Digital Ethics Summit 2022

Nina Alag Suri

Founder and CEO, X0PA AI

Nina Alag Suri, is the Founder and CEO of X0PA AI. Before X0PA, she has founded multiple start-ups and been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years. Born and raised in India, Nina has lived and worked in over nine countries. She is an Electronics Engineer by qualification and a self-declared geek at heart. Her previous organisation Nastrac Group was a traditional search firm, and it was through running it she realised the inefficiencies and biases in hiring processes and founded X0PA AI to address these with the power of data, AI and automation. Nina has been endowed with multiple awards for her entrepreneurship and innovation. X0PA operates globally from its four offices across APAC, India, UK and UAE. The company recently closed its Series A round with a diverse set of Venture Capitalists across the globe. Nina is also the Founder and Chair of Empauwer, an AI tech start-up that works with enterprise clients to help hire and onboard neurodiverse individuals.  

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Dr Chris Anagnostopoulos

Senior Expert, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Imperial College

Chris is a Senior Expert at QuantumBlack McKinsey. He is singularly motivated by the belief that safe, responsible adoption of AI/ML in the Life Sciences can drastically accelerate scientific discovery. He leads large hybrid teams of machine learning engineers, data scientists, clinical and biopharma experts and biostatisticians to help biopharma R&D organisations accelerate their AI transformation journeys. He maintains an Honorary Associate Professorship at Imperial College London, where he teaches Ethical AI and Data Science. He previously served as head of R&D of the modelling and simulation division of a large UK-based technology company.  

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Ivana Bartoletti

Global Head of Privacy, Wipro

Ivana Bartoletti is the Global Head of Privacy at Wipro, the leading international information technology, consulting and business process services company.

Ivana is an internationally recognised thought leader in the fields of privacy, data protection and responsible technology. She has many years of experience working for large organizations in privacy policy, strategy and programmes related to digital transformation, cloud and automation. The Cyber Security Awards named her Woman of the Year (2019).

As a Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Oxford, her research focuses on how to advance the global sharing of information in the context of privacy, security, data protection and human rights.

Ivana is co-editor of The AI Book, a handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and fintech visionaries and is author of An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI.

She is founder of the influential Women Leading in AI network. A sought-after subject expert, Ivana is interviewed frequently in the mainstream media and speaks at many international events. An interview about her book is available here.

: www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk
: @IvanaBartoletti

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Felicity Burch

Director, The Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation

Felicity is the Executive Director of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI). The CDEI is a government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI. Felicity's role is to lead the CDEI's multidisciplinary team of specialists, and its overall strategy to deliver, test and refine trustworthy approaches to data and AI governance, working in partnership with public sector and industry bodies.  

Before CDEI, she was the CBI Director of Innovation and Digital, leading the organisation’s policy work to create the conditions that enable businesses to come up with new ideas, invest in research and development (R&D) and adopt new technologies. At CBI, Felicity also worked on technology adoption, public spending on R&D and labour markets. Felicity's background is in economic policy, with a focus on business growth. 

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Ioana Burtea

Associate, Clifford Chance 

Ioana Burtea, Associate, Clifford Chance  

Ioana is a Tech//Digital Associate with Clifford Chance, focussing on tech advisory and data privacy work. She also spent six months in-house at easyJet working on a range of commercial tech agreements. Previously, she worked for the Media Legal Defence Initiative and was a contributor to the G7 Research Group and the Stanford World Intermediary Liability Project. 

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Areeq Chowdhury

Head of Policy, Data & Digital Technologies, The Royal Society

Areeq Chowdhury is Head of Policy (Data and Digital Technologies) at The Royal Society. The team he leads at the Society focuses on how artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies can, and should, be used to benefit humanity.

Areeq is also a Labour Party Councillor for Canning Town, in East London, and founded the influential technology policy think tank, WebRoots Democracy, which ran between 2014 and 2020. He has authored various reports on digital democracy, social media, and artificial intelligence. Most notably, Areeq led a high profile project on disinformation during the 2019 UK General Election, producing viral deepfakes of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn endorsing each other for Prime Minister.

Areeq holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science from the University of Birmingham. His career history includes working at the Foreign Office; the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; the UK Parliament; London City Hall; and KPMG.

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Cristina Criddle

Technology Reporter, The Financial Times

Cristina Criddle is a technology reporter at the Financial Times. Previously, she was a technology reporter at the BBC reporting across TV, radio and online, including on the Today Programme and BBC Breakfast. She is currently working on a documentary about social media. 

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Sue Daley

Director, Technology and Innovation, techUK

Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work.

This includes work programmes on cloud, data protection, data analytics, AI, digital ethics, Digital Identity and Internet of Things as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy. She has been recognised as one of the most influential people in UK tech by Computer Weekly's UKtech50 Longlist and in 2021 was inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame. A key influencer in driving forward the data agenda in the UK Sue is co-chair of the UK government's National Data Strategy Forum. As well as being recognised in the UK's Big Data 100 and the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries for 2020 Sue has also been shortlisted for the Milton Keynes Women Leaders Awards and was a judge for the Loebner Prize in AI. In addition to being a regular industry speaker on issues including AI ethics, data protection and cyber security, Sue was recently a judge for the UK Tech 50 and is a regular judge of the annual UK Cloud Awards.

Prior to joining techUK in January 2015 Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. She has spoken at events including the UK-China Internet Forum in Beijing, UN IGF and European RSA on issues ranging from data usage and privacy, cloud computing and online child safety. Before joining Symantec, Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Masters Degree on International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham. Sue is a keen sportswoman and in 2016 achieved a lifelong ambition to swim the English Channel.

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Julie Dawson

Chief Policy & Regulatory Officer, Yoti

Julie leads regulatory and government relations for Yoti’s digital identity platform; developing policy approaches for fraud prevention and safeguarding, liaising with national and sectoral trust frameworks, in conjunction with Yoti's internal and external ethics boards. 

Yoti is an identity checking system that allows organisations to verify who people are, online and in person. Yoti offers Identity verification, Age verification, E-signatures and Authentication.  

Yoti is a team of over 400, has its HQ in London and counts over 12 million installs of the Yoti app; has conducted over 500 million age checks. 

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Gabriela De Oliveira

Head of Policy, Research and Campaigns, Glitch

Gabriela is the Head of Policy, Research and Campaigns at Glitch, a Black led, feminist, organisation tackling online abuse and building better Digital Citizenship. Having worked in campaigning, data analysis and policy in the non-profit sector for almost a decade, Gabriela has dedicated the last 2 years to tackling Online Gender Based Violence. As part of her role at Glitch, Gabriela works with tech stakeholders, anti-racist activists, the violence against women sector and legislators across the UK and internationally, to make online spaces safe for Black women, LGBTQ+ folk and other often marginalised groups. Gabriela also leads Glitch's work on AI ethics and bias. Follow her at @_gab_deoliveira. 

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Catherine Dunkerley

Data Privacy & Digital Ethics Lead, PwC

Catherine Dunkerley is a data privacy, governance and digital ethics subject matter expert, combining a legal background with over 20 years experience in digital. Catherine leads PwC's Data Privacy and Governance practice for technology, media and telecoms clients. In addition to this Catherine co-leads the firm's Digital Ethics practice, supporting global brands with AI ethics and digital ethics initiatives. Catherine also hosts a quarterly data privacy and ethics forum for the TMT sector ( now in its 4th year) and is part of ISBA's Data Ethics working group. 

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Asha Easton

Immerse UK Lead, Innovate UK KTN

Asha Easton is currently Innovate UK KTN’s Lead for Immerse UK, the UK’s national innovation network for immersive technology professionals. The organisation works to grow the immersive tech industry in the UK, and make the ecosystem across the country less fragmented by facilitating connections between private companies, the academic community, and the government. Asha is particularly passionate about helping to promote diversity & inclusion in the industry. She is one of the original members of the London chapter of Women in Immersive Tech (WiiT), a co-founder of the XR Diversity Initiative, and an ED&I advisor to Europe’s first Metaverse fund, FOV Ventures. 

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John Edwards

Information Commissioner, ICO

John Edwards began his term as UK Information Commissioner in January 2022. 

John was educated in New Plymouth, New Zealand and achieved a Bachelor of Laws and Masters in Public Policy at the University of Wellington. 

He worked as a solicitor and barrister for more than 14 years, including time as a policy adviser to the New Zealand Prime Minister and Cabinet around Freedom of Information.] 

From February 2014 to December 2021 he was New Zealand Privacy Commissioner. During that time he chaired the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (now known as the Global Privacy Assembly) and was a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Informal Group of Experts on Children in the Digital Environment. 

Since taking office as UK Information Commissioner, John has set out his vision for the ICO to be a regulator that: empowers people to confidently share their information to use the services that drive the economy; empowers organisations to use information responsibly to innovate; and empowers people to hold government to account. He launched his strategic plan for the ICO in July 2022 after a listening tour of stakeholder views in his first few months. 

John is focused on addressing harm to vulnerable communities and has published a Commissioner’s Opinion on the processing of victims’ personal data in rape and serious sexual offence investigations.  He is also focussed on improving the application of freedom of information rights. He has published a report calling for a government review into the systemic risks and areas for improvement around the use of private correspondence channels. 

As well as taking robust enforcement action in areas such as nuisance calls and misuse of facial recognition technology, John has set out a revised approach to public sector enforcement and marked the first anniversary of the children’s code, clarifying its scope .

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Professor Luciano Floridi

Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford

Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford 

LUCIANO FLORIDI is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, where he is the Director of the Centre for Digital Ethics. He is a world-renowned expert in digital ethics, the ethics of AI, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of information. 

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Katherine Holden

Head of Data Analytics, AI and Digital ID , techUK

Katherine is techUK’s Head of Data Analytics, AI and Digital ID and has been at techUK since May 2018. Prior to techUK, Katherine worked as a Policy Advisor at the Government Digital Service (GDS) supporting the digital transformation of UK Government. Whilst working at the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) Katherine led AMRC’s policy work on patient data, consent and opt-out. Katherine has a BSc degree in Biology from the University of Nottingham.

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Calum Inverarity

Senior Researcher, The Open Data Institute

Calum Inverarity is a Senior Researcher with the Research & Development team at the Open Data Institute. His research interests lie in the interplay between science, technology and society, and the questions this asks of the responsibilities and distribution of power within data ecosystems. At the ODI his work focuses on the ethical use of data and related technologies by both state and non-state actors. 
 
He has previously worked with think tanks and research institutes in the UK and Belgium focusing on international security, economic policy and conflict resolution. During this time his research has covered cybersecurity, decision making within complex systems, contemporary governance and post-conflict constitutional reform. 
 
Calum received his MSc from the University of Amsterdam and completed his BA at the University of Leeds, having spent periods studying at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Ghana. 

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Pica Johansson

Online Safety Team Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute 

Pica Johansson, Online Safety Team Researcher, The Alan Turing Institute 

Pica Johansson is a researcher on the Online Safety Team at The Alan Turing Institute, where her work focuses on online hate and abuse, misinformation, extremism and the uptake of safety technologies. Prior roles includes supporting policymakers in UK Parliament on the forthcoming Online Safety Bill, as well as working with big-data analytics at the United Nations. She holds a Master’s Degree in Media, Data and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

 

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Arnav Joshi

Senior Associate, Tech Group, Clifford Chance

Arnav advises leading global technology companies and financial services institutions on complex data law matters, including international data protection and cybersecurity programs, contentious and non-contentious regulatory engagements and policy consultations on emerging laws. In 2021, Arnav was included in the Global Data Review 40 under 40, which covers the best and the brightest young talent of the data law bar around the world, and is listed as a rising star in the GDR 2022 ranking of elite law firms. 

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Carly Kind

Director, Ada Lovelace Institute

Carly Kind, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, is a human rights lawyer and leading authority on the intersection of technology policy and human rights. 

Carly has advised industry, government and non-profit organisations on digital rights, privacy and data protection, and corporate accountability in the technology sphere. 

She has worked with the European Commission, the Council of Europe, numerous UN bodies and a range of civil society organisations. She was formerly Legal Director of Privacy International, an NGO dedicated to promoting data rights and governance. 
 
 

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Jan Kleijssen

Director, Council of Europe

Jan joined the Council of Europe in 1983 as a Lawyer with the European Commission of Human Rights. Subsequently he served in the Parliamentary Assembly and as Director of the Secretary General's Private Office. 

He is currently Director of Information Society - Action against Crime. His Directorate carries out standard-setting, monitoring and co-operation activities on Freedom of expression, Data protection, Artificial Intelligence, Internet governance, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Criminal law, Fighting corruption and money laundering… 

Jan has been Council of Europe Internet Governance Coordinator since 2018.  

He regularly publishes articles on his work and speaks at universities worldwide. In between, he is a keen marathon runner.  

Besides his mother tongue Dutch, Jan is fully fluent in English, French, German and Italian. 

Twitter: @JKleijssen 

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Collin Kurre

Technology Policy Principal, Ofcom

Collin is Technology Policy Principal at Ofcom, leading a new team to embed technical expertise at the heart of Ofcom’s policy development for online services and other regulated sectors. Her background is in public policy with a focus on multistakeholder internet governance. In previous roles she developed impact assessment methodologies for internet infrastructure providers, advocated for human rights considerations in standard-setting bodies, and published research on surveillance and privacy protection online. 

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Fred Langford

Director of Trust and Safety Technology, Ofcom

Fred is Director of Trust and Safety Technology UK Communications Regulator Ofcom, a Visiting Professor at University of Suffolk, Visiting Professional Fellow at Aston University, member of the REPHRAIN (Bristol University) and INHOPE (International Hotline Association) Advisory Boards.  Fred is also a Non-Exec Director of the Video Standards Council.  

Prior to joining Ofcom Fred was Deputy CEO/CTO of Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and President of INHOPE (International Hotline Association) with his focus being on Internet Policy/Governance, Cybersecurity, Child Protection, Trust and Safety/Safeguarding Technologies, online crime prevention and effective regulation.  His practical work was developing technical solutions and data sets for industry to implement into their architectures to reduce the risk of exposure to illegal content. 

Fred has 30 years’ experience across a variety of sectors (Commercial, CSO’s, Military and Regulatory) and a vast amount of experience across a multitude of technologies.  Fred is a Board Member of Video Standards Council which sets PEGI ratings in the UK, Former Chair of the UK Council for Internet Safety, Technical Working Group (UKCIS TWG), Board Member of the UK Home Office Child Abuse Image Database Strategic Group, Member of the National Crime Agency (NCA) Prevent Strategic Board, a founding Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre and is an expert advisor to UK and other Governments, Parliamentarians, The Commonwealth, Police and NGOs. 

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Bea Longworth

Government Affairs EMEA, NVIDIA

Bea is responsible for NVIDIA government relations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and focuses on AI regulation as well as understanding how nations can navigate the pros and cons of AI to support their economic and social goals. Originally from the U.K., she is now based in Munich, Germany.  

 

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Dr Kevin Macnish

Digital Ethics Consulting Manager, Sopra Steria

Dr Kevin Macnish is a Digital Ethics Consulting Manager at Sopra Steria. He has been interviewed widely, including on BBC national television and radio and has spoken at both the House of Commons and the House of Lords in relation to digital ethics. In 2018, Kevin published The Ethics of Surveillance: an introduction (Routledge), in 2020 Big Data and Democracy (Edinburgh University Press) and is currently working on Surveillance in Times of Emergency (Oxford University Press). Kevin has published more than 40 academic articles and chapters on the ethics of privacy, AI, and cybersecurity, and is a frequent speaker at international trade and academic conferences. He is a visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, where Kevin gained his PhD in digital ethics, and a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Research Advisory Board. 

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Dr Anjali Mazumder

Justice and Human Rights Theme Lead, The Alan Turing Institute

Anjali Mazumder is the Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights and the Research Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Alan Turing Institute. (The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute of data science and artificial intelligence.) Her work is at the intersection of algorithms and the law where her interest is in actualising the benefits and opportunities of data science and AI whilst mitigating and balancing against its potential harms and risks in applications of justice, health, education, finance, etc. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and expanding the solution space for socio-technical systems addressing issues of fairness, inequalities, robustness and privacy; and promoting the law, human rights, diversity and inclusion at the core of responsible data, data flows and AI research, innovation and governance. 

She has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental statistical problems of societal importance working at the interface of research, policy and practice in the UK, the US, and Canada, in the areas of justice, education, health and public safety, and, fostering multi-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. She serves the statistics community in various ways including as an elected Council member of the Royal Statistical Society, and committee member of its respective Statistics and the Law, and the Data Science sections. She was appointed to Canada’s National DNA Databank Advisory Committee (2012-2018) and currently serves on the Research Advisory Board Panel for the Educational Testing Service, and the senior management board of the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for Modern Slavery and Human Rights. She holds a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Oxford and two masters’ degrees in Measurement and Evaluation, and Statistics from the University of Toronto. 

 

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Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye

Strategy & Governance Manager, Responsible Tech & Human Rights, BT

Tehtena Mebratu-Tsegaye is a human rights lawyer and researcher. She works with BT to advise the business on technology-related human rights risks across the value chain. Previously, Tehtena worked with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Namati, and the Open Society Justice Initiative. She holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, a B.A. in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and is admitted to practice law in England and Wales, and New York. 

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Sam Nutt

Researcher and Data Ethicist, London Office of Technology and Innovation

Sam Nutt is a Researcher and Data Ethicist at the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI). He leads the pan-London local government work on data ethics with LOTI's 25 boroughs and the Mayor of London, advising members on individual projects as well as organisational development, and developing shared resources and standards to guide the growth of data ethics as a practice. Sam also leads LOTI's on innovative resident participation, developing new methods to understand resident perspectives and experiences and embed them in council policy-making and service design. He previously worked at the Observatory of Public Section Innovation in the OECD. 

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Michaela Omelkova

Data Ethics Advisor, Data and Intelligence Network, Scottish Government

Michaela is Data Ethics Advisor for the Data and Intelligence Network of the Scottish Government. Her work in the Data and Intelligence Network focuses on building data ethics infrastructure to support data-led activities and decision making in the Scottish Government. Michaela furthermore manages a public engagement panel on the Use of Data which aims to develop ethics principles and create a blueprint for a long-standing public panel in this area.

 

Michaela received her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Dundee. Her doctoral research focused on investigating and modelling a rare heritable intellectual disability syndrome using stem cells. Through this, Michaela has faced multiple complex ethical challenges, and her interactions with clinicians and patients alike were instrumental in shaping her approach to ethical use of data.

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Dr Janil Puthucheary

Senior Minister of State for Communication & Information, Government of Singapore

Dr. Janil Puthucheary concurrently holds the appointment of Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information, and the Ministry of Health. He previously held appointments as Senior Minister of State in the Ministry of Education (2017 – 2018) and the Ministry of Transport (2018 – 2020).

He is also the Chairman of OnePeople.sg, Chair of Young PAP, and Whip.

Dr. Janil Puthucheary became a Member of Parliament (MP) in 2011.

Prior to politics, he was a Senior Consultant Paediatric Intensivist and Department Head for Paediatric Specialties in the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and was also an Associate Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

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Jen Rodvold

Head of Sustainability, Digital Ethics & Social Impact Consulting, Sopra Steria

With over 14 years’ experience designing and delivering ESG programmes, including 13 in the technology sector, Jen leads Sopra Steria’s Sustainability Digital Ethics & Social Impact Consulting Practice, a team of responsible business and technology experts helping businesses create value through ESG and purpose. 

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Professor Fraser Sampson

Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Fraser Sampson is an Honorary Professor and member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research at Sheffield Hallam University where he obtained a PhD in digital accountability in law enforcement and has worked on a number of international research projects involving technology within policing, including the development of principles for the accountable use of AI.  Having over 40 years’ experience working in the criminal justice sector, he served as a police officer in the West Yorkshire Police and British Transport Police before becoming a solicitor specialising in policing law, conduct and governance.  He has written and edited a number of leading police law texts including the Blackstone’s Police Manuals published by Oxford University Press.  As national chair of the Association of Police and Crime Chief Executives, he proposed and subsequently drafted the statutory oath of office for police and crime commissioners and was appointed CEO & Solicitor to the Police and Crime Commissioner for West Yorkshire in 2012 where he was instrumental in establishing the National Police Air Service, later being seconded as CEO to the Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner in North Yorkshire.  He is a graduate of the Top Management Programme at the Civil Service College, a Senior Fellow of the Weinstein International Foundation for dispute resolution in the United States and a CEDR qualified mediator. 

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Timothy Scott

Director of Public Policy, Roblox

Tim Scott joined the Roblox team as Director of Public Policy, UK from games industry body Ukie, where he was Head of Policy and Public Affairs. Prior to this he spent over a decade in the UK civil service where he led Creative Industries and Tech policy in the Cabinet Office and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. 

In his current role, Tim heads up Roblox's UK Public Policy activity, including the organisation’s work with decision makers in Whitehall and Westminster as well as policy campaigns to regulators and policy makers in the UK.  

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Paul Scully MP

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Paul Scully was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on 27 October 2022. 

He was also appointed Minister for London on 13 February 2020. 

He was previously Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities between 7 July 2022 and 27 October 2022. 

He was previously Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from 13 February 2020 to July 2022. 

He was elected the Conservative MP for Sutton and Cheam on 7 May 2015. 

: @scullyp

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Hetan Shah

Chief Executive, The British Academy

Hetan Shah is chief executive at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences. He is Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London. Hetan is Vice Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, which focuses on how to ensure artificial intelligence and data are used for public good. He is on the boards of Our World in Data, a website providing long run data on the world’s biggest challenges, and The Legal Education Foundation, a philanthropic body supporting a better justice system. Hetan also serves on a number of advisory boards including for the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, the UCL Policy Lab and the Resolution Foundation. 

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Professor Beth Singler

Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s), University of Zurich

Professor Beth Singler is the new Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich. Prior to this she was the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Beth's anthropological research explores the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics. She has spoken on AI and human identity at the London Science Museum, Cheltenham Science Festival, the Barbican, the Edinburgh Science Festival, Ars Electronica, and New Scientist Live. She has been interviewed about her work by the New Scientist, Forbes, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the BBC, among others. As a part of her public engagement work, she has produced a series of short documentaries about AI and humanity. The first, 'Pain in the Machine', won the 2017 AHRC Best Research Film of the Year Award. 

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Professor Jack Stilgoe

Professor in Science and Technology Studies, University College London

Dr Jack Stilgoe is a professor in science and technology studies at University College London, where he researches the governance of emerging technologies. He is principal investigator of the ESRC Driverless Futures project (2019-2021). This project is looking to anticipate the politics of self-driving cars. Among other publications, he is the author of ‘Who’s Driving Innovation?’ (2020, Palgrave) and ‘Experiment Earth: Responsible innovation in geoengineering’ (2015, Routledge). He is a fellow of the Turing Institute and a trustee of the Royal Institution.  

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Andrew Strait

Associate Director of Research Partnerships, Ada Lovelace Institute

Andrew Strait is the Associate Director of Research Partnerships at the Ada Lovelace Institute where he oversees Ada's Technology & Society team. His work focuses on pushing novel methods for integrating ethics and accountability into the practice of designing and developing AI systems, and exploring the tools, mechanisms, and methods for how policymakers and regulators can govern AI systems. Before joining Ada, Andrew worked as an Ethics & Policy Researcher at DeepMind and as a Legal Policy Operations Specialist at Google Inc. Andrew holds an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute and an MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge. 

 

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Elham Tabassi

Chief of Staff, ITL, NIST

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Dr Janet Valentine

Director of Health Data and Digital Policy, ABPI

Janet has extensive experience in the UK health data research environment and was recently appointed as Director of Health Data and Digital Policy at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI). Prior to joining ABPI, Janet was the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Director for Data to Early Diagnosis and Precision Medicine at Innovate UK, where she oversaw a broad portfolio of data and digital enabled investments in genomics, health data, AI, medical imaging and digital pathology. In her previous role as Director on the Executive team at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Janet led the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD). CPRD is the UK’s largest dedicated health data research service, providing research data services to industry, academia and regulators worldwide. Janet’s previous roles include Head of Population Health and Health Informatics at the Medical Research Council and Deputy Chief Executive of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. 

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Antony Walker

Deputy CEO, techUK

Antony Walker is deputy CEO of techUK,  which he played a lead role in launching in November 2013.

Antony is a member of the senior leadership team and has overall responsibility for techUK’s policy work. Prior to his appointment in July 2012 Antony was chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the UK’s independent advisory group on broadband policy. Antony was closely involved in the development of broadband policy development in the UK since the BSG was established in 2001 and authored several major reports to government. He also led the development of the UK’s world leading Open Internet Code of Practice that addresses the issue of net neutrality in the UK. Prior to setting up the BSG, Antony spent six years working in Brussels for the American Chamber of Commerce following and writing about telecoms issues and as a consultant working on EU social affairs and environmental issues. Antony is a graduate of Aberdeen University and KU Leuven and is also a Policy Fellow Alumni of the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.

: @@techUKdepceo

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Dr Adrian Weller

Programme Director for AI, The Alan Turing Institute

Dr Adrian Weller MBE is a Programme Director and Turing Fellow leading work on Safe and Ethical AI at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national institute for data science and AI. He is a Director of Research in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, and at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence where he is Programme Director for Trust and Society. His interests span AI, its commercial applications and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society. He serves on several boards including the advisory board for the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. Previously, Adrian held senior roles in finance. 

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