Westminster Digital Business Symposium 2023

4th Westminster Digital Business Symposium: 

Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence

18 October 2023: Regent Street Cinema, 307 Regent Street London W1B 2HW

About this event

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made significant advances in recent years, increasingly assuming a transformative role in the lives of individuals, organisations and society at large. While AI has the potential to offer numerous benefits, including personalised experiences, improved decision-making and problem-solving, the technology also poses significant challenges and risks. Among these risks are bias of outcomes, ethical concerns, job displacement and the inscrutability of how decisions are made.

The theme of the 4th Westminster Digital Business Symposium is “Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence”. The academic and industrial speakers of this symposium will discuss different interrelated aspects of artificial intelligence. The symposium will delve into the ways in which people relate to AI systems as consumers, the complex and unpredictable nature of AI ethics, the technical capabilities of modern AI systems and possible ways to overcome the inscrutable nature of dominant AI methods and algorithms.

We invite academics, students, practitioners and anyone interested in artificial intelligence to participate in this event. The event is in-person and registration is free. Please find the schedule of the symposium below.

Schedule

9:30 - 10:00: Registration and refreshments

Morning Session

10:00 - 10:20: Welcome and introduction

• Sergio de Cesare – Director of Centre for Digital Business Research

• Peter Bonfield – Vice Chancellor, University of Westminster

10:20 - 10:50: Unpacking the nature and role of trust in driving consumer acceptance vs rejection of digital technology

• Ana Canhoto, Professor of Digital Business, University of Sussex, UK

10:50 - 11:20: Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future - An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies

• Bernd Stahl, Professor of Critical Research in Technology, University of Nottingham, UK

11:20 - 11:35: Coffee break

11:35 - 12:05: NRG presents: The Accountable AI Playbook

• Fergus Navaratnam-Blair, Research Director, NRG, UK

12:05 - 12:30: Morning Panel with Q&A

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

Afternoon Session

13:30 - 14:00: Potential and Pitfalls of AI in Healthcare

• Allan Tucker, Head of the Intelligent Data Analysis Group, Brunel University London, UK

14:00 - 14:30: What is needed to artificially understand the world around us?

• Stefano Borgo, Head of the Laboratory for Applied Ontology, National Research Council, Italy

14:30 - 14:45 : Coffee break

14:45 - 15:15 Of Elephants, Pumpkins, and Self-driving Cars: New Trends and Old Problems in AI

• Alessandro Oltramari, Senior Research Scientist, Bosch, USA

15:15 - 15:45: Afternoon Panel with Q&A

15:45 - 16:00: Closing

• Sergio de Cesare, Director of Centre for Digital Business Research