Speakers

Anne Davies is Professor of Law and Public Policy and a Fellow of Brasenose College. She studied at Oxford, completing the BA (winning the Gibbs and Martin Wronker Prizes) and the D.Phil. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College from 1995 to 2001, and the Garrick Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College from 2001 to 2015. From 2015-2020 she was Dean of the Oxford Law Faculty.

Professor Davies is the author of five books and numerous articles in the fields of public law and labour law. In public law, she has a particular interest in government contracts. Her D.Phil. thesis examined the phenomenon of contractualisation in the UK National Health Service from a public law perspective. She developed this research into a book entitled Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government by Contract which was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. Her book The Public Law of Government Contracts, a wider examination of public procurement and public/private partnership contracts from a public law perspective, was published by OUP in 2008. She continues to write about government contracts and public service delivery more generally, and chairs the Oxford POGO Club for the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford.

Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells is a Professor of Economic Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation at the University of Bristol Law School, as well as a former Member of the European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Albert specialises in EU economic law and, in particular, competition and public procurement. Albert is currently researching the impact of digital technologies such as big data, machine learning, blockchain and the internet of things on procurement governance and sustainability. Most of Albert's working papers are available at http://ssrn.com/author=542893. His analysis of current legal developments is published in his blog http://www.howtocrackanut.com.

Dr. Cari Miller is the Founder and Head of AI Governance and Research at the Center for Inclusive Change and the Executive Director of the AI Procurement Lab. Dr. Miller is a globally recognized expert in AI safety and risk management, AI procurement practices, and AI standards and policy development. She is a seasoned corporate strategist with over 25 years of experience making change happen (and learning from mistakes).

Cari has been in the trenches of digital transformation since before Mark Zuckerburg went to college. She has led highly-talented diverse teams to integrate enterprise-wide systems, shift business models, and reshape corporate cultures – because these projects ALWAYS go hand-in-hand. She has been sought out to build and improve org charts, financial models, survey instruments, team cohesion, workforce planning algorithms, UX wireframes, data flows, process maps, decision dashboards, and strategic plans for customers, teams, departments, partners, executives, boards, and military generals.

She has created and delivered educational programs for all levels of learners, launched new products, transformed low-fidelity data into highly-impactful insights, and taught colleagues how to think critically, challenge assumptions, and make sound decisions. And now, she helps organizations at all stages of AI governance maturity establish relevant roadmaps that fit their organizational size, pace, and resource capacity in order to achieve AI adoption that makes sense for them.

Co-Founder of the AI Procurement Lab, Gisele is globally recognized as an AI governance and procurement standards builder, human-centered service designer, researcher, and culturally responsive evaluator. Gisele has built multidisciplinary guidance and tools over 25 years in education, healthcare, and information technology all threaded together by her passion for mitigating risk to vulnerable populations and communities.

Kaye is the Senior Program Manager for Content and Insights, helping Open Contracting Partnership achieve global scale through practical guidance and program design, and supporting cross-sector collaboration on strategic topics such as democracy, AI, and climate. Previously, she managed Lift, Open Contracting Partnership’s impact program that helps teams of procurement reformers propel their ambitious plans towards systemic change. In this role, Kaye supported government and civil society teams around the world to use public contracting to improve effective governance and support more equitable and green communities, taking on big challenges ranging from government transparency and accountability and high medicine costs, to disaster relief management.

Before joining Open Contracting Partnership, Kaye consulted on issues pertaining to municipal innovation, the future of work, and technology policy to nonprofits and foundations including Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Ford Foundation and JPMorgan Chase & Co. Global Philanthropy.

Kaye received her Bachelors degree in Philosophy with Honors, Cum Laude, from Scripps College, and her Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Ljubljana, and completed her Fulbright scholarship in Slovenia. Kaye is based in Portland. Oregon.

Mavis is a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, focusing on projects at the intersection of data-driven systems and digital technologies and their wider health and social impacts.

Mavis obtained her PhD in Health Studies from King’s College London and is a midwife by background. These help her combine broad clinical, theoretical and practical knowledge and insights of ethical and societal implications of practices, governance and uses of health and genomics data in care and research. Mavis is interested in issues of inequalities and power dynamics that impact people’s experiences of health and care; and considers ways to ensure marginalised voices are heard.

Rachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in the social impact of new and emerging technologies.

She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that, she spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC, Microsoft, BT, and Channel 4, and was a pioneer in the digital art world.

From 2020-2023, Rachel served as a non-executive director at Ofcom and her current advisory roles include the UNESCO High-Level Expert Group on Ecosystem-Level Transformation, Clarion Housing Group, the AHRC Digital Good Network, and the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre. In 2019, Rachel was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for services for the digital society.

She writes a regular newsletter, Just Enough Internet, and is working on a book on careful innovation.

Saema leads Commercial Policy and Capability for the UK Parliament, acting as the professional lead for a team of 60 procurement professionals who deliver and manage a wide range of commercial contracts. Her role spans expert advice and assurance, training design and delivery, and the development of commercial policy to support high-quality, compliant, and value-driven procurement across Parliament.

Saema is responsible for building upon, and raising, the standard of Parliament's commercial practices, including shaping internal policy frameworks and best practice guidance and overseeing Parliament's response to national reform. She is currently leading the implementation of the Procurement Act 2023, and working to embed the new regime through practical, user-focused change management.

Saema has worked across local and central government, including at the Cabinet Office and High Speed Two Ltd, managing high-value, high-risk programmes and building expertise in public procurement, strategic sourcing, and policy reform.