C/02 · Community
The room.
In motion.
Critical Mass is people, in person, doing the work. Below is a curated cut from recent dinners, speaker events and demo nights.
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S/01 · Voices in the room
Featured speakers.
Operators, scientists and capital who have shaped the room. A rolling lineup, new voices each season.
- 01Prime

Amanda Phillips
Investment Director · Roke
- 02Investor

Nicholas Nelson
Partner · Archangel
- 03Scaleup

Erica Dill-Russell
Chief Commercial Officer · Kraken Technologies
- 04Academia

Rupert Shute
Professor · Imperial College London
- 05Investor

Dr. Manjari Chandran-Ramesh
Partner · Amadeus Capital Partners
- 06Scaleup

Andrew Webber
Chief Partnership Officer · Whitespace
- 07Policy Maker

Mike Potter
Former Chief Digital Officer · UK Government
- 08Ministry of Defence

Lt. Col. Dan Sawyer
Head of jHub, UK Strategic Command · Ministry of Defence
- 09Startup

Claudia Faraday
Partnerships · DefTechLink
- 10Policy Maker

Denys Demko
Economic Secretary · Ukraine Embassy
- 11Policy Maker

Fred Thomas MP
Member of Parliament, Plymouth Moor View · Former Royal Marine Officer
- 12Prime

Robert Grant
Director of Strategy · Babcock Mission Systems
- 13Scaleup

Luke Gobell
Director of Strategy · Kraken Technologies
- 14Startup

Maxime Vergnaud
Founding Engineer · Hyme AI
Field note
"It's the only room in the UK where I can talk to a fusion founder, a permanent secretary and a Series B investor. And they all want to be there."
A Critical Mass member