The Digital World:

Recorded: 15 December 2021 (13:00 - 16:30 UK time)

What’s this webinar about?

Following on from our AI conferences in 2020 and May 2021, this webinar looks at the rapidly growing market for artificial intelligence and covers two topics in depth:

• Regulating AI – draft European AI regulation and the UK perspective – standards and product testing
• UK AI strategy in action – the public policy perspective

Who is this webinar for?

Irrespective of sector:

• AI policy staff
• Senior staff looking to input/adapt AI into their businesses
• AI researchers
• AI standards’ developers
• Consultants in AI

What will participants gain?

• Insights into the impact of future regulation on products incorporating AI (including the European AI Regulation)
• A first-hand update on the UK’s AI strategy and public policy thinking
• The latest news on ISO’s AI management system standard (due to publish in 2023)
• The chance to submit questions in advance that will be answered at the webinar

Please click here to view the agenda.

For information on the latest regulation and policy that’s impacting the future of AI, please watch the replay.

Tim McGarr is the Sector Lead for the Digital area within Knowledge Solutions in BSI. Tim has specific responsibility for the direction and development of key digital standards areas, including Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security and Virtual/Augmented Reality. Tim has been working at BSI since 2009. Prior to BSI, Tim he spent 5 years working in the legal publisher LexisNexis in the strategy department. Before this, Tim he worked as a management consultant for Logica (now CGI) and an internal consultant for BT. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France.

Dr Sam De Silva is a Partner in the London office of leading international law firm, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP and is on the BSI ART/001 Committee. Sam specialises in complex and strategic IT projects and regularly advises on data protection, privacy and cyber-security issues.

He also advises clients on a variety of legal and contractual issues arising from the procurement and supply of AI solutions and services. At an international level Sam is the former Law Society’s representative on the EU Commission’s Expert Group on Cloud Computing and is on the IT Law Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE).

Sam is on the Technology Strategy Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) and is heavily involved with the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT being both on its Council and Trustee Board, together with being the Chair of its Law Specialist Group. Sam is named in the Who’s Who of Information Technology 2022, Who’s Who of Data Privacy and Protection 2022 and the Who’s Who of Data Security 2022 as one of very few UK solicitors listed in all 3 categories.

Sam is also the exclusive winner of the 2021 Client Choice Data Privacy & Protection award for the UK. Sam was the Co-convenor of an ISO Working Group which developed a new transformational ISO Standard on the management of contract and legal risk (ISO 31022:2020), and he won a BSI Standards Markers Award in the category of “Representing the UK” for his work on this. Sam also Chairs the Legal Specialist Interest Group of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM).

Constant Kohler works at CEN and CENELEC, two of the three European Standardization Organisations (ESOs). Constant’s role is to support the Technical Bodies in the fields of Electrotechnology (harmonized standards in support of the LVD, EMC and RED directives) and ICT (with a focus on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum technologies) to ensure timely and successful delivery of standardization solutions.

OPSS was created in January 2018 to deliver consumer protection and to support business confidence, productivity and growth. We regulate a wide range of products with a focus on their safety and integrity. We work with local, national and international regulators, with consumer representatives and with businesses to deliver effective protections and to support compliance. As a member of the engineering and technology team, I provide technical advice to support the work of OPSS policy makers and enforcement. This involves commissioning research as part of our Strategic Research Programme where I have led work in future and emerging technology areas including on the impact of artificial intelligence on product safety, the safety of connected appliances and lithium-ion battery safety.

Dr. Aris Tzavaras is a BSI Senior Technical Specialist and Scheme Manager within the Active Medical Devices team at BSI. As part of his work as Technical Specialist, he has reviewed MDR and MDD active devices including AI software devices. He has more than 20 years’ experience in Medical Devices including Academic lecturing for BSc and MSc Biomedical Engineering programs. He holds a PhD in Health Informatics from City London University on Artificial Intelligence.

Tim is Deputy Head at the Government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, a joint unit run between the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Energy and the Industrial Strategy (BEIS).  Tim's portfolio covers AI R&D&I, Talent, Skills and the adoption of AI technologies. Previously, Tim has held a variety of innovation, science and technology roles across a range of Government Departments.

Susannah Odell is the Head of Digital Policy at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK's largest business group that represents 190,000 businesses of all sizes and sectors across the UK. Susannah leads the CBI's work to create a thriving UK digital economy, supporting businesses in adopting technologies and leading industries of the future. This includes work on digital regulation, AI, data, connectivity, and skills.

Susannah is also an advocate of diversity in technology and set up the CBI's first Women in Technology Group in 2019 to bring more diverse voices into the development, adoption, and regulation of technologies that are shaping the economy and society. Susannah previously worked for the UK's national academy of science, the Royal Society, on AI policy and has degrees from the University of Cambridge and London School of Economics.

Ghazi Ahamat is a Team Lead at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI), an expert team within the UK government that works on enabling responsible innovation in AI and data driven technologies. 

Ghazi leads the CDEI's work on AI Assurance, including the role of Standards, Regulation and International organisations. He was previously a co-author of the CDEI's Review into Bias in Algorithmic Decision Making.

Ghazi previously  founded the Victorian Centre for Data Insights, a state government central analytics team in Australia, and as a consultant with BCG he advised governments in Australia and the Middle East on Data Science, Strategy and Transformation.

He has a Masters in Technology Policy (with Distinction) at  the University of Cambridge, where he focused on the policy and strategic implications of AI. He also studied Economics and Pure Mathematics at the University of Melbourne. 

BSI is also committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with this webinar contributing to Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure.