David Gauke MP was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 8 January 2018. He was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from June 2017 to January 2018. He was elected the Conservative MP for Hertfordshire South West in May 2005.

Born in 1971 and educated at Northgate High School in Ipswich, David read law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. After a year working as a parliamentary researcher, he attended Chester College of Law before becoming a trainee solicitor.

David was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from February 2006 until he was appointed as a Shadow Minister for the Treasury in June 2007. As a Shadow Treasury Minister, he focused on tax policy, including matters such as tax simplification and corporation tax reform. He was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury in May 2010, and promoted to Financial Secretary to the Treasury in July 2014 where he served until July 2016. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from July 2016 to June 2017.

After qualifying as a solicitor in 1997, David worked for a leading City firm before entering Parliament in 2005.

David lives in Chorleywood with his wife, Rachel, and their 3 sons.

 

Sophia is a public policy and regulation expert, having spent over 15 years in the regulatory and policy arena, working across a range of sectors, including legal services, financial services, economic regulation and healthcare. Sophia joined the Law Society in July 2016 where, as the Director, she leads the Society's legal and regulatory policy team with oversight for policy development across the full breadth of the justice system, engaging with policy makers in government, and partner agencies.  Specifically Sophia leads the Law Society’s programme of work on the impact of technology on the law and the justice system and practice of law.  She is the creator and lead of the Law Society’s ground breaking Public Policy Commission on the use of Algorithms in the Justice System.

Lord Clement-Jones is a Consultant of the global law firm DLA Piper.  Former positions within DLA include London Managing Partner (2011-16), Head of UK Government Affairs, Chairman of its China and Middle East Desks, International Business Relations Partner and Co-Chairman of Global Government Relations.  He is Chair of Ombudsman Services Limited, the not for profit, independent ombudsman service that provides dispute resolution for the communications, energy, property and copyright licensing industries.  He is a member of the Advisory Board of Airmic (the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers in Industry and Commerce) and Board Member of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the ICAEW.  Tim was made CBE for political services in 1988 and life peer in 1998.  Until July 2004 he was the Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman and thereafter until 2010 Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport, in the House of Lords. He is the Liberal Democrat spokesman for the Digital Economy and a former spokesman on the Creative Industries (2015-17). He is the former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (2017-18) and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.  He is Deputy Chair of the APPG on China and Vice-Chair of the APPG on Intellectual Property.  He is Chair of Council of Queen Mary University of London and has most recently been appointed as Chair of the Advisory Council of the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, led by Sir Anthony Seldon. Tim was an external member of the Council of University College London and Chair of its Audit Committee (2012-17).  He is President of Ambitious About Autism, an autism education charity and school for children with autism and other communication disorders and its former Chairman (2001-08).

Christina studied Jurisprudence at Oxford and qualified as a solicitor in 1991. She has developed and managed law firms including a virtual law firm and setting up the first ABS with the Co-op. More recently, she was Director of Innovation at a top 100 firm.

She holds a range of public appointments including member of the Family Justice Council, trustee of LawWorks, member of the Judicial Diversity Forum and chair of the government’s Lawtech Delivery Panel. 

Christina is the President of the Law Society of England and Wales and performs a range of ambassadorial and representative functions both domestically and internationally.

She is passionate about diversity and inclusion, technology and access to justice and uses every opportunity to advocate and progress positive change in these areas.

On access to justice, Christina leads on a number of high profile campaigns to protect and empower some of the most vulnerable in our society.

On innovation and the future of legal services, Christina chairs the Law Society’s Legal Technology Policy Commission and has also been asked by the government to chair their Lawtech Delivery Panel. She is heavily involved in the technological issues relating to supra-national legislative and regulatory frameworks as well as the need to demystify lawtech and empower all lawyers to embrace relevant technology. Christina leads on the Society’s relationship with Barclays to develop lawtech incubators.

On diversity and inclusion, Christina has developed and leads on a programme focussed on women in leadership in law. The project has already produced the largest ever global survey on the issue and a toolkit to support the 100 roundtables which are taking place to over summer 2018. A global academic literature review and men’s roundtable in Autumn 2018 will follow and the work will culminate in an international symposium in June 2019. Christina represents the Women Lawyer’s Division and is an active committee member. She also sits on the Thomson Reuters Women in Law Advisory Board and on the advisory boards for women in law (Legal Week) and for LawSmart (a social mobility collective).

Christina is an award winning (for innovation and diversity and inclusion) published author, speaker and lecturer and frequent media commentator.

Ruth is COO of Luminance, having been seconded from Invoke Capital where she was responsible for evaluating potential investment opportunities and overseeing the healthcare portfolio. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Bart’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a BScHons Degree in Pharmacology from King’s College London.

Sir William (Bill) Blair is Professor of Financial Law and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Commercial Law Studies.
Bill is a Member of the International Advisory and Dispute Resolution Unit of 3VB from which he now sits as an international arbitrator and, in 2018, Bill joined the Ethics Committee of Digital Catapult’s AI Machine Intelligence Garage. 
He is Chair of the Enforcement Decision Making Committee of the Bank of England and member of P.R.I.M.E. Finance's Advisory Board and its Panel of Experts.
Bill became a QC in 1994 and was Chair of the Commercial Bar Association between 2003 and 2005.
He served as a High Court Judge in England and Wales for nearly ten years and was Judge in Charge of the London Commercial Court from 2016.
He is a member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China and a member of the Expert Working Group on Commercial Dispute Resolution of the Chinese and UK judiciaries, and an expert adviser to the Oxford University OBOR Institute.
In 2018, he has sat as a Deputy Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court of Hong Kong SAR, China, and as a Judge of the Qatar International Court.
At the European Union level, he is President of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities. He is also a member of London’s Financial Markets Law Committee and chairs the Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association. 

Daniel B. Rodriguez is the Harold Washington Professor at Northwestern University and served as dean of the Law School from January 2012 through August 2018. During this academic year, he has been a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and currently is the Louis Brandeis visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School.  

Professor Rodriguez has taught full-time at a number of law schools including, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of San Diego (where he also served as dean), and at the University of California, Berkeley. 

His scholarship and teaching spans a wide range of topics in public law, including administrative law, local government law, constitutional law, and property.  He is also deeply interested in the law-business-technology interface, including applications of machine learning to law.

A graduate of California State University Long Beach and the Harvard Law School, Professor Rodriguez was the 2014 President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and currently serves as chair of the ABA Center for Innovation, a council member of the American Law Institute, and an advisor to ROSS Intelligence, Inc.

Duncan is a Senior Partner at the Canadian law firm of Bennett Jones LLP, where he Chairs the IT, Outsourcing & Managed Services Practices practices. Duncan also Co-Chairs his firm’s Defence & Security and Intelligent Infrastructure practices. Duncan has broad transactional experience in over 50 jurisdictions, including throughout Europe and the Caribbean. Canada's national business newspaper, The National Post, includes Duncan in its recently published 2019 rankings, "Best Lawyers in Canada" (Technology Law). The soon to be released 2019 Canadian Legal rankings will include Duncan as one of Canada's leading lawyers in the areas of Computer and Technology. Duncan is included in the 2018 inaugural edition of Who’s Who Legal: Data as a world leading Information Technology lawyer, and has been included in the prestigious ranking of Lexpert Magazine's and American Lawyer Media's ranking of the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for the last 16 years. He is identified as one of the world's leading lawyers in the independent ranking, 2017 Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, and Duncan has also been cited as one of the world's leading technology lawyers in Euromoney Magazine's Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers (U.K. publication). Duncan is called to both the Bermuda and Ontario, Canada Bars, and he has law degrees from Queen's University in Canada (J.D.), the London School of Economics (LL.B.) and the University of Toronto (LL.M.), and was awarded the prestigious corporate director ICD.D designation (as Class Valedictorian) by Canada's Institute of Corporate Directors in 2013.

Silkie is the director of UK civil liberties and privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch. Previously, she was the Senior Advocacy Officer at Liberty where she led a programme on Technology and Human Rights and launched a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act. Before that she worked for Edward Snowden’s official defence fund and whistleblowers at risk.

She is a passionate campaigner for the protection of liberties, particularly in the context of new and emerging technologies. She has worked to uphold rights in the fields of state surveillance, policing technologies, big data, artificial intelligence and free expression online. She is the co-author of Information Security for Journalists.

Andrea has been Director of JUSTICE since February 2013. During this time, JUSTICE has published a number of influential reports on modernisation of the courts and tribunals.  In 2018, Andrea served as a Guest Commissioner on the Law Society’s Public Policy Commission on Technology and the Law.   An Australian qualified barrister and solicitor, she worked as an international human rights lawyer since the mid 1990s, based in New Delhi, Geneva and London.  From 2002 to 2013, she was Equality Lawyer and latterly Legal Director at INTERIGHTS, leading strategic litigation before the European Court of Human Rights and the African Commission.  

Andrea has a BA/LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an LLM (Dist.) from the London School of Economics. She sits on the litigation advisory panels of a number of international human rights organisations and is a trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and of BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute). Andrea is an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Law & Social Justice at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Master of the Bench of Middle Temple.

Sue leads techUK's work on cloud, data analytics and AI and has been recognised as one of the most influential women in UK tech by Computer Weekly. Sue has also been recognised in UK Big Data 100 as a key influencer in driving forward the Big Data agenda, shortlisted for the Milton Keynes Women Leaders Awards and was recently a judge for the Loebner Prize in AI. In addition to being a regular industry speaker on issues including AI ethics, data protection and cyber security, Sue is a regular judge of the annual UK Cloud Awards.

Prior to joining techUK in January 2015 Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. She has spoken at events including the UK-China Internet Forum in Beijing, UN IGF and European RSA on issues ranging from data usage and privacy, cloud computing and online child safety. Before joining Symantec, Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Masters Degree on International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham. Sue is a keen sportswoman and in 2016 achieved a lifelong ambition to swim the English Channel.

Professor Delacroix focuses on the intersection between law and ethics, with a particular interest in Machine Ethics and the role of habit within moral decisions (Habitual Ethics?, Bloomsbury, 2020). Her research focuses on the design of computer systems meant for morally-loaded contexts. She is also considering the potential inherent in ‘bottom-up’ Data Trusts as a mechanism to address power imbalances between data-subjects and data-controllers (with Neil Lawrence).

Her work has notably been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the NHS and the Leverhulme Trust, from whom she received the Leverhulme Prize. She is a commissioner on the Public Policy Commission on the use of algorithms in the justice system (Law Society of England and Wales). She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Dr Anna Donovan is Vice Dean (Innovation) at the Faculty of Laws, University College London.  Anna is a member of the UK LawTech Delivery Panel in respect of which she chairs the Education Taskforce.  Anna is a member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and part of UCL’s BARAC project, a two-year, multi-disciplinary research project exploring DLT’s potential for algorithmic regulation.  Anna regularly advises global law firms, tech companies and financial organisations on the adoption and regulation of LawTech and DLT, with a particular expertise on smart contracts. She is involved in developing industry standards for the development of smart contract code and is regularly cited in industry reports.  Anna is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales (currently non-practising), having spent eight years in corporate practice prior to academia.  Anna is also admitted as an attorney-at-law in New York.

Stephanie Hamon is a Managing Director, Head of External Engagement, Legal for Barclays.  In conjunction with the Group General Counsel, Chief of Staff and Legal Executive Committee, her role aims to set and deliver the commercial management strategy for Barclays legal function which includes devising and implementing the commercial optimisation program.  The role is also responsible to set vision and clear objectives for the law firm panel and enhance the relationship model.  Prior to joining Barclays, she held leadership roles in the client service and business development function of several global law firms.

Stephanie brings with her more than 17 years’ experience gained working across an extensive range of legal and financial institutions, including Linklaters and Clifford Chance, in markets including the UK, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific.  Stephanie has extensive expertise in business development, strategy formulation and execution and client-focused relationship management all of which provides a perfect skill set for taking on this crucially important role in Barclays Legal.  

Noel Hurley is the VP of strategy focused on incubating new growth opportunities. 

Noel has held multiple positions in Arm, including VP and general manager of the CPU Group, responsible for Arm’s processor business, Business Segment Group, responsible for product strategy and eco-system development for servers, network infrastructure and mobile computing. 

Noel originally joined Arm as a startup in 1994, performing a number of technical marketing, segment marketing, product marketing and commercial roles. He left Arm in 2005 to be a founder and vice president of marketing for XMOS Semiconductors, a VC funded fabless semiconductor company. Subsequently in early 2010, he joined Toumaz Technology becoming the COO, before rejoining Arm at the end of 2011.

Hannah Knox is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCL and Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology. At UCL she organises and teaches on the MSc in Digital Anthropology. Her research focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of technical systems and she has conducted research in Peru, Europe and the UK. Her books include Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (2015), Ethnography for a Data Saturated World (2018) and she is currently working on two forthcoming publications, Thinking like a Climate and the second edition of Digital Anthropology. From 2016-2017 she was a member of the working group for the Royal Society/British Academy report Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century.

Paul joined Barclays in 2004 and has spent time in legal teams in the Wealth, Group Centre, Barclays Africa and Barclays UK businesses.
Immediately prior to joining Barclays UK Legal, Paul led the Litigation and Special Investigations team for Barclays’ then Retail and Business Banking division. The team’s remit was broad and covered litigation, investigations and enforcement proceedings involving any of the global RBB businesses.
Now leading Barclays UK Retail Products and Segments Legal Team, Paul has responsibility for legal aspects of Barclays' current and proposed banking products across Personal, Premier and Wealth Banking (current accounts, savings, ISAs, debit cards, FX, retail insurance and payments and international banking), Business Banking, and Savings and Investments. He also supports the legal and regulatory aspects of Barclays UK’s membership of payment schemes and PPI remediation.
Paul first qualified as a lawyer in Australia and moved to the UK in 2001. He holds degrees in Law and Politics and an LL M from King’s College London.

Professor Katz is a scientist, technologist and law professor who applies an innovative polytechnic approach to teaching law - to help create lawyers for today's biggest societal challenges. Both his scholarship and teaching integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Professor Katz's forward-thinking ideas helped to earn him acknowledgement in the 2013 Fastcase 50, an award which "recognizes 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law." He was also named to the American Bar Association Journal's 2013 Class of "Legal Rebels," a prestigious group of change leaders in the legal profession.

Professor Katz teaches Practice & Professionalism, E-Discovery, Legal Analytics, Blockchain & Law, Legal Project Management + Legal Process Improvement and Civil Procedure at Chicago-Kent and spearheads new initiatives to teach law students how to leverage technology and entrepreneurship in their future legal careers. He joined Chicago-Kent in 2015 from Michigan State University College of Law, where he co-founded the ReInvent Law Laboratory, an innovative multi-disciplinary center that focused on the intersection of entrepreneurship, informatics, programming and design thinking to better understand, analyze and design the law.

Professor Katz has published or forthcoming work in a wide variety of academic outlets, including Science, Plos One, Journal of Statistical Physics, Artificial Intelligence & Law and Physica A. In addition, his work has been published in legal journals including Emory Law Journal, Iowa Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Virginia Tax Review, Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy, Ohio State Law Journal, Journal of Law & Politics, and Journal of Legal Education. Professor Katz is currently working on two book projects including an edited volume entitled Legal Informatics (Cambridge University Press - 2019 Forthcoming) and a book on technology + innovation in law.

His work has been highlighted in a number of media outlets, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired, Vox, National Public Radio, Slate Magazine, Huffington Post, 538, Bloomberg Businessweek, ABA Journal, Law Technology News, The American Lawyer, California Lawyer, Cba National Magazine (Canada), Legal Futures (UK), Law Society Gazette (UK) and The Globe And Mail (Canada)

Charlie is a Senior Associate in Herbert Smith Freehills' Dispute Resolution, Energy and Digital Law teams. He helps clients to resolve a broad range of commercial disputes, with a particular focus on the energy and TMT sectors. He specialises in international arbitration and also has experience of complex cross-border litigation, expert determination and mediation. Charlie has supported clients in a wide range of jurisdictions in relation to disputes under many different governing laws, including particularly in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Professor Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of professional service and, in particular, the way in which the IT and the Internet are changing the work of lawyers. He has worked on legal technology for over 30 years. He lectures internationally, has written many books, and advised on numerous government inquiries.

Richard lectures internationally and has been invited to speak in over 40 countries and has addressed audiences (in person and electronically), numbering more than 250,000. He has written and edited numerous books, including Expert Systems in Law (OUP, 1987), The Future of Law (OUP, 1996), Transforming the Law (OUP, 2000), The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005), The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (OUP, 2008), Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2013), and has written around 150 columns for The Times. His work has been translated into 10 languages.

Sofia is a professor of Statistics at EPFL, Switzerland and at University College London (UCL). She is director of UCL’s Centre for Data Science, an honorary professor of Computer Science and a senior research associate of Mathematics at UCL. Having obtained her MSci in Mathematics at Imperial College London in August of 2000, she was awarded the PhD in Mathematics in January of 2003. Her thesis was: Analysis via Time, Frequency and Scale of Nonstationary Signals, and her advisor was Professor Andrew Walden. In 2002 she became a Lecturer in Statistics in the Mathematics Department at Imperial College, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. She is currently associate editor for J. Royal Statistical Society (b) and IEEE Trans on Signal Processing. She is the Royal Statistical Society Isaac Newton Institute correspondent and a member of the ICMS programme committee.

Julia Salasky is a lawyer and entrepreneur. 

She is the founder and CEO of CrowdJustice (crowdjustice.com), the online platform for legal funding. CrowdJustice partners with more than 150 law firms, giving them the platform to take on more clients, increase revenue, and to give clients better services. CrowdJustice has been featured in the BBC, Guardian and others as a game-changer in enabling more access to justice.

Julia has been recognised as the Financial Times’ Legal Innovator of the Year, one of Debrett's most influential people in law, Legal Week's Outstanding legal innovator of the year, CityAM's digital innovators power list, and by Marie Claire as a Future Shaper.  

Julia was previously was a lawyer at Linklaters and at the United Nations, where she led on the UN’s work on online dispute resolution and published on the topic of digital solutions to consumer legal issues. 

Professor Burkhard Schafer is Director and Co-founder of the SCRIPT Centre for IT and IP law. He holds degrees in computer linguistics, philosophy, logic and law from the Universities of Munich, Mainz and Lancaster. His main field of research is the interface between law, computer technology and science from a comparative-legal perspective.  He has been PI or Co-I on research projects from the  UK, EU, German and Norwegian funding councils, most recently the RCUK funded large research network on Copyright in the Digital Economy CREATE, where he also served on the management board and the RCUK funded Digital Creativity Project in Edinburgh.  He has published more than 100 papers in the field of law and technology, working closely with research users in the legal service industry and the police. He is member of the Data Ethics Group  of the Alan Turing Institute and member of the European Initiative for AI4Society.  He has been consulted as expert by the UK government on the regulation of automated cars, the government of Washington State on the regulation of civilian drones and the Scottish Law Commission on Data Protection law and the right to a fair trial.

Reena founded RSG Consulting in 2001 to provide research and consultancy to law firms and in-house counsel. With nearly 30 years’ experience of business and the City, she is known as one of the leading analysts of the legal profession.

As editor and publishing director of Chambers & Partners Publishing in the mid-nineties, she devised the research methodology behind the Chambers’ guides to the legal profession and launched the first Chambers Student and Chambers Global guides.

In 2005, she came up with the idea of ranking lawyers on innovation, which has become the FT Innovative Lawyers reports and awards. She is a long-time contributor to the Financial Times and helped to establish the paper’s Law & Business page in 2001.

Reena has experience of both big and small businesses and spent the early nineties working in investment banking in London and rescuing a family-owned graphic design business out of recession.

A journalist, entrepreneur and now senior consultant, Reena is responsible for coming up with the ideas for a number of ground-breaking projects for both clients and RSG Consulting. Among these are the RSG India Report and the Innovative GC Club. She is a regular public speaker on innovation and the legal profession, is a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Elements coaching programme and an Asian Woman of Achievement.

Roger Taylor is chair of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. He has worked as an entrepreneur, a regulator and a writer. He has argued for a rebalancing of control over data and information towards citizens and civil society. He is chair of Ofqual, the qualifications regulator and a member of the advisory panel to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. His has written two books: God Bless the NHS (Faber & Faber (2014) and Transparency and the Open Society (Policy Press 2016). He co-founded Dr Foster which pioneered the use of public data to provide independent ratings of healthcare. He worked as a correspondent for the Financial Times in the UK and the US and, before that, as a researcher for the Consumers' Association. 

Jacob Turner is a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers and author of ‘Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Robot Rules explains why AI is legally unique, what problems it could cause and how we can solve them. It has been described by Lord Neuberger (President of the UK Supreme Court 2012-2017) as “a very timely, thought-provoking and significant book”. Jacob’s work on the governance of AI has been covered in publications such as The Economist, Wired, The Spectator, The Telegraph and Al Jazeera.

Jacob has lectured on regulating AI at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore Management University, McGill, NYU and the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg. He has also delivered seminars to the Chinese Government and Military on AI and national security, at the invitation of the UN. 

Jacob is a member of the advisory board of Conflict Analytics Lab, a research-based consortium on AI and data analytics applied to conflict resolution and negotiation. In private practice Jacob has acted for sovereign states including Argentina, Greece, Russia and Iraq.  Jacob has previously worked in the legal department of a country's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, and also as a speechwriter to the ambassador. He is a former Judicial Assistant (Law Clerk) to Lord Mance at the UK Supreme Court and the co-author with Lord Mance of ‘Privy Council Practice’ (OUP, 2017).

Nick is the Firm's Chief Strategy Officer and Director of MDR LAB, a programme for tech start-ups in the legal space.
Nick is one of the foremost experts in LegalTech and the application of AI to the legal market, having spent the majority of his career working at the forefront of innovation in the legal industry. Formerly Managing Director of Axiom in the UK and Director of LexisNexis's UK Legal Business, Nick's expertise lies in the field of technology, knowledge and new business models in the legal sector. Nick began his career as a competition lawyer at Linklaters and then as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co.
Nick is a Visiting Professor at the University of Law, where he lectures on Law, Business and Technology and an Advisor to BPP Law School on LegalTech Innovation.

Chris Wray is co-founder and chief legal officer of London-based legal tech firm, Mattereum, which has developed a "smart property" register based on an extensible data certification protocol. 

Chris studied physics and philosophy at New College, Oxford. He later attended City Law School and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2011. He has also practised as a commercial mediator, accredited by ADR Group.

Chris previously co-founded ophthalmic lens technology company, Adlens; and the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, which has designed and distributed low-cost, self-adjustable glasses for communities lacking access to professional eye care. 

Sherif Elsayed-Ali is director of partnerships, AI for Good, at Element AI, which brings Element AI’s deep expertise in machine learning to help solve humanitarian, human rights and environmental problems. He is also co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on human rights and technology, and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard Kennedy School. 
 
Formerly, Sherif founded Amnesty Tech, which leads Amnesty International’s work on the impact of technology on human rights and the potential uses of new technologies to advance human rights protection. He held a number of other positions at Amnesty, including as director of global issues and global head of refugee and migrants’s rights. 
 
Sherif studied engineering and international law at the American University in Cairo and has a master in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School.