Dr Simon Fothergill

Head of AI, Lucent AI

Dr Fothergill is a creative and conscientious leader of AI. He has a Ph.D. in machine learning from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a MEng in Computing from Imperial College. He is currently the Head of AI at Lucent AI, an engineering consultancy company. Over the last 20 years he has been a Distinguished Engineer at an international scale-up, a founding employee of a Cambridge technology venture built AI start-up and an AI researcher at a global FTSE 100 company.  He has been invited to speak on the headline panel at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025, at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, as a lecturer for Jesus College, Cambridge’s Intellectual Forum and appeared on multiple podcasts and magazines discussing AI in terms of ethics and creativity

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