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John Davies

Incept5

After a degree in Astrophysics at UCL John started in hardware then assembler, C, C++ and later Java. Almost exclusively in finance he ran FX at Paribas was a global chief architect at JP Morgan, BNP Paribas and VISA. John has co-founded four successful startups since 2000, selling one of them twice to Nasdaq & LSE listed companies. After co-founding Velo Payments with the former president of VISA John has spun off the AI company Incept5. John has co-authored several Java books and is a frequent speaker at technical and banking conferences around the world. He is married to a French wife and has three boys in their 20s.

Badges 7

Talks 3

  1. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    Hands-On: Building AI Agents with Embabel

    October 2025GenAI & Beyond

  2. Devoxx Belgium 2025

    The LLM Smörgåsbord

    October 2025GenAI & Beyond

  3. Devoxx UK 2023

    Technology and AI is changing photography

    May 2023Mind the Geek