Researcher

AI risk and chloropleth maps

Building technical governance solutions to increase verifiability in AI

Analyst-writer-artist exploring how technology can further civic engagement

✧ ai engineer & civic hacker

☀︎ raves, machines, and dishwashers

Making policy at the AI/Creative Industries intersection

Gonzo man

Educator & Coder

Engineer-life-coach integrating AI, coaching and facilitation to empower human flourishing

Building technology for humans

Governance strategist

Yung-Hsuan is a social studies researcher on AI dedicated to portraying the co-constitutive relationship between technology and society. During the day, he works as an algorithmic auditor at Eticas. Outside of work, he likes roaming around the city aimlessly, writes people around him into stories, and works on secret side projects. Check them out here. Created Immigration Email Drafter.

Simon combines analytical thinking and creative experimentation to bring joy to his small corner of the world. Currently focused on AI, exploring technical alignment, governance, and policy. He enjoys tinkering on creative projects and facilitates connection workshops at festivals and workplaces. Created ChatLinks and Whirlpool.

Software engineer at ExpressVPN, exploring game development and meditation. Interested in large-scale human systems, AI safety, and how individual actions shape them. Practices Global Wayfinding meditation and writes about spirituality and AI alignment on his blog.

Software engineer focused on using technology, education, and policy to build a better society. Contributes to Campaign Lab on progressive tech and election tools, and organizes for codebar, teaching programming to minority groups. Passionate about exploring well-designed political tech to drive social change. Created Wealth Watch.

Graphic designer interested in making hyper local Zines and floating wonders. Exploring Green issues, energy policy and neurodiversity as well as new methods to deal with overwhelm, infoglut and linkrot. Created for you page A4 mini-zine.

Governance specialist researching digital technologies, democratic processes, and justice. Focused on using data and technology to promote equity and address global challenges. Background in law with experience in urban development and AI governance initiatives.

Leads research, development, and innovation at Ekō, mobilizing millions to hold corporations accountable. Previously worked in Washington, D.C., Brussels, and London, including roles at the ITUC. Studied sociology, political science, corpus linguistics, and gender studies, focused on how ideas and movements spread online. Created Placemarked and Thanks, JK.

Data analyst with degrees in Applied Mathematics and Data Analytics, shifting to public health to apply behavioral science and game theory. Experienced in community-building and connecting students with non-profits. Passionate about leveraging technology, science, and art for positive change. Created Spare Change and How We Doin.

Focused on cultural evolution, coordination problems, spirituality, and optimism. Interested in recreating the positive effects of religious faith in a distributed way and reforming democracy for a complex world. Background in engineering and financial services; enjoys programming, fantasy, science fiction, and music. Created Community Platform.

Jyo is a Research Assistant at The Alan Turing Institute in the Trustworthy Digital Infrastructures for Identity Systems project. She is currently interested in producing research/projects in the field of political economy/platform economy and has been developing an independent research practice which draws from the humanities (literary and cultural studies, media studies, philosophy). Building Retrackt.

Researcher and designer at the intersections of sustainability transitions and collective intelligence. PhD Candidate at Brussels School of Governance; Principal Consultant at Raincoatfish; Associate Researcher at Mútua Systems.

Law scholar and writer at the intersections of public international law and political technologies. Doctorate in Law from Oxford University; Lecturer in international and human rights law in Iceland, Australia, and the UK; Researcher in space law and sustainability.

Techno-Buddhist, Product Engineer, originally from Siberia, lived in Moscow for 9 years, have been living in London for 6 years. Linkedin, Psychotechnology Substack.

Working on new media with Campaign Lab, running media for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, writing and broadcasting in various other places.

Music to neuroscience to interdisciplinarity to data science. Looking at how music can make us smarter, how data can help us think clearly about politics, and how AI can be used to bundle together complex problems in ways we can’t understand.

Political Writer, Researcher and Audio Producer

Number theory, Machine learning, Global development, Effective altruism
[email protected]

Coder, Canadian civil servant (talent.canada.ca)
Civic tech community organizer (civictech.ca, hypha.coop, codeacross.ca, g0v.london)
[email protected], @patcon_

Ethical platform / protocol engineer focused on decentralized, privacy-preserving identity and data storage solutions
[email protected], @ianconsolata

Governance lead @protein
Metagovernance, DAOs, Exit to Community
[email protected], @zhiganov, linktr.ee/zhiganov

climate × edtech
co-founder & CTO, greenworkx
[email protected], @richardcrng, richard.ng

Behavioral ecologist (ants & termites), Architect
[email protected], @matthewjlutz, matthewlutz.net

Applying mathematics and data science to inefficient markets
[email protected]

Economist (Urban and Applied Micro), Data scientist, Researcher at UCL Department of Economics
Projects: Ethnic Discrimination in Rental Market, Roadworks Side Effects on Restaurants, Public Transport and Employment Gender Gap, Forced Migration and Development
@VVeterinarov, [email protected]

Product Manager at Open Function, bringing open source process automation to governments and social-impact organizations
[email protected], @a_rignell

Geospatial analysis and information management at UN International Organization for Migration, and researching protracted refugee settlements using Space Syntax methodologies at the Bartlett, UCL.
[email protected]

History of AI, Reinforcement Learning, Complexity Science, Political Theory
[email protected]

$whoami
Cyber, misinfosec, OSINT
War Studies BA @ KCL & Data and Society @ LSE
@clementbriens, @misinfosecUK

Applying data science and machine learning to the root causes of environmental issues.
[email protected]

Systems, software and bioengineer; technologist; environmentalist - currently working as Head of Software at Litho to redefine the paradigm of education using AR EdTech. @la_jones21

Coach and Facilitator. Main points of focus: the climate emergency, miscommunication both online and offline, and loneliness in cities. [email protected]

Founder of Impact Shakers; passionate about the potential of entrepreneurship to change systems; humanist & technologist; zebra

Software developer, open data & knowledge enthusiast - Tech Lead for Wikidata, a CC0 licenced structured data repository sistered with Wikipedia.
Also working on a side project called WBStack, lowering the barrier to entry for the Wikibase software stack for all.
Blog, GitHub, @Twitter, LinkedIn, Email

Studying systems change at the intersection of tech, society and government. Currently working as a consultant on strategy and partnerships for Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada. @DerekAlton, LinkedIN.

Community Manager/Developer, WT.Social, looking for ways to decrease toxicity online, Wikipedia Administrator

Software developer, intersectional feminist, community builder
Finding systemic solutions to bringing more representation in technology and exploring matriarchy
@Agata_Anastazja

Connection and intimacy activist, software engineer, technologist, community builder. @pawel_krupinski

Editor-at-large, TechCrunch
Co-founder: @TechForUK, @ThePathfounder, @TheEuropas, @tech_vets, @Techfugees, @TechHub, @Coadec
@MikeButcher

Social Entrepreneur, Innovator, Collector, Advisor
The Social Innovation Partnership, Turning Basin Labs
@stephentsip

Improving journalism and publishing with JoeDocs.com and HackThePress.org

Computer science researcher, with a focus on low-resource languages in Wikipedia and Wikidata. Affiliated to University of Southampton and intern at Bloomberg. Working on the Scribe project. @frimelle

I currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO, helping UN agencies share their knowledge on Wikipedia. Previously I worked at the Natural History Museum and Science Museum in London, I helped run Wikimania 2014, and started MonmouthpediA, a community Wikipedia project in my home town.

Reach out if you’re interested in the future of work, food systems, platforms & communities, housing projects, adult education, ethical consumerism, representation, protest, parliament. @sabkava, [email protected]

Global Programmes Lead, Social Innovation Exchange

Head of Forecasting, Zeitgeist

Technical Project Manager, Logically.ai, using AI and OSINT to tackle disinformation at scale

Founder & CEO of Hatch, a start-up to connect people with ways to take action on social causes. Background in international development (especially Pakistan), conflict management, and liberal politics. Research interests: institutional information ecologies, distributed agency and user-centred design in communities and organisations. [email protected]

Head of Strategy and International, UK Government Office for Artificial Intelligence

Open Tech Lead, NHS England

Barrister, Garden Court Chambers, Founder, Lawyers for Nature

Digital and organisational change consultant to the charity sector. Intersticia Fellow, trustee of Turn2us and chair of Trajectory Theatre. Former agency MD, board of Sadler’s Wells. #1 woman in digital under 30, The Drum 2014. Immersive digital art enthusiast. Yoga teacher. @jokerrconsults, linkedin/jokerrconsults, [email protected]

Founder, wings.coop

Senior Policy Manager, NHSX Centre for Improving Data Collaboration

Mozilla Senior Fellow, AlgorithmWatch, Data Governance Models

Systems designer, participatory and horizontal forms of governance, community catalyst and facilitator. Working on new forms of governance for a better world. Currently: DGOV Foundation, Enspiral, Edmund Hillary Fellow, RSA Fellow, Associate Lecturer Schumacher College. @solarpunk_girl [email protected]

Co-Founder, InFact Digital Co-op

Senior developer and tech lead with substantive experience in digital identity from my time at Government Digital Service. I founded Police Rewired - a volunteer community for technologists working on problems in public safety and crime. @[email protected]

Director of Standards and Interoperability, NHSX, Founder, Redecentralize.org

Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist, Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University

Senior Technology Advisor, Competition Markets Authority

Founder & Principal Data Scientist @ Coefficient

Consultant & Writer on Web3, cryptowriting.net

Research Engineer / Machine Learning

Founder at Azvai.com, an innovation and sustainability consultancy inspired by non-dualistic thinking

Head of Design Research, FutureGov/TPXimpact, prev GOV.UK User Research Lead, Government Digital Service

Software Engineer, Wave Mobile Money

Charity Funding / Web Apps / Data Science

CEO, Cosmos Pics

Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Propaganda, Oxford Internet Institute

Research Director, Centre for Analysis of Social Media

PhD, NLP and news

Head of Policy, Royal Society, Councillor for Canning Town North

Head of Digital Policy, National Lottery Heritage Fund

Co-founder, Local Welcome

Full stack engineer

Senior Researcher, mySociety

Ford-Mozilla Fellow, Center for Democracy & Technology

Design & Neuroscience, Lingumi

Network Development Lead, UK Democracy Network

Director / Co-founder OA.Works, Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition, Organiser, OpenCon

Designer. Building Vouch, a new way to get hired.
@systemantix

Historian of AI; Affiliate, Berkman Klein Centre Harvard, Research Fellow, St. Edmund’s College & Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Cambridge), Associate Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

Neurovascular Fellow at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Founder, Forward Democracy

Founder, Open Knowledge

Climate Tech Investor