Events

How should shareholders balance return and responsibility when investing in AI?

July 15, 2025

Be part of the discussion about what sort of AI assurance investors should focus on, how should companies (and their shareholders) balance the need for assurance and responsibility, with the pace of change and stay competitive. What role do regulations, consumers, standards-setters, and investors have in guiding that balance and what ‘good’ looks like. Whether you are an entrepreneur, software developer, investor, policy, or interested bystander – come and share your perspective on how we can get this right together.

Join us to discover how responsible AI practices directly influence investment decisions and their role for sustainable business growth in the AI era. 

Speakers

Charles Radyclyffe (Founder, Ethics Answer)
Maurice Chiodo (Academic, Centre for Existential Risk at Cambridge University)
Zofia Aszendor (IP and Technology Group, Freshfields)

Life Sciences – Details coming soon

October 8, 2025

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How can we use AI to innovate for human benefit?

June 25, 2025

Key Takeaways:

• Keep People at the Centre: AI should serve genuine human needs, not just efficiency or profit. Designing with empathy and intention ensures innovation delivers meaningful impact.
• Balance Speed with Reflection: As AI capabilities accelerate, we must take time to reflect, question, and iterate. Responsible innovation requires thoughtfulness and care.
• Define the Problem First: Before building AI solutions, we must ask: What problem are we solving? And why is AI the right tool? Purpose should guide development.
• Inclusion Shapes Outcomes: Broad, diverse participation in AI design leads to better, fairer, and more relevant solutions, especially for underrepresented communities.
• Embrace What Makes Us Human: Emotions, creativity, empathy and collaboration are not weaknesses to automate away, they can be powerful sources of insight and value in both decision-making and innovation.
• Design for the Collective, Not Just the Individual: Much of today’s AI innovation centres on personal optimisation (i.e. speed, efficiency, convenience)- shifting towards collective wellbeing, shared purpose, and broader societal benefit can lead to more meaningful, sustainable progress.

What does responsible education look like in the age of AI?

March 11, 2025

Key Takeaways:

1. Purpose-Driven Education: In the age of AI, education’s purpose may need to be redefined beyond jobs, toward life and personal growth.
2. AI as a Tool, Not a Driver: AI should support, not replace, human learning and empower educators and students.
3. Personalisation with Caution: AI personalisation has value, but risks reinforcing bias, manipulation, and inequality.
4. Ethical Design & Responsible AI: Education tools must be co-designed with students, teachers, and parents in mind.
5. Skills for the Future: Critical thinking, creativity, and empathy matter more than ever in preparing students for the future.
6. Teacher Support & Training: Educators need clear guidance, upskilling opportunities, and tools designed for their real-world challenges, given the pace of change.
7. Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement: Responsible educational innovation must meaningfully include all affected groups, especially learners, in shaping policies and tools.

Speakers

Somayeh Aghnia (Co-founder, Geeks Ltd; Co-founder, London School of Innovation)
Dr Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (Professor of AI in Education, UCL)
Maury Shenk (Founder, PlaylistBuilder; Founder & CEO, LearnerShape; Co-Sec, PeopleCert)
Dr Morgan Briggs (Senior AI policy researcher, Turing Institute)
Will Sadler (Senior Product Manager, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT)
Dr Ioannis Votsis (Professor of Philosophy, NU London)

How can AI responsibly transform financial services?

September 26, 2024

Key Takeaways:

1. Transformative Potential: AI is reshaping financial services through use cases like enhanced knowledge management, automated reporting, developer productivity, compliance support, and fraud prevention.
2. Responsible Adoption: Technical guardrails, careful use case selection, and regulatory awareness (e.g. EU AI Act) are essential to ensure AI is used appropriately and safely.
3. Governance and Culture: Organisations should develop internal AI codes of conduct where regulation is unclear, using standards like ISO 42001 and NIST’s AI Risk Framework.
4. Workforce Readiness: Upskilling employees and fostering a culture of accountability are key to managing the AI transition effectively.
5. Industry Collaboration: A multi-stakeholder, cross-sector approach is critical to setting responsible norms and amplifying impact across financial ecosystems.

Speakers

The Right Honourable Michael Mainelli (The Lord Mayor of London)
Sofia Zanon di Valgiurate (Head of AI Enablement, Corporate and Institutional Banking, HSBC Office of Applied AI)
Rob Garlick (Head of Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work, Citi)
Dr Yali Du (Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute)
Eric Van der Kleij (CEO & Co-Founder, Edenbase)

How should humans co-create with AI?

June 13, 2024

Questions Explored:

1. Defining Creativity: What does it mean to be creative? Can AI truly exhibit creative agency, or is it always derivative?
2. Human–AI Co-Creation: How can humans and AI collaborate meaningfully, responsibly, and ethically in the creative process?
3. Impact on Creative Industries: AI tools are transforming fields like music, art, writing, and design- what changes are beneficial, and where are the risks?
4. Legal & Ethical Frontiers: Emerging legal considerations around ownership, authorship, and responsibility in AI-generated content were discussed.
5. Governance of Creative Platforms: How should AI creative tools be governed and what policies or frameworks might help ensure fair, inclusive, and innovative outcomes?

Speakers

Christian Zimmermann (CEO, The Design and Arts Copyright Society)
Dr Alice Helliwell (Assistant Professor of AI Aesthetics & Ethics, NU London)
Mick Grierson (Research Leader, UAL Creative Computing Institute)
Sam Adeyemi (Product Specialist, Adobe Creative Cloud)
Cliff Fluet (Partner, Lewis Silken LLP; Vice Chair, Help Musicians)
Annabel Gillard (Co-Founder, Conversations on AI)
Duncan Roberts (Thought Leader and Futurist, Cognizant Research)
Kerry Harrison (AI Educator, Course Director at The Chartered Institute of Marketing)

What role will AI play in achieving environmental sustainability?

February 20, 2024

Key Takeaways:

1. AI as a Force for Good: AI has significant potential to support environmental goals through improved forecasting, energy optimisation, and carbon waste reduction. It can also promote climate justice and encourage more sustainable behaviour among individuals.
2. Hurdles to Overcome: Key technical challenges include a lack of transparency, limited explainability, and concerns about algorithmic accuracy. Participants also raised concerns about bias in AI systems and the opaque practices of commercially driven development.
3. Paving the Path Forward: There is a need for inclusive innovation that involves communities most affected by environmental and technological change. The urgency of developing globally recognised and standardised methods for assessing AI’s environmental impact was highlighted. Greater transparency, collaborative innovation, and clearer government roles is needed to promote responsible AI use.

Speakers

Dr Aidan O’Sullivan (Fellow, Turing Institute; Associate Professor in Energy and Artificial Intelligence at UCL Energy Institute)
Dr Sebastián Lehuedé (Assistant Professor of Ethics, AI & Society, King’s College London)
Tracy Woods (Co-Founder, Conversations on AI; Head of Life Sciences Consulting, Cognizant)
Jenny Edwards (Principal Sustainability Advisor at Cognizant)