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Connected Life Summit

Agenda

Agenda

 

Connected Life Summit — 25th June 2026 | Oxford Union
Time Venue Session
Exclusive Sessions
9:30 – 10:00 Oxford Union Quad Registration, Coffee, and Networking
10:00 – 10:30 Goodman Library

Host: Anna McConkie

Welcome

  • Dr. Scott Hale, Director, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Howard Leong, Chair, Connected Life Summit
10:30 – 11:15 Goodman Library

Host: Anna McConkie

Era of AI Transformation

  • Moderator: Bloomberg
  • Pamela Maynard OBE, Chief AI Transformation Officer, Microsoft
11:15 – 12:00 Goodman Library

Host: Anna McConkie

Social Data Science

  • Deloitte
12:00 – 13:00 Oxford Union Quad Networking Lunch
12:30 – 13:00 Macmillan Room*

Host: Audrey Yip

Human-centred Coaching Agents

  • McKinsey & Co.
13:00 – 13:45 Macmillan Room*

Host: Michi Wong

Better by Design: What’s Working in Trust and Safety?

  • Moderator: Prof. Mohsen Mosleh, Associate Professor, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Dr. Renato Leite Monteiro, Vice President, Legal for Privacy, Data Protection, AI and IP, e&
  • Haneen Qarout, Managing Director, Tremau
  • Dr. Tyler Otto, Vice President of Safety and Moderation, Reddit
  • Dr. Melda Salhab, Senior Technical Product Manager, Uber AI
  • Dina Hussein, Product Policy, OpenAI
13:00 – 13:45 Gladstone Room*

Host: Daniella Smith

The Great Rewiring: Are We Building Something Better?

  • Moderator: Robert Bowker, Oxford MSc
  • Prof. Fabian Stephany, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Martin School
  • Conrad Young, Former Chief Digital Officer, Deloitte
  • Google DeepMind
  • Anthropic
13:45 – 14:30 Macmillan Room*

Host: Michi Wong

Power, Capital, and the AI Divide

  • Moderator: Marcel Seger, Oxford DPhil
  • Judith Dada, General Partner, Visionaries Club
  • Paul Murphy, Partner, Lightspeed Ventures
  • Gabriel Vasquez, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
  • SovAI
13:45 – 14:30 Gladstone Room*

Host: Daniella Smith

Trustworthy AI: Safeguarding Truth and Trust in the Age of Advanced AI

  • Moderator: Cassidy Bereskin, Clarendon Scholar, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Prof. Helen Margets OBE FBA, Professor of Internet and Society, Oxford Internet Institute
  • Gaia Marcus FRSA, Director, Ada Lovelace Institute
  • Expert on deepfake
14:30 – 15:15 Macmillan Room*

Host: Michi Wong

Abundant Intelligence: Should AI Do All of It?

  • Moderator: TBD
  • Lisa Felton, Managing Director, Vodafone Foundation
  • Vikas Pota, Founder and CEO, T4 Education
  • Dr. Asheesh Advani, President and CEO, JA Worldwide
  • FCDO
14:30 – 15:15 Gladstone Room*

Host: Daniella Smith

Enterprise Intelligence: The Era of Vibe Strategy and Strategic Slop?

  • Moderator: Chandler Wilson, Oxford DPhil
  • Valérie Höß, Executive Director, AI & Data Policy EMEA, JPMorganChase
  • Josh Bottomley, CEO, Dunnhumby
  • NATO
Public Session
15:00 – 16:15 Oxford Union Quad Networking and Refreshments
16:15 – 16:30 Debate Chamber

Host: Howard Leong

Welcome to Public Session

  • Howard Leong, Chair, Connected Life Summit
  • Deloitte
16:30 – 18:00 Debate Chamber

Host: Howard Leong

Motion: This House Believes that AI is the Great Equalizer

  • Proposition:
    • Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
    • Dr. Fazl Barez, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Martin School
  • Opposition:
    • Dex Hunter-Torricke, Former Head of Communications, Google DeepMind / Elon Musk / Mark Zuckerberg
    • Dr. Rachel Adams, Executive Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Global Centre on AI Governance
    • Rachel Coldicutt OBE, Executive Director, Careful Industries
18:00 – 18:30 Debate Chamber Connected Life Networking
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