Magda Woods is the co-founder and CEO of flare data, an AI startup. As a serial entrepreneur, her first tech venture, Waive, was acquired by Future plc in 2022. Previously, she served as the Managing Director for Data at Global Data Media and has a track record of managing multi-million dollar investments in AI technologies. Her leadership has been instrumental in driving digital transformation in large-scale newsrooms within both public and private sectors, including BBC, The Telegraph, Channel 4, and New Statesman. She contributes as a member of the Data Science Committee for the Royal Statistical Society in London. She is an engineer and computer scientist from trade and most recently graduated executive MBA at the Bayes Business School.