23 SEPTEMBER | 2025, LONDON
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH
The O2, LONDON
23 SEPTEMBER | 2025, LONDON
Robert Smith
Director of AI and Data Science - Digital Catapult
Technologist, complexity scientist, entrepreneur, writer, business advisor, and consultant. Authored over 100 academic papers on artificial intelligence (in the ResearchGate top 6%, h-score 31), and numerous articles in the popular press. Conducted R&D projects for all branches of the US military, Los Alamos National and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, NASA, Boeing, NSF, EPSRC, The European Union, DERA, British Aerospace, Airbus, British Telecom, The Bank of England, The UK Competitive Market Authority, and others. Co-founded and served as CTO of a software business whose product (which he co-created) is in production use at global blue-chip companies. He is the author of Rage Inside the Machine, a book examining AI and prejudice, which was shortlisted for UK Best Business Book of 2020. He currently serves as Director of AI and Data Science at Digital CatapultSenior Fellow (Hon.) of the Computer Science Faculty at University College London, where he co-founded the Centre for Decision-Making Uncertainty.