Emily Ford is the Head of Startups for the UK and Ireland at Google Cloud. She has more than 25 years experience selling technology solutions and while her role now focuses on startups, she spent the majority of her career selling in to large Enterprise, UK Central Government and Ministry of Defence.

Emily is passionate about working with founders and startups to identify routes to sustainable growth and success, and outside of her role also provides sales coaching and mentorship.

She has 15 year old twins and shares with them her passion for experiencing technology, especially AI, right at the cutting edge of its development in the startup world.