AI Ethics & Responsible Technology

Why organisations work with Eric O’Neill He has run the highest-stakes counterintelligence operation in modern US history. When he describes how a long-running insider threat actually unfolds, he is describing his own case file, not a model. His framing reorients cyber defence around the human, not the firewall. Hanssen was an FBI veteran with full system access. Most of today’s breaches still begin with someone trusted being manipulated. He translates espionage tradecraft into language CFOs, general counsel and HR leaders can act on. Deepfake CEO fraud, voice cloning, social engineering and ransomware are explained as familiar intelligence techniques running on new infrastructure. He brings two published books from major trade houses, Gray Day (Crown, 2019) and Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime (HarperCollins, 2025), giving audiences a substantive body of work to follow up with. He is one of the few cybersecurity speakers buyers can hand to a non-technical executive audience without losing them. The Hanssen narrative carries the room; the security argument arrives inside it. Biography highlights Conducted the FBI undercover investigation that led to the arrest of Robert Hanssen, a 25-year FBI veteran convicted on 15 counts of espionage. Author of Gray Day (Crown, 2019) and Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime (HarperCollins, 2025). Founder of The Georgetown Group, a Washington DC investigative and security consultancy, and Nexasure AI. Portrayed by Ryan Phillippe in the 2007 Universal Pictures film Breach. Honours graduate of Auburn University and the George Washington University Law School; admitted to the Maryland and DC bars. Featured across NPR Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox, Newsweek and TechCrunch. Biography Robert Hanssen had been spying for Moscow for almost two decades when a 26-year-old FBI operative was placed in the office next to him. Hanssen was a 25-year bureau veteran with full clearance, deep technical fluency and a track record of compromising US assets. The operation that exposed him hinged on a single quiet act, the download of an encrypted Palm Pilot, returned to the desk before it was missed. The arrest came on 18 February 2001. That case sits at the centre of Eric O’Neill’s work, but it is not the product. The product is what the case taught him about how serious adversaries actually operate. They study the organisation. They build trust. They exploit the people closest to the asset, not the perimeter. The same logic now drives AI-generated deepfakes, voice-cloned executive fraud, synthetic identity attacks and supply chain compromise. He has built a second career around that translation. The Georgetown Group, his Washington DC consultancy, handles counterintelligence, economic espionage, internal investigations and security risk for corporate clients. Nexasure AI focuses on AI-era threat advisory. Gray Day (Crown, 2019) is the inside account of the Hanssen case. Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime (HarperCollins, 2025) is the operating manual that followed it. He is also a lawyer, admitted to the Maryland and DC bars after law school at George Washington University. That matters in the room. He briefs general counsel, CISOs and boards on cyber and insider risk in language that lands legally as well as operationally, and he does it with the rare authority of someone who has actually run the case. Key speaking topics Cybersecurity and the human attack surface AI-enabled fraud, deepfakes and synthetic identity Insider threat and counterintelligence for corporates Economic espionage and intellectual property protection Ransomware and extortion economics National security lessons for private sector boards Social engineering in the age of generative AI Ideal for Boards, audit committees and CEOs reframing cyber as enterprise risk rather than IT spend CISOs, CIOs and CSOs briefing non-technical executives on insider threat and AI-era attack methods General counsel and CFOs exposed to deepfake fraud, business email compromise and wire authorisation risk Industry conferences in financial services, defence, technology, healthcare and critical infrastructure Audience outcomes A working mental model of how adversaries plan and execute insider compromise, drawn from a real FBI case A practical view of where AI is changing the cost and speed of social engineering, deepfake and identity attacks Specific behavioural and procedural defences against voice cloning, deepfake video and CEO fraud A board-level vocabulary for cyber and counterintelligence risk that does not depend on technical jargon

Why organisations work with Tan Le A working neurotech CEO. EMOTIV’s brainwear is used by researchers and enterprises in over 140 countries and cited across more than 4,000 peer-reviewed studies. Her view of where neurotechnology meets business is built on shipped products and enterprise pilots with companies like Dell and JLL. A defined thesis for the next decade. Her book The NeuroGeneration sets out how brain science, AI, and consumer-grade neurotechnology are converging into a new generation of human-machine integration. Leadership audiences leave with a structured way to think about a domain most have only encountered through headlines. Credibility at the level boards take seriously. She holds a board seat at ASX-listed QBE Insurance Group, sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science, and writes for the Forbes Technology Council. The cognitive workplace, made tangible. EMOTIV’s enterprise products measure attention and cognitive stress in everyday work settings. For leadership teams thinking about productivity and wellbeing as separate questions, she shows how cognitive measurement is starting to bring them together. Biography highlights Founder and CEO of EMOTIV, the Silicon Valley neurotechnology company whose EEG-based brain-computer interface technology is used in over 140 countries and validated across more than 4,000 peer-reviewed studies Author of The NeuroGeneration: The New Era in Brain Enhancement That Is Revolutionizing the Way We Think, Work, and Heal (BenBella/Simon & Schuster, 2020), endorsed by Klaus Schwab and David Eagleman Non-Executive Director of QBE Insurance Group, an ASX-listed multinational insurer with over 11,700 employees across more than 27 countries Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science, and a WEF Young Global Leader since 2009 Three-time TED speaker; her TEDxWomen talk “My Immigration Story” has been viewed more than 1.4 million times Recipient of the Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award (2018), Young Australian of the Year (1998), Fast Company Most Influential Women in Technology (2010), Forbes 50 Names You Need to Know (2011), and National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2013); her portrait is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia Biography Wireless EEG technology has crossed out of the research lab into everyday environments. Offices, classrooms, and consumer products are starting to use brain data in ways that were impossible a decade ago. EMOTIV has been one of the companies opening that path. Tan Le founded EMOTIV in 2011 and runs it today. The company’s headsets and earbuds turn brain activity into usable data for researchers and enterprises in more than 140 countries, with citations across over 4,000 peer-reviewed studies. Pilots with Dell and JLL apply that measurement to attention and cognitive stress in real workplace settings. Her book The NeuroGeneration (Simon & Schuster, 2020) traces how brain-computer interfaces, neural stimulation, and AI are converging into human-machine integration that reshapes work, healthcare, and learning. The book carries endorsements from Klaus Schwab and David Eagleman. Le sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies and Brain Science. She also holds a board seat at ASX-listed QBE Insurance Group and writes for the Forbes Technology Council. That biographical arc adds to the institutional credibility. She arrived in Australia as a four-year-old refugee from Vietnam and was named Young Australian of the Year at 21. Today, she runs one of the most cited platforms in mobile EEG research. Her portrait sits in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia. Key speaking topics Brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnology The future of work and human-machine integration AI, automation, and cognitive augmentation Workplace wellbeing and cognitive performance Innovation and entrepreneurship in deep technology The ethics and governance of neurotechnology Reinvention and outsider thinking Ideal for Boards and CEOs setting long-range technology strategy in financial services, healthcare, technology, and consumer industries Chief Technology Officers and Chief Innovation Officers are thinking about the convergence of AI, neurotech, and human performance CHROs and Chief People Officers looking for substantive content on cognitive workplace design beyond the wellness category Founders and growth-stage entrepreneurs working at frontier-technology intersections Audience outcomes A clear-eyed view of which neurotechnology and brain-computer interface applications are operating today and which are still emerging The argument behind The NeuroGeneration, with concrete examples from enterprise pilots and clinical research A practical frame for how cognitive measurement is starting to change how leaders think about workplace productivity and wellbeing A view of the ethical and governance questions board-level decision-makers will face as neurotechnology moves into enterprise use Sharper questions to ask vendors and internal teams making claims about brain-related products

Why organisations work with Jose Morey He has implemented AI inside an actual clinical and research environment, not theorised about it. As former Associate Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health, he sat at the intersection where the Watson promise met hospital reality. He brings genuine NASA insight on how the agency screens emerging health and AI technologies, drawn from his roles as Medical Technology and AI Adviser to NASA iTech and Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative. He connects medical, space, biosecurity, and transportation domains in a way that lets boards stress-test their AI assumptions against problems harder than their own. Few speakers can move from radiology workflows to Hyperloop systems engineering with credibility in both rooms. He is co-author of Latinx Business Success (Wiley, 2021), which gives him a distinct second register on representation, talent pipelines, and how diverse leadership shows up in technology-driven industries. He is a working radiologist and medical society leader, currently President of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation, which keeps the keynote material grounded in operational practice rather than commentary. Biography highlights Co-author, Latinx Business Success: How Latinx Ingenuity, Innovation, and Tenacity are Driving Some of the World’s Biggest Companies (Wiley, 2021). Former Associate Chief Health Officer, IBM Watson Health; former Chief Medical Innovation Officer, Liberty BioSecurity. Medical Technology and AI Adviser to NASA iTech and Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative. Eisenhower Fellow, 2020/2021 Zhi-Xing Fellows Program. Adjunct Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School; Guest Lecturer, Singularity University. Member, Forbes Technology Council; Informatics Leadership Council, American College of Radiology; public volunteer, NIST Generative AI Public Working Group. CEO and Founder, Ad Astra Media LLC, a STEAM media production company building role models and educational content for under-represented students. Biography Most of the AI conversation inside large organisations is still happening at one remove from where the technology actually meets a patient, a pilot, or a regulator. Jose Morey works at that meeting point. He is a practising radiologist who has built clinical AI tools, advised NASA on which health technologies are worth backing, and helped Liberty BioSecurity think through genetic intelligence and augmented human performance. His operational range is unusually wide. At IBM Watson Health he served as Associate Chief Health Officer during the period when the platform’s clinical claims were being tested against hospital reality. He has advised NASA iTech on the feasibility and commercialisation of emerging health and AI companies, and serves as a Senior Advisor to the NASA Space Breathing Initiative. He sits on the Chief Engineering Council for Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and on the Informatics Leadership Council of the American College of Radiology. The intellectual through-line is translation between domains. Morey co-authored Latinx Business Success with Frank Carbajal (Wiley, 2021), a book built around interviews with Latinx leaders across technology, finance, healthcare and media, and structured around what they call the DIGITAL framework. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow from the 2020/2021 Zhi-Xing programme, an adjunct professor of radiology at the University of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a guest lecturer at Singularity University. He runs Ad Astra Media, a production studio he founded to put serious STEAM role models in front of under-represented students, and contributes as a public volunteer to the NIST Generative AI Public Working Group. The result is a speaker who can take a board from a question about AI hallucination risk to a question about clinical liability to a question about who is actually being trained to build the next generation of these systems, without losing the room. Key speaking topics Artificial intelligence in clinical medicine Health technology and the future of patient care AI for space exploration and human performance in extreme environments Emerging technology and innovation strategy Latinx leadership and representation in technology industries Generative AI policy and responsible deployment Frontier infrastructure: Hyperloop, biosecurity, and the new technology renaissance Ideal for Healthcare boards, hospital executives, and CMIOs evaluating clinical AI deployment and governance CTOs, CIOs, and innovation leads in regulated industries who need a practitioner view of frontier technology Public-sector and defence audiences focused on biosecurity, space health, and emerging-technology policy DEI sponsors and talent leaders looking to connect representation with technical workforce strategy Audience outcomes A grounded reading of where clinical and operational AI actually works today and where it is still marketing Specific examples of how NASA, biosecurity, and healthcare institutions evaluate emerging technologies before they buy A framework, drawn from Latinx Business Success, for thinking about leadership, talent and innovation in technology-driven industries A clearer view of which frontier technologies (AI, biotech, space health, hyperloop-class infrastructure) are converging on the same set of organisational problems Direct, practical answers to executive questions on AI governance, regulation, and risk

Why organisations work with Chloe Colliver She has run live detection work across the German, European Parliamentary, UK, Swedish and US elections, which means she can speak to election interference and coordinated inauthentic behaviour from operational experience rather than commentary. She has sat on both sides of the table, as a lead investigator at ISD naming tactics used against platforms, and in senior online safety policy at Ofcom shaping how UK regulation will actually be enforced. Her testimony to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee, the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and the Swedish, Canadian, French, German and New Zealand governments gives boards a direct line into how legislators are thinking about tech regulation. She co-authored the ISD reports that set the methodological vocabulary for this field, including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle and Click Here For Outrage, cited by journalists, regulators and platform policy teams. She is fluent on camera, with sustained appearances on CNN, BBC Newsnight, Sky News and Channel 4, which translates into a keynote register that works for mixed executive and technical audiences. Biography highlights Head of Digital Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, leading a global team of analysts on disinformation and online extremism. Now in senior online safety policy at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, building the evidence base behind the Online Safety Act. Co-author of ISD reports including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle, The 101 of Disinformation Detection and Click Here For Outrage. Expert witness to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, and to the Swedish, New Zealand, Canadian, French and German governments. Contributor to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism alongside Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google. BA History, Clare College, Cambridge; MA History, Yale, as a Mellon Fellow. Biography Coordinated manipulation online is no longer a fringe concern for communications teams. It is an operating risk that touches elections, public health, brand safety and regulatory exposure all at once. The field that studies it seriously is small, and Chloe Colliver has been at the centre of it for most of the last decade. At the Institute for Strategic Dialogue she led a global team mapping disinformation, hate speech and extremist content across major platforms. Her team ran live analysis during the German, European Parliamentary, UK, Swedish and US election cycles, and co-authored the research reports that shaped how journalists, regulators and platform policy staff now talk about coordinated inauthentic behaviour, including Hoodwinked, Spin Cycle and Click Here For Outrage. She has given expert evidence to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee and the International Grand Committee on Disinformation, and advised the Swedish, New Zealand, Canadian, French and German governments on tech regulation. She also contributed to the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, the cross-platform body that includes Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and Google. She now holds a senior online safety role at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, where she leads work on the evidence base for the Online Safety Act. That shift from platform-level investigator to regulator-side policy lead is what makes her rare on a stage: she has named the tactics, tested the interventions, and now sits inside the body writing the rules. Key speaking topics Disinformation and information integrity Online safety regulation and the Online Safety Act Election interference and coordinated inauthentic behaviour Platform governance and content moderation Digital policy and tech regulation Extremism and online radicalisation Crisis communications in a manipulated information environment Ideal for Boards, CEOs and comms leaders preparing for regulatory, reputational or election-year information risk. Chief Risk Officers, General Counsel and Heads of Trust and Safety navigating the Online Safety Act and wider platform regulation. Policy, public affairs and government relations teams tracking how UK, EU and G7 legislators are moving on disinformation and online harms. Security, intelligence and threat teams integrating platform-level signals into enterprise risk reporting. Audience outcomes A clearer picture of how coordinated disinformation is actually built, distributed and monetised, with named examples from recent election cycles. A grounded read on where UK and EU online safety regulation is heading and what it will require from platforms, advertisers and large employers. A working vocabulary for discussing information integrity at board level, separating genuine risk from noise. A sense of which interventions have been tested and which have not, drawn from ISD research and regulator-side evidence work.

Why organisations work with Nathalie Nahai Her psychological model for how digital persuasion builds or erodes consumer trust is grounded in a decade of published research, not reactions to recent AI headlines, which gives marketing and strategy teams a diagnostic framework rather than a new concern to manage. Business Unusual directly addresses the commercial consequences of values misalignment, applying the frameworks of self-determination theory and eudaimonic consumerism to the question of why consumers switch, stay and trust: with practical implications for brand, marketing and leadership strategy. She co-created TheValuesMap.com with Dr Kiki Leutner of Goldsmiths University, a scientifically grounded instrument that organisations can use to measure and communicate the values they actually hold, converting a strategic abstraction into a usable tool that survives the board conversation. She translates the ethics of AI and persuasive technology into a commercially legible argument that boards can act on, rather than a compliance burden that legal teams manage. Webs of Influence, published by Pearson and translated into seven languages, is used by universities and Fortune 500 companies as a foundational text on digital consumer behaviour, meaning her frameworks are often already the shared language of the audiences she addresses. Biography highlights Author of Webs of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion (Pearson), translated into seven languages and adopted by universities and Fortune 500 companies as a standard text on digital consumer behaviour Author of Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience, with named contributors including Dan Pink, Cindy Gallop and Amy C. Edmondson Co-created TheValuesMap.com (2021) with Dr Kiki Leutner of Goldsmiths University, a scientific values-assessment instrument available to organisations Guest faculty at ELISAVA’s Masters programme in Human Interaction and AI, teaching “Transversal Vision of Artificial Intelligence” Member of the BIMA Human Insights Council, the representative body for digital and tech in the UK Covered in and contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian and The Telegraph; hosted the Guardian Changing Media Summit Biography Nathalie Nahai coined the term web psychology in 2011, defining it as the empirical study of how online environments influence human attitudes and behaviours. At the time, most organisations had powerful digital tools and no psychological framework for understanding what those tools were doing to the people using them. Her book Webs of Influence (Pearson), translated into seven languages, built that framework into a practical text adopted by universities and Fortune 500 companies as a standard reference on digital consumer behaviour. Her follow-up, Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience, extended the argument into harder commercial territory – specifically, how organisations sustain consumer trust when digital markets, values and expectations all shift at once. The book drew contributions from Dan Pink, Cindy Gallop and Amy C. Edmondson, and applies self-determination theory and eudaimonic consumerism to the practical question of what makes brands resilient rather than brittle. In 2021 she co-created TheValuesMap.com with Dr Kiki Leutner of Goldsmiths University, a scientifically grounded instrument that organisations can use to measure and communicate their actual values. The ability to deploy psychology as a practical tool – not just a conceptual frame – distinguishes her approach from most advisory work in this space. Her analysis has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian and The Telegraph. She has lectured at Cambridge, UCL, Lund and Hult business schools and addressed major platforms including SXSW, the Web Summit and the Guardian Changing Media Summit. She serves as guest faculty at ELISAVA’s Masters programme in Human Interaction and AI and is a member of the BIMA Human Insights Council. Key speaking topics Consumer psychology and digital influence Ethics of AI and persuasive technology Values-led brand resilience Human behaviour and digital trust Eudaimonic consumerism and shifting consumer expectations Web psychology and online decision-making Behavioural science applied to marketing and product design Ideal for CMOs and marketing leadership teams navigating the ethics and commercial implications of AI-driven personalisation Boards and senior leadership teams seeking a psychological framework for brand resilience and consumer trust strategy Digital product and technology teams applying persuasive design with ethical accountability Transformation and strategy leads working to align organisational values with commercial outcomes Audience outcomes A working model for understanding how AI and persuasive technology affect consumer trust and decision-making, grounded in published research rather than trend observation Practical application of self-determination theory and eudaimonic consumerism frameworks to brand, marketing and customer experience strategy A diagnostic approach to identifying where persuasive technology is eroding rather than building customer relationships Clarity on the commercial case for values-led strategy, with evidence from consumer behaviour research A set of questions to carry back into product, marketing and leadership conversations about how technology is actually affecting the people it is designed to serve

Why organisations work with Michael Yaziji He wrote the standard reference on NGO–corporate relations. NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (Cambridge University Press) carried cover endorsements from the chairmen of Nestlé, Unilever, Shell, and PepsiCo. He holds doctorates in both analytic philosophy (University of California) and management strategy (INSEAD), a combination that brings serious ethical reasoning into his work on AI governance and corporate ownership design. His leadership work draws on the world’s largest survey tying psychological drivers and psychological safety to organisational performance, giving him empirical depth most speakers in the field do not have. He co-directs IMD’s Stakeholder Management for Boards programme and has trained boards and executive teams at Microsoft, Shell, PepsiCo, Ericsson, and Maersk. He thinks ahead of the consensus: his 2008 Harvard Business Review piece on the structural flaws of shareholder capitalism predated the mainstream stakeholder capitalism debate by close to a decade. Biography highlights Professor of Strategy and Leadership at IMD, Lausanne Co-Director of IMD’s Stakeholder Management for Boards programme Author of NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (Cambridge University Press), endorsed at publication by the chairmen of Nestlé, Unilever, Shell, and PepsiCo Two doctorates: analytic philosophy (University of California) and management strategy (INSEAD) Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review Gold Award, 2024 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Awards (Excellence in Executive Education) for IMD’s Sprint programme with Bayer Biography Regulation and activist coalitions now shape more corporate outcomes than many of the competitive moves around which strategy frameworks are built. This nonmarket terrain is what Michael Yaziji has spent two decades mapping. He argues that political dynamics and stakeholder pressure are core variables of corporate strategy and should be treated as such by senior leaders. His training is unusual: a doctorate in analytic philosophy from the University of California, and a second in management and strategy from INSEAD. Both disciplines show up in the work. Yaziji treats ethical reasoning and institutional theory as practical tools, applied to live executive questions like AI governance and corporate ownership design. At the centre of his published work is NGOs and Corporations: Conflict and Collaboration (Cambridge University Press, 2009), co-authored with Villanova’s Jonathan Doh. The book carried cover endorsements from the chairmen of Nestlé, Unilever, Shell, and PepsiCo. It remains a standard reference for executives dealing with activist NGOs and contested social licence. His current research extends this work to artificial intelligence: who sets the rules, and who carries the cost of weak governance. He co-directs IMD’s Stakeholder Management for Boards programme. An executive education programme he co-led for the pharmaceutical group Bayer trained more than 12,000 leaders across ten months and won Gold at the 2024 Chief Learning Officer Learning in Practice Awards. Key speaking topics Nonmarket strategy and political risk NGO and stakeholder engagement Stakeholder management for boards AI governance and corporate strategy Corporate ethics and ownership design Psychological safety and organisational performance Sustainability and competitive advantage Ideal for Boards and chairs facing scrutiny on ESG and political risk C-suites in regulated or politically exposed industries (energy, pharma, financial services, extractives, technology platforms) Chief sustainability officers and corporate affairs heads building integrated nonmarket strategy Executive teams designing AI governance and stakeholder policy in large organisations Audience outcomes A working method that turns regulation and NGO pressure into variables leaders can shape Sharper thinking on how AI governance creates strategic risk and opportunity for their organisation Confidence in reading share ownership and stakeholder governance shifts as strategic variables A more direct vocabulary for talking to investors and regulators about the company’s social licence

Why organisations work with Luciano Floridi His AI4People framework, developed in 2018 and formally adopted by the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI in 2019, is one of the intellectual foundations of the EU AI Act – the world’s first major AI regulation. Organisations engaging him are drawing on the reasoning that shaped it. The Fourth Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2014) introduced the “infosphere” and “onlife” frameworks – giving organisations a principled vocabulary for what happens to human agency, identity, and accountability when AI systems become environmental forces rather than discrete tools. He holds a specific, counterintuitive argument – that AI is a new form of agency rather than a new form of intelligence – with direct consequences for how boards assign responsibility, structure oversight, and communicate accountability to regulators. His advisory work spans the European Commission, the German Ethics Council, the UK Cabinet Office, and companies including Google, IBM, and Microsoft – grounding his perspective in the institutional realities of AI governance, not abstracted from them. His five-volume tetralogy on the philosophy and ethics of information, published by Oxford University Press, is the most systematic academic treatment of the field – giving organisations access to a structured intellectual architecture that briefings and AI ethics summaries cannot replicate. Biography highlights Founding Director, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University; John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science Formerly OII Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Internet Institute’s Digital Ethics Lab Chair, AI4People Scientific Committee (2018); framework adopted by the European Commission’s HLEG on AI in 2019 and foundational to the EU AI Act Author of over 300 works; books include The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (OUP, 2023), The Fourth Revolution (OUP, 2014), and The Philosophy of Information (OUP, 2011) Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2022) – Italy’s highest national honour; IBM Thinker Award; Barwise Prize, American Philosophical Association Editor-in-Chief, Philosophy & Technology (Springer Nature), since 2010 Biography Most AI governance conversations begin with the technology and arrive at the harder questions only under pressure. What AI does to human agency, to accountability structures, and to the nature of responsibility inside organisations cannot be resolved by technical frameworks alone. Luciano Floridi has spent three decades building the conceptual tools that fill that gap. His 2014 book The Fourth Revolution (Oxford University Press) introduced the “infosphere” and “onlife” frameworks – arguing that digital technologies constitute a fourth revolution in human self-understanding, comparable in scale to those of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud. His more recent work positions AI as a new form of agency rather than a new form of intelligence. That distinction has direct implications for how organisations assign accountability and design oversight structures. That thinking has had direct regulatory consequences. As chair of the AI4People Scientific Committee, Floridi developed the ethical framework the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI formally adopted in 2019. It underpins the EU AI Act – the world’s first major AI regulation. He also served on the HLEG itself. His advisory work spans the European Commission, the German Ethics Council, the UK Cabinet Office, and companies including Google, IBM, and Microsoft. Since 2023, he has been Founding Director of Yale University’s Digital Ethics Center, where he holds the John K. Castle Professorship in the Practice of Cognitive Science. He has published more than 300 works and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Philosophy & Technology (Springer Nature). In 2022 he was awarded the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – Italy’s highest national honour. Key speaking topics AI ethics and digital governance Philosophy of information The EU AI Act and responsible AI regulation Organisational accountability in AI-mediated environments Data protection and digital rights Generative AI: agency, not intelligence The infosphere and the digital transformation of human identity Ideal for Boards and C-suite leadership teams making decisions about AI deployment and governance risk Chief Digital Officers, Chief Technology Officers, and Chief Risk Officers navigating AI regulation Regulatory, legal, and compliance functions operating under the EU AI Act or preparing for digital governance frameworks Government bodies and public sector organisations designing AI oversight structures Audience outcomes A working framework for understanding why existing AI governance policies often fail to address questions of accountability – and what a principled alternative looks like Familiarity with the “infosphere” and “onlife” concepts from The Fourth Revolution and their application to organisational decision-making A clear account of the “agency without intelligence” argument – and what it means for how organisations assign responsibility and structure oversight Practical orientation on the EU AI Act’s intellectual foundations and what genuine compliance requires beyond procedural checkboxes Insight into how governments, regulators, and major technology companies are approaching AI governance from someone who has participated directly in shaping those frameworks

Why organisations work with Alf Rehn His central argument runs against the grain of the innovation industry: that most of what organisations call innovation is performance, not practice – and that rebuilding the real thing requires dismantling the very frameworks many have paid consultants to install. Innovation for the Fatigued (Kogan Page) provides a named, publishable framework – “deep innovation” – that gives leadership teams a vocabulary to diagnose and address innovation theatre without discarding ambition. His current research at SDU’s Center for Organizational Datafication and its Ethics in Society gives him a credible, peer-reviewed lens on how AI and algorithmic systems are reshaping management and innovation decisions – a perspective grounded in data, not trend commentary. Having held chairs at three universities across Finland, Denmark and Sweden, and served on the board of a billion-dollar corporation, he operates across the researcher-practitioner boundary in a way that is rare in the innovation speaking space. His Thinkers50 Guru Radar inclusion (2016) and coverage in the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Harvard Business Review give buyers a named, verifiable body of external endorsement to anchor the engagement. Biography highlights Professor of Innovation, Design and Management, University of Southern Denmark Head of the Center for Organizational Datafication and its Ethics in Society, SDU – researching AI’s effects on management, innovation and algorithmic ethics Previously held the Chair of Management and Organisation at Åbo Akademi University, Finland; and a professorship in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Named to Thinkers50 Guru Radar (2016) – listed among “the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of management” Author of Innovation for the Fatigued (Kogan Page) and Dangerous Ideas – the latter translated into eight languages Featured in the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Harvard Business Review; over 1,000 keynotes delivered across five continents Biography Alf Rehn has spent much of his academic career making the same uncomfortable argument: that organisations are not suffering from a lack of innovation, but from an excess of innovation theatre. His book Innovation for the Fatigued, published by Kogan Page, names this problem directly – and his concept of “deep innovation” offers a framework for distinguishing creative cultures that produce real output from those that have learned to imitate one. That critique has weight because of where it comes from. Rehn holds a chair in Innovation, Design and Management at the University of Southern Denmark, where he also leads the Center for Organizational Datafication and its Ethics in Society – a research unit examining how AI and algorithmic technologies are changing the way executives, engineers and managers make decisions. He has previously held professorships at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, combining research across critical management studies, creativity and organisational theory. His earlier book Dangerous Ideas – translated into eight languages – argues that the ideas organisations most need are precisely the ones they are instinctively disposed to dismiss. Together, the two books form a coherent intellectual position: that genuine innovation requires not better processes but the courage to engage with what is uncomfortable, inconvenient and structurally difficult. Named to the Thinkers50 Guru Radar in 2016 and covered by the Financial Times, The Sunday Times and Harvard Business Review, Rehn engages boards and executive teams on the strategic gap between innovation ambition and innovation reality – and on how emerging technologies, including AI, are creating new versions of the same problem. Key speaking topics Innovation strategy and organisational creativity Innovation fatigue and deep innovation Creative cultures and their destruction Dangerous and unconventional ideas in business AI, datafication and ethics in management Leadership paradox and contradictory demands on leaders Scenario planning and taboo futures Contrarian and critical thinking in strategy Ideal for Chief Innovation Officers and strategy leads seeking to audit and rebuild innovation culture Executive leadership teams who have invested in innovation programmes with limited return Boards and C-suite audiences examining how AI is reshaping organisational decision-making CHROs and transformation leads working on the cultural conditions for sustained creativity Audience outcomes A clearer diagnostic for distinguishing genuine creative capacity from performative innovation activity Practical language and frameworks from Innovation for the Fatigued to challenge and rebuild internal innovation practice A more rigorous approach to unconventional and uncomfortable ideas, informed by the argument of Dangerous Ideas Familiarity with how AI and algorithmic systems are reshaping management decisions, grounded in current academic research A more honest account of what leadership under contradictory demands actually requires – and how to navigate it without resolving it

Why organisations work with Mara Balestrini Her governance frameworks are not conceptual – the Bristol Approach and the City Commons Framework (published at ACM CHI 2017) were developed with real institutions, in real urban systems, and have influenced urban data policy beyond their original contexts. Organisations get tested models, not white papers. She has operated at the level of national AI policy, serving as cabinet advisor to Spain’s Secretary of State for Digitalization and AI. That gives her a direct, non-theoretical understanding of how regulatory and governance frameworks are made – and where they typically fall short. Her tenure leading digital transformation and responsible AI at IDB Lab, including the fAIr LAC+ initiative, means she has applied these frameworks inside a multilateral institution managing large-scale technology programmes across 23 countries. The challenges she addresses are not hypothetical. Her research sits at the intersection of HCI, IoT, and responsible AI governance – cited over 1,500 times and recognised by ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and Ars Electronica. That academic grounding gives organisations the analytical vocabulary to move from AI deployment to AI accountability. As co-founder of SalusCoop, the first Spanish cooperative for citizens’ health data, she has demonstrated that the data governance models she advocates are viable as operating organisations, not just policy positions. Biography highlights PhD in Computer Science, Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Sustainable Connected Cities (ICRI-Cities), University College London Former CTO and Digital Transformation Lead, IDB Lab (Inter-American Development Bank Innovation Laboratory); contributor to fAIr LAC+, a dedicated initiative on responsible AI adoption across Latin America and the Caribbean Currently CEO of LNET, the global blockchain infrastructure nonprofit and executing agency for IDB Lab, operating across 23 countries Former cabinet advisor to Spain’s Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence Former CEO and Partner, Ideas for Change; originator of the City Commons Framework (ACM CHI 2017) and co-developer of the Bristol Approach with Bristol City Council Co-founder, SalusCoop, the first Spanish cooperative for citizens’ health data Over 30 academic publications; 1,584+ citations on Google Scholar; awards from ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and Ars Electronica Covered by BBC, The Guardian, the Financial Times, and El País; TEDx speaker (TEDxCordoba, 2018); Research Fellow, ESADE EsadeGov Center for Public Governance Biography Mara Balestrini’s core argument is that AI and digital transformation strategies fail not because the technology is wrong, but because the governance is built after the fact, not before. From European Commission-funded research to Spain’s national AI policy office to the Inter-American Development Bank, she has spent two decades building the frameworks to reverse that sequence. Her doctoral work at UCL’s Intel Collaborative Research Institute on Sustainable Connected Cities produced the City Commons Framework, published at ACM CHI 2017 – a model for embedding citizen governance into data-driven systems from the design stage. She co-developed the Bristol Approach with Bristol City Council and KWMC, a commons-based methodology for participatory sensing that reframes smart city investment around citizen priorities rather than technical capability. She also coordinated Making Sense, a European Commission H2020-funded project that turned community-owned environmental sensors into a platform for civic action at scale. From that research base she moved into national policy, serving as cabinet advisor to Spain’s Secretary of State for Digitalization and AI – one of the few HCI researchers to have held a position at that level of government. She then took the role of CTO and Digital Transformation Lead at IDB Lab, where she contributed to fAIr LAC+, the Inter-American Development Bank’s initiative on responsible AI adoption across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is currently CEO of LNET, the global blockchain infrastructure nonprofit that evolved from LACChain and now connects governments, multilateral organisations, and the private sector across 23 countries. Her research, cited over 1,500 times, spans HCI, IoT, and responsible AI governance. It has been recognised by ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and Ars Electronica, and covered by the BBC, the Financial Times, The Guardian, and El País. Key speaking topics Responsible AI governance and institutional accountability Digital transformation strategy for public and civic institutions Civic technology and citizen participation in technology design Smart cities and urban data governance Data rights and cooperative data models Emerging technology governance (blockchain, Web3) for institutions AI policy and regulation from a practitioner perspective Ideal for Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers navigating AI governance, data strategy, and responsible technology deployment Public sector executives and government leads managing AI policy, digital transformation, or regulatory frameworks Boards and senior leadership teams weighing institutional accountability in large-scale AI or data programmes Transformation leads and innovation directors in multilateral organisations, development banks, or international institutions Audience outcomes A working distinction between AI deployment and AI governance, and why confusing the two produces predictable failures at scale Familiarity with tested, named governance frameworks (Bristol Approach, City Commons Framework, fAIr LAC+) that can be adapted beyond urban or government contexts A clearer understanding of where current AI and digital transformation strategies most commonly break down, and what designing governance in from the start actually looks like in practice An informed view of how national AI policy is being shaped, drawn from direct government advisory experience rather than secondary analysis Practical reference points for designing responsible AI strategies that are accountable to stakeholders before they are deployed, not after