Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales is a American-British Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Fandom. His debut book entitled ‘The Seven Rules of Trust’ was published simultaneously by Bloomsbury in the UK and Crown Currency in the US on 28 October 2025.

Professor Elena Simperl

Elena Simperl is a Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London, where she co-directs the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also the Director of Research at the Open Data Institute, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.

Elena’s work is at the intersection between AI and social computing. She features in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade and the Women in AI 2000 ranking. Elena co-chairs the Croissant working group in ML Commons, developing an open standard to improve data portability, discovery and use in AI. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.

Dr Giota Alevizou

Giota Alevizou is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Culture, and Co-director of the Digital Futures MA programme. Her work examines civic media, encyclopedias, platforms, and emerging AI systems as sites where authority, expertise, and trust are produced and contested. She has published widely on a range of topics in digital culture, the politics of technology, and the histories and futures of digital commons; She is the author of The Web of Knowledge: encyclopedias and authority in the digital age (Polity, 2026) and co-author of The Creative Citizen UnBound (Policy Press, 2016).

James O'Malley

James O’Malley is a writer and journalist covering politics, policy and technology. He writes the newsletter Odds and Ends of History, and is a co-host of YIMBY Pod.

Gaia Marcus

Gaia Marcus is Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Prior to joining Ada, Gaia was Deputy Director (Advanced Analytics and Local Capabilities) at the Spatial Data Unit within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). In this role, she led on ensuring that data and data-driven analysis were used to support policymaking and service delivery.