Speakers

Hayaatun is the founder and CEO of Argentic Associates, focussed on transforming major philanthropy. Until the end of 2025, she was CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering, which promotes engineering and tech excellence for public benefit, and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation, which awards the world’s most prestigious engineering prize. She is a member of the UK government’s Women in Tech Taskforce, trustee of various charities and NXD at construction company Laing O’Rourke. 

She previously cofounded the Academy’s Enterprise Hub, a leading deeptech accelerator, chaired the government’s Business Innovation Forum and co-chaired with Sir Lewis Hamilton his Commission on improving Black representation in motorsport. She was made a CBE for services to International Engineering in 2019.