Mark became the Assembly Member for Cardiff West in May 2011. He was Chair of the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee from July 2011 - March 2013 and of the All-Wales Programme Monitoring Committee for European funds from July 2011 – March 2013. He was appointed Minister for Health and Social Services in March 2013. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government in May 2016. Mark was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance on 3 November 2017. On 12 December 2018 Mark was appointed First Minister of Wales and became a member of the Privy Council on 13 February 2019. Mark was appointed First Minister on 13 May 2021.

Sian Lloyd is an experienced journalist and presenter and a well known face to TV audiences. She began her career in Wales before joining the national BBC News team as a senior correspondent and presenter, and has covered some of the most important stories of the past two decades. Sian has now embarked on a freelance career and presents TV and Radio programmes in Welsh and English.

Zoe is the founder of Bodacious, a strategy studio focused on illuminating and navigating the new frontiers of innovation and emerging technologies within the worlds of brands and entertainment. Her client roster includes Nike, Netflix, EA Games, Lego, Snapchat and many more. She crafts ground-breaking strategies combining rigorous business intelligence, with 20+ years of brand strategy know-how and a futurist lens. Prior to Bodacious, she spent her career moving between trailblazing creative agencies; such as Droga5. Best-in-class entertainment companies, like Ridley Scott Creative Group and 77X, the sports x youth culture studio, founded by NBA superstar Luka Dončić. Forward-thinking innovation consultancies such as Undercurrent. And world famous celebrities such as Enrique Iglesias and DJ Khaled.

Appointed to Head of Customer and Digital Service in 2018. Previously, Head of Procurement at Caerphilly Liz leads a team of 160 FTE’s who is responsible for the delivery of all services in relation Customer experience, Digital transformation, Procurement and Information Governance. Liz is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply with a keen interest in social and economic regeneration through the effective use of procurement.

Kristen joined Crown Commercial Service (CCS) in 2013 and has worked in various roles across the business over the past 10 years including project management, commercial strategy of £bn frameworks and business development. Kristen recently followed her passion for the environment and took on the position of Head of Sustainability, working to decarbonise the £30bn annual spend through CCS. Kristen works closely with public sector buyers, suppliers and industry bodies to help accelerate the journey towards achieving CNZ by 2050 at the latest. Kristen is MCIPs qualified.

Charlene is the Head of Policy Delivery for Supply Chains & Service Offering at Crown Commercial Service, the largest public buying organisation in the UK. Charlene moved into the commercial policy arena after over 12 years in category and commercial roles in the public sector. During this time she worked with colleagues across Cabinet Office and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to deliver the pilot procurement for delivery of social value within CCS, and helped develop PPN 06/20 on Social Value for Central Government.

Richard from Pontypool and is Managing Director of Pro Steel Engineering and National Chair of the Institute of Directors. In addition to his patronage of the Prince's Trust, Richard also holds a key role as Chair of The Prince’s Trust Cymru Development Committee, was appointed Deputy Lieutenant in Gwent in November 2021 and has co-established the Torfaen Strategic Economic Forum. He has earned significant respect and recognition as an influential figure within the business community in Wales. Furthermore, Richard extends his influence as newly appointed Co-Chair of Cwmbran Futures Board which aims to identify how the UK Government’s £20m Long-Term Plan for Towns grant for Cwmbran should be spent.

Tony Chatfield is NHS Wales Head of Supply Chain, Logistics and Transport, operating a team of 400 staff, delivering Supply Chain and Medical Logistical Support services to NHS Wales. Services include Supply Chain, Clinical Pathology, Medical Logistics, and also support to other Welsh NHS & Government functions, including non-patient fleet strategy, transport planning and specialist logistics (High Risk) service delivery for NHS Wales.

Rob has 15+ years’ experience in the sustainability field and leads on Carbon Trusts organisational Net Zero support services. He has been working alongside public bodies on the development of their decarbonisation plans for over a decade and is the project director for Welsh Governments Net Zero reporting programme. He has extensive experience in carbon accounting, target setting, project assessment and net zero action plans. Rob has a background in energy management and has delivered many energy engineering feasibility assessments and energy efficiency surveys. Currently Rob is working tirelessly on public sector supply chain decarbonisation efforts. He is supporting public bodies to improve their supply chain carbon accounting and management processes through the development of public sector Net Zero procurement approaches.

Tim is Director of Digital Supply Chain at Digital Catapult leading a £30m programme to build a Digital Supply Chain Hub to accelerating digital innovation in Supply Chains. Tim has extensive experience in improving global supply chains working within the Automotive, Consumer Goods, Aerospace, Defence, Construction, Life Science and Industrial Sectors. His experience includes 25 years in consultancy, leading companies to deliver transformation in supply chains from strategy to performance improvement and digital. An inspirational thought leader, Tim develops leading insights into global supply chain management and digital and speaks on these topics at conference platforms across Europe.

Duncan Brown is the head of software engineering at the Cabinet Office Incubator for AI, where he leads teams using AI and machine learning to find ways to tackle previously intractable problems across government. Before that he created and led the engineering function for teacher recruitment at the Department for Education, having spent a decade working in startups in the publishing and edtech industries.

I have been working in NHS procurement for over 30 years with the majority of my career spent in Northern Ireland Health and Social Care national procurement organisations. In recent years I have worked at a senior level in Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and my present role in leading Procurement Services within NHS Wales. I hope my experience over many years of working within different political and operational environments in the NHS has allowed me to develop a keen sense of what works well (and not so well). I look forward to continuing the work with my procurement colleagues across Wales and beyond to help meet the many current and emerging challenges where our profession can make a real difference for our patient population and wider society.

Kristen joined Crown Commercial Service (CCS) in 2013 and has worked in various roles across the business over the past 10 years including project management, commercial strategy of £bn frameworks and business development. Kristen recently followed her passion for the environment and took on the position of Head of Sustainability, working to decarbonise the £30bn annual spend through CCS. Kristen works closely with public sector buyers, suppliers and industry bodies to help accelerate the journey towards achieving CNZ by 2050 at the latest.

WLGA’s lead officer for procurement. Richard came into public procurement “From a background of Logistics, Branch Management and B2B Sales in the private sector.” Initially as one of Cardiff Councils operational procurement team where he ran the County Supplies Catalogue and a delegated suite of procurement frameworks; then to a joint Welsh Government & WLGA initiative, the Welsh Local Government Procurement Support Unit; from there to the WLGA core team. A champion of social value and the wellbeing of future generations; he's taking a pivotal role in central/local government relations, coordinating the National Procurement Network for councils in Wales and much more. Army of one and fiercely loyal to his procurement officer network, he is coordinating local government responses to consultation and participating in the Government's reform programme. In 2021 Richard initiated the NPN Market Intelligence Expert Group and currently acts as researcher, editor, publisher. He says that he’s just a middleman; the value comes from the people on the group and the knowledge they have; but that’s what Richard does, he brings the good from the people he’s with. Richard has been speaking on the National stage, at the National Local Government Procurement Expo about Procurement in Difficult Times, about the Local Government Showcase at the National Social Value Conference and about Digital Transformation in a Gov News Masterclass. Wales representative to LGA's National Advisory Group for procurement, he's providing a weekly bulletin to an extended network of 114 procurement stakeholders and is credited in the Social Value Roadmap 2023, an important document nationally. So far, in 22/23 he's appeared in 10 separate external (non-WLGA) searchable and public facing digital media events. There were at last count 21 separate live events online featuring interviews, presentations, keynotes and reports where Richard is recorded or credited as a contributor.