Main Auditorium Sessions

Community Panel

Chaired by: Dawn Greenberg

Head of AI and Digital – Arts and Humanities Research Council

Panellists:

Dr Christopher Burr

Principal Research Scientist and Theme Lead for Trustworthy and Assured AI at the Alan Turing Institute

Dr Natasha McCarthy

Leader of the National Engineering Policy Centre at the Royal Academy of Engineering

Prof David Leslie

Director of Ethics and Responsible Innovation Research at The Alan Turing Institute and Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at Queen Mary University of London

Dr Nayha Sethi

Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation and Lead for Community at BRAID UK

Octavia Field Reid

 Associate Director (Public Participation & Research Practice) at the Ada Lovelace Institute

AI & Entrepreneurship Session

Edinburgh Innovations
Lizzie Withington, Director of Venture Creation

Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub
Emma Loedel, Senior Enterprise Manager - Scotland

Holistic AI
Emre Kazim, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Holistic AI

Future Worlds
Ben Clark, Director of Future Worlds

UK AI Research Labs

Chaired by: Lisa Coles
Deputy Director for AI , UK Research & Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 

Panellists:

Prof. David Barber (GenAI Hub Director)
Science of Fundamental AI Research (SOFAIR) Lab

British Open-ended Learning and Discovery (BOLD) Lab