invenica recently hosted a series of online sessions at Meet The Disruptors, two days of digital events designed to showcase the future of fintech. Providing a showcase of emerging technology and business change, the Invenica team was joined by guests from Concord, Siemens and Vodafone.
Across three sessions – Meet The Team, In The Market and In Action – experts from all four firms discussed the business and technology drivers of Big Data, AI, user experience and automation. Their insights highlighted how businesses are finding ways to harness breakthrough innovation to tackle their biggest challenges.
All three panels featured a wealth of knowledge and experience, offering attendees a unique perspective on the world of emerging technology. And, whether you could make the event or not, there’s no reason to miss out. You can replay or catch up on all the Invenica sessions at your leisure below.
Delivering Innovation: Telco, Commodities & Trading - an industry showcase
Meet The Team
Invenica has deep experience spanning nearly two decades of providing technology consulting, systems integration and technology innovation; dedicated to solving difficult problems for customers. During this session, Gareth Mee, CEO of Invenica, and Moustafa Bounasser, CTO, shared their insights on how Invenica is working with clients to drive innovation and discover the possible.
- Gareth Mee, CEO - Invenica
- Moustafa Bounasser, CTO - Invenica
- Mike Wilson, CEO & Founder - ditto
In The Market
Invenica helps clients in the Commodities & Trading sector to adapt and take advantage of technology across their business workflows. This session, featuring panellists from Concord and Siemens, explored how we enable businesses to handle transformation, regulation and automation – without the cost of having to scale up their IT resources.
- Moustafa Bounasser, CTO - Invenica
- Barry Gould, CTO - ConCord
- Nadja Haakansson, MD Region Africa - Siemens
- Michael Imeson, Senior Content Editor, Financial Times (Moderator)
In Action
In this session, Gareth Mee, CEO of Invenica, was joined by David Palmer, Blockchain Lead IoT for Vodafone. They explored how telcos can go beyond the edge to explore decentralised digital identities, digital communities, adaptive cybersecurity, Internet of Things products and enhanced customer experience.
- Gareth Mee, CEO - Invenica
- David Palmer, Blockchain Lead for IoT - Vodafone
About our Speakers
GARETH MEE - CEO, Invenica
Gareth Mee is responsible for the growth and strategic direction of Invenica, a specialist software services business. He is currently working extensively within the emerging technologies space covering AI, Blockchain, Chatbots and Conversational Language, with experience in enterprise integration, mobility and UX – delivering mission critical solutions and complex enterprise projects.
MOUSTAFA BOUNASSER - CTO, Invenica
Moustafa is a Digital Strategist, Innovator & Inventor and an emerging technologies enthusiast with over 12 years’ experience in the information technology sector. He has helped multiple organisations in the UK, Germany, France and Belgium transform their business with innovation, thought leadership and emerging technologies. He has worked in different roles across the IT industry and contributed in creating new capabilities, programmes and initiatives. With extensive experiences across different industries such as financial Services, Manufacturing, Media, telecom and many others, Moustafa combines his in-depth knowledge of technology, and understanding of industry challenges, to create differentiation values and new markets for his clients. Moustafa has several confirmed and pending inventions to his name, leveraging technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning and IoT, he is involved in the research and development of cutting & bleeding edge technologies like Edge Computing and Quantum Computing.
BARRY GOULD - CTO, Concord
Barry has shown successful transformational leadership, CTO level & 3rd parties, delivering ‘fit for purpose’ IT solutions, IT separation and business change. Highly accomplished, able to design and execute effective IT delivery strategies & technology roadmaps. Experience of driving change management, business transformation, outsourcing, service transition, project strategies, technology roadmaps, business separation, divestments, IT/data migration and business benefit realisation. Technology advisor, experience and due-diligence in areas such as Financial Services, Commodities, Accounts receivable & factoring, Medical and Pensions. Advisor for not for profit organisations as well as investor and mentor for a number of new technology start-ups and accelerators.
NADJA HAAKANSSON - Managing Director Region Africa, Siemens
Nadja is an Energy leader from Sweden who has international experience and previously led the Power Generation Service organisation in Thailand. She is currently the Regional Director of Gas & Power Services for Distributed Generation and O&G for Africa, and also CEO of the Siemens Energy business in Morocco.
DAVID PALMER - Blockchain Lead for IoT, Vodafone
David has worked in the IoT sector for 10 years and has been instrumental in the Vodafone Business assessment and exploration of blockchain technology and its potential to add value in the IoT eco-system.
