Industry Advisory Board

Karen Mcluskie

Deputy Director, Technology, U.K. Department for Business and Trade and RAi IAB Chair

Karen Mcluskie is deputy director of technology in the United Kingdom government’s Department for Business and Trade. Previously, she was senior emerging-technology advisor in the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development...

Sundeep Bhandari

Chief Digital Innovation Officer / Head of Digital Innovation, National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

Sundeep (Sunny) works at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) the UK’s National Measurement Institute, responsible for measurement strategy and delivery in the UK and a key component of the UK’s...

Kay Firth-Butterfield

CEO, Good Tech Advisory

Kay Firth-Butterfield is the CEO of Good Tech Advisory. In 2024 she has been a TIME 100 Impact Awardee 2024, Whos Who Emerging Innovator, recognized in Who’s Who in America...

Farzana Dudhwala

Global AI Policy and Governance Lead at Meta

Dr Farzana Dudhwala is Global AI Policy & Governance Lead at Meta, where she leads a team focusing on frontier AI safety policy, evaluations and benchmarking, international governance of AI, and...

Jason Du Preez

VP, Informatica

Jason du Preez is VP of Informatica, leading the development and delivery of data access and privacy management capabilities. Jason was born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa.  His career...

Rebecca Finlay

CEO at Partnership on AI

Rebecca Finlay is CEO at Partnership on AI, a global nonprofit bringing together a cross-sectoral community of over 100 partners in 17 countries to ensure developments in AI advance positive...

Raymond Hounon

Head of Healthcare, Life Sciences and Scientific Research at Google Cloud

Raymond heads the public sector, healthcare , life sciences and scientific research at Google Cloud. With more than 20 years’ experience in Solution Sales working with companies such as Andor...

Andrew Hung

Associate Professor Cedars-Sinai

Dr. Hung is a surgeon scientist who specializes in robotic surgery for diseases of the kidney and prostate. His research interests include the development of artificial intelligence methods to improve...

Karen Kerr, PhD

Core Team Lead - AI and Analytics, Product Development Director, Digital Technologies Business Unit, Medtronic

Karen has over 18 years of research management and operations in surgery, cancer and healthcare technologies. Karen joined Digital Surgery, Medtronic over 6 years ago. As Research Director and now...

Professor Steven Meers

Fellow, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

Professor Meers is a Fellow at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) specialising in application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to Defence and Security challenges. He is the...

Eshan Rajabally PhD MEng CEng MIMechE

Maritime Autonomy Technology Lead, BMT

Dr Eshan Rajabally is Autonomy Technology Lead at maritime-orientated high-end design house and consultancy, BMT. Here he acts as expert and authority on autonomy enabling technologies, identifying and seeding related...

Professor Sarah Sharples FREng PhD PGCAP CErgHF FIEF FIET

Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport

Professor Sarah Sharples is Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Transport. She is a Professor of Human Factors in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham and...

Henry Tse CEng FIET

Global Head of Products and Services, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Prof. Henry Tse is a distinguished professional with over 20 years of experience in strategy, innovation, product management and leadership across diverse sectors, including safety-critical engineering, security, energy and transport...

James Wise

Partner, Balderton

James joined Balderton in 2013. Since then, he has led Balderton’s investments in a number of sectors and geographies, with a specific focus on AI, sustainability, productivity and healthtech. He...