Talks

I enjoy communicating data protection, governance, and ethics-related topics to professional, academic, and non-academic audiences. This page lists a selection of my upcoming and past speaking engagements.

2024

What is your ‘problem’ and is AI the answer? Discussion led alongside Sir Robert Buckland - Travelers and DAC Beachcroft, London, July 23 2024

Uses, benefits, and challenges of AI for commercial litigation - Association of Litigation Professional Support Lawyers, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, London, June 13 2024

Fireside Chat: Minimise Risk and Maximise Value of Emerging Technology - London Tech Week, London, June 10 2024

Navigating the data regulation and policy landscape to support innovation - Legal Geek Growth, London, June 6 2024

Risk management of AI in legal services - Xapien, Online, April 17 2024

2023

Panel discussion on charities and Artificial Intelligence - Charity Law Association Annual Conference, London, October 12 2023

Exploring Children’s Rights and Artificial Intelligence – Information Commissioner’s Office Scottish Privacy Forum, Online, August 1 2023

Artificial Intelligence and Education: Existential threat or an everyday toolkit? – House of Commons, London, July 18 2023

Embedding Ethics: Practice – Data Science & AI Educators Programme, The Alan Turing Institute, London June 21 2023

Co-creating Data Protection Solutions through a Commons - Council of Europe Bureau of the Committee of Convention 108 Plenary, Strasbourg, June 16 2023

Embedding Ethics: Background – Data Science & AI Educators Programme, The Alan Turing Institute, London June 7 2023

Exploring Children’s Rights and Child-Centred AI - Many Worlds of AI, University of Cambridge, April 28 2023

Data Ethics for the Built Environment – Privacy Symposium, Venice, April 19 2023

Internet of Things and the Law Book Discussion – EUI Information Society Working Group, Florence, April 14 2023

Exploring Children’s Rights and AI - Breaking News! – Scottish AI Summit, Glasgow, March 28 2023

2022

A healthy trust in data? Personalised health and preventative care – Newcastle University, October 26 2022

The Data Commons: How user power can protect privacy and promote data protection – National Association of Data Protection Officers, Online, October 25 2022

The Alan Turing Institute and the Real Estate Sector – The RED Foundation Forum, Online, October 11 2022

Beyond Big Data Surveillance: Freedom & Fairness – University of Ottawa, May 18 2022

Regulating AI: discussion on the Why, When and How – The Alan Turing Institute, London, May 5 2022

2021

Data protection and governance in educational spaces – University of Winchester, November 25 2021

Alternative Data Futures: Cooperative Principles, Data Trusts, and the Digital Economy – Platform Cooperativism Conference, November 18 2021

A Commons for Online Learning: Supporting students’ data protection preferences – Higher Education Institutional Research Conference, September 23 2021

A Conversation on Web Scraping – DataKind UK, September 15 2021

Online Learning as a Commons: Supporting the co-creation of data protection solutions through a collaborative digital environment – Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN), August 26 2021

Whither data portability? Obstacles to the GDPR’s newest data subject right – British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) Annual Conference 2021, April 16 2021

A Commons for Online Learning : Supporting civic data protection education in the digital classroom – British and Irish Law Education and Technology Association (BILETA) Annual Conference 2021, April 15 2021

Virtual Hack: How can we tackle the spread of ‘fake news’ and build public knowledge and trust in sound science? – The Royal Society of Edinburgh Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission, March 25 2021

Women and Girls’ Empowerment through Responsive Quality Education – United National Women NGO CSW Forum, March 16 2021

2020

Online Learning as a Commons – Open Education Policy Forum, October 29 2020

Data Protection as a Commons – Creative Commons Summit, October 22 2020

Data Protection for the Common Good – Data for Policy Conference, September 15 2020

Unconscious Bias: Building data ethics into our tech industry – Lloyds Banking Group Women ConnecTech, July 21 2022