Join our policy team for a post party conference debrief, and a look at the legislative agenda ahead. As Parliament heads into a prolonged period of lawmaking, we know there are Bills incoming on Digital Information and Smart Data, Cybersecurity and Resilience, Planning and Infrastructure, Product Safety, Metrology and AI that will impact the tech sector and civil society across a vast range of industries and roles.
We're at the stage too of the political cycle where talk of the first Reshuffle comes to the fore. Changes in personnel at the top of Departments means significant change in focus, engagement, and issues. So we'll talk who's in and who's (maybe, stressing the maybe) out, We'll highlight some campaigners and researchers who have had good engagement with the new government, and what we can all learn from them over the next four and a half years til the next election.
We’ll also be going through our updated roadmap of policy ideas and suggestions for the new government, building on the content of our policy manifesto and recent DCAI whitepaper.
The event will include an opportunity for you to feed in your views, raise issues and suggest ideas about how public and private actors can build public trust, ensure ethical and responsible use of data, and ensure new legislation delivers citizen-centred opportunities from technological innovations underway. Your voice matters, as does too your experience understanding and responding to the many and interceding interests of citizens, governments, firms and civil society organisations is crucial for us all
References
Building a better future with data and AI: a white paper
Speakers
Emma Thwaites, Director of Global Policy and Corporate Affairs, The ODI
Emma’s portfolio at the ODI encompasses public policy, events and engagement, Data as Culture, communications and marketing, product and innovation, ODI Membership and the ODI Summit.
Gavin Freeguard, Freelance consultant: data policy, research and advocacy, The ODI
Gavin is a freelance consultant working on data policy, research and advocacy.
Matthew Kilcoyne, Senior Policy Adviser, The ODI
Matthew Kilcoyne is Senior Policy Adviser at the Open Data Institute. He delivers public policy work in the UK and EU, and helps with efforts to work with governments to improve data ecosystems and data policy.