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Breakfast Briefing with Felicity Burch, Executive Director, Responsible Technology Adoption Unit

Author WIG Date 9 Oct 2024

A recording of the WIG Breakfast Briefing with Felicity Burch, Executive Director, Responsible Technology Adoption Unit

Theme(s)

Technology and digital

Following the Government’s response to the AI regulation consultation, plans are being developed to create an agile and collaborative AI governance framework. As such, we are delighted to welcome Felicity Burch, Executive Director of the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA), within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), to share her insights into work being done by the Unit across the AI Assurance and Governance ecosystems.

Watch now to:

• Explore the latest AI Assurance products and programmes developed by the RTA.

 • Understand how the AI Governance landscape is evolving, and how cross-sector collaboration can play a key role in ensuring its success.



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Speaker

Felicity is the Executive Director of the Responsible Technology Adoption Unit (RTA). RTA leads the government’s work to enable trustworthy innovation using data and AI as part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Felicity's role is to lead the RTA's multidisciplinary team of specialists, and its overall strategy to deliver, test and refine trustworthy approaches to data and AI governance, working in partnership with public sector and industry bodies.

Before RTA, she was the CBI Director of Innovation and Digital, leading the organisation’s policy work to create the conditions that enable businesses to come up with new ideas, invest in research and development (R&D) and adopt new technologies. At CBI, Felicity also worked on technology adoption, public spending on R&D and labour markets. Felicity's background is in economic policy, with a focus on business growth.

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