Session information: Learn about evolving international AI standards landscape, how AI standards aim to help, new skills required to assess AI, and the different approaches to AI quality globally.
Speaker information:
Adam Smith, Chair, Artificial Intelligence Quality Infrastructure (AIQI) Consortium
Adam Leon Smith is Deputy Chair of the UK’s national AI standards committee. In ISO/IEC SC42 he is Convenor of JWG 2 (Testing of AI systems). He is active in CEN-CENELEC JTC21, where he is Project Leader for two projects - the Quality Management System for EU AI Act Regulatory Purposes, and AI System Logging. He is Chair of the BCS Fellows Technical Advisory group, and Chair of the AIQI Consortium, a global initiative to promote the use of the quality infrastructure for AI. In 2024, the University of Bath awarded Adam an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work.
Tim McGarr, AI Market Development Lead (Regulatory Services), BSI
Tim McGarr is the AI Market Development Lead in BSI responsible for investigating new AI markets and delivering new AI assessment services. Prior to this Tim was the Sector Lead for BSI with responsibility for the direction and development of key digital standards areas, including Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security. Tim has been working at BSI since 2009. Before joining BSI, Tim spent five years working in the strategy department for legal publisher LexisNexis. Tim has also worked as a management consultant and an internal consultant. Tim has an MBA from HEC in Paris, France. Tim facilitates this session.
Duration: 30 minutes
Price: CQI/IRCA members: £15, Non-members: £20