ETHICALLY INNOVATIVE BUSINESS
At the heart of unlocking the step change needed to drive us forward from the current status quo and overcome the greatest challenges the world faces are innovative ideas and approaches.
Progress, however, requires adoption and to foster the adoption of new innovations, the most precious asset a business can build is trust – across all stakeholders.
For example, the CDEI AI Barometer highlights the key barriers for AI adoption, across all examined sectors, as being:
Algorithmic bias leading to discrimination
Lack of explainability of AI systems
Regulator resourcing impacting the ability of governance systems to address AI and data use
Failure of consent mechanisms, leading to the mass collection and use of data without people’s consent
Loss of public trust in institutions due to problematic AI and data use
This shows that trust, transparency and ethics are becoming the priority leadership values for organisations embracing new technologies and ethical, transparent and fair approaches are a proactive lens through which businesses can reshape their culture, people, technology and risk in order to build public trust.
The business challenge is to be ethical, inclusive and human-centric whilst innovating quickly.
Within our focus on ethical innovation we explore discussion topics including leveraging technology, research ethics, collaboration and data transparency to name a few.
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In conversation with Benjamin Turner, Chief Operating Officer of Agrimetrics – the Agrifood Data Marketplace building the national infrastructure for open and ethical sharing and interconnecting of data across the agriculture sector. Benjamin discusses the importance of earning trust within the industry to foster the adoption, and growth of the data marketplace within agriculture – in turn supporting a long term sustainable future for the industry. Benjamin touches on his own personal journey that led him to Agrimetrics, and how his experiences have shaped his leadership approach as well as the foundations that Agrimetrics is built upon – with ethical data governance firmly at the heart of the business – intrinsically woven into the fabric of their working practices.
In conversation with Steven Dring, Co-Founder of Growing Underground talking about sustainability, ethical farming and providing a return for investors as the drivers behind building a farm thirty-three metres below the city of London. Steven also talks about the need for data scientists, academics and engineers in the future of food workforce and how not having an agricultural background but learning from different sectors has paid dividends.
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