Dr Jennifer Barth holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and is Head of Research and Insights at FSP, where she brings a rare blend of ethnographic depth, commercial acuity, and ethical clarity to the AI conversation. 

Jenn’s work sits at the intersection of technology, organisational culture, and socioeconomic change. She is known for translating complex technological shifts into human-centred insights that resonate deeply with executive audiences. Her measured, critically informed perspective, grounded in qualitative research and lived experience, enables leaders to move from abstract concern to practical, principled action. 

Alongside her role at FSP, Jenn serves as Chief Research Officer at OpenUK, travelling globally to engage visionary leaders shaping positive futures with AI. Her thought leadership consistently challenges organisations to embed responsibility not as compliance, but as culture, ensuring AI augments human capability while strengthening trust, inclusion, and long-term value.

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Dr Chris works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, organisational transformation, and workforce resilience. Advising senior leaders on how to move beyond AI experimentation toward meaningful, responsible integration – where strategy, culture, governance, and capability development align. His work focuses not on the hype of frontier models, but on the practical realities of building AI-ready organisations in conditions of uncertainty. 

A trusted voice across academia, industry, and policy, Dr Chris is known for reframing AI not as a technical challenge alone, but as a leadership test – one that demands clarity, courage, and long-term stewardship. 

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Lord John Browne is one of the UK’s most respected business leaders, well known for his tenure as CEO of BP, where he led the company through major global transformation in complex, highly regulated environments. His leadership experience spans large scale organisational change, technology enabled efficiency and long term strategic decision making at enterprise scale. 

Today, Lord Browne invests in and advises science and technology driven businesses advancing the energy transition and industrial innovation. He serves as Independent Co-Chair of the UK Prime Minister’s Council on Science and Technology, helping shape national strategy on research and emerging technologies. His current portfolio includes chairing Xyme, a company fusing generative AI with experimental data to create the enzymes of tomorrow, Avathon, an artificial intelligence technology firm, and Carbonplace, a global platform for carbon credit management and trading. With experience spanning global industry, capital markets and public policy, Lord Browne brings a distinctive perspective on AI, including agentic systems and the intersection of innovation, governance and long-term competitive advantage across both public and private sectors. 

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Professor Kirstine Dale, leads the integration of artificial intelligence across one of the UK’s most important scientific organisations. Her work focuses on applying AI to complex, real-world challenges, from advancing weather forecasting and climate science to strengthening national resilience. Kirstine is also a Fellow of The Alan Turing Institute and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. With a background spanning data science, innovation and public sector leadership, she brings a distinctive perspective on how AI can be deployed responsibly at scale to deliver meaningful impact. 

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Sat Dayal is Managing Director of Technology at Edelman, where he leads technology strategy and innovation across the organisation while advising global clients on the implications of emerging technologies. With a strong focus on responsible AI, Sat works at the intersection of technology, governance and organisational culture, helping businesses embed AI capabilities into their operations in ways that are secure, sustainable and trusted. 
 
Alongside his work leading technology transformation at Edelman, Sat is a recognised voice in discussions around ethical and responsible AI, regularly contributing to academic and industry forums exploring how organisations can adopt AI responsibly while maintaining transparency, accountability and public trust. His perspective combines practical experience implementing AI with a deep interest in the societal and cultural impact of emerging technologies. 

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Lesley Pink is a senior digital and AI leader at the UK Home Office, where she has shaped the department’s enterprise approach to Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI within one of the UK’s most complex and regulated environments. As AI Trials and Delivery Programme Lead, she defined the Home Office AI strategy, vision and guardrails, contributing to cross government policy while ensuring safe, ethical and secure adoption at scale. 
 
She led the department’s first enterprise wide Generative AI trial and rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot, delivering significant productivity gains and pioneering its use as a reasonable adjustment for neurodiverse and disabled colleagues, a first across UK Government. Her leadership spans AI governance, risk and cross functional oversight across Legal, Ethics, Cyber Security and Policy. As Chair of the Women in Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) network, she champions inclusive leadership and capability across the profession.

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Mike Potter led digital strategy and transformation across the Civil Service, shaping how services are designed and delivered at scale. Mike has held senior roles at Thames Water, HMRC and NHS Blood and Transplant, where he led award-winning transformation programmes across complex organisations. With a strong focus on AI adoption, service improvement and efficiency, Mike is known for building high performing teams and driving meaningful change, and is recognised as a Global CDO100 leader. 

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Christophe leads strategy and transformation at the intersection of data, digital identity and national security. With a career spanning senior roles across government and international policy, he brings deep expertise in shaping data-driven approaches within complex, highly regulated environments. Known for bridging policy, technology and delivery, Christopher offers a practical perspective on how organisations can harness data and AI securely, responsibly and at scale. 

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Sir William Sargent is co-founder and Chairman of Framestore, the world-leading creative and technology studio behind films including Harry Potter, Gravity, Guardians of the Galaxy, Paddington, F1 and How to Train Your Dragon. Over nearly four decades, he has led the organisation through multiple waves of technological change, building a global business where human creativity, data and advanced technology work together at scale. Alongside his creative leadership, he has held senior UK public roles including Permanent Secretary for Regulatory Reform at the Cabinet Office and Board Director at HM Treasury, giving him a rare perspective on how AI capability, governance and leadership intersect to create sustainable competitive advantage across both public and private sectors.

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Gemma Ungoed-Thomas works at the intersection of national security, emerging technology and resilience. Her work focuses on how governments assess and respond to evolving risks from cyber threats, advanced technologies and geopolitical disruption across critical national infrastructure and the wider economy. With a background spanning national security, technology policy and cyber resilience, Gemma advises senior leaders on how advances in areas such as artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure are reshaping both opportunity and risk for organisations and governments alike.

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Simon Walker is a trusted strategic advisor to enterprise and public sector leaders navigating AI driven transformation. His work focuses on the leadership challenge at the heart of AI adoption and how organisations combine human judgement with secure data, intelligent systems and scalable platforms. Drawing on deep experience across Data & AI, Cyber Security, Cloud and Change Delivery, Simon helps leaders move beyond experimentation to embed AI responsibly and confidently at scale. His perspective sits at the intersection of strategy, technology and organisational change, making him a leading voice on Human & AI Leadership, and on what it takes for transformation to succeed in practice, not just in theory. 

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