Mandana is the CEO and co-founder of Alena (previously Aya). She completed her PhD in Computational Neuroscience at UCL Gatsby, and BSc in Physics from University of Maryland, College Park. Mandana created Alena to apply her knowledge of how to build mathematical models of the human mind to help automate the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders, starting with social anxiety.

My name is Lucia (Lushi) Chen. I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, Center for Health Policy (CHP) / Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR). I obtained my Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh last month. My Ph.D. research concentrates on monitoring social media users' affective, cognitive, and behavioral changes, identifying the associations between digital signals and symptoms of mental disorders. I am interested in building human-centered health technologies, especially for low-income groups. I am also concerned about ethical issues and the potentially harmful effects of the technology developed in this line of work. I am passionate about identifying and developing good research practices and ethical standards.

Julia Ive is a Research Fellow in multimodal language processing at Imperial College London. In 2018-19, she has led the EPSRC pilot “Towards shareable data in clinical NLP: Generating synthetic electronic health records''. In 2019, she has co-organised the workshop ``Creating artificial medical records from real ones: are they safe for research?'' at King's College London on the pathway for actual release of synthetic text from the NHS. She is the author of many mono- and multimodal text generation approaches and currently working on modelling discourse structure for the detection of mental health issues in social media posts.

Jorge is a key driver the research strategy and agenda at SilverCloud through the design, execution, and publication of research trials, also working closely with collaborators across the world which include some of the most highly cited and regarded researchers in the field of psychology and digital mental health. He is a keynote speaker in principal academic and commercial conferences and global events on digital therapeutics. Jorge completed his medical degree in Mexico City, and thereafter won scholarships to undertake a Masters in Psychiatric Research and PhD in Psychological Medicine in London at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), before joining SilverCloud in 2017. He has earned numerous awards such as the Young Investigator of the Year prize from Elsevier and the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine. Jorge believes passionately in the potential of digital interventions to improve the mental health of populations at a large scale, helping more and more individuals have access to wellbeing solutions that fit their particular needs.

Mat Rawsthorne is a chartered management accountant who worked in the public and private sector on business intelligence projects. His recurrent depression led him to volunteering in self-help groups, working in the third sector to gain expertise in peer support for long term conditions. He went on to train patients and professionals in evidence based therapeutic approaches. For the last five years he has been working with NIHR MindTech to facilitate coproduction in digital research and undertaking ESRC-funded doctoral training at the Institute of Mental Health. He is Head of Research for HD Labs, a start-up specialising in Conversational Health Intelligence.