Mr Alistair JARVIS CBE

Chief Executive, Advance HE

Alistair is Chief Executive of Advance HE, a member-led charity that supports higher education institutions to develop and improve with a particular focus on excellence in teaching and learning, effective governance, leadership development and embedding equality, diversity and inclusion. Advance HE has over 450 members – in the UK and internationally. We work with people, education providers and systems around the world, to understand challenges in higher education, and to deliver solutions. 

From 2022 to 2025, he was a Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of London. As a member of the senior executive team his responsibilities included communications, fundraising, marketing, legal, governance support, student recruitment, diversity and inclusion, regulatory compliance, academic quality assurance, supporting partnerships with federation members and building relationships internationally.

He was CEO of Universities UK from 2017 to 2022. Leading the representative body for the UK’s 140 universities - a registered charity and six subsidiary entities - his role included influencing policy, strategy and member engagement. Before this, he was Deputy CEO and Director of External Relations since 2013.

Previously, he was a Director at the University of Birmingham and has held external engagement roles for national organisations.

Alistair received a CBE in 2022 for services to Higher Education and supporting the universities during the covid-19 crisis.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of UCAS, the UK’s shared admissions service. He is a member of the advisory boards of Wonkhe and the UPP Foundation. Alistair was educated at the Universities of Kent, Leicester and the Institute of Education, UCL​.

Mr Moe ABDULA

Vice President, Technology and Customer Engineering 
Asia Pacific and Greater China, Google Cloud

Moe is the Asia Pacific and Greater China lead for the Technology Team at Google Cloud, where he is responsible for architecture and engineering teams supporting customers and partners across this diverse and rapidly growing region of the world.  
Moe is passionate about working with customers to address their business opportunities through innovative and leading-edge technologies including the transformative potential of Generative AI. He is focused on developing technical and business capability across the global Google Cloud ecosystem while ensuring this is closely aligned to the needs of the APAC market. Moe was engaged early in the Cloud market, leading some of the pioneering implementations of container technologies along with signature customer adoption projects. Now, he's similarly at the forefront of helping businesses understand and implement Generative AI solutions, fostering a culture of innovation and responsible AI adoption. Moe documents much of his learnings in the Cloud Adoption Playbook, which he helped co-author in 2018. 
Moe has 27+ years experience in Software development, Product Management, Solution Architecture and Technology Strategy. Prior to joining Google Cloud, he held a variety of senior leadership roles at Amazon and IBM, as well as SaltStack, where he was part of the founding team, helping lead the business to a successful acquisition by VMware. 
Moe is a proud father of two young adults, who fill his life with adventure. He lives in Singapore. He earned a Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering degree from Leeds University. When not working on AI and Cloud, Moe is often consumed by his fervor for football (soccer) and reading.