October 5, 2020

Speaker: Victoria Espinel, President and CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance

The rapid development of AI and machine learning presents a huge opportunity to streamline systems, make businesses more profitable and improve services across industries. Yet questions are frequently raised about how algorithms can make decisions that are reliant on context or empathy and how accountability can be enforced in a world of automated decision making.

In the margins of the UK Conservative Party Conference 2020, Onward has gathered an expert panel to consider the ethical and political implications of AI.

Speakers include:

• Matt Warman MP, Minister for Digital Infrastructure
• Victoria Espinel, President and CEO, BSA | The Software Alliance
• Stephen Metcalfe MP, Co-Chairman, APPG on Artificial Intelligence
• Kulveer Ranger, Senior Vice President, Strategy & Communications, Atos
• Sue Daley, Associate Director, Technology and Innovation, TechUK
• Will Tanner, Director, Onward