Engineering Trustworthy AI : From Concept to Reality

Helen Oakley, Director of Secure Software Supply Chains and Secure Development, SAP

Helen Oakley, CISSP, GPCS, GSTRT, is a prominent leader in cybersecurity and AI transparency. She co-leads CISA.gov AI SBOM working group and contributes to pivotal initiatives like OWASPAI.org Agentic AI Security, evolving frameworks and best practices for AI security and transparency.

As the Director of Secure Software Supply Chains and Secure Development at SAP’s Global Security and Cloud Compliance, Helen champions security-by-design practices across engineering teams.

Dima Nekrasov, Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon

Dima solves data availability challenges for AI product development at Amazon, ensuring that data supply is robust, scalable, and aligned with customer needs, business goals, product requirements, and compliance standards across security, legal, and privacy. He leads data engineering and applied science programs aimed at sourcing and delivering petabyte-scale datasets, empowering Computer Vision algorithms for the world’s most popular security cameras and smart doorbells. He is also passionate about enterprise knowledge management and collaboration solutions that drive productivity and improve work satisfaction for tech and business teams.

Max Greenwood, AI Governance Policy Advisor, Department of Science, Innovation & Technology

Max is an AI governance policy advisor and product manager in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. He leads the department's research and development of AI assurance products, including Model Cards Plus. Max holds a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence and has experience working in early-stage tech ventures.

Dr Nick Allott, CEO, NquiringMinds

NquiringMinds develops two products: TDX Cloud (Trusted Data Exchange) a cloud based data sharing and analytics platform and TDX Edge a highly secure edge based analytics platform. NQM has won numerous industry awards for its innovative use of AI and security technologies

Nick has held number or executive positions in FastMobile, Motorola, Shell, and the Pearson Group. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

Dr William Jones, AI Lead, Embecosm

Dr William Jones is the AI Lead at Embecosm, a specialist UK Tech consultancy.

Williams background is in computational neuroscience, focused on quantitative methods in consciousness, cognition and metacognition. In his current role at Embecosm, as well as working as an engineer, he leads work on the Techworks best practices guide, and is active as an industrial supervisor for students at several universities. His current work focuses on Bayesian methods, Large Language models, and AI compilers

David Rogers MBE, CEO Copper Horse

David is a mobile telecoms and security specialist who runs Copper Horse Ltd, a software and security company based in Windsor, UK. His company is currently focusing on research for AI model security, product security for the Internet of Things as well as future automotive cyber security.

David chairs the Fraud and Security Group at the GSMA. He authored the UK’s ‘Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security’, in collaboration with UK government and industry colleagues and is a member of the UK’s Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Advisory Council.

Prof Andrew Martin, University of Oxford

Andrew Martin is Professor of Systems Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. His main interest is in how hardware-software co-design can enhance the security of networked distributed systems. He has also led a range of cross-disciplinary efforts across the University and beyond – with a particular interest in how human factors can enhance or confound the best security technologies. He thinks that the key to progress is strong rigorous foundations, mixed with a great degree of pragmatism.

Dr. Steve Moyle

Steve Moyle was at Tony Sale’s early fundraising dinner events to save Bletchley Park from housing development and was privileged to hear after dinner speakers who were significant WWII code breakers – Peter Hilton, and John Herivel.

Steve worked alongside another of Bletchley cryptanalysts, Turing Institute founder Donald Michie – as a graduate student in Oxford.

James Lewis

James Lewis is the CEO of AI chip startup, RED Semiconductor International Ltd. A University of London graduate in Electronic Engineering, James was the founder of Oxford Semiconductor and Redux, both companies innovating new semiconductor solutions to meet demanding market needs. He is adept at recognising customer-specific and market-generic needs, leading the development of chip solutions to meet those needs, and interacting with customers globally to win designs and close high-value orders. 

Gareth Richards, AI Network Manager, TechWorks-AI

Gareth is a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) and holds a B.Sc. (Eng) in Electronics and Computer Systems from King’s College, University of London. He has over thirty years of experience in the development of highly secure electronic transaction and cyber security solutions, including TRSMs and PIN Encrypting Devices.