Speakers

Alex Stephany is an award-winning entrepreneur and the founder of Beam: a social enterprise bringing AI to welfare services, trusted by over 100 government partners. Enabled by tech and AI, our expert caseworkers have supported thousands of underserved people into homes and jobs, while our software has slashed admin for thousands of social workers. Since launching in 2017, Beam has changed the lives of more than 5,000 people on the brink and brought AI, including market leading social care AI tool Magic Notes, to half of the UK’s social care teams. An advocate of social business, Alex is passionate about the role technology can play in solving huge social problems. Before Beam, Alex was CEO of JustPark, backed by Index Ventures and BMW, which has successfully exited. An expert on the sharing economy, Alex is also the author of The Business of Sharing, published by Macmillan and advised the former Mayor of Seoul on collaborative technology. Follow him on LinkedIn @AlexStephany