British Data Science Society

Upcoming event: BDSS Panel: AI at the Crossroads - The Dual Nature of Innovation: Navigating the Technical, Ethical, and Societal Crossroads of AI

Join us in exploring the promises and challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in relation to technical, ethical and societal issues

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 10am – 12pm,University of London, Woburn Suite, Senate House

Invited panelists:

• Lampros Stergioulas, UNESCO Chair of AI and Data Science for Society and Professor of Data Science at The Hague University of Applied Sciences;

• Mark Lycett, Professor of Digital Innovation at Royal Holloway and Head of Business Futures for the CoSTAR National Lab;

• Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin, Senior Researcher in the Data Governance Team within the Data and Security Research Group of Fujitsu Research of Europe;

• Mahendra Singh Rajpoot, AI professional and researcher specializing in scalable AI architectures and robust data governance frameworks;

• Aline Villavicencio, Director of the Institute for Data Science and AI and Professor Computer Science at the University of Exeter.

Moderated by Maged Ali, Reader of Digital Marketing and Business Analytics at Essex Business School, University of Essex.

Hosted by Dimitrios Koufopoulos, Professor and Director of the Online Global MBA Programs at the University of London.

Please, register your attendance here.

Speakers and topics at recent meetings of the British Data Science Society (BDSS):

Antonio Cordella (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)): Beyond the Algorithm: Navigating Values in AI Development. BDSS Annual Lecture 2026 at Essex Business School (EBS), University of Essex, Colchester. 

Dragos Gavrilut (University of Iasi, and Vice-President of the Threat Research Lab at Bitdefender): Applied Machine Learning in Cybersecurity seminar at Birkbeck, University of London

Daniel Stahl (King’s College London):  Predicting psychosis in high-risk patients: An overview of current work at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) seminar at Goldsmith, University of London

Julia Handl (University of Manchester) Pareto optimization in applied data science – formalizing the exploration of optimal trade-offs meeting at Network Building, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex, Colchester

Sabrine Mallek (ICN Business School, Nancy Cedex) The power of AI recommendations: from consumer decisions to industrial safeguards 

Boris Mirkin (NRU HSE Moscow RF, University London UK) Anomalous clustering at various data formats 

Cristina Orso (University of Insubria)  Temporary GPs and the effects on patients' health outcomes