This year we are holding a one day event at the M-Shed in Bristol on Monday 4th November. Students, academics and industry representatives associated with the ART-AI CDT based at the University of Bath, will come together for this one day event with the aim of enabling collaboration as well as delivering pertinent sessions. We have two key note speakers: Rob Wortham, Director AI, Global Digital Foundation and Neil Langmead, Senior Lecturer (Enterprise), Department of Computer Science, University of Bath. We will be running two sessions: Consideration of algorithmic bias with Julian Padget and The Explainable AI Tournament with Eoin Cremen.
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Event Programme
09:00 Registration, Tea/coffee & networking
09:30 Keynote Speaker – Rob Wortham ‘AI Governance: The State of Play‘ Join Rob as he discusses ‘Will the regulation of AI deliver successful outcomes? If so, successful for whom?’ (see abstract & bio below)
10:30 Tea/coffee & networking
11:00 Session 1 Consideration of algorithmic bias with Julian Padget. This session will introduce the IEEE’s P7003 Algorithmic Bias Considerations (draft) standard. There will be table discussions to apply it collectively to a research project of your choosing to see how to begin to build a bias profile to capture the consideration of bias throughout a project’s lifetime.
13:00 Lunch & networking
14:00 Session 2 The Explainable AI Tournament with Eoin Cremen. This session will be a problem-based learning approach to assessing explainable AI. After an introduction to explainable AI and the tournament, small groups will compete against each other to design a comprehensive and ecologically valid assessment of AI explainability.
15:45 Tea/coffee & networking
16:00 Keynote Speaker-Neil Langmead ‘The Exponential Entrepreneur’ Join Neil as he shares some insights on entrepreneurial thinking, risk taking, and what it means to become an Exponential Entrepreneur. (see bio below)
17:00 Closing
17:00-18:30 Drinks & networking
Speakers bio
Rob Wortham
Abstract
In this talk, Rob will outline the current global regulatory environment for AI with a focus on how this environment is affecting organisations developing and deploying AI. He will share his experiences of working in AI standards development, and explain some of the practical challenges. Rob will also share some of the latest thinking relating to the European Commission’s AI Code of Practice for Generative AI systems, and the challenges of applying the AI Act in sectors where significant regulation, standards and working practices are already well developed. Reflecting on the recently published Draghi report, Rob will make some practical observations about how AI regulation affects competitiveness and economic growth. Following the talk there will be ample time for interactive dialogue.
Bio
Rob currently heads up the AI Assurance Club initiative within the Global Digital Foundation. With a membership of over 300 members, the Club seeks to develop and promote best practice for AI Assurance. It pursues this through regular hybrid meetings for members, focussed research, active monitoring of the international AI ecosystem, and development of the MAGF framework to model best practice information sharing within the AI value chain.
Rob was previously Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies for Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the University of Bath, UK. He also has a background in software and digital services delivery and founded RWA, an established international provider of travel technology.
Rob is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of BCS and a member of the IEEE Standards Association. He is a core member of the group that delivered IEEE 7001-2021: Transparency of Autonomous Systems. He is also a long-standing member of the BSI ART/1 standards team and contributor to the CEN/CENELEC JTC21 AI standards committee. His academic research focused on approaches to deliver and measure AI system transparency, published as a specialist technical book in 2020 by the IET.
Rob holds a PhD in Intelligent Systems from the University of Bath, 2018.
Neil Langmead
Bio
Neil works as a lecturer in computer science, with a background in industry and entrepreneurship. After graduating from the University of Bath in mathematics, he created software testing companies in Germany, US and China, taking his family on a unique global adventure. Since returning to Bath in 2021, he joined the department to teach entrepreneurship and help create impact from the world leading research we undertake. He is mentoring students and staff alike as they create spin outs and start ups, and is adviser and mentor to founders as they begin the entrepreneurial journey, connecting them with investors, partners and the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem that is being created in Bath.
Main Photo: Credit to Quinton Lake
