The Digital Responsibility Forum

Jonathan Armstrong is an experienced lawyer at Punter Southall Law based in London with a concentration on compliance & technology. He is also a Professor at Fordham Law School teaching a new post-graduate course on international compliance which includes modules on AI.

Jonathan is regarded as an acknowledged expert in AI and he currently serves on the New York State Bar Association's AI Task Force looking at the impact of AI on law and regulation. Jonathan also sits on the Law Society AI Group.

Jonathan's professional practice includes advising multinational companies on risk and compliance across Europe. Jonathan gives legal and compliance advice to household name corporations on:

• Prevention (e.g. putting in place policies and procedures);
• Training (including state of the art video learning); and
• Cure (such as internal investigations and dealing with regulatory authorities).

Jonathan has handled legal matters in more than 60 countries covering a wide range of compliance issues. Clients include Fortune 250 organisations & household names in manufacturing, technology, healthcare, luxury goods, automotive, construction & financial services. Jonathan and his team have developed an innovative approach to EU AI Act risk assessment and regularly advise on the legal and ethical aspects of AI development.

Jonathan has been selected as one of the Thomson Reuters stand-out lawyers for 2024, an honour bestowed on him every year since the survey began. In April 2017 Thomson Reuters listed Jonathan as the 6th most influential figure in risk, compliance and fintech in the UK. Jonathan is listed as a Super Lawyer and has been listed in Legal Experts from 2002 to date.

Ken Banks is a British award-winning social entrepreneur, mobile technology specialist and global conservation and development expert with an undergraduate major in Social Anthropology. He is best known for developing FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging platform which, at its peak, supported non-profits in over 190 countries.

He is a Cambridge Judge Fellow, a Tech Awards Laureate, an Ashoka Fellow and a National Geographic Explorer. In 2013 he was nominated for the TED Prize. In recognition of his work, Ken was presented with the 2017 Eugene L. Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science.

In addition to his pioneering social impact efforts, Ken is a recognised keynote speaker and published author. In early 2024 he returned to his consultancy roots, and is available for hire on a long- or short-term basis.

Martin Bate boasts an impressive 30-year career in the regulatory compliance space, where he has consistently provided invaluable expertise to facilitate the seamless market entry of various products and services. His extensive experience spans across some of the top fintech and technology companies, where he has excelled in delivering comprehensive solutions in data protection, ethics, sanctions, export control, risk management, and product compliance.

Throughout his career, Martin has played a pivotal role in navigating complex regulatory landscapes, ensuring that companies not only meet but exceed compliance standards. He has successfully implemented new compliance programmes when companies have merged and demerged via market acquisitions, showcasing his ability to manage regulatory challenges in dynamic corporate environments. His deep understanding of the regulatory environment and his ability to anticipate and mitigate potential risks have been instrumental in the success of numerous high-profile projects.

Alex Brown has a background as a scholar of identity and conflict transformation and as a consultant in sustainability and digital ethics that evolved from an earlier career in storytelling and strategy through creating productions in live art. He is now working in the nexus of foresights and strategy applying a broad perspective to approach problems from multiple directions to help identify transition pathways and support sustainable future envisioning. This requires the application of multidisciplinary lenses to create approaches that carefully map the topography and legibility of these challenges that are not identified by applying existing rigid frameworks. This approach is grounded in curiosity and broadly empathetic techniques to transform conflicts and challenges into opportunities for meaningful and long lasting transition towards a better shared vision for the future.

His approach to sustainability ethics, AI and Digital Ethics and ESG stems from holistic and multifaceted approaches embracing different perspectives in the room nested within complex questions addressing resilience, identity and interconnectedness which we face in the 21st Century. Some recent projects include delivering interactive sessions on situational judgement and system drift to a supranational organisation, working on strategy and messaging for a water security policy thinktank, and data privacy and AI ethics questions for AI startups.

Professor Karen Elliott is Chair of Practice in Finance and FinTech at Birmingham University Business School and Co-Director of the FinTech MSc Degree Programme. She has been named as 'Standout #35 Women in FinTech Powerlist by Innovate Finance' for Policy and Governance 2019, 2020 and listed for the new Hubs (governance) category in 2021.

Karen co-leads FinTrust, Agency, and the UKFin Network+ projects with Prof van Moorsel to optimise trustworthy and ethical AI, engineered to deliver citizen transparency, fairness, and inclusion. Likewise, she co-led Finclusion (Gates Foundation/Turing Institute £100k), which explored verifiable credentials for vulnerable groups, focusing on dementia in the digital economy following her mother's diagnosis.

A member of the UK Prime Minister's Champions Group for Dementia, Corporate Digital Responsibility, ForHumanity, Radix, the IEEE Global Initiative Planet Positive and an Ambassador for the Digital Poverty Alliance, Karen creates a fusion of academic and practical ethical considerations at the individual and societal level, seeking to find balance for an equitable digital society while protecting and sustaining the planet.

Dr Andri Georgiadou is an Associate Professor and Director of External Engagement (OB/HRM) at the Nottingham University Business School of University of Nottingham. Her research agenda is driven by a passion for inclusion and characterised by curiosity-driven, theoretically rigorous, empirically grounded, and policy-relevant inquiries. Her work focuses on exploring multi-domestic, relational, interdisciplinary, and global approaches to inclusion and diversity, as well as how algorithmic solutions and AI can transform management and leadership approaches, contributing to the development of more inclusive and sustainable workplaces.

Dr Georgiadou has published extensively in top-tier journals and her research has been supported by over €3 million in funding from prestigious sources like the European Commission and the ESRC, highlighting the significance and impact of her work. Dr Georgiadou is also actively engaged in shaping international standards on gender equality, human capital, and diversity and inclusion through her involvement with the British Standards Institution (BSI) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committees.

Ben Gilburt has over 8 years of experience in technology consulting and digital ethics. He co-founded Sopra Steria's Digital Ethics Practice, providing consulting services to clients across all market sectors, from government to hospitality. Ben has degrees in Social Science from the University of Oxford and Philosophy from UWE and has published papers on bias measurement, and mitigation methods for LLMs.

Ben can provide ethical evaluation services for AI and digital platforms, utilising market-leading assessment methodologies, and provide bespoke process and policy recommendations to maximise ethical goods and minimise risks.

Simone Larsson is Executive Director and CEO of The Good Technology Company Ltd, providing AI ethics and governance strategy and operationalisation expertise, and go to market and benefit realisation advisory services for AI technologies and technology companies. She has a strong focus on AI for good use cases and the intersection of people, planet, profit. She has been an expert in applied AI for over seven years and is a career technologist with over 20 years of experience in Tier 1 consultancies. Her experience also includes the commercialisation and application of advanced digital technologies such as 5G (Advanced Digital Networks), IoT, and Immersive.

In the last five years she has co-chaired the British Interactive Media Association's AI Council, authored the ESG focused Frugal AI series, co-authored thought leadership on the Business Case for Ethics, was the master of ceremonies for Dataiku's 2022 Everyday AI Conference (attended by 1,000+ non Dataiku delegates), and presented at CogX and a host of other AI and technology conferences. She currently chairs the Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) Alumni council, sits on the CJBS advisory council, and actively mentors current CJBS MBA students.

Keivan Navaie holds the position of Chair Professor in Intelligent Networks at the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University. Simultaneously, he serves as the Principal AI Technology Consultant at the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK. With a primary focus on Human-Centred AI, he spearheads UK regulatory activities, concentrating on safeguarding data privacy rights.

Keivan possesses a diverse research portfolio aimed at pioneering interdisciplinary solutions to address fundamental technical and design challenges within intelligent cyber-physical systems and their applications. His research spans various domains, including Deep Learning, privacy-enhancing AI, AI Regulations, distributed and federated AI, connectivity resilience in cyber-physical systems and the IoT, applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence, cognitive communications networks, and cryptosystems.

He actively contributes to the academic community, holding positions on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems.

In addition to his academic engagements, Keivan played a crucial role in evidence-based policymaking, collaborating with organisations such as the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the EU Environment Agency, the Information Commissioner's Office, and the EU Parliament. Actively engaging with industry, he also provided technical consultancy to prominent players in communication technology, including HUAWEI, Dolby, BT, and various UK-based SMEs.

Keivan is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Chartered Engineer in the UK, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Rob Price is one of the co-founders of Corporate Digital Responsibility, and leads the Digital Responsibility Forum, through Digital Responsibility Limited.

He is a career technologist, and has helped organisations, public and private sector, local and global, to take advantage of emerging technologies to have a positive impact.

He is co-founder of a number of other businesses including the recruitment business Accelleo, re-imagining recruitment in an AI world, and Futuria.ai, a business using multi-AI agent teams to solve complex problems and accelerate productivity.

He co-authored the academic paper "Towards an Equitable Digital Society" with Karen Elliott and Patricia Shaw and others, and is collaborating with the same team in contribution to global standards with IEEE.

Rebecca Rothwell is the Lead Editor for the Center for AI Safety (CAIS). A storyteller at heart, she translates complex, technical vocabulary into simple, every-day language, collaborating with authors, academics and public speakers to ensure that their publications and speeches resonate with audiences.

A professional member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), Rebecca runs Broccoli Words, a writing and editing company working with a variety of high-profile clients. An accomplished ghostwriter, and a successful author in her own right, Rebecca's work appears in national newspapers and on media sites, and is published by some of the world's leading publishing houses. She is the World Speech Day (WSD) Ambassador for Wales. As well, Rebecca is studying philosophy at the University of Cambridge, focusing on AI ethics and safety.

Fluent in several languages and having lived and worked abroad, Rebecca combines her knowledge of languages with linguistic and etymological study to appreciate deeply the impact of words and interpretations.

Patricia Shaw is CEO of Beyond Reach Consulting Ltd, providing AI/data ethics strategy, public policy engagement, bespoke AI/data ethics governance, expert advice, and advisory board services, across financial services, public sector (Health- and EdTech), and smart cities. A non-practising Solicitor, public speaker, author, and listed on 2021 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™, her roles include Society for Computers and Law, Chair and Trustee; IEEE's Ethical Certification Program for Autonomous Intelligent Systems; and ForHumanity's Independent Audit of AI Systems Fellow.

I am one of a team of 38 experts across 17 countries that produced the iTechLaw Association's 2021 update to the Responsible AI Global Policy Framework and corresponding Responsible AI Impact Assessment.

I am the co-author of The AI Book, writing on Trust, Transparency and Ethics, to which Good Governance is critical. The AI Book was published by Wiley in April 2020.

Ruth Steinholtz is an experienced former international corporate lawyer and leader of ethics, compliance and risk functions in global companies; a chapter she closed in 2010. Ruth then founded AretéWork in order to foster a values based approach to anti-corruption in organisations. Aspects of her work include cultural assessment, values identification, development and implementation; ethics and compliance strategy, ethical decision making; ethical leadership and team development. She has worked with a wide variety of organisations in the private sector as well as NGOs and regulators.

As a speaker, panellist and author, Ruth challenges traditional approaches to compliance. She pioneered the concept of ethics ambassadors, now used globally as an effective way to nourish values and promote dialogue on integrity in organisations.

Ruth is co-author, with Christopher Hodges OBE, of Ethical Business Practice and Regulation: A Behavioural and Values-based Approach to Compliance and Enforcement. She wrote a chapter in Roger Miles's Culture Audit in Financial Services on cultural assessment using Barrett analytical tools. She has also written two Good Practice Guides with the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE) in London.

Sue Turner is dedicated to using her expertise in AI and data governance and ethics to inspire organisations to use AI with wisdom and integrity. She is rated in the World's top 100 women in AI ethics and was one of the first 14 people globally to be accredited in the Foundations of Independent Audit of AI systems.

With both a Law degree and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, she established AI Governance Limited in 2020 to advise businesses and policy makers on pragmatic AI, data ethics and governance issues and making a positive societal impact.

She is Board Chair and Non Executive Director for purpose driven businesses in the logistics and financial services sectors, a Whistleblowing Champion and a Mentor on the Turing Institute's Skills Policy Awards. Her career spans entrepreneurial private businesses and not-for-profit organisations where she has led significant organisational growth, raised £27 million for charity and collaborated to shift power to help people improve their prospects. She was awarded the OBE in 2021 for Services to Social Justice.

Erica Werneman Root is a tech-savvy solicitor with a decade of experience in private practice at a City firm where she specialised in data protection, information rights, data ethics, lean compliance, and all things technology related. Erica has a proven track record of designing, implementing and operationalising legal compliance frameworks and she enjoys working with companies to embed data protection by design and default across functions. She is in the final stages of completing her Masters in Data Science and she has extensive experience of working directly with engineering and data analytics teams.

Erica has served on the board of advisors to an international government on AI Ethics and she has extensive experience in the startup/scaleup space where she has covered a range of emerging technologies.

Erica also regularly works with some of the largest law firms in the world.