Lord Timothy Clement-Jones

Former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Consultant @ DLA Piper

Lord Clement-Jones is a Consultant of global law firm DLA Piper.  Former positions within DLA include London Managing Partner (2011-16), Head of UK Government Affairs, Chairman of its China and Middle East Desks, International Business Relations Partner and Co-Chairman of Global Government Relations.  He is Chair of Ombudsman Services Limited, the not for profit, independent ombudsman service providing dispute resolution for the communications, energy, property and copyright licensing industries. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Airmic (the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce) and Board Member of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the ICAEW.  Tim was made CBE for political services in 1988 and life peer in 1998. Until July 2004 he was the Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman and thereafter until 2010 Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport, in the House of Lords.

He is the current House of Lords Liberal Democrat spokesman for Digital and a former spokesman on the Creative Industries (2015-17). He is the former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2017-18) and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.  He is Deputy Chair of the APPG on China and Vice-Chair of the APPG on Intellectual Property. He is Chair of Council of Queen Mary University of London and Chair of the Advisory Council of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, led by Sir Anthony Seldon. Tim was an external member of the Council of University College London and Chair of its Audit Committee (2012-17). He is President of Ambitious About Autism, an autism education charity and school for children with autism and other communication disorders and its former Chairman (2001-08).

Laetitia Cailleteau

UKI Emerging technology and Global Lead for Conversational AI @ Accenture

Reserve member @ EU AI HLEG  

Laetitia Cailleteau is leading Accenture’s conversational AI business globally – driving innovation, sales and delivery across the globe for multiple industries and client accounts. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the consulting industry, authored several academic publications and hold patents in the conversational AI domain area. She also founded and runs the Liquid Studio in London, a space where her team co-create with clients to realise the potential of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, IoT, using a user centered approaches. She is a reserve member of the Artificial Intelligence High Level Group at the European commission.  

Dr. Peter Burt

Researcher @ Drone Wars

Before moving to Drone Wars UK Peter was Director for the Nuclear Information Service for six years, undertaking research into the costs and risks of the UK’s nuclear weapons service.  At Nuclear Information Service he authored the influential reports ‘AWE: Britain’s nuclear weapons factory’ and ‘Playing with fire: Nuclear weapons incidents and accidents in the United Kingdom’ and is considered to be a leading expert on the UK’s nuclear accident history.  At Drone Wars UK he works on issues relating to artificial intelligence and autonomy and their role in the future development of drones.  Peter is also a Trustee the Nuclear Education Trust.

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

Leader Writer @ Financial Times

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan is a leader writer for the FT. His areas of focus are technology, innovation and science. Before he joined the FT, he worked in public policy consultancy. He has an MS in Journalism from Columbia University and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet Institute, where he studied alt-right influencers on Twitter and Youtube.

Areeq Chowdhury

 Head of think tank @ Future Advocacy

Areeq is the Head of Think Tank at Future Advocacy focusing on the social, economic, and political impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. A graduate from the University of Birmingham, Areeq has worked at the Foreign Office; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; KPMG; London City Hall; and the UK Parliament. He is the founder of WebRoots Democracy, a think tank centred on the intersection of technology and democratic participation.

Marco Guidobaldi

Sales Engineer, Healthcare & Life Sciences @ Google Cloud

Marco Guidobaldi is a Sales Engineer at Google Cloud, where he works closely with Pharmaceutical customers to translate their business needs into valuable technical solutions. His focus is mainly on Machine Learning and Data Analysis projects. Prior to Google, Marco worked in the Industrial Asset Management space – during this time, he supported customers from various industries in the design and implementation of IoT solutions for real time monitoring and predictive maintenance. He holds multiple certifications from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Politecnico di Milano –  his research focused on the adoption of machine learning models for the structural monitoring of bridges.

Jamie Hodson

 Ethics & Policy Lead @ Centre for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles 

Jamie Hodsdon is ethics and accessibility lead at the UK Government’s Centre for Connected & Autonomous Vehicles.  This is a joint unit split across the Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy.  Jamie has previously worked at the Department for Education, and studied Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh.

Henrik Landgren

 Operating Partner, Analytics @ EQT Ventures

A self-taught developer from childhood, Henrik has been experimenting with technology ever since learning to read. Having subsequently completed his formal education with a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University in Sweden, Henrik started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey, before joining Spotify as VP of Analytics in 2010. At the music-streaming startup, Henrik set up the analytics systems and processes for the platform, pushing the boundaries of what was then possible with big data and machine learning algorithms. With his analytical mindset and data-driven attitude, Henrik acted as a catalyst in the exponential growth of the service, pioneering the way in which the company deployed data as a foundational pillar of its operations.

As the Analytics Partner at EQT Ventures, Henrik helps our portfolio companies accelerate and integrate their analytics processes and KPIs into their operational workflow. By moving in this direction, startups benefit from leveraging data to continuously drive insights, learnings and decision making. Rather than simply outsourcing such functions to algorithms, Henrik works closely with founders to help them devise ways of working symbiotically with data-centric technologies.

As part of the Motherbrain team, Henrik is once again leading the charge in transforming a legacy industry. This time around, with Motherbrain, Henrik is disrupting how VCs operate, using big data and artificial intelligence to enable new groups of people to access funding.

Outside of work, Henrik spends 110% of his time with his family and three kids, often wondering how the learning and developmental psychology of children intersects with the building of self-learning AI models.

Danilo Poccia

Principal Evangelist @ Amazon Web Services

Danilo Poccia is a technical evangelist at Amazon Web Services, where he leverages his 20 years of experience to support innovation and to help startups and companies bring their ideas to life.

Danilo focuses on event-driven programming and serverless architectures as well as the technical and business impact of mobile platforms and data analytics. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Some of his interests include IT, simulation and modelling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and photography

Manoj Saxena

Executive Chairman @ Cognitive Scale

Manoj Saxena is the Executive Chairman and a successful serial entrepreneur who founded and sold two venture-backed software companies within a five-year span. He is former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, San Antonio branch, and is founding Managing Director of The Entrepreneurs’ Fund IV, a seed fund focused exclusively on B2B AI and cognitive computing with nine active investments.

Most recently, Manoj was General Manager of IBM Watson (2011-14), where his team built the first cognitive systems. Manoj currently serves on the boards of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Communities In Schools, and the Saxena Family Foundation. Holder of six U.S. patents for AI and web services technologies. Saxena holds an MBA from Michigan State University, and a master’s in Management Sciences from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, Indi

Professor Leslie Willcocks

 

 

Professor of Work, Technology and Globalization @ Blueprism

 

 

Alisa has 10 years experience in tech startups and multinational companies commercialising new technologies including computer vision, AR and nutrigenomics as applied to agtech. She is the Head of Marketing & Operations for Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI-based computer vision to power next-generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was Brand Partner at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products with global brands. Alisa has an MBA from Imperial College and was President of the Imperial Marketing & Digital Society. She is a strong believer in the transformative power of deep learning and its potential to solve key challenges in our society. 

Alisa Pritchard

Head of Marketing and Operations

Alisa has 10 years experience in tech startups and multinational companies commercialising new technologies including computer vision, AR and nutrigenomics as applied to agtech. She is the Head of Marketing & Operations for Greyparrot, a UK tech company using AI-based computer vision to power next-generation robotics and smart systems for waste management. Previously, she was Brand Partner at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products with global brands. Alisa has an MBA from Imperial College and was President of the Imperial Marketing & Digital Society. She is a strong believer in the transformative power of deep learning and its potential to solve key challenges in our society. 

Sachin Kapila

Chief Policy Officer @ Cervest

Sachin is a seasoned executive in sustainable development and natural capital. He served as VP in Shell’s Government Relations, responsible for interfacing with global organisations e.g. World Bank, IFC, OECD, G20 and UN – to ensure effective coordination of Shell’s policy in energy and climate. Prior to this, he had sole Group responsibility for establishing global biodiversity policy, developing tools and guidelines for forestry carbon, as well as building relationships with global organisations. Previously, he worked for environmental consultancy ERM covering EMEA, LATAM, and SE Asia. He holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College.