Ray is an expert in Responsible AI. He is an Accenture Luminary and Senior Research Associate for Responsible AI at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge. He has led ethical AI research collaborations with Stanford, MIT, The Alan Turing Institute and the Institute for AI Ethics at Oxford University.

Ray advises on principles and policy, governance, areas of risk (such as bias, explainability, reliability and sustainability), controls, capabilities and supporting platforms and technologies. Ray’s practical experience across industries and the public sector helps organisations build AI assurance programs and scale their use of AI with confidence. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayeitelporter/

Joshua is the founder of Gen-R Law, a climate and ESG focused law firm based in London. He leads the firm's ESG, Compliance and Investigations practice.

Before opening Gen-R Law, Joshua worked at a leading American law firm as a White Collar Crime lawyer. He leverages that expertise to advise clients on how corporate shortcomings on climate and ESG might translate into legal and regulatory risks and how those risks can be mitigated through proper governance.

Joshua is also passionate about promoting the positive case for corporate engagement with ESG as a tool to create stakeholder value, drive operational resilience and improve corporate culture.

Alison Biscoe is CSHR’s Head of Programme Development and Capacity Building. She is responsible for the design, development and oversight of a range of programmes, activities and technical cooperations that generate outputs, share knowledge and build capacity across the global sport ecosystem. A seasoned project manager, her work ensures that CSHR’s offerings are practical, relevant, and responsive to stakeholder needs.

Charlie Beckett is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications. He is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' international journalism think-tank. Professor Beckett is currently leading the Polis Journalism and AI project. He was director of the LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission that reported on the misinformation crisis in 2018. Before joining the LSE in 2006 he was an award-winning journalist at LWT, BBC and ITN.

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Elsie Roderiques leads the 'Values in the Media' project at Common Cause Foundation. The project aims to support those working in the media to recognise the sector's role as a cultural values influencer and to encourage them to reinforce intrinsic values in their work as a means of rebalancing our values environment. 

Common Cause Foundation is a small non-profit that works at the intersection of culture change and human values. They're driven by the belief that it is possible to design societies that magnify and strengthen the cooperative and caring parts of human nature. We know that values play a pivotal role in shaping our cultures and systems. The dominant global culture is out of balance, prioritising extrinsic values such as wealth, power and social status, in a way that has led us to the brink of destruction. We also know that balance can be restored with the elevation of intrinsic values which have, for too long, been neglected.

Informed by decades of social psychological research, as well as other ways of knowing that centre the interconnectedness of human beings and nature, they are helping to build the foundations for a culture that truly reflects the intrinsic values which the majority of people prioritise.

Emily McKenzie is the Technical Director at the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). She has worked for 20 years integrating nature in policy, finance, economics and decision-making. Most recently, she led the analytical team that produced the independent, global Dasgupta Review on the Economics of Biodiversity, based at HM Treasury in the UK.

Emily previously was seconded to the Capitals Coalition Technical Group where she helped develop the Natural Capital Protocol. Emily worked for a decade in the WWF Global Science team, where she helped establish and lead the Natural Capital Project at Stanford University. She also helped design the Environmental Land Management scheme in England – a major national agricultural subsidy reform programme – based at the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in over 20 countries worldwide. She works closely with politicians, police forces, businesses, schools and organisations from the United Nations to the Council of Europe to tackle sexism and sexual violence. She is Patron of Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support and contributor at Women Under Siege, a New York-based organisation working to end rape as a weapon of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is a bestselling author of many books, including Everyday Sexism, Men Who Hate Women and Fix the System Not the Women, and she writes regularly for the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and others. Laura is an honorary fellow at St John’s College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded a British Empire Medal by the Queen for her services to Gender Equality and listed as one of CNN's 10 Visionary Women.

Rebekah Church is WWF’s Global Biodiversity Stewardship Lead, driving the development of new approaches and tools to support the private sector in understanding and addressing their biodiversity impacts. Rebekah is an environmental lawyer with a background in ecology and has over a decade of experience in biodiversity strategy and program development. She has worked across NGOs, government and in the private sector and is passionate about protecting species and ecosystems all over the world.

Thomas Vellacott is CEO of WWF Switzerland. WWF‘s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Thomas is passionate about nature and has supported WWF since he was eight years old. Before joining WWF professionally, he worked for Citibank and McKinsey & Co.

Hattie has experience with clients across sectors, with her main expertise lying in human rights, supply chains and strategy management. She works in a number of areas, most recently covering remediation of forced labour issues, responsible sourcing, circular economy strategy and modern slavery reporting. She leads Carnstone’s work on labour and human rights in the publishing sector, through the Book Chain Project.

Before Carnstone, Hattie spent several years working in supply chain and logistics at a start-up fashion brand, reinforcing her commercial experience.