The Civic AI summit is to be held at Rhodes House, Oxford, on the 25th of March 2026. It will be hosted by Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Director of Research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and Ambassador Audrey Tang, Senior Accelerator Fellow at the IEAI.
The programme will feature two parts, a theoretical part in the morning where Civic AI is introduced by Audrey Tang. The keynote presentation will be delivered by Joan C. Tronto, Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of Minnesota. This will be followed by discussions on the ethics of care researchers, and civil society views. The afternoon session will be a practical discussions on Civic AI in practice.
The summit will bring together academics, people from tech and the private sector, civil society and policy to introduce, demonstrate and co-develop the 'Civic AI approach' and '6-packs of care' framework. You can read more about this work here: https://6pack.care/.
This event is now open to the public. As we have a limited number of places available, please register your interest here.
You will be notified before Friday 13th March, as to whether you have been allocated a place.
Hosted by:
Dr Caroline Green
Dr Caroline Green is the Institute’s Director of Research and Head of Public Engagement. Caroline's research focuses on AI and human rights, specifically in the fields of health and social care. Caroline holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE, a MA in Investigative Journalism from City University and a PhD in Gerontology from King's College London. As Director of Research, Caroline also leads the Accelerator Fellowship Programme at the Institute.
Ambassador Audrey Tang
A globally recognised civic-tech leader and the world’s first openly non-binary cabinet minister, Ambassador Audrey Tang has been instrumental in positioning Taiwan at the forefront of internet freedom and civic participation. TIME named Tang to its inaugural "100 Most Influential People in AI" list in 2023 for her profound impact on leveraging technology for public good.
Tang was a key contributor to the g0v.tw civic tech community, an initiative that promotes transparency by "forking" government websites into open-source versions preferred by citizens. During the 2014 Sunflower Movement, Tang played a critical role in livestreaming protests against a controversial trade pact, transforming deliberation into a public act of courage, cementing Taiwan’s reputation as Asia’s beacon of freedom
She was instrumental in developing participation platforms like vTaiwan.tw and Join.gov.tw, which directly led to practical policy improvements, including crafting rideshare legislation, streamlining tax filing, and overcoming deepfake ads online.
Her innovative approaches were further highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic, where her team rapidly developed tools like real-time mask availability maps and privacy-preserving contact tracing, contributing to Taiwan’s acclaimed response that avoided lockdowns while maintaining economic growth. More recently, Tang was key in safeguarding Taiwan's 2024 presidential and legislative elections from foreign cyber interference.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Joan Tronto, Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science
Joan C. Tronto is professor emerita of political science at the City University of New York and the University of Minnesota. She currently lives in New York City.
Educated at Oberlin College (A.B.) and Princeton University (M.A., Ph.D.), she is the author of many works on care ethics, including over 50 articles and several books, including Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethics of Care (Routledge, 1993) Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality and Justice (NYU Press, 2013), Le risque ou le “care”? (translated into Spanish as ¿Riesgo o Cuidado? (2020) and Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics (Cornell, 2015). Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Among other honors, Tronto has served as a Fulbright Fellow in Italy, and in 2023 she won the prestigious a Benjamin E. Lippincott Award presented by the American Political Science Association “to recognize a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original date of publication.” She received honorary doctorates from the University for Humanistic Studies in the Netherlands and Louvain University in Belgium.
Panellists to include:
Dr Jeni Tennison, Executive Director of Connected by Data
Jeni is the founder and Executive Director of Connected by Data, a campaign that aims to give communities a powerful say in decisions about data and AI. She has a PhD in psychology and AI; was the chief architect and lead developer of legislation.gov.uk; CEO of the Open Data Institute, where she worked for nine years; a co-chair of GPAI’s Data Governance Working Group; and on the expert advisory group helping design the digital centre at DSIT. She is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, adjunct Professor at Southampton’s Web Science Institute, and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. She sits on the Board of Creative Commons and the Information Law and Policy Centre. She loves Lego and board games and is the proud co-creator of the open data board game, Datopolis.
Ron Ivey, CEO and Founder, Noēsis Collaborative
Ron Ivey has spent over two decades building collaborations across industry, government, academia, and civil society to advance trust, technology governance, and human flourishing. In 2025, he founded Noēsis Collaborative to convene leaders shaping how emerging technologies are researched, built, and governed. He is a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and
a Fellow at the Centre for Public Impact and the Global Solutions Initiative, advising on global policy and evaluation. Ron has advised senior leaders across the public and private sectors, led international strategy projects, served as a policy advisor in the US Senate, and regularly speaks at leading global forums on technology, trust, and social impact.
Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, Associate Director at Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)
Clenton is a nationally recognised leader in adult social care, disability justice, and lived experience led system reform. He works at the intersection of policy, practice, and lived experience, supporting leaders to make principled decisions in complex and constrained systems.
Clenton is Co-Chair of the Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment (PIP), helping to shape thinking on how disability benefits can better enable independence, dignity, and participation. He is also a member of the Expert Reference Group for the Review of Social Work Regulation, bringing insight on how regulation can support good practice rather than drive compliance alone.
He is Associate Director at Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), where he works with local authorities, partners, and people with lived experience to embed co-production,personalisation, and values-led leadership in adult social care and health. His work focuses on translating ambition into action aligning culture, commissioning, workforce practice, and governance.
Clenton is particularly interested in how leaders hold values steady under pressure, centre lived experience as “data with soul,” and design systems that support people to live well, not just manage demand.
Dr Iason Gabriel, Philosopher and Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Iason Gabriel is a Philosopher and Research Scientist at Google DeepMind where he leads the AGI & Society Team. His work focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence,
including questions about AI value alignment, AI agents, distributive justice, language ethics and human rights. Before joining Google DeepMind, Iason taught political and moral philosophy at Oxford University and worked for the United Nations in Lebanon and Sudan.
Zarinah Agnew, PhD, Research Director Collective Intelligence Project (CIP)
Zarinah is a neuroscientist now working on emerging technologies and the science of collectivity. They are Research Director at the Collective Intelligence Project working on democratizing AI and deploying AI for democracy. Outside of this they run Social Science Observatory & District Commons & are faculty at London College of Political Technology.
Karina Palyutina Senior Staff Standardisation Specialist, Nokia
Karina Palyutina is a Standards Specialist at Nokia, where she leads AI governance standardisation and related initiatives on the intersection of technology, policy, and global standards. She is also a member of the UK AI (BSI) committee, contributing to national positions on European and ISO standards.
Karina read Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, and subsequently joined Nokia Bell Labs as a researcher working on deep reinforcement learning, computer vision, and autonomous systems. She is an inventor and co-author of over 20 patents and publications on AI and distributed systems.
Karina believes that AI needs to be designed with human values in mind, and that the standards and governance systems underpinning it need to catch up. Much of her work is driven by a practical commitment to making that happen.
More panellists coming soon!