Speakers and Panellists
Here are all of our brilliant speakers, chairs, panellists and facilitators for our keynotes, discussion panels and workshops
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Irakli Beridze, United Nations
Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, United Nations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mhairi Aitken
Ethics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme, The Alan Turing Institute
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Jen Ang
Founding Director of JustRight Scotland
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Maria Axente
Responsible AI Lead at PwC
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Nick Bailey
Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow
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Laura Bernal
DDE Incubator Programme Manager, Edinburgh Innovations
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Jenny Brennan
Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute
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Shane Burns
Lead Data Scientist at Lenus Health
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Lorenzo Conti
Founder & Managing Director of Crover Ltd
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Gillian Docherty OBE
Chair of the Scottish AI Alliance and CCO at the University of Strathclyde
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Tania Duarte
Co-Founder and CEO of We and AI
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Reyam Enad
Data Scientist at Admiral Group and Mentor at CodeYourFuture
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Kate Farrell
Director of Curriculum Development and Professional Learning, Data Education in Schools
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Alessandra Fassio
Advocacy and Relations Manager at the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
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Tristan Ferne
Executive Producer at BBC Research & Development
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Olivia Gambelin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ethical Intelligence
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Patricia Gestoso
Inclusion Strategist, Technologist, and Researcher
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Claire Gillespie
Digital Economy Skills Planning Manager, Skills Development Scotland
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Dimitra Gkatzia
Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University
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Stuart Grey
Founder of Student Voice and Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow
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Doreen Grove
Head of Open Government at the Scottish Government
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Katy Guthrie
AI Accelerator Programme Manager at Edinburgh Innovations, University of Edinburgh
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Matt Henderson
Chief Commercial Officer at Ethical Intelligence
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Simon Hewitt
Principal & CEO at Dundee and Angus College
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Kimberley Hose
Head of Business Intelligence at Glasgow City Council
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Alex Hutchison
Director, Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
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Carolyn Jameson
Chief Trust Officer at Trustpilot
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Albert King
Chief Data Officer at the Scottish Government
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Ansgar Koene
Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader, EY
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HOST Nick Kwek
Senior Producer, Director and Reporter, BBC
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Tomas Lehtinin
Head of Data for City of Helsinki
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Georgios Leontidis
Director of Interdisciplinary Centre for Data and AI, University of Aberdeen
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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
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Xiaoyan Ma
Founder & CEO of Danu Robotics
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Fraser Macdonald
Head of Delivery and Innovation at the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF
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Anjali Mazumder
Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights and the Research Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Alan Turing Institute
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Lucy McCloughan
Programme Manager for ACRC
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Cathy McCulloch
Co-Director and Co-Founder, Children’s Parliament
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Joanna McKenzie
Principal Data Scientist at The Data Lab - Innovation Centre
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Brian Mullins
CEO of Mind Foundry
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Chas Nelson
CTO & Director of Gliff.ai
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Chuks Ododo
Community Connecting Manager, DataKirk
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Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Professor and Chair of Robot Learning and Autonomy, University of Edinburgh
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Michael Rovatsos
Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Vice Principal of Research at the University of Edinburgh
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Sohan Seth
Senior Data Scientist at the School of Informatics of University of Edinburgh
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Callum Sinclair
Partner, Head of Technology and Commercial at Burness Paull LLP
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Marisa Tschopp
Researcher, scip AG, Ambassador and Chief Research Officer at Women in AI NPO
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Jo Turnbull
Public and Patient Representative, ACRC
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Joseph Twigg
CEO Aveni
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Shannon Vallor
Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
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Steven Vosloo
UNICEF's digital policy specialist in the Office of Global Insight and Policy
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Debbie Wake
Co-founder and CEO of MyWay Digital Health
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Jo Watts
Founder and CEO at Effini
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Cara Wilson
Research Fellow in Design at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)
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Steph Wright
Head of the Scottish AI Alliance Support Circle
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Talat Yaqoob
Independent Consultant and Researcher
