AI Assurance in Health and Social Care

Manzoor Ahmed

First EthicalAI,

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Vladislava Bar-Katz

Consultant, Frontier Economics

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Callum Cockburn

Technical Innovation Manager, Synoptix

Synoptix, and in this role leads several capability development and R&D programmes within Synoptix, focussing on novel or disruptive technologies and working from fundamental research through to commercial product development. Currently, Callum is particularly interested in AI technologies, especially Responsible AI/AI Governance, AI Assurance, Assured Capability and Cyber Resilience, and Human-Autonomy Teaming, and he is leading the development of Synoptix’s AI Assurance offering. He is an Incorporated Systems Engineer by background and trained as a Mechanical and Biomedical Engineer.

Dr Amy Dickens

AI Assurance Lead, DSIT

I am currently AI Assurance Lead in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Prior to joining government, I was Project Assistant (Emerging Tech) at Global Partners Digital, managing the delivery of their projects on AI and emerging technologies. Before this, I completed my PhD in international human rights law under the Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project, which explored the implications of data sharing between the NHS and technology companies for the human right to health.

Sam Hazeldine

Chief Operating Officer, Great Wave AI

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Mr Tim Mcgarr

AI Market Development Lead, BSI

Tim McGarr is the AI Market Development Lead in BSI responsible for investigating new AI markets and delivering new AI assessment services. Prior to this Tim was the Sector Lead for BSI with responsibility for the direction and development of key digital standards areas, including Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Tim has been working at BSI since 2009. Prior to BSI, Tim he spent 5 years working in the legal publisher LexisNexis in the strategy department. Before this, Tim he worked as a management consultant and an internal consultant. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France.

Sharon Moore, MBE

CTO and Technical Director, Public Sector UK, IBM

My mission is transforming public service with technology; my purpose is to make a difference, for the better. I help Government do better for citizens, I drive change for good in the tech industry, and I currently do this as IBM Technology’s Global CTO for Government.

I have 20 +years of experience working in outsourcing, consulting, and sales, across multiple sectors and diverse technologies. I was instrumental to the inaugural UK Government and IBM Memorandum of Understanding for Cloud in 2020. You’ll often find me on stage championing the positive impact of technology, shaping its role in making government work, and advocating for responsible technical advancement. I am also a Chartered IT Professional.

I'm a catalyst for change in inclusion through BCSWomen, formerly through Scotland Women in Technology, and other organisations, and am a published co-author on the subject. I was awarded MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2018.

I am a Trustee of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT and non-executive Director of CTS.

I was recently listed in the Computing IT Leaders 100 for 2022 and the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame, having been included in its top 50 since 2018.

Caroline Rivett

Board Trustee at the RCP and Audit Chair, NHS Trust

Caroline leads our global Cyber Security and Privacy team in Life Sciences. She has over twenty years experience in  technology and risk and served as a Chair of the Audit Committee and Board member in healthcare for eight years.  Over the last ten years she has specialised in the protection of sensitive information in life sciences and healthcare.  Her clients include GSK and other global pharmaceutical companies. Prior to joining KPMG she co-founded a  company which analysed medical data for insurers and put in place secure processes around global movement of  sensitive personal data.
 

Caroline is the KPMG account lead for Cyber Security and Privacy services for four global pharmaceutical clients.
She recently directed a team to remediate 100s of key vendor contracts between a global pharmaceutical  company and their suppliers following the invalidation of Safe Harbor, guiding them through the complex area of  international personal data flow of privacy contracts.
One of her recent projects was with a global Pharmaceutical company to embed a fit-for-purpose governance  structure, perform a data mapping exercise, develop a risk assessment framework and embed a robust process  around third party supplier management (in order to cover Privacy risks).
She has worked with a global Pharmaceutical company to assess the effectiveness of their Privacy Improvement  Programme and assist them in developing a five year plan to further enhance their Privacy control environment.
Caroline co-founded a company which digitised sensitive personal information. She sold the company to US  corporation and then developed UK business. Worked with parent company to introduce secure processes over  protecting sensitive personal data.
Defined cybersecurity strategy for prestigious bio medical research facility in London
Caroline hosts KPMG’s regular Information Protection in Digital Health conference focusing on privacy, medical  internet of things, regulation and genomics data with external specialists and internal speakers. She is a regular  contributor on CyberSecurity in digital health in The Financial Times and speaks at conferences.
Chair of Audit Committee for NHS Board in commissioning and for mental health foundation trust for past eight  years. Led Audit Committee review of reports from information governance teams and internal audit.
Implemented data analysis shared services centre in South Africa serving the Europe and North America for  global professional services company. One of the project strands included implementation of high level of  protection and security over client data.

Markus Trengrove

Head of AI Policy, GSK

No bio provided