Date: Thursday, 26 March 2026
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Rhodes House, South Park Road, Oxford
The event is co-hosted by the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University and the Alliance for AI in Social Care, which will be presented on the day. The day will be an opportunity to reflect on the current state of AI in adult social care and to define gaps, needs and good practice together. We will also welcome guests from the US, who will talk to us about the current state of AI in social care in the US context.
Registration is now closed.
AGENDA
09:30 – Registration opens
10:00 – Welcome Dr Caroline Green (Research Director, Institute for Ethics in AI)
10:10 – Keynote: What do we mean by social care? – Mary Daly (Professor Emerita of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Oxford)
10:25 – Overview of our definition of responsible AI in social care – Kate Jopling, Independent Policy and Strategy Consultant and TLAP Associate
10:40 – Session 1: Experiences from caregiving - Chair: Katie Thorn (Director of Innovation, Digital Care Hub); Gill Horne; Jennifer Pearl
11:20 – Break
11:40 – Session 2: Ethical considerations in AI and social care - Professor Donald Macaskill (Chief Executive, Scottish Care); Yuval Shany (Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Peter Zein, James Townsend
12:15 – Session 3: The Tech Pledge - Chair Daniel Casson (Casson Consulting); Anna Steffeney; Peter Otto; Isaac Samuels OBE (Co-chair, National Co-production Advisory Group)
12:55 – Short reflection on key takeaways – Caroline Green
13:00 – Lunch
13:45 – Session 4: Governance, regulation and local authority developments - Chair: Karolina Gerlich (CEO, Care Workers Charity); Oliver Bruff (Ada Lovelace Institute); Caroline Webb (Lecturer, Department of Social Work and Social Care, University of Birmingham)
14:30 – Session 5: International perspectives - Professor Vic Rayner OBE (CEO, National Care Forum; Chair of Global Ageing Network), Dr Anya Daly (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics, University of Tasmania), Geshe Lobsang (Monlam IT)
15:10 – Break
15:30 – Session 6: Case study – National Domestic Careworkers Union USA: Worker-led AI for the care economy - Elza Mateiro (home care worker), Jenna Harvey (Senior Programme Manager, National Domestic Workers Alliance), Katy Perez (Director of Strategy and Impact, National Domestic Workers Alliance)
16:00 – Wrap up
16:30 – Close
