Tech Events in Westgate

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Calling all tech founders, technologists and leaders! Join us to network, learn, and grow as a leader in the rapidly evolving tech industry.

Speaker #1 - Thor Mitchell
Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Signal AI
Thor is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at London based media intelligence platform Signal AI. He has worked in the technology sector for over 30 years, initially as an engineer, before moving into Product Management at Google. Thor has built and led Product teams at early, growth, and scaled technology companies in the U.S., Australia, and Europe, including three years as Chief Product Officer at Crowdcube, and four years as a VP of Product at Miro. Most recently, he spent two years as the Exec In Residence for Product at London based VC firm Balderton Capital. Thor is also an Industry Advisor for the Säid Business School, Product Advisor to the Royal Academy of Engineering, and co-organiser of the ProductTank Oxford meetup.

Talk Title: The Quantum Nature of Technology Leadership
Many of the behaviors required to lead technology teams are actively in tension with each other. The strongest leaders are those that can intuitively select and apply the most effective set of such behaviours in response to any given situation. This talk breaks down this challenge, drawing analogies from the mind bending world of quantum computing, to illustrate how you can identify the gaps in your own leadership skills, and those of your teams.

Speaker #2: Nick Liebmann
Director of Engineering @ Nourish Care Systems
Nick Liebmann is the Director of Engineering at Nourish Care Systems, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of 70 in delivering high-availability, person-centred software solutions for the social care sector. With an extensive background in software engineering leadership, Nick is committed to driving technical excellence and operational efficiency, ensuring that Nourish Care’s platforms remain the benchmark for quality and reliability in a highly regulated environment. He is a passionate advocate for building collaborative, metric-based working environments and empowering teams to use technology to solve complex business challenges.

Talk Title : Improving Social Care through Data and AI
With the recent push for digitisation of social care, we now have more data than ever. What can we do with this data to improve care and people's lives?

Event sponsored by:
Humand Talent Solutions - Oxfordshire's leading technical recruitment business
Laburo.io - Making Redundancy Support and Outplacement services available to everyone.

Hosted by the BIPC: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/business/business-and-intellectual-property-centre-bipc

Calling all tech founders, technologists and leaders! Join us to network, learn, and grow as a leader in the rapidly evolving tech industry.

Speaker #1 - Clive Davies

Head of Engineering @ Oxford Ionics

Clive has over 30 years of experience in a range of areas, such as mobile handsets, automotive, FPGA with Altera/Intel, Machine Learning at AWS and now leads the Software Development teams at IonQ in Oxford.

Talk Title: Oxford Ionics and IonQ - the journey towards useful quantum computers

IonQ purchased Oxford Ionics in September 2025, the first $1B acquisition of a Quantum computing firm. Clive will talk about why they saw such value in OI’s technology, what they are working on and how they believe they can scale Quantum computers to a commercial reality.

Speaker #2: Neil Stevenson

Head of Engineering @ Caristo Diagnostics

Head of Engineering at Oxford Medtech startup, Caristo Diagnostics. A chartered Engineer with 30 years of experience in software engineering, Neil started in maritime and aerospace real-time embedded systems before moving to healthcare. Has led software engineering teams in both large corporations and small companies, working across cardiology, molecular imaging and radiotherapy. Passionate in growing and leading software engineering teams in the development of cutting-edge medical software products.

Talk Title : Medtech Software Engineering in the AI era

The buzz around AI suggests that anyone can use these amazing tools to create working software almost instantly. So, is the profession of software engineer going to die? Describing the work and technology at Oxford University spin-out Caristo Diagnostics, Neil will give an overview of the craft, challenges, and rewards of software engineering in the startup Medical Device world, and how AI can be used safely and effectively.

Event sponsored by:

Humand Talent Solutions - Oxfordshire's leading technical recruitment business

Laburo.io - Making Redundancy Support and Outplacement services available to everyone.

Hosted by the BIPC: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/business/business-and-intellectual-property-centre-bipc