Kate is a senior advisor on digital innovation across EMEA at global communications agency, Burson, where she previously served as European managing director of digital. She also advises the team behind Burson Navigate, which supports C-suite clients in all aspects of AI consultancy, in partnership with WPP’s expert partner, Satalia. In addition, Kate is an advisory board member of the Oxford Generative AI Summit, and Oxford-based start-up, Super Benji, which provides AI-driven solutions to personalised B2B outreach at scale. Kate’s work extends into academia as a Wellcome Trust scholar and doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. She serves as senior digital advisor to the Vaccines and Society Unit, a multidisciplinary research centre within Oxford’s Department of Paediatrics that studies actors’ attitudes and behaviour towards vaccination in society, policy, and media.
Kate’s doctoral research project deploys mixed methods—including digital ethnography and content analysis—to explore the contextual influence of online misinformation upon vaccine hesitancy in the UK. She began researching vaccine misinformation in 2015, leading a multi-author study investigating the scope and sources of online misinformation about the polio vaccine in endemic countries, chiefly Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. The research, which focused on digital content analysis, alongside semi-structured interviews with regional experts and local community leaders, was commissioned by Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners: the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Kate commenced her DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences after more than 15 years in digital and health communications. She holds a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford and an MA with Distinction in Area Studies (Latin America) from the University of London’s Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study. She has also studied advanced Spanish language at King’s College, London, and holds an Honours Diploma in Freelance and Travel Writing from the London School of Journalism.

Mike Bracken CBE is a global digital leader who has led wholesale transformations of large institutions in the private and public sector. He helps organisations change their way of working and solve systemic market, societal and macroeconomic challenges. He is best known for leading the global revolution in digital government, taking the UK to #1 in the UN rankings in 2016.

Mike Bracken is a founding partner at Public Digital, a digital change consultancy for institutions with a public mission. He was the founder and executive director of the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) and the UK’s first Government Chief Data Officer.

Mike has led digital operations and transformations in large-scale organisations in the UK and Europe, such as Guardian News & Media and the Co-operative Group. A civic technologist who helped establish MySociety, Mike uses the power of the open Internet to drive systemic change.

He currently advises more than 30 governments and global financial institutions on digital transformation, from Canada and Australia to Argentina, and is currently one of President Macron’s Global Tech Thinkers. He is an honorary professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. Mike is a partner at the Lisbon Council in Brussels and a Non-Executive Director at Chetwood Bank, a fully licensed UK fintech.

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a #foundersfirst early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in North American startups making work better. Bloomberg Beta treats founders as its customers and was the first venture capital fund to focus on the future of work and the first fund to focus on artificial intelligence. Bloomberg Beta has invested in Replit, MasterClass, Slack, Flexport, Codecademy, and Textio, among other companies. 
Roy chairs the Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor. He was a commissioner on the California Governor's Future of Work Commission. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, has served in government, and led a non-profit in addition to his work at established corporations and day zero startups.
He serves on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and the Economic Security Project. He also serves on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley where he teaches at the Haas School of Business.
Roy graduated from Harvard College, where he ran the student public service nonprofit. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College.

Dr. Keegan McBride is a Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in National Security and Technology at the Center for a New American Security. At Oxford, he conducts research on how new and emerging disruptive technologies are transforming our understanding of the state, government, and power.

Chloe is a digital government researcher and doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she is researching the use of data-driven technologies and AI in public sector organisations. Chloe is also an Expert Affiliate for StateUp, where she has worked on projects focussed on government innovation, resilience, and digitalisation.

Chloe has most recently worked as an Adviser with the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, with previous roles including positions with the Cabinet Office, Universities Australia and within the science communication sector. Chloe holds an MPhil with distinction in Public Policy from the University of Cambridge.