Title Head, Innovation Programs Company Level39 Bio Claire Cockerton is a serial entrepreneur and an industry leader in financial services. Claire is Co-founder/ CEO of Innovate Finance, a City of London and Canary Wharf Group backed movement for more technology lead, balanced, resilient, and accessible financial services sector. Founder, Chairwoman of Entiq, a firm delivering innovation strategy and product development programmers for large corporates through broad communication and engagement with most forward-thinking technologists, entrepreneurs and influential innovators. Claire set the strategy and co-led the implementation of Level39, Europe’s largest Technology Accelerator dedicated to fintech, retail and smart cities technologies. She continues as Special Advisor to Canary Wharf Group on the development of a Financial Services and Smart Cities tech cluster. An Imperial College MBA alumna, Claire specialised in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design, and helped establish the business model for Virgin’s ‘Branson Centre for Entrepreneurship’. She advised the Guardian Media Group on their 'Digital First' transformation strategy and helped implement their company-wide change programme. Claire founded, grew and sold (2009) ‘Aesthetic Earthworks’, a multi-million dollar sustainable architecture firm based in Toronto, Canada before moving to the UK. Claire is an active member for Women in Tech, Tech London Advocates, Women Shift Digital, and is a member of Boris Johnson's London Tech Ambassador Group.