Speakers and Panellists

Here are all of our brilliant speakers, chairs, panellists and facilitators for our keynotes, discussion panels and workshops

  • Irakli Beridze, United Nations

    Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, United Nations​.

  • Professor Virginia Dignum, Umeå University

    Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden and associated with the TU Delft in the Netherlands.

  • Kate Forbes, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy

    Kate Forbes is the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch constituency and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Economy in the Scottish Government.

  • Professor Annalu Waller, OBE, Dundee University

    Annalu Waller PhD OBE is Professor of Human Communication Technologies and the Academic Lead for Computing at Dundee University, Scotland.

  • Mhairi Aitken

    Ethics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme, The Alan Turing Institute

  • Jen Ang

    Founding Director of JustRight Scotland

  • Maria Axente

    Responsible AI Lead at PwC

  • Nick Bailey

    Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow

  • Laura Bernal

    DDE Incubator Programme Manager, Edinburgh Innovations

  • Jenny Brennan

    Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute

  • Shane Burns

    Lead Data Scientist at Lenus Health

  • Lorenzo Conti

    Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd

  • Gillian Docherty OBE

    Chair of the Scottish AI Alliance and CCO at the University of Strathclyde

  • Tania Duarte

    Co-Founder and CEO of We and AI

  • Reyam Enad

    Data Scientist at Admiral Group and Mentor at CodeYourFuture

  • Kate Farrell

    Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning, Data Education in Schools

  • Alessandra Fassio

    Advocacy and Relations Manager at the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF

  • Tristan Ferne

    Executive Producer at BBC Research & Development

  • Olivia Gambelin

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ethical Intelligence

  • Patricia Gestoso

    Inclusion Strategist, Technologist, and Researcher

  • Claire Gillespie

    Digital Economy Skills Planning Manager, Skills Development Scotland

  • Dimitra Gkatzia

    Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University

  • Stuart Grey

    Founder of Student Voice and Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow

  • Doreen Grove

    Head of Open Government at the Scottish Government

  • Katy Guthrie

    AI Accelerator Programme Manager at Edinburgh Innovations, University of Edinburgh

  • Matt Henderson

    Chief Commercial Officer at Ethical Intelligence

  • Simon Hewitt

    Principal & CEO at Dundee and Angus College

  • Kimberley Hose

    Head of Business Intelligence at Glasgow City Council

  • Alex Hutchison

    Director, Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF

  • Carolyn Jameson

    Chief Trust Officer at Trustpilot

  • Albert King

    Chief Data Officer at the Scottish Government

  • Ansgar Koene

    Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader, EY

  • HOST Nick Kwek

    Senior Producer, Director and Reporter, BBC

  • Tomas Lehtinin

    Head of Data for City of Helsinki

  • Georgios Leontidis

    Director of Interdisciplinary Centre for Data and AI, University of Aberdeen

  • David Lowe

    Clinical Director of the Scottish Health and Industry Partnership (SHIP), Emergency Consultant at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and West of Scotland Test Bed Lead

  • Xiaoyan Ma

    Founder & CEO of Danu Robotics

  • Fraser Macdonald

    Head of Delivery and Innovation at the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF

  • Anjali Mazumder

    Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights and the Research Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Alan Turing Institute

  • Lucy McCloughan

    Programme Manager for ACRC

  • Cathy McCulloch

    Co-Director and Co-Founder, Children’s Parliament

  • Joanna McKenzie

    Principal Data Scientist at The Data Lab - Innovation Centre

  • Brian Mullins

    CEO of Mind Foundry

  • Chas Nelson

    CTO & Director of Gliff.ai

  • Chuks Ododo

    Community Connecting Manager, DataKirk

  • Subramanian Ramamoorthy

    Professor and Chair of Robot Learning and Autonomy, University of Edinburgh

  • Michael Rovatsos

    Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Vice Principal of Research at the University of Edinburgh

  • Sohan Seth

    Senior Data Scientist at the School of Informatics of University of Edinburgh

  • Callum Sinclair

    Partner, Head of Technology and Commercial at Burness Paull LLP

  • Marisa Tschopp

    Researcher, scip AG, Ambassador and Chief Research Officer at Women in AI NPO

  • Jo Turnbull

    Public and Patient Representative, ACRC

  • Joseph Twigg

    CEO Aveni

  • Shannon Vallor

    Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh

  • Steven Vosloo

    UNICEF's digital policy specialist in the Office of Global Insight and Policy

  • Debbie Wake

    Co-founder and CEO of MyWay Digital Health

  • Jo Watts

    Founder and CEO at Effini

  • Cara Wilson

    Research Fellow in Design at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)

  • Steph Wright

    Head of the Scottish AI Alliance Support Circle

  • Talat Yaqoob

    Independent Consultant and Researcher