This event is hosted by Ali Hossaini, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London and Director of National Gallery X
| Time | Session | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 14:15-14:30 | Opening Remarks | Ms Emma De Angelis, Director of Publications/Editor RUSI Journal, RUSI |
| 14:30-15:00 | Creative OpeningThe First | A short film written by Luca Viganò and directed by Ali Hossaini. |
| 15:00-16:00 | Global Contests: Artificial Intelligence and Strategy | Dr Frank Hoffman, Distinguished Research Fellow, National Defense University Dr Pippa Malmgren, Founder, H Robotics Dr Kenneth Payne, Reader in International Relations, King’s College London Professor Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation NHS England and NHS Improvement Chair: Ashlee Godwin,, Senior Committee Specialist, House of Commons |
| Time | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Welcome | |
| 10:40-11:30 | Keynote address | Ele Harwich. Head of AI Collaborations, NHS X |
| 11:30-11:45 | Creative Tea Break: Climb! | Steve Benford,, Dunford Professor of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, in conversation with Dr Maria Kallionpää,, composer in residence, Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University |
| 11:45-12:30 | Trust in Non-human Intelligence: Can Understanding lead to Confidence? | - Dr Karen Brady, Training and Behaviour Consultant (South East), The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association - Ardi Janjeva, Research Analyst in Organised Crime and Policing, RUSI - Dr Keith Dear, Director Artificial Intelligence Innovation, Defence and National Security, Fujitsu - Bhrmie Balaram, Head of AI Research and Ethics, NHSX AI Lab - Chair: Dr Paul O’Neill, Senior Research Fellow, RUSI |
| 12:30-13:30 | Creative Lunch Break: What an AI Sees | Ben Murray and Neus Torres Tamarit – live performance Moderated by Ali Hossaini |
| 13:30-14:15 | Procurement and Acquisition: Future Proofing Fast-Changing Technologies | Professor Trevor Taylor, RUSI Professor Tim Underwood, Head of Cancer Sciences Academic Unit, University of Southampton |
| 14:15-14:30 | Creative Tea Break: Zeitgeist | Oliver Gingrich and Shama Rahman on their digital art piece exploring audiovisual neurofeedback strategies Moderated by Ali Hossaini |
| 14:30-15:15 | Dr Marion Oswald, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Fellow in Law, University of Northumbria | |
| 15:15-15:30 | Creative Tea Break: The BrainControlled Movies | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Governance and Regulation: Bridging the Gaps between Law and Ethics | - Professor Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Personal Chair of Robot Learning and Autonomy, University of Edinburgh - AVM Tamara Jennings, Director Legal Services (RAF) - Rhodri Morgan, - Chair: Professor Chris Watkins, Professor in Computer Science, Royal Holloway HSE |
| Time | Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
Workshop 1: Health & Social Care | ||
| 0900: - 09:05 | Introduction from the chairs | Age Chapman (University of Southampton) and Mat Rawsthorne (University of Nottingham) |
| Panel 1: ‘Embodied Systems in Health’ | ||
| 09.05 - 09.15 | Trustworthy Human-Robot Teams | Nicholas Watson (University of Nottingham), Dominic Price, Maria Galvez Trigo, Joel Fischer, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Richard Hyde, Christine Evers, Pauline Leonard, Chira Tochia, Paul Luff, Prokar Dasgupta, Sylvaine Tuncer (King’s College London) |
| 09.15 - 09.25 | Resilience of Autonomous Physically Assistive Robots | Sanja Dogramadzi (University of Sheffield), Lyudmila Mihaylova, James Law, Radu Calinescu (University of York) |
| 09.25 - 09.35 | Kaspar explains: the impact of explanation on human-robot trust using an educational | Farshid Amirabdollahian (University of Hertfordshire) |
| 09.35 - 09.45 | Would you trust a RoboDoc? The potential ethical pitfalls of autonomous systems with evolving functionality deployed in healthcare | Jonathan Ives, Helen Smith, Arianna Manzini (University of Bristol) |
| Break | Break | Break |
| 10.20 - 10.30 | Panel 2: ‘Building Trusted Health Systems’ An Open Laboratories Programme for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems | Tony Prescott (University of Sheffield) |
| 10.30 - 10.40 | Trustworthy Autonomous Systems to support Healthcare Experiences (TAS for Health) Project | Pepita Barnard (University of Nottingham) |
| 10.40 - 10.50 | Embedding Social Science into Upstream Engineering Research: Inclusivity as a pathway to building trust | David Cameron, Stevienna de Saille, James Law (University of Sheffield); Elvira Perez Vallejos (University of Nottingham), Mark Ball (University of Derby), Mark Levine (University of Lancaster), Cath Ritchie (NYCC) |
| 10.50 – 11.00 | Understanding Trust and Public Acceptance of Digital Contact Tracing in the UK | Joel Fischer, Liz Dowthwaite, Camilla Babbage, Hanne Wagner, Elena Nichele, Jeremie Clos, Pepita Barnard, Elvira Perez Vallejos, and Derek McAuley (University of Nottingham) |
| 11.00 - 11.20 | Panel discussion led by chairs and closing remarks | |
Workshop 2: Defence & Security | ||
| 11.40 – 11.45 | Introduction from the chairs | Alec Banks (Dstl) and Stuart Middleton (University of Southampton) |
| Panel 1: ‘Trustworthy Systems in Defence Applications’ | ||
| 11.45 - 11.55 | Towards Trustworthy Autonomy and AI: Security Aspects in Defence | Gokhan Inalhan, Antonios Tsourdos and Simon H. Harwood (Cranfield University) |
| 11.55 - 12.05 | Trust Swarms in Extreme Environments | Mohammad Divband Soorati (University of Southampton) |
| 12.05 - 12.15 | Swarm Engineering Across Scales | Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol) |
| 12.15 - 12.25 | UKRI Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning Methods for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems | Lyudmila Mihaylova, Sanja Dogramadzi, James Law (University of Sheffield), Radu Calinescu (University of York) |
| 12.25 - 12.35 | Panel discussion led by chairs | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Biological Autonomy: Can Machines Come Alive? | - Professor Ana Soto, Tufts University School of Medicine - Professor Carlos Sonnenschein, Tufts University School of Medicine - Dr Ali Hossaini, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London - Professor Denis Noble, University of Oxford - Professor Ray Noble, UCL - Chair, Professor Luca Viganò, Vice-Dean and Head of Cybersecurity Group, King’s College London |
| Break | Break | Break |
| Panel 2: ‘Assurance in an Uncertain World’ | ||
| 13.30 - 13.40 | Assuring Machine-Learning for Use in Autonomous Systems | Colin Paterson (University of York) |
| 13.40 - 13.50 | Participatory and Ethical Assurance | Christopher Burr (Alan Turing Institute) |
| 13.50 - 14.00 | Regulatory challenges associated with the fallibility of AI-based systems - TAS Governance Node | Subramanian Ramamoorthy (University of Edinburgh) |
| 14.00 - 14.10 | Consent Verification in Autonomous Systems | Inah Omoronyia, Alice Miller (University of Glasgow) |
| 14.10 - 14.20 | SafeSpacesNLP - Behaviour classification NLP in a socio-technical AI setting for online harmful behaviours for children and young people | Stuart Middleton (University of Southampton), Jeremie Clos, Elena Nichele (University of Nottingham) |
| 14.20 - 14.40 | Panel discussion led by chairs | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Workshop 3: TAS Hub Community Engagement SessionLed by the TAS Hub Director, Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn | This moderated session will provide attendees with an open opportunity to discuss the conference, wider TAS Hub progress and future direction. |