The secret of just making stuff happen without spending too much time defining what it is
Date: 5 November 2020, Thursday, 4PM
Speaker: Jonty Hurwitz, Founder and Chairman, Vesti.AI
Venue: Online / ZOOM
Jonty Hurwitz
BSc (hons), MRSS
Member of th Royal Society of Sculptors
Founder and Chairman, Vesti.AI
Jonty Hurwitz is an accomplished artist, engineer and entrepreneur.
With a background in fintech he built and sold his first fintech company, Delve, in 2005 to Statpro PLC. He then went on to design Statpro Revolution which now powers analytics for 8 out of 1 O of the leading asset managers in the world. He co-founded the unicorn Wonga.com in 2007, where as CTO he designed and built the world's first real-time online consumer loan system.
Jonty is currently founder and Chairman of a ground-breaking new Al company looking at the social and environmental impact of investments, Vesti.AI.
Jonty has received several art and technology awards including 1st in '1 O European Technology Companies to Watch', Telegraph, Best Use of Technology, Fast Growth Business Awards, and 8th in Start-ups 100 - the UK's most innovative new companies as well as 2 Guinness World Records for the world's smallest sculptures.
Jonty's science-inspired artworks are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, he is a TED speaker on the subject of art and science and CNN has made a documentary on him as part of the "Artists to Watch" series.