Ryan is the Managing Director of Galileo Labs. His business creates and curates lab space for science companies in an urban environment. He is a real estate finance professional with a depth of experience working in the property industry for over 20 years. He spent the last 8.5 years with Stanhope PLC as part of the new business team that secured, funded and developed Television Centre and White City Place in White City, West London a combined 2.4m sq ft.. Ryan is Co-Chair of the ULI European Life Science & Healthcare Council and a guest lecturer for the LSE MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance course. He holds a BA in Economics, MSc in Real Estate investment and an Executive MBA from Oxford University.

Sophie Chick runs the research and advisory services for ULI in Europe. She is responsible for developing and delivering original, objective research on a wide range of issues related to land use, climate change and sustainability, real estate development and investment, and the built environment. Prior to joining ULI, Sophie was the head of department for Savills World Research team and the lead researcher on ESG in the Urban Environment. Working across all property sectors, she delivered market leading research on global real estate markets and the international forces that shape them. Before her global role, she moved to Sydney, Australia in 2016 for two years, where she set up a residential research department for Savills. This role was followed by a period at Mirvac, an Australian owner and developer, which saw her working closely with the capital transaction team to best understand risks and opportunities for potential purchases and sales. Sophie began her career at Savills in 2010 in the UK residential research team.

Laura Carrara-Cagni is a Director of Edward Williams Architects, the studio she founded in West London with Edward Williams. The studio specializes in high profile, sustainable projects for leading clients in the UK and internationally. Laura leads projects domestically and internationally including in Italy and in the USA, and supports the direction and management of the London studio. Her recent portfolio includes the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Birmingham, UK, , which will be the biggest emergency hospital in Europe when it completes in 2022, and the recently completed UCLH Grafton Building which is the first Proton Beam Therapy Hospital in London and also in London a sustainable housing development which is helping to regenerate a rundown neighborhood with its timber clad facades and landscaped courtyards despite a modest budget. She has been involved in key international projects including several College buildings for Rice University in Houston (USA), where she was scholar in residence a few years later, a residential development in Dubai (UAE) the Cyprus Cultural Centre and a New Hospital in La Spezia (Italy) as Associate Partner at Hopkins Architects for over 14 years. Back in the UK her past work includes the Brent Civic Centre in London, The Forum in Norwich, and the Cattle Market in Bury St Edmunds. Laura is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and of the ULI Healthcare and Life Science Councils in the USA and the EU. She currently serves as executive board member of the Business Club Italia in London. She was a board director at Gancia in Italy, and oversaw its sale. In her early career she worked with Beaudouin Architects in Nancy in France, on many prestigious projects in including the Musée des Beaux Arts, the Engineering University Génie des Systèmes Industriels in Nancy, the André Malraux Museum in Le Havre; worked with Tom Hurt Architecture in Austin, Texas, and with Emma Serra Architect in Genova, Italy. Laura studied in Genova, Italy, where she graduated in 1992, a summa cum laude degree which thesis with professor Giancarlo De Carlo followed his two year course. She was selected for the International Laboratory of Architecture and Design (ILAUD) in Siena in 1991 and was awarded an EU COMETT scholarship in 1993. She has been a reviewer at the ILAUD, been published in the Space and Society and other publications, lectured in the UK, Italy and the USA and has been a juror of architectural and contemporary art awards. She is a native Italian speaker and fluent in English, French and Spanish.