Speaker

Sherin Mathew

Sherin Mathew

Founder & CEO of AI Tech UK | AI Ethicist & Futurist | Chief AI Officer

Leeds, United Kingdom

Sherin Mathew is a recognised AI Leader and leading AI Ethicist in the UK. A Founder, CEO, and Serial Entrepreneur, with a deep-rooted passion for wider AI Awareness, Impact, Ethics, and Intellectual Privacy.

As a former IBM AI Expert at Global Business Services UK, Sherin’s specialism is transforming businesses into cognitive enterprises. Sherin is an award-winning CEO of AI Tech UK (https://www.ai-tech.uk/) and is responsible for delivering the National AI Strategy and democratising AI Awareness with UK businesses since 2018.

Sherin is a Tech4good champion and a pioneer in the space of Ethics and Sustainability Management in Digital Transformation. Sherin is the founder of http://smartethics.net/, a groundbreaking open AI Ethics management platform forged with global partners and institutes.

Sherin is an AI Strategist and board advisor for West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and also the Chief AI advisor for ambitious SMEs, DeepTech Startups, and the UK AI policy team (DSIT) with a mission to "Disrupt the AI Disruption"! Sherin is an untiring advocate for the creative, innovative, and ethical elements of intelligent technologies. As an accomplished Public Speaker, AI Ethicist, and Evangelist, Sherin promotes thought-provoking ideas, shares his technical knowledge, and advises on best practices.

As an AI Influencer, Sherin is recognised for delivering national-level strategy and engagements with global partners from the North. He has published thought-provoking papers and is listed as a Top leader in
60 Leaders in AI: https://www.60leaders.com/leader/sherin-mathew
Top 5 Asians in Tech: https://asiansintech.com/top-100-asian-stars-in-uk-tech-2023-top-5s/
DataIQ-Top100 Leaders: https://www.dataiq.global/dataiq100-2021/profile/sherin-mathew-chief-executive-officer-and-founder-ai-tech-north
Prolific North: https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/feature/unveiling-the-dark-side-of-ai/

Sherin founded the idea of Intellectual Privacy, proposing the sanction of new Human Rights to Intelligence. To inspire and educate others on this evolving topic, he produced a documentary about Intellectual Privacy, which can be found in full here: https://publicintelligence.org/ or take a look at the 1-minute documentary trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPBkquR9Pw

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Business & Management
  • Humanities & Social Sciences

Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • AI & Machine Learning
  • Data Platform
  • Data Warehousing
  • Analytics and Big Data
  • Azure Analysis Services
  • Azure
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Modern Data Warehouse
  • Azure PaaS
  • Azure SQL Server
  • Azure Stack
  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Security
  • Cloud strategy
  • Database and Analytics

Applying Ethics in AI Practically

Being confident about the use of AI, being ethical, and ensuring businesses meet all the complex compliance are the major challenges for any AI project.
To solve the Ethics challenge, we need to:

1. See the impact and risk of the unethical Intelligence Revolution on our society
2. Learn how human rights can be applied as a Non-functional-requirement
3. Design practical steps to apply Accountability, Humanity, Sustainability, and Ethics in AI design

The benefits and learning from this session are:
1. Save - Months of effort and cost to define and agree on Ethics done in hours
2. Speed - Accelerate Ethical validation of AI Products and Digital Innovations using globally aligned frameworks
3. Sovereignty - Be confident, be trusted by your users, and gain a competitive advantage by being recognised as a responsible, sustainable and ethical business

Demystify the AI Ethics hype and learn how to implement it! An eye-opening session for Tech leaders, designers and technologists to apply AI Ethics in practice.

How to disrupt the AI Disruption.

A session to open your mind with executive thinking on "How to get started with AI, how to plan an AI journey for your business and how to implement AI without getting disrupted by the AI disruption". I will be covering the AI myths, AI reality and breaking the AI barriers. Understanding the core elements required to build an AI strategy and learning more about the AI Architecture and AI Services, and if time permitting we will be going through some AI Demos.

AI strategy for leaders, architects, and businesses

Azure Analytics and AI Architecture

The session is a run through of the Microsoft Azure Analytics and AI architecture. A run through of the reference architecture and key services, implementation tips and strategy, and best practices applied at the Enterprise level. A brief overview of Azure AI platform at the end.
Users will learn more about overcoming challenges, understand PaaS Azure offerings and rationalise services to consider in their strategic data solution design.
Duration: 1 hour
Level: 200/300

Seven simple steps to Simplify AI.

AI value chain is complex and often lack of strategy the most important hurdle to cross!

I say "Technology is easy; culture & mindset is the real challenge!"
To deliver intelligent empowerment you need the right leadership, executive strategy and a long-term mindset.

In this session, Sherin share's a universal framework to make AI Simple and accessible to all and how to get started with AI. An executive thinking and thought-provoking approach to line up your plan and resource to deliver your AI journey.
This simple framework allows you to define and deliver a successful AI strategy by simplifying the complex AI value chain in 7 simple steps.

Sherin shares a simple framework to define and deliver a successful AI strategy in 7 simple steps.

How to apply AI Strategically and Ethically

A session to open your mind with executive thinking on "How to get started with AI, how to plan an AI journey for your business and how to implement AI without getting disrupted by the AI disruption". I will be covering the AI myths, AI reality and breaking the AI barriers.
Ethics is a major challenge and in this session, we are going to discuss the importance of "being ethical and accountable"? And disclose the underlying foundation of AI ethics!.

A session not to miss because Sherin answers the most frequently asked question: "How to get started with AI?" How to build your business with AI? and most importantly, How to apply AI Ethics?

Sherin Mathew

Founder & CEO of AI Tech UK | AI Ethicist & Futurist | Chief AI Officer

Leeds, United Kingdom