Last year at CogX, one of the UK’s largest tech conferences, speakers from Stephen Fry to Stephen Bartlett and Robert Downey Jr to Queen Rania of Jordan, took to the stage at London’s O2 Arena. It was targeting 90,000 attendees.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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