Brendon Wilkins - Founder & Co-CEO, DigVentures (on Deep Time - crowdsourcing and AI to discover unknown archaeology at massive scale)

As Founder and Co-CEO of DigVentures, Brendon is focused on bringing together two decades of commercial archaeology experience with his expertise in digital innovation for archaeological fieldwork, public participation, and social impact evaluation. With a consistent research and publication record, he has recently completed a PhD at the University of Leicester, entitled: ‘Digging the Crowd: the future of archaeology in the digital and collaborative economies’. Brendon steers the ship of DV’s fieldwork and evaluation programmes, including our exciting Nesta-funded initiative ‘Deep Time’ project combining Crowd and Artificial Intelligence in pursuit of archaeological discovery.