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Jan 08
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2023 Year in Review

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Wow, what a year!

2023 year in review. Full text is in the article.

😶 I quit my job as Director of People Data and Insights at AVEVA
😅 … to run Inclusioneering Limited full time
✅ I joined the trustee board of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
✅…and the board of directors of ForHumanity, an AI ethics and audit charity
😍 I had the pleasure to work with amazing clients who continually inspire me:
TransFIRe Hub, Materials Made Smarter Centre, Lucideon, VBuddies – Metaverse Tech Ltd, Scott Bradbury, EIT Food
🤝 … on projects spanning strategy development, surveys, research and data analysis, leading the Foundation Industry EDI working group, learning and development, and digital privacy, safety and equality
🏫 and with top universities including Durham, Leeds, Nottingham, Cambridge, and Sheffield
🎤 30 Public speaking engagements
👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Expanded my network of outstanding associates who co-deliver Inclusioneering’s work
📃 Inclusioneering Limited was shortlisted for the StartUp Awards Social Enterprise of the Year
🏅 And winner of SME News Corporate Inclusion Consultancy of the Year
🤩 I met one of my heroes, Dame Stephanie Shirley, for afternoon tea at the Savoy (still in shock this happened! 👀)
💎 And continued to work with another, Professor Sue Black OBE ❤️
👏 Judge for the ComputerWeekly.com Most Influentual Woman in UK Tech award
⭐ 4 visits to the Houses of Parliament, on tech, diversity and Ethnicity Pay Gap topics, and joined 1 government roundtable on AI

I owe thanks to very many people for enabling all of this to happen.

That’s the highlights reel. The reality is of course far more mixed, and I want to balance the showcase with some of the challenges that have accompanied it, because life is complex and that needs to be seen too.
⬛ Discovering the rollercoaster of running your own company full time, during a downturn in demand for diversity, equity and inclusion projects
⬛ Cutting my income by over 50%, plus no more pension or benefits
⬛ Multiple family health challenges, many still ongoing
⬛ Subsidence causing progressive damage to my home, 18+ months into an insurance claim with no resolution or end in sight
⬛ The challenge to maintain my own wellbeing from what can be emotionally intensive work, plus all the other stuff above

On balance, it’s all been worth it, and looking forwards to 2024

Jun 14
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Influencing AI Regulations: We must act now to mitigate risk and ensure AI is used to equally benefit all across society

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I’m still pinching myself to have had the opportunity and privilege to join a government AI roundtable yesterday, focussing on the proposals in the AI Regulation White Paper. It was great to join a diverse group of leaders – as one of us said, each bringing a different piece of the jigsaw puzzle, but with great alignment across us.

Jo Stansfield, Director of Inclusioneering, with leaders from across the UK AI landscape, assembled for the roundtable event

My perspective

⭐️Although AI is new and rapidly developing, situations of powerful global organisations, intense commercial pressure, and fragmented regulatory landscape are not. Think Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Lessons were learned then, resulting in regulatory reform and industry-wide transformation to establish a culture of safety.

⭐️Our risks from AI are not in the futuristic AI domination scenarios, but already present in the disparate impacts and harm to underserved and vulnerable communities we see happening now.

⭐️Let’s learn lessons now from other industries, to avert AI’s Deepwater Horizon event. We must move quickly to strengthen and clarify regulation and establish a culture of responsible innovation.

⭐️In the interim, incentives are needed for organisations to prioritise responsible, inclusive innovation. In Inclusioneering’ equity, diversity and inclusion practice, we see UKRI funding embedding EDI requirements to be an effective catalyst for organisations, who are responding positively, and innovatively, to embed EDI into their work

⭐️Diverse inputs are needed to fully understand the risks and impacts, as well as opportunities – across all stakeholder communities. I recommend an inclusive design approach to development of regulation

I will be spending time to write papers on these thoughts, so more to come on all these topics. Drop me a message using the contact form or in the comments if you’d like to receive a copy. Which are you most interested to explore more deeply?