AI Fringe 2025: 11–12 February

The AI Fringe will return to mark the Paris AI Action Summit with a two day event at the British Library Knowledge Centre in London. We’ll also be in Paris with our partners to get involved with things on the ground, and share what’s happening back to the event in London.

We’ll bring together a diverse set of voices to delve into the themes and outcomes from the AI Action Summit and what they mean for policymakers, businesses and citizens. We’ll also check in on the issues that are most important to the AI ecosystem here in the UK and how these have evolved more than a year on from our first AI Fringe.

The Fringe will feature keynotes, firesides, panels and showcases with prominent voices in AI from civil society, academia, government and industry, as well as networking opportunities throughout.

Our goals

Bring together the views of industry, civil society and academia on safe and beneficial AI.

Provide a platform for all communities – including those historically underrepresented – to engage in the discussion.

Enhance understanding of AI and its impacts so organisations can harness its benefits.

The AI Fringe was established to complement the UK AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in 2023 by broadening the discussions for the benefit of the wider AI ecosystem.

Speakers

Dinan Alasad

AI and Data Science Consultant, Faculty AI

Vinous Ali

Deputy Executive Director, Startup Coalition

Natalie Black CBE

Group Director for Networks and Communications, Ofcom

Dawn Bloxwich

Director of Responsible Development & Innovation, Google DeepMind

Andrew Breeze

Director, Technical Policy Development, Ofcom Online Safety Group

Duncan Brown

Head of Software Engineering, i.AI

Melika Carroll

Head of Global Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cohere

Dame Dawn Childs DBE FREng

CEO, Pure Data Centres

Colette Collins-Walsh

Head of UK Affairs, 5Rights

Sue Daley OBE

Director, Technology and Innovation, techUK

Thangam Debbonaire

Former Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and Advisor at UK AI

Benedict Dellot

Technology Policy Principal, Ofcom

Her Excellency Hélène Duchêne

French Ambassador to the UK

Andrew Dudfield

Head of Full Fact AI, Full Fact

Lulu Freemont

Director, Milltown Partners

Rocio Concha Galguera

Director of Policy and Advocacy, Chief Economist at Which?

Melanie Garson

Cyber & Tech Geopolitics Lead, Tony Blair Institute

Dr Sarah Gates

Director of Public Policy, Wayve

Dr Laura Gilbert CBE

Head of AI for Government, Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford, and Expert AI Advisor to the UK Government

Sarah Gold

Founder & CEO, Projects by IF

Will Hayter

Executive Director, Digital Markets, Competition and Markets Authority

Professor James Hayton

Professor of Innovation, Warwick Business School

Sam Hields

Partner, OpenOcean

William Isaac

Principal Scientist, Google DeepMind

Professor Marina Jirotka

Professor of Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford

Kate Jones

CEO, DRCF

Kanika Joshi

Founder, Impact Circle

Suhair Khan

Founder, open-ended

Professor Sana Khareghani

Professor of Practice in AI at King's College London, Responsible AI UK Ambassador

Dr Loïc Lannelongue

Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Professor Shalom Lappin FBA

Professor of Natural Language Processing, Queen Mary University of London

Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE FBA

Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science

Paul Maltby

Director of Public Services, Faculty

Vincent Manancourt

Associate Director, Milltown Partners

Gaia Marcus

Director, Ada Lovelace Institute

Joe Massey

Senior Researcher, Open Data Institute

Mick McAteer

Founder and co-Director, Financial Inclusion and Markets Centre (FIMC)

Dr Natasha McCarthy

Associate Director - Policy, Royal Academy of Engineering

Dr Kate Miltner

Lecturer in Data, AI & Society, University of Sheffield

Kanishka Narayan MP

Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan

Professor Gina Neff

Deputy CEO of RAi UK and Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy

Imogen Parker

Associate Director (Society, justice and public services), Ada Lovelace Institute

Kathy Peach

Director, Centre for Collective Intelligence, Nesta

Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides

Nobel Laureate, Regius Professor of Economics, LSE and University of Cyprus, and Co-Founder, Institute for the Future of Work

Dr Francine Ryan

Senior Lecturer in Law, The Open University and Director, Open Justice Centre

Reema Selhi

Head of Policy and International, DACS

Sir Nigel Shadbolt

Executive Chair & Co-founder of the ODI, and Principal of Jesus College Oxford

Tommy Shaffer Shane

AI Policy Advisor, Centre for Long Term Resilience

Junayna Al Sheibani

Data Governance Analyst & Product Owner, The Guardian

Professor Jolene Skordis

Professor of Economics at UCL Institute for Global Health

Dr John Taylor

CEO, action.ai

Michael Tefula

Principal and Head of Product, Ada Ventures

Dr Jeni Tennison OBE

Executive Director, Connected by Data

Anna Thomas MBE

Founding Co-Director, Institute for the Future of Work

Ed Towers

Head of Advanced Analytics and Data Science, FCA

Mary Towers

Policy officer - AI project lead, TUC

Lord Ed Vaizey

Chair, Common Sense Media UK

Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta

Head of Digital and Data Policy, Which?

Henry de Zoete

Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative

Experience the fringe

Day

AI Fringe 2025: Day 1

Tuesday

February

2025

Knowledge Centre at the British Library

On day one, as the Action Summit is taking place in Paris, in London we'll discuss and build upon its main themes and ask what they mean for UK audiences.

Sessions

Speakers

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Day

AI Fringe 2025: Day 2

Wednesday

February

2025

Knowledge Centre at the British Library

On day two, with the Summit coming to a close, we'll explore some key issues and delve into the outcomes from the AI Action Summit and what they mean for policymakers, businesses and citizens.

Sessions

Speakers

Explore the sessions →

partners

Official side event of the AI Action Summit

AI Fringe in Paris

The AI Fringe will be in Paris all day on 11th February. If you will be in Paris with your organisation for the Summit and are interested in joining us in the AI Fringe space, please contact us at hello@aifringe.org for more details.

Apply for our Paris event

Not far from the Grand Palais, our space will be open for all our partners as well as Summit delegates to use throughout the day with relaxed convening spaces and catering.

We are also developing a programme of discussions on a range of themes led by our partners including Clifford Chance, Connected by Data, Google Deepmind, Anthropic, JP Morgan Chase and Amazon Web Services.

Perspectives from the AI Fringe 2023

The AI Fringe brought together diverse views from across civil society, academia and industry – including those historically underrepresented – to engage in the discussion about AI safety and aimed to showcase the UK’s thriving ecosystem, as well as enhance understanding of AI and its impacts.

The views from the 2023 event were captured in the Perspectives paper as a means of contributing to and continuing the discussion about responsible AI development and deployment that happened at the Fringe.

The perspectives represented in this paper are drawn from a range of organisations across civil society, industry and academia, as well as from a group of citizens who comprised the People’s Panel on AI. There was never an expectation that these perspectives would align completely, but there are many areas of agreement and consensus to be found - which we've articulated here in the spirit of informing further conversations.

Download the paper ↓