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Meet the Speakers
Speakers- Frontier AI Research Lab Team
Professor Alessandra Russo (Director)
Professor Alessandra Russo (Director)
Professor at Imperial's Department of Computing
Professor Jonathan Richard Schwarz (Associate Director)
Professor Jonathan Richard Schwarz (Associate Director)
Visiting Professor at Imperial
Professor Felix Steffek (Associate Director)
Professor Felix Steffek (Associate Director)
Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge
Nabeel Seedat (Senior Researcher)
Nabeel Seedat (Senior Researcher)
Technical Staff- AI Research at Lila Sciences
About the day
- What will I learn at this event?
- Agenda for the day
- Can I join online?
- Finding Us and Accessibility Information
- Photography, Recording and Privacy Notice
- Constitutional Value Alignment and Evaluation
- New methods for customisation of open-weight models
- AI in Law
- A preview of upcoming work
We will also host a range of expert speakers who will discuss AI across various areas, including Government and Policy, Safety, and Science.
Full agenda and speakers to be announced soon!
9:30 AM
Arrival, registration, and refreshments.
10 AM - 12 PM
Welcome, introductions, and keynote presentations on AI Safety and Sovereignty.
12 PM
Networking lunch
12:45 PM
AI in Law: Panel discussion led by Professor Felix Steffek
1:15 PM
Panel moderated by Dr Nabeel Seedat
AI at the Frontier: Technical Challenges and Policy Priorities
What are the most pressing challenges in developing, evaluating, and governing increasingly capable AI systems and how can technical advances and policy interventions work together to address them?
2:20PM
Closing remarks
2:30 PM
Poster session and networking refreshments.
This event is in-person only.
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Nearest underground stations:
- White City station (Central Line): approximately 10-minutes walking
- Wood Lane station (Hammersmith and City, Circle Lines): approximately 13-minutes walking
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Accessibility
- Imperial's Campus Accessibility Information
- AccessAble (I-HUB building):
Detailed accessibility information for the building where the event will be hosted. You can also use this resource to find accessibility information for other Imperial campuses.
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Please note that photography, audio recording, and video recording will take place during this event. Images and recordings may be used by Imperial College London and the Thomson Reuters-Imperial Frontier AI Research Lab for event reporting, research dissemination, communications, marketing, and the promotion of future activities. By attending, you acknowledge that you may appear in event photographs or recordings. If you have concerns about being photographed or recorded, please contact the event organisers in advance or speak to a member of the event team on arrival. While we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate requests, we may not be able to guarantee that attendees will not appear in photographs or recordings.