OxLiT: Talks on Integrating AI, AI Ethics and AI Agents

Calling all tech founders, technologists, and aspiring leaders!

Join us on the 12th March for engaging talks on Generative AI, AI Ethics and AI-powered strategy. Our expert speakers will share their experience and insights on this hot topic.

This event is suitable for Founders, CEO's, CTO's, Heads of, Team Leads, HR teams, and anyone who wants to learn more about AI.

Agenda:
18:00 Arrival & refreshments
18:20 Introductions from Humand Talent and The BIPC
18:30 Talk #1 from Chris Seymour
18:50 Talk #2 from Iliana Grosse-Buening
19:10 Break
19:25 Talk #3 from Davide Zilli
19:45 Exit venue and move to The Royal Blenheim for networking

Talk #1 from Chris Seymour, Founder & AI Specialist @ Ginger Biscuit Ltd.

Reimagining work with AI: More productive. More fulfilling. More human.

In this session, we’ll cut through the hype and focus on what really matters for businesses: using tech to solve real business problems. Expect practical insights on how to integrate AI (and tech) into your business operations, boost efficiency, and drive growth – all while keeping humans firmly in the driving seat. We’ll explore how to get started, avoid common pitfalls, and make AI work for you – so you can spend less time grafting and more time crafting a business built for the future.

About Chris Seymour
Chris is a strategic comms and AI specialist with over 25 years’ experience helping businesses – from ambitious start-ups to FTSE 100 giants – cut through complexity, tell compelling stories, and drive growth. As founder of Ginger Biscuit, he works with businesses to unlock the potential of AI and tech, transforming the way they communicate and operate.

Chris previously led the Mobility + Technology division for Ford of Europe’s communications agency and co-founded ASCENDANCY, an AI start-up developing a SaaS platform using AI to transform marketing services. With a no-nonsense approach to comms + tech, he’s passionate about helping business leaders harness innovation to solve real-world problems – without getting lost in the hype.

Talk #2 from Iliana Grosse-Buening, Founder & CEO @ Quiet Social Club, Affiliate @ UNESCO Chair for AI Ethics & Governance

AI For Humanity: Innovating towards a Sustainable Digital Future

AI and digital technologies are rapidly reshaping our world, fundamentally transforming how we live, work, think, and connect. As we push the boundaries of innovation, we face both unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges—reshaping industries and influencing human behaviour at a scale that impacts individuals, organisations, governments, and global systems alike. In this fast-evolving landscape, understanding the intersection of technology, ethics, and human sustainability is essential.

How can we create a future where technology supports rather than undermines human potential? Through real-world examples and actionable frameworks, this talk delves into how we can navigate the complexities of AI and digital technologies to ensure they prioritise human flourishing and drive sustainable, humanity-centred innovation.

Talk #3 from Davide Zilli, Chief Technology Officer @ Mind Foundry

Agents of the Future

2025 has been hailed as the year of AI agents, with promises of autonomous machines transforming everything from customer service to scientific research. But like many trends in AI, the concepts of intelligent agents, agent-based models and multi-agent systems have been around for the best part of a century. In this talk we'll briefly look at where they come from, how they are defined, what their agency is about, and why things might actually be different today and tomorrow.

Davide is Chief Technology Officer at Mind Foundry, an Oxford University company. He heads up a team of ML scientists and engineers developing AI to solve real-world, commercial and societal problems across a range of industries. A computer scientist by training with a PhD from the University of Southampton, he worked as a research scientist in different institutions, including Oxford University, Microsoft Research and MIT.

This event is organised by Humand Talent and supported by the Business and IP Centre Oxfordshire.