Gina Neff Keynote Speaker

Professor Gina Neff is a leading sociologist on the impact of technological advances in communication. She is Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University of London and Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge – an independent research centre that aims to make digital technologies work for people, society, and the planet.

Named as one of the 100+ Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, she is a distinguished sociologist specialising in the ethical and societal implications of digital transformation and emerging technologies.  Advising international organisations including UNESCO and the OECD, her research focuses on the effects of the rapid expansion of our digital information environment on workers and workplaces and in our everyday lives.

Author of author of award-winning book ‘Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries’ (MIT Press 2012), other books also include ‘Self-Tracking’ and ‘Human-Centred Data Science: And Introduction’.

Professor Neff is Deputy CEO of UKRI Responsible AI UK (RAi UK) and Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network.  She also leads the Humanitarian Action Programme at the University of Cambridge, and is a member of the Horizon Europe international AI4Trust team to tackle online misinformation.

She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Network for the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and serves on the Board of Directors for the Social Science Research Council in the US. She also sits on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for the Future of Work.