Speakers

Benjamin Woollams is the founder and CEO of TrueRights, an industry-first content and IP licensing platform designed to empower Talent and Brands in the digital age. TrueRights provides talent with the tools to protect their rights and safely benefit from the monetisation opportunities of artificial intelligence, while giving Brands a seamless way to source, license, and manage Talent usage rights with full transparency and legal clarity. At the heart of the platform is a commitment to standardisation, clarity, consent, and control, redefining how Talent and Brands collaborate in the new content economy.

Prior to founding TrueRights, Ben was Commercial Director at Influencer.com, where, as one of the earliest members, he helped build the company into one of the world’s leading influencer marketing agencies. It was there that he saw the growing need for better governance around content and IP, especially as AI began reshaping the industry. With TrueRights, he’s building the infrastructure to protect creators, simplify licensing, and unlock fair value from digital content in a rapidly evolving landscape.

David is an IP Executive, Patent Attorney and IAM 300 IP Strategist with 25 years’ experience protecting high technology IP. He has spent the last 21 years in-house helping technology companies realise their IP and business goals as an IP function head and thought leader. In enterprises of all sizes, from start-ups to segment leading multinational corporations, David has driven the full IP cycle from ideation to monetization. He has extensive experience in guiding businesses through different IP generation and protection strategies, including implementation of strategies and processes for protecting inventions as patents and trade secrets.

Denzil Tapsell-Gunner is General Counsel for Yoti, a supplier of identity and age verification solutions. Denzil has a globally focussed role in guiding Yoti in providing a suite of products that users trust to help them stay safe online and companies trust to help them meet a complex regulatory framework. The commercial deals Denzil works on with some of the world's most high profile tech companies requires a structure based on consistency and reliability of service balanced with a need to provide agile solutions to a wide range of industries, each facing its own legal and ethical expectations.

Guy Gadney is CEO of Charismatic.ai which automates story creation for compelling videos and interactive narratives - from idea to script and launched in minutes. It is a deep application layer and series of language models, built by AI creatives for creative organisations. He has produced Emmy and BAFTA-nominated digital productions, and interactive narratives for Warner Bros, Dreamworks, Sky and the BBC, as well as the award-winning AI game adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Kraken Wakes.

Guy has held Executive roles leading digital media teams at Penguin Books, the BBC, Guardian, and in Australia for Telstra, Channel Nine and FOXTEL. He is on the Boards of Sheffield DocFest, The Story Museum in Oxford, and the arts technology company Blast Theory, and sits on Innovate UK's Bridge AI Advisory Group.