AI – an introduction, application and governance
This talk will cover what AI is and isn’t, and some specific examples of how different forms of AI are being used in business.
Zoë will highlight the partnership between people and machines, and will discuss some emerging findings about the use of recent advances in AI. She will talk about what it takes to be successful with AI in an organisation including some critical and timely topics in AI governance.
Speakers
Zoe Webster
Zoë advises organisations on AI strategy and practice, having been in the AI space for over two decades, as a practitioner and leader. Until May 2024, Zoë led BT’s AI Centre of Enablement which she built in the midst of a wider digital transformation to develop and deploy data science and AI at scale across the business. Before that, Zoë worked at Innovate UK where she led teams to accelerate UK innovation across a range of enabling and emerging technologies and sectors, including AI, manufacturing and novel materials. Zoë began her career, with an MSc and PhD in AI, at QinetiQ and SEA developing and demonstrating cutting-edge AI technologies, in areas including cyber security, retail and health. In 2023, Zoë gave evidence to the UK House of Lord’s Communications and Digital Committee on the opportunities and risks of Large Language Models.
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