A serial entrepreneur with 13 years experience in building and selling tech start-ups. William has exited his last three companies: the latest, MyCityVenue, was acquired by Secret Escapes in 2015 after which he went to study artificial intelligence and robotics. While at university, William was credited with created the worlds first Artificially intelligent robot librarian. William is and inventor-entrepreneur  who has in his career devised several patents on driverless vehicle technology and others including drone delivery systems. After nearly two years at Aberystwyth University and then finishing off his training with NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute, William built a team of engineers and scientists to found the Academy of Robotics

Elio Tuci the lead scientist at the Academy of Robotics. He is also a Senior in the Department of Computer Science, at Middlesex University (UK). From September 2010 to September 2016, he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, at Aberystwyth University (UK). In 2003, he received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.His research interests fall into the interdisciplinary domain of bio-inspired robotics and computational intelligence. His research aims to engineer autonomous adaptive systems by designing control mechanisms underpinning complex behavioural, social, cognitive, and communication capabilities. He also designs computational and robotics models of complex behavioural and cognitive skills to generate new and alternative hypotheses concerning the operational principles of cognition and learning in natural organisms. Dr Tuci has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and 4 book chapters.