Thanks for your interest in AI for All, a conversation to build digital trust to ensure safe and ethical use of AI. BSI values your insight to explore opportunities to unlock the full potential of AI for everyone. In partnership with the UK Government, this event serves as a platform for meaningful discussion around how society builds trust in order to shape AI as a force for good.

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9:30 - 10:30 - Registrations and refreshments

10:30 - 11:15 - Panel: Shaping trust in AI today – implementing safety before going to market  

• William Paskell BSI Regulatory Services (Chair, BSI)  
• Gavin Jones (Lead Standards Development Manager, BSI) 
• Lorraine Turner (UKAS) 
• Kerry Sheehan (Service Development and Innovation Advisor, Civil Service; Advisor, Alan Turing Institute) 
• Claire Milne (CPIN) 
• Prof. Birgitte Andersen (Big Innovation Think Tank, APPG AI) 

Organizations are already bringing products to market which require confirmation of their safety - this panel will discuss how the infrastructure is and will help such firms to ensure AI safety is built in, for buyers and customers. 

11:15 - 11:45 - AI Standards Hub – impact and evaluation

• Sahar Danesh (Chair, BSI) 
• Paul Gaskell (DSIT) 
• Dr Florian Ostmann (Alan Turing Institute) 
• Prof Mark Levene (NPL)

As part of the UK’s National AI Strategy, the Hub’s mission is to advance trustworthy and responsible AI with a focus on the role that standards can play as governance tools and innovation mechanisms. This presentation, with Q & A, is an opportunity to discuss the impact of the Hub, following the recent whitepaper publication. 

11:45 - 12:00 - Coffee break and networking

12:00 - 12:45 - Understanding the role of standards in AI safety 

• David Bell (Chair, BSI) 
• Minister Paul Scully 
• Dr Abdellatif Benjelloun (Amazon Web Services)  
• Dr Jacqui Taylor (FlyingBinary) 
• Dr Cristina Muresan (IEEE) 
• Sundeep Bhandari (NPL)

Senior ministerial speaker from the Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to provide an overview of the importance of standards and the national quality infrastructure to ensure AI safety.

12:45 - 13:45 - Lunch and networking

13:45 -14:45 - How do we get AI adoption right? – InnovateUK BridgeAI

• Peter Lee (Chair, BSI) 
• Pippa Spencer-Williams (Digital Catapult)  
• Dr Trias Gkikopoulos (Innovate UK) 
• Simon Reeve (Alan Turing Institute) 
• Dr Michael Woldegebriel (Innovate UK, KTN)
• Dr Adriano Agnello (Hartree Centre)

Government has funded this program, bringing challenge AI together, technologies, startups and funding bodies. Here, the partners come together to talk about the program in more detail, and how it supports AI adoption.

14:45 - 15:00 - Coffee break and networking

15:00 - 16:00 - Applied AI Ethics

• Matilda Rhode (Chair, BSI)
• Bekah Putz (Chegg) 
• Sue Daley (techUK) 
• Chanell Daniels (Digital Catapult)

Partners will discuss sector specific classification of risk levels, the need to establish regulatory sector-specific sandboxes and promoting external industry-led standards and the existence of internal employee codes of conduct. 

16:00 - 16:45 - Importance of regulation - how AI can help improve healthcare outcomes

• Emma Glass, (BSI Knowledge Solutions) 
• Gavin Quigley (BSI Regulatory Services) 
• Johan Ordish (Roche) 
• Joseph Alderman (University of Birmingham)

Within this broader framework, panelists in the Healthcare sector demonstrate the value and positive outcomes of AI. This is an opportunity to bring together those working in the regulatory space and industry to draw on examples where AI is a force for good. Are healthcare systems and patients ready for AI? Can we improve trust in AI?  Do we need to take a global approach?

16:45-17:00 -  Closing remarks LibDem Lords spokesperson for Science, Innovation & Technology & Chair of the APPG on AI 

17:00 - 18:30 - Drinks, canapes and networking reception

This event contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 9 on Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure and 12 on Responsible consumption and production.