Dr Fernando Loizides is a Reader (Associate Professor) at Cardiff University, UK. He currently works with Google's Silicon Valley team, researching and developing voice recognition and artificial intelligence-based systems to assist communication for disabled users. He has led teams in the creation of emerging interactive technologies that were used for commercial and academic purposes. He has collaborated/worked with companies such as Microsoft, Admiral, and Nokia. His discoveries in areas of accessibility enabled people with mild and severe disabilities to regain independence in living and are currently being used worldwide; one commercial application won him and the team he was leading the award for most impactful innovation. He has commercialised products in Virtual Reality and Internet of Things Technologies, as well as mobile applications. His research and development won several international awards for ground-breaking advancements in technology and received awards for innovation and sustained development of the international scientific community. He has collaborated/worked with many SMEs, creating and testing their prototypes and supporting them from pre-revenue to self-sustaining profitable states. His work in user experience/human-computer interaction and data science has been published in world-leading journals and presented in world-leading scientific conferences. He has also given invited talks internationally, training many students from the GCSE level to PhD.