The AIconics Awards – 2024 AI Implementor of the Year

David Norris – Chief Growth Officer – Holiday Extras

As Chief Growth Officer at Holiday Extras, David oversees growth, marketing and trading and leads on strategy. He started his career in tour operating, first overseas and then in the UK. From the year 2000 onwards he felt the draw of the internet and worked with various online travel companies in product, marketing and operations including a role at Expedia.co.uk as Website Operations Director. He then worked in several growth-stage startups as a COO.

Prior to joining Holiday Extras he was in Venture Capital, investing and helping early-stage companies get started. He is a fellow of the London COO Roundtable, has a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Director and recently published his first book on growth, "Growthadox: Embracing Paradox to Unlock Personal and Business Growth". 

Caroline Louveaux – Chief Privacy & Responsibility Officer – Mastercard

Caroline is responsible for driving Mastercard’s Privacy & Data Responsibility Strategy and leading the global teams responsible for privacy, data and AI governance. This includes legal compliance, policy and regulatory engagement as well as data management, governance and platforms.

She has played an instrumental role in preparing Mastercard for the EU GDPR, Brazil LGPD, California CCPA as well as other privacy and data-related laws globally. Among others, she has led Mastercard’s activities to implement Binding Corporate Rules for all its activities in Europe and the UK, and to obtain APEC privacy certifications under Cross-Border Privacy Rules and Privacy Recognition for Processors systems.

Daniel Hulme – CEO – Satalia; Chief AI Officer – WPP

Daniel is a globally recognised expert in AI and an investor in Emerging Technologies. He's the CEO of Satalia, an award-winning company that provides AI innovations for global brands. Satalia joined the world's largest media company in 2021, WPP, where Daniel is also the Chief AI Officer. Daniel has been recognised as one of the top 10 Chief AI Officers globally.

Having received a Masters and Doctorate in AI at UCL, Daniel is also UCL's Computer Science Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at LSE's Marshall Institute, focused on using AI to solve business and social problems.

Daniel is a serial TEDx and Google speaker, and regularly keynotes on AI, ethics, innovation and decentralization. He contributes to numerous of books and articles on the future of work, and is a faculty member of SingularityU.

David Norris – Chief Growth Officer – Holiday Extras

As Chief Growth Officer at Holiday Extras, David oversees growth, marketing and trading and leads on strategy. He started his career in tour operating, first overseas and then in the UK. From the year 2000 onwards he felt the draw of the internet and worked with various online travel companies in product, marketing and operations including a role at Expedia.co.uk as Website Operations Director. He then worked in several growth-stage startups as a COO.

Prior to joining Holiday Extras he was in Venture Capital, investing and helping early-stage companies get started. He is a fellow of the London COO Roundtable, has a Diploma in Company Direction from the Institute of Director and recently published his first book on growth, "Growthadox: Embracing Paradox to Unlock Personal and Business Growth". 

Helen Milner, OBE – CEO – Good Things Foundation

Helen has over 30 years' experience of working in and leading organisations creating and delivering education over and about the internet. Helen was awarded an OBE for services to digital inclusion in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours List. In 2017 she won the title of Digital Leader of the Year (UK) and was named by Computer Weekly as the 14th most influential person in UK IT in 2020. Working with the British Parliament, Helen was a member of the Speaker's Commission for Digital Democracy and an Advisor on Digital Engagement to the Public Accounts Committee.

She is a Board Member of FutureDotNow, a member of the Minister's Digital Skills Partnership Board, and is on the Adult Advisory Group for MaPS (the UK's Money and Pension Service).

Richard Corbridge – CDIO – DWP

Through his Lighthouse Initiative, Rich has provided more focused support for AI projects – such as streamlining governance and targeted funding - to realise the promised benefits and impact. He has balanced the transformative promises of Generative AI with the very real concerns of keeping citizen interactions safe and DWP secure. And it's paid off: combining AI solutions, automation and OCR and ML, DWP has processed more than 20m items, saving 2.25m hours of manual processing time – with direct savings of more than £100m.

Furthermore, while many organisations are focused on GenAI proof-of-concepts, DWP have implemented a model that identifies critically vulnerable citizens from millions of pages of incoming mail and routes them to specialist workers to get the support they need fast. This is the first (of several) safe implementations of an LLM in a production service anywhere in UK Government. At DWP, AI is not only saving millions of pounds each year, but it's saving lives, too

Vanessa Lopes – Machine Learning Engineer – European Central Bank

Vanessa is a Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist at the European Central Bank. She is currently working on the forefront of integrating Generative AI technologies, building foundation models for supervision and banking risk as well as bringing safe and trustworthy solutions at scale in production setups.

Prior to the ECB, Vanessa worked in IBM delivering cutting-edge AI solutions tailored for the banking industry.

Her undergraduate research in the field of speech processing includes a published paper in InterSpeech 2019 conference concerning a gamified speech therapy tool to assist children with dysphonia.