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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 03 October 2018
  • 16:3 - 16:3
  • Duration: 25 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Oct 2018
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event This AI Life

About the session

‘This AI Life’ was the second annual conference organised by Cooley LLP, Future Intelligence and the IET examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the population.

The aim of this year’s event was to offer a pragmatic assessment of where AI technology is, where it is going, what that means and what we must do to ensure it works to improve people’s lives.

Consisting of thought-provoking case studies, keynotes and discussions to equip attendees with the right skills and knowledge to understand the current landscape, the conference featured a line-up of leading figures from across the field – visionary speakers from industry and academia, as well as tech entrepreneurs and much more.

For more information on This AI Life, visit www.theiet.org/ai

Keywords:
  • AI
  • AI ethics
  • artificial intelligence
  • ethics

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  • Vinnett  Taylor

    Vinnett Taylor

    Vinnett has spent her career acting as entrepreneurial and commercial lead of multi-million £ partnerships opportunities and has a long successful track record of first to market launches. She is a Non-Executive and mentors and invests in several start-ups from Cloud security and video surveillance, delivering machine leaning and artificial intelligence to Smart Connected Thermostats (designed to help affordable housing providers fight fuel poverty).She is currently Head of Internet of Things Sales (IoT) at O2, Telefonica UK, where she leads a dedicated team. Vinnett is a recognised IoT thought leader and a regular speaker at Government policy and industry conferences. She represents O2 for several Government-funded project boards, Driven which is trailing a fleet of driverless vehicles using UK-built software between Oxford and London in 2019 and GATEway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment) conducting a number of different trials to understand how people respond, engage with and accept automated/Driverless vehicles, while being a current Board of Patrons for Smart IoT London and Judge for the NFC Global Award Competition.Prior to O2, Vinnett founded and ran a technology management consultancy company, which assisted businesses at all stages from start-ups, through the growth and scale-up to blue chips. Vinnett provided Strategic IT, Telecommunications, M2M and IoT solutions for customers, in addition to publishing papers on the IoT.
  • Jana Eggers

    Jana Eggers

    Jana brings over 25 years of technology and leadership experience to Nara Logics from Intuit, Lycos, American Airlines, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and startups that you’ve never heard of.Jana is a frequent speaker, writer, and mentor on AI and startups. She is also a marathoner (most recently completing Boston) and an Ironman.
  • Reema Patel

    Reema Patel

    Ada Lovelace Foundation

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    Benjamin Gilburt

    Sopra Steria, Digital Horizon Lead

    I lead Sopra Steria's horizon scanning team, researching emerging technologies that have the greatest potential to impact our business and that of our clients and finding how we can best make use of them. I'm also a philosophy undergrad, and the intersection between philosophy and technology often leads me to machine and robot ethics. If you're interested in this kind of thing too, follow me @RealBenGilburt
  • Dr Allison Gardner

    Dr Allison Gardner

    Keele University

    My first degree was in Clinical Biochemistry and Kent University, after which I gained a PGCE in Science and Biology. I taught in UK state schools and international colleges in Spain, mainly focussing on Biology, PSHE/SRE Education, IT and Science, with specialist skills in teaching Gifted and Talented Students and Information Technology in Education.I completed my Masters Degree in Medical Science with the Open University, focusing on the Neurobiology of Ageing, specifically Alzheimer’s Disease. My dissertation utilised Bioinformatic tools to investigate the changes caused by pseudo-phosphorylation of tau protein on protein-binding motifs and secondary structure. I then completed a PGCert in Computational Biology at Manchester University after which I commenced my PhD, characterising and predicting amyloid mutations, at Manchester University with Prof Andrew Doig as supervisor. My research involved building a database of human amyloid mutations and associated characteristics in terms of location and amino acid properties. I then utilised machine learning to develop an ensemble predictor that predicted the probability of a mutation causing amyloid formation.I started working at Keele University as a Teaching Fellow in 2013 and was initially Programme Director for the Accelerated International Foundation Year and Internationalisation Director. I am currently Head of Foundation Year Science. I also teach Bioinformatics and supervise third year projects in the School of Computing.Externally I am a governor of a local primary school and a local government councillor. I sit on the Economic Development and Enterprise Scrutiny Committee (which I have previously chaired) and the Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee. I have contributed to the councils 2017-2022 Economic Strategy focussing on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation for skills and job development.
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    Martin Goodson

    Evolution AI

  • Reema Patel

    Reema Patel

    Ada Lovelace Foundation

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