Nish Kotecha is an tech entrepreneur and investment banking professional. Nish is the Executive Chairman and Co-founder of Finboot (London, Barcelona). He sits on Technology Connected's Blockchain Connected Council.
Finboot (Cardiff, London, Barcelona) is a technology company that gives its world class customers a competitive edge through accelerating their digital transformation, realising value and building trust through blockchain.
Finboot has developed MARCO, an ecosystem which brings together blockchain technologies in one place, connecting multiple ledgers simultaneously. It enables companies to incorporate blockchain within their value and supply chains, bring traceability, transparency and compliance which, in turn, helps them meet sustainability and ESG requirements while also increasing operational efficiency.
He is also the Chief Mentor of Agam, the next generation fintech (UK/Bangladesh), a fintech enabling digital banking. AGAM is the joint winner of the Global Fintech DIT (UK) Award, 2021, and Bronze Winner of the Efma-Accenture Awards, 2021 and has been selected for the 2022 Cohort of FinTech Wales Foundry.
Geoffrey Cann is an international author, educator, and professional speaker. His passion is the Oil and Gas industry, essential to our modern industrial society, and its imperative to exploit digital innovations as we slowly transition to new fuels. He has worked around the world, including Canada, the US, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Australia and the Caribbean over a 35 year career. He teaches a seminar on digital oil and gas, and produces both a weekly article and podcast on digital issues in energy. His first book, Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas, is being translated into Russian and Chinese. He contributed a chapter to the book Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies, published in May 2021. His next book, Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas, a study of the leading practices for digital in oil and gas, will be published in March of 2022.