Engage 2023

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Event Overview

Our flagship event, Engage, returned to The Londoner on Thursday 25 May to loudly and proudly celebrate digital innovation in all its forms. Forget panel overload or lengthy keynotes, Engage was all about bringing you fast-paced sessions that to spark your creativity, shatter your preconceptions, and get you thinking differently.

ChatGPT. Natural language processing. Machine learning. Avatars. Algorithms. Robotics. As AI blasts into the mainstream through new programmes, apps and tech in the mass market, we turned the focus of Engage 2023 to AI, exploring its impact, the opportunities and what we in digital advertising need to know about artificial intelligence.   

This event is now over, sessions are now available to watch back on demand

Part One

The Imitation Game: an introduction

In need of a primer on Generative AI? Contagious’ David Beresford takes us on a whistle stop-tour of how this exciting field has evolved over recent years, months, and weeks.

David Beresford, Strategist, Contagious

Ethics in AI: why just caring isn’t enough

How should human values shape machine learning? AI Ethicist Olivia Gambelin explains the need to instill ethics into the core of AI development.

Olivia Gambelin, AI Ethicist

The future of rel[AI]tionships

As digital identities and beings become more realistic, how could they change the future of relationships, families and how brands connect with people?

Emma Chiu, Global Director, Wunderman Thompson Intelligence

AI as Your Co-Pilot: How to collaborate with Artificial Intelligence

With AI offering unprecedented opportunities and challenges for human creativity, Microsoft’s James Murray covers how to leverage AI as your co-pilot, not your competitor.

James Murray, EMEA Product Marketing Lead, Microsoft Advertising

Regulating AI: the death of innovation?

As regulation becomes an increasing part of the AI conversation, Wiggin’s Isabel Davies unpacks how the UK government are approaching this hot topic.

Isabel Davies, Associate, Wiggin LLP

The future of AI explained in 5 sci-fi films

Bringing academic thinking together with five popular sci-fi films, OMG’s Phil Rowley illustrates what is and isn’t possible in the future of AI - and what needs to happen now.

Phil Rowley, Head of Futures, OMG

Part Two

AI & Work: Opportunity or risk?

With flexibility at work increasing, but productivity decreasing, Bruce explores the role that AI can play in doing the things we simply don't enjoy, while pushing our imagination and allowing us to do more of what we love, better.

Bruce Daisley, Best selling author and tech leader

AI-powered Google Search Ads

In this session, Google Engineering Manager Dorothea Wiesmann Rothuizen shows how marketer’s expertise - combined with AI advancements - can take search ads to the next level.

Dorothea Wiesmann, Director Software Engineering, Google

Beyond bias… busting 10 myths in 10 minutes

Can only personal data be debiased? No! Can AI debias recruitment? No! Dr Eleanor Drage tackles one myth per minute in this fast-paced session.

Dr Eleanor Drage, Co-Host, The Good Robot podcast

How AI is enhancing the radio experience

Learn how AI can enhance audio entertainment and brand marketing, how to utilise the technology in an engaging way and what the future looks like for digital innovation in audio advertising.

Shana Hills, Chief Product and Platforms Officer, Bauer Media Audio; Paul Sylvester, Content Director, Absolute Radio Network; Harriet Scott, Broadcaster and Presenter

The power of creative elements in TikTok ads

TikTok and Kantar share how Kantar Link AI is demystifying brand lift performance and unlocking more effective creative for advertisers.

Matt Rooney, Measurement Lead, TikTok & Hannah Walley, Head of Media, Insights, UK, Kantar

Lost Connection: automata as a relational ecology

Tech futurist Adah Parris picks up on themes explored in her TEDx talk, challenging us to consider the type of ancestors we want to be in the context of AI.

Adah Parris, Tech-futurist, artist & activist

Can it smell and other questions

The IAB’s James Chandler contemplates generative AI’s potential at the edges of creativity

James Chandler, Chief Marketing Officer, IAB UK

Meet our speakers...

David Beresford

David Beresford

Strategist, Contagious
David Beresford

David Beresford

Strategist, Contagious

David is a Strategist within the Advisory team at Contagious. He began his career at the London creative advertising agency VCCP, before enjoying subsequent freelance stints at the likes of Droga5, Engine, and Havas. Last year, he was invited to speak on the main stage at ‘Most Contagious’ in London, delivering a talk on the rapidly developing area of generative artificial intelligence.

Dr Eleanor Drage

Dr Eleanor Drage

Co-Host, The Good Robot podcast
Dr Eleanor Drage

Dr Eleanor Drage

Co-Host, The Good Robot podcast

Eleanor is the author of An Experience of the Impossible: The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s SF, and co-editor of The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology, and Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines. Her current research investigates how AI like hiring tools and real-time event detection relates to structural inequality, including systems of race and gender. She also helps improve the way companies respond to AI ethics guidance and regulation.

Adah Parris

Adah Parris

Tech-futurist, artist & activist
Adah Parris

Adah Parris

Tech-futurist, artist & activist

Adah Parris is a highly sought-after keynote speaker and a visionary in the fields of technology, ecology, innovation, and art. With her unique blend of expertise, she challenges conventional thinking and inspires individuals and organisations to embrace new ways of thinking and doing. Adah's cutting-edge philosophy, Cyborg Shamanism™, merges ancient wisdom, living systems and digital technologies to provide a framework for a more sustainable future. Her Ancestors Retreats empower individuals to achieve personal growth and bridge the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Adah works with leading organisations to drive innovation, foster deeper connections, and leave a positive legacy for future generations.

Emma Chiu

Emma Chiu

Global Director, Wunderman Thompson Intelligence
Emma Chiu

Emma Chiu

Global Director, Wunderman Thompson Intelligence

Emma Chiu leads Wunderman Thompson Intelligence, the agency’s in-house futures and innovation think-tank. Her mission is to understand how the world is and is not changing to best advise organisations on how to transform for the future.

She consults with clients to build long-term strategies based on qualitative and quantitative insight that incorporates cultural and behavioural change, sector innovation and zeitgeist shifts. Clients include Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Unilever.

Bruce Daisley

Bruce Daisley

Best selling author and tech leader
Bruce Daisley

Bruce Daisley

Best selling author and tech leader

Bruce Daisley is one of the world's most influential voices on fixing work, published in the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. His latest book, Fortitude, was described by the Financial Times as the 'best business book of the year' at the end of 2022. 

He's recently been appointed as a Visiting Honorary Professor at Bayes Business School at City University in London with a focus on organisational culture and the MBA programme.

Previously he spent over a decade running Twitter and YouTube (the latter at Google) for Europe, leaving Twitter as its most senior leader outside of the US. Bruce runs the Apple number 1 Business Chart topping podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat on work culture.

Harriet Scott

Harriet Scott

Broadcaster & Presenter
Harriet Scott

Harriet Scott

Broadcaster & Presenter

Harriet Scott is one of the UKs best known broadcasters and is the presenter of Magic Radio’s Breakfast show. With more than 30 years’ experience in broadcasting, Harriet has presented for Viking FM, headed up the first female-led breakfast show in commercial radio at 2-Ten FM in the mid-90s, was part of BRMB, and was headhunted by Chris Evans to host the drive time show on the original Virgin Radio. From there she moved to Heart where she spent nearly a decade on the Breakfast Show. A few years of doing speech radio at BBC London followed, and Harriet can now be heard waking up the country every weekday on her award winning Magic Breakfast show with Ronan Keating. Harriet has won Sony and Arqiva Awards and enjoyed record-breaking listening figures at Magic.

Isabel Davies

Isabel Davies

Associate, Wiggin LLP
Isabel Davies

Isabel Davies

Associate, Wiggin LLP

Isabel Davies is an associate at leading media, technology and IP law firm Wiggin LLP. Isabel specialises in all areas of interactive entertainment, including video games and esports. She advises on a range of matters, but has a particularly focus on regulatory matters that impact the industry – currently a potent mix of online safety, child privacy, consumer protection and the rise of AI.

James Murray

James Murray

EMEA Product Marketing Lead, Microsoft Advertising
James Murray

James Murray

EMEA Product Marketing Lead, Microsoft Advertising

James Murray is the EMEA Product Marketing Lead for Microsoft Advertising. In his role he is responsible for storytelling across Europe and orchestrating engineering engagements in the region to inform product development. James connects sales, marketing and engineering to develop and execute local product marketing plans across 35 regions. He is a powerful raconteur and product evangelist, being a regular contributor at industry events across the globe.

Phil Rowley

Phil Rowley

Head of Futures, OMG
Phil Rowley

Phil Rowley

Head of Futures, OMG

Phil is Head Of Futures at OMG Futures and works with brands to fast-track their future, converting thought-leadership and tech trends into actionable innovation strategies in the ‘now’ . He delivers innovation implementations programme for global bluechip clients including Porsche, Skoda, Unilever and HSBC.  He’s authored OMG’s flagship thoughtleadership pieces: Level Up – The Future of Gaming ;  Hit The Switch - The Future of Sustainable Business ; Thrive  - The Future of Wellbeing ; At The Edge – The Next Decade In Tech. Phil has also delivered international keynotes on the future of media and marketing including London, New York, Moscow, and Berlin, and is a tech advisory board member and guest lecturer. He has over 23 years’ experience from working in tech, marketing and advertising in London, Dublin and Auckland.  

Olivia Gambelin

Olivia Gambelin

AI Ethicist
Olivia Gambelin

Olivia Gambelin

AI Ethicist

Olivia works as the Founder and CEO of Ethical Intelligence where she leads a remote team of over seventy experts in the Tech Ethics field. Additionally, she is on the Founding Editorial Board for Springer Nature’s AI and Ethics Journal, Co-Chair of IEEE’s AI Expert Network Criteria Committee, and is on the Advisory Board of the Ethical AI Governance Group (EAIGG).

Hannah Walley

Hannah Walley

Head of Media, Insights, UK, Kantar
Hannah Walley

Hannah Walley

Head of Media, Insights, UK, Kantar

Hannah heads up Kantar’s media effectiveness practice, specialising in providing data and insights to brands, media owners and media agencies. Hannah also works with key clients to publish white papers based on Kantar’s media learnings, and understanding of people’s attitudes and behaviours online and offline.

Matt Rooney

Matt Rooney

Measurement Lead, TikTok
Matt Rooney

Matt Rooney

Measurement Lead, TikTok

Matt Rooney is the Measurement Lead of Global Accounts at TikTok for Business. His previous experience spans businesses including Amazon and Mindshare.

Dorothea Wiesmann

Dorothea Wiesmann

Director Software Engineering, Google
Dorothea Wiesmann

Dorothea Wiesmann

Director Software Engineering, Google
Shana Hills

Shana Hills

Chief Product and Platforms Officer, Bauer Media Audio
Shana Hills

Shana Hills

Chief Product and Platforms Officer, Bauer Media Audio
Paul Sylvester

Paul Sylvester

Content Director, Absolute Radio Network
Paul Sylvester

Paul Sylvester

Content Director, Absolute Radio Network
Jon Mew

Jon Mew

CEO, IAB UK
Jon Mew

Jon Mew

CEO, IAB UK
James Chandler

James Chandler

CMO, IAB UK
James Chandler

James Chandler

CMO, IAB UK
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