Welcome to techUK's AI Week 2021

Laura Foster, Programme Manager of Tech & Innovation and lead of techUK's Intelligent Automation Week, and Nimmi Patel, Policy Manager Skills, Talent & Diversity explore how the tech sector can help the UK workforce prepare for automation. Part of techUK's Intelligent Automation Week #AutomationUK

This month’s podcast is presented by Katherine Holden, techUK’s Head of Data Analytics, AI and Digital ID and explores key priority areas to be addressed in the UK Government’s National AI Strategy, expected later this year.

Guest blog: Karolina Malota, Head of Amelia’s Women in AI community, hears from women working across a range of AI businesses who are challenging the status quo by breaking down gender barriers in the industry.

Guest blog: Rui Silva, Principal Engineer at Critical Software as part of techUK's AI Week #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Agata Nowakowska, AVP EMEA, Skillsoft writes: The existing digital skills gap sees the UK lose out on £63 billion every year. And, with increased digitalisation across even traditional sectors, this figure is set to rise unless action is taken soon. As part of techUK's AI Week #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Sharon Lee, Onespan

Guest Blog: Eimear Rooney, Data & AI Practice Manager at Kainos as part of techUK's AI Week #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Simon Lambert, Chief Learning Officer, Microsoft UK writes "Digital skills are the currency of digital transformation." as part of techUK's AI Week #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Dr Austin Tanney, Head of Digital and Data Strategy, Strategic Investment Board Northern Ireland. @austintanney Thinking about a career in AI? Don't bother… #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Greg Hancell, Manager of Global Fraud Consulting at OneSpan, explains how banks can apply continuous monitoring and machine learning to defend against account takeover attacks. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Dr. Darminder Ghataoura, leader of Fujitsu’s offerings and capabilities in AI and Data Science within the Defence and National Security space. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Paul Thomas, Digital Communications Advisor at Alana. #AIWeek2021

Guest blog: Examples from healthcare show that investment and solutions to improve fundamental data quantity and quality will be essential for robust AI development, writes DesAcc's Graham King. #AIWeek2021

Christal Bemont, Talend CEO makes the case for universal data health standards as part of techUK's AI Week. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Saurav Gupta, Sales Engineer, InterSystems #AIWeek2021

Providing the best care possible for residents is the aim of every social care company. With budgets under increasing pressure even before the Coronavirus pandemic began, finding ways to improve outcomes whilst making efficiencies has become the Holy Grail in the sector. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Kainos and Faculty have partnered to discuss the UK Government's framework for the National Data Strategy as part of techUK's AI Week. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: An interview with Kieran Seaward By Jamie Gordon, Datactics as part of techUK's AI Week. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: NavInfo (Europe) B.V. relies on AIRI® for advanced AI analysis of large data sets. Car manufacturers around the world use NavInfo for their navigation systems and for autonomous driving. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Jennifer Yokoyama - Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Chief Scientist, Fakar Khalid at Sensat #AIWeek2021

Steve Brain, Executive Director of Health & Care, Civica #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: BluePrism #AIWeek2021

Kevin Halsall, Earth Observation and Climate - Systems and Services, Satellite Systems and Operations

Guest Blog: Gabriel Straub - Chief Data Scientist, Ocado Technology

Guest Blog: Duncan Allen, Sales Manager, InterSystems #AIWeek2021

As part of techUK's Intelligent Automation Campaign week #AutomationUK

Learn how computer vision and wider access to cloud-based AI capabilities is driving adoption at the most innovative companies. Guest Blog: Jaspar Casey, Product Marketing Manager at Eggplant

Guest Blog: James Tromans Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Martin Taylor, Deputy CEO at Content Guru. #AIWeek2021

Case Study: Parkinson’s UK. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Shadi Razak, CyNation Ltd. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Sam Harounoff, HPE Pointnext Services Specialist for Public Sector shares with techUK a review of Lancashire Constabulary's Force Control Room, which receives more than 1.2 million calls a year, and how it led to the development of an award-winning voice to text system which will significantly improve the force's call handing and service delivery to the public.

Guest Blog: Michael Conway, AI Partner, IBM Services, explores how COVID-19 accelerated demand but companies need to overcome the barriers to full scale AI adoption. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Dr Robert Hercock, Chief research scientist, BT writes from visualising vast volumes of data to defending against cybercriminals, AI is critical in cybersecurity — but where does the human fit in? #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Vaarst #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Dr Detlef Nauck, Head of AI and data science research at BT writes It’s time to stop thinking of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as something conceptual. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Tom Fowler, Principal Consultant and Data Science Capability Lead, Techmodal #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Ray Eitel-Porter, Medb Corcoran & Patrick Connolly from Accenture #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: This post was first published by Amanda Curry and Alana co-Founder Verena Rieser on Medium.com in June 2020. It is republished here by the kind permission of both authors. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Sam Baldwin from Panintelligence discusses questions of ethics around the applications and future of AI. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Sam Baldwin from Panintelligence highlights how AI and ML could or should be used when it comes to assisting or making decisions #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Sue Chadwick, Strategic Planning Advisor for Pinsent Masons LLP #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Deloitte take a comprehensive approach to conduct, data protection and ethics as part of techUK's AI Week 2021. #AIWeek2021

Joanna Crown, Product Strategist at Mind Foundry, describes how human-AI collaboration is the transformation needed for organisational success with AI. #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Maria Axente, Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead, PwC United Kingdom. #AIWeek2021

David Lawton, Technical Director, Informed Solutions discusses the challenge of assessing the fitness of systems that employ Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in highly complex and regulated industries. As part of AI Week 2021 #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: PredicAire #AIWeek2021

As Artificial Intelligence, or AI, becomes further embedded into the economicand social fabric of our day-to-day lives, maintaining the integrity of these systems and the data they use is paramount writes Dr Darminder Ghataoura, the Lead Fujitsu's offerings and capabilities in AI and Data Science within the Defence and National Security space at Fujitsu.

Guest Blog: Titus Capilnean Director, Corporate Marketing at Appen #AIWeek2021

Guest Blog: Shawn Curran, Head of Legal Technology at Travers Smith LLP; and Eleanor Hobson, Associate at Travers Smith LLP. #AIweek2021

Guest Blog: Humanising Autonomy as part of techUK's AIWeek #AIWeek2021

Charles Radclyffe (@dataphilosopher), Partner at EthicsGrade, writes about the six key steps required to ethically develop responsible AI systems.