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Mapping potential impact and risks from digital transformation in public organizations: delivering targeted policies to make public sectors more resilient (CIMR Debates and Workshops in Public Policy)

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For many organisations, “digital transformation” is well underway, in part driven by changed working practices caused by the pandemic. Digital transformation promises significant efficiency gains. This research identifies the potential risks of mere displacement and income inequality issues. It will help policymakers by facilitating better targeting of their interventions that support digital skills.

Panel

  • Riccardo Zechinelli, Senior Economist in the Chief Economist’s team at the Cabinet Office & Visiting Fellow CIMR
  • Hayfa Mohdzaini, Senior Research Advisor CIPD
  • Maria Axente, Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead at PwC
  • Josh Entsminger, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Chair 

  • Dr Manto Gotsi, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and the Director of the Online MSc in Marketing, Birkbeck, University of London

Biographies

Dr Manto Gotsi is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing and the Director of the Online MSc in Marketing at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research explores how individuals, teams and organizations navigate organizational paradoxes in innovation management, corporate (re)branding, and entrepreneurship. Her work has been published in leading management and marketing journals, including the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Human Relations, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Management Inquiry, and European Journal of Marketing.  Manto holds a PhD in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde.

Riccardo Zecchinelli contributes to supporting the Prime Minister private office and the effective running of the UK government. In particular, he leads cross-governmental analysis on public sector productivity and the analysis for the newborn cross-governmental body Government Automation Taskforce which aims to promote widespread adoption of automation and AI technologies across the Public Sector. 

Hayfa Mohdzaini is CIPD's Senior Research Adviser in Data, Technology and AI. She is interested in how the people profession can contribute to good work through technology. Hayfa started her career in the private sector working in IT and then HR, and has been writing for the HR community since 2012. Previously she worked for another membership organisation (UCEA) where she expanded the range of pay and workforce benchmarking data available to the higher education HR community. Hayfa has degrees in computer science and human resources from University of York and University of Warwick respectively.

Josh Entsminger is a PhD student in innovation and public policy at University College London. He is supervised by Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Professor Rainer Kattel. In addition to doctoral work, he currently serves as a fellow at the Center for Policy and Competitiveness at Ecole Des Ponts Business School, and fellow at IE School of Global and Public Affairs’ Public Tech Lab. He was a research contributor on two World Economic Forum reports delivered at Davos in 2018 and 2020, concerning sustainable production systems and global technology governance. He is the co-founder at Net Positive Labs, a circular economy think and do tank.

Maria Axente is Responsible AI Lead at PwC and she drives the implementation of responsible AI and data across the UK business, its operations and clients. She has played a crucial part in the development and set-up of firms' AI Center of Excellence, firms AI strategy, and the Responsible AI toolkit, a suite of products dedicated to operationalisation ethics in AI. Maria is a globally recognised, award-winning AI ethics expert, public policy contributor, a member of various Advisory Boards - UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI  (APPG AI), ORBIT, SKEMA AI Institute, Vice-Chair of techUK Data and AI leadership committee and member of BSI/ISO & IEEE AI standard groups. Maria is a passionate advocate for children and youth rights in the age of AI and she serves as member of the Advisory Board for UNICEF #AI4Children and World Economic Forum Generation AI programmes.

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