Karen Salt is Professor of Culture, Place and Communities at Manchester Metropolitan University. As a sector leader and social scientist, Professor Salt has led large research teams, advised complex interdisciplinary research projects and provided support to universities and organisations interested in institutional change. She spent five years in UK Research and Innovation, working closely with the UKRI Board, Executive Chairs, UK ministers and sector leaders – all while strategically managing teams across several critical policy areas, including trusted research and secure innovation. She continues to provide sector leadership as a key advisor focused on transforming the structures that impact marginalised and underserved communities and co-creating more just public services and organisations.

Dr Nayha Sethi is a Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation at University of Edinburgh who has worked as a socio-legal research fellow on many projects. Her work explores the blurring of boundaries between, and building of responsible regulatory approaches across healthcare, research and innovation. It emphasises the importance of involving stakeholders within the development of regulatory approaches. Her work considers these topics alongside themes such as trust and social licence in data driven innovation, Artificial Intelligence, and global health emergencies.

Octavia Field Reid is Associate Director (Public Participation & Research Practice) at the Ada Lovelace Institute. Leading Ada’s Public Participation Research and Research Practice teams, she directs and co-creates all Ada’s quantitative and qualitative research, to ensure that the voices of people are heard in processes and decision-making across policy, industry and public services. She leads organisational thinking on how Ada does research, including design, methods, integrity and ethics. And designed and implemented the impact framework that has guided our work since 2019.

Octavia holds an MA in Digital Media Culture, an MSc in Social Research and is currently a PhD candidate in UCL Science and Technology Studies, with a subject specialism in technology governance and corporate law. Octavia contributes to developing conversations about participation in data and AI as a member of the ESRC-funded Digital Good Network College of Experts, the AHRC-funded BRAID Stakeholder Forum, as well as the Royal Academy of Engineering Technology Pathways and Meaningful Innovation Steering Group and the Scottish Government’s Unlocking the Value of Data Strategic Advisory Group.

Dean Chalmers is aPhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching temporality in music and digital games.

Dean also works across the BRAID research project, including as Tutor on the MOOC (Responsible AI for SMEs), as a member of the Secretariat for the Stakeholder Forum, and as a contributor to BRAID’s impact and engagement reporting.

David is a visual artist, change consultant and transformation director based in London. His research-based art practice explores how the new protocols of the post-digital age and artificial intelligence influence and shape our societies.

With two decades’ experience working at the intersection of culture and digital, Rob is currently the Director of Digital & Service Transformation at the National Library of Scotland.  

Elaine Banton is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in equality, employment and human rights law. She advises on AI governance and algorithmic fairness, championing Equality By Dessssssign. A UN Women UK Trustee and CEDR accredited mediator, she advances fair, accountable AI through law, policy and strategic litigation.  

Tania is the Founder of We and AI – a volunteer non-profit organisation which runs the Better Images of AI library, and projects and resources related to critical AI literacy advocacy, research, design and delivery. She works on the decoding of narratives related to AI hype, AI inevitability, and AI metaphors.

Tania is the Founder of We and AI – a volunteer non-profit organisation which runs the Better Images of AI library, and projects and resources related to critical AI literacy advocacy, research, design and delivery. She works on the decoding of narratives related to AI hype, AI inevitability, and AI metaphors.

Rob Eagle is a researcher at the Centre for Cultural Value and a multidisciplinary artist working across performance, film and interactive and immersive media. Rob’s research on AI spans two areas: first, how cultural narratives shape our relationship to and perceptions of AI; and second, how cultural organisations engage with AI and emerging digital technologies. 

Isabel works in Responsible AI in financial services. With a background studying International Relations, she brings a governance perspective to AI risk, corporate responsibility and global policy, with an interest in how geopolitical, societal and organisational factors shape responsible AI in practice.

Academic researcher working on digital society, AI misinformation, critical AI literacies, environmental impact of AI, and the right of digital refusal; independent artist and illustrator.

Associate Director at the Royal Academy of Engineering and lead for the National Policy Centre, overseeing policy advice, Policy Fellowships, futures and dialogue and professional ethics. Published author on engineering in policy, engineering ethics and philosophy of engineering.

Stephen Miller is a Chief Technology Officer, data and responsible AI technologist with 20+ years’ experience turning research into practical technology across health, social care, culture and civil society. His work centres on ethical AI adoption, governance, automation, agentic AI and human-centred digital transformation.

Ziski Putz is a technology policy and partnerships leader working at the intersection of AI governance, digital rights, and international development. Drawing on experience spanning Silicon Valley, grassroots advocacy, and international development, she brings expertise in bridging government, researcher, industry, and civil society to shape responsible technology policy. She currently leads global movement advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation.

Researcher with a background in human centred design and intersectional methods. Interested in the data and privacy implications of AI, and exploring how participatory research and design approaches might inform more ethical, inclusive, and responsible AI futures.

I’ve experience of working with decision makers across the voluntary and public sector in the Midlands on migrant integration policy practices and strategies. I joined the BRAID stakeholder forum to promote responsible AI rollouts in the public sector and promote AI literacy among communities.  

Theresa leads Digital Economy activity at Highlands and Islands Enterprise, supporting businesses, communities and partners across the Highlands and Islands to adopt digital technologies, strengthen cyber resilience, and explore responsible data and AI use. Her work helps organisations build capability, confidence, collaboration and innovation-led growth across the region and nationally.