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I have spent twenty years working at the cutting-edge of innovation to tackle societal challenges. I have worked as a policy maker for the UK Government, in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and the Department of Health, and as a strategic investor in health innovation in the London healthcare system, overseeing a portfolio of investments and grants worth over £100m (such as a £11m integrated care programme that reduced emergency bed day use by 18% vs the wider London trend).Most recently I have worked as a strategist and applied ethicist in global digital health. I am proud to have been part of the founding executive team of Koa Health, working closely with product, commercial, and R&D teams to translate Koa’s vision of Mental Health for All into reality. Highlights included helping to raise €50m for Series A and supporting R&D collaborations that led to groundbreaking research, including a publication in Nature Medicine. As Koa’s former Head of Ethics, I’m particularly pleased with how we were able to put ethical principles into practice, including learning some hard lessons about trade-offs.Upon leaving Koa, I spoke to lots of leaders about AI, both in terms of the potential benefits and the risks and ethical challenges. I saw that excitement about the benefits was tempered with uncertainty about how to deal with the challenges. This uncertainty arose because of the pace of change in AI, the fluid regulatory environment, and the unhelpful polarisation of the debate between AI progress and AI ethics. Moreover, I saw that many existing efforts to promote ethical AI are overly focused on compliance, which risks an ethical, responsible approach being seen as a burden to be managed.Therefore, I founded Daedalus Futures to support leaders cut through the uncertainty surrounding AI, and go beyond a compliance based approach to instead create real strategic value. Daedalus Futures creates AI strategies that foster thriving organisations, by considering the context of an organisation, and then developing a bespoke strategy. Support ranges from full, in-depth strategy development, through to rapid reviews to help address an immediate need.Please visit the Daedalus Futures website to learn more: https://daedalusfutures.com/
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Head Of Innovation And Business DevelopmentEticas.AiMadrid, Es -
Founder And DirectorDaedalus Futures Nov 2023 - PresentGlobalDaedalus Futures goes beyond compliance and creates strategies for Transformational and Responsible AI.I created Daedalus Futures because I saw that organisations were struggling to navigate the complex AI regulatory landscape that is emerging, and that this was being made harder by the debate becoming polarised into narratives of progress vs narratives of prohibition. Moreover, I have seen that much of the support to create Responsible AI that is offered to organisations is overly focused on compliance, and that this risks a responsible approach to AI being seen as a burden to be managed. I believe instead that a responsible and ethical approach to AI must also drive AI to have a transformational impact. Leaders need support to create a strategy for Transformational and Responsible AI that helps their organisation thrive.Daedalus Futures provides AI strategy services bespoke to your organisation's needs, from full strategy development, to focused deep-dives on an element of your strategy (for instance operationalising ethical principles), through to providing a rapid review to address an immediate problem (such as creating a framework that allows your organisation to prioritise and assess different Generative AI tools). Daedalus Futures can even be your part-time Chief Ethics or Chief Strategy Officer.Visit our website for more information: https://daedalusfutures.com/ -
Ai Ethics Expert - Ethics As Service ConsultantEthical Intelligence May 2023 - PresentGlobalI help companies that are developing and deploying AI to consider what it means for their values, value proposition, and business plan, so that they can both do good and be commercially successful. -
Non Executive DirectorMy Personal Therapeutics Foundation Jun 2023 - PresentGlobalMPT Foundation provides funding to patients to give them access to cutting-edge personalised cancer services.
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Strategy AdviserZupervise Feb 2023 - PresentLondon, England, United KingdomAdvisory position supporting the team at Zupervise to offer its AI Trust Monitor to Digital Health companies so that they can ensure safety, transparency, and trust. -
FellowThe Rsa (Royal Society For The Encouragement Of Arts, Manufactures And Commerce) Sep 2016 - PresentLondon, United Kingdom -
Adviser On Strategy, Innovation, Policy, And Applied Ethics For Tech And AiFreelance Jan 2023 - PresentMadrid, Community Of Madrid, SpainI use my expertise and experience to support a wide range of people and organisations in the UK, US, Spain, and beyond. I work with starts-ups and healthcare (and other) organisations on innovative strategies, including long-term vision, business plans, and go-to-market strategies; advise on how to make a reality of ethical technology, both developing ethical principles and putting them into practice; and partner with think tanks to develop cutting-edge policy approaches for a rapidly changing world.
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Strategy Director & Head Of EthicsKoa Health Oct 2020 - Dec 2022Barcelona, Catalonia, SpainKoa Health creates simple, personal, and accessible support, so that everyone can achieve mental wellbeing. I am proud to have been part of Koa Health's founding executive team, and to have incubated it from its origins as part of Telefonica Alpha.I worked closely with product, commercial, and R&D teams to translate Koa’s vision of Mental Health for All into reality. Highlights included helping to raise €50m for Series A and supporting R&D collaborations that led to ground breaking research, including a publication in Nature Medicine. As Koa’s former Head of Ethics, I’m particularly pleased with how we were able to put ethical principles into practice, including learning some hard lessons about trade-offs. -
Strategy Director & Head Of Ethics, Health MoonshotAlpha Sep 2016 - Oct 2020Barcelona Area, SpainTelefónica Alpha's Health Moonshot aimed to transform the health and wellbeing of millions of people across the world by marrying mobile technology, data science, design thinking, and cutting edge research. I focused on strategy development, and establishing and maintaining strong partnerships to further our mission. As Head of Ethics I was responsible for Alpha Health's approach to earning and maintaining trust, including: developing ethical principles, ensuring their implementation through ethics-by-design, and the deployment of technology such as explainable AI; and commissioning external audits to strengthen our accountability. -
Board MemberUk Health Forum Mar 2012 - May 2019London, United KingdomJointly responsible, with other Trustees, for setting organisational mission and strategy, and for ensuring good governance. UKHF was one of the first charities to focus on the primary prevention of chronic diseases through policy research and development, and advocacy. -
Board MemberBridging Health And Community Nov 2016 - Dec 2018Greater Seattle AreaFounding board member of non-profit dedicated to bridging the health sector and local communities through shared connection, capacity, and opportunity.Author of a chapter within Communities Creating Health e-book created by BHC.
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Director Of Strategy And InnovationGuy'S And St Thomas' Charity Nov 2010 - Sep 2016Responsible for investing £100m over five years on radical innovations to improve health and care. I worked closely with the Charity's major local partners such as Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, and Lambeth and Southwark Councils and Clinical Commissioning Groups. I also ensured that the Charity linked to and funded a wide range of health entrepreneurs and start-ups. -
Deputy Director Of Health And WellbeingDepartment Of Health Of Uk Jan 2008 - Oct 2010Led tobacco control policy under the previous Government; publishing "A Smokefree Future" and managing a £50m per annum delivery programme which included award winning national marketing campaigns and support to NHS Stop Smoking Services.Prior to leading tobacco control policy I worked on obesity policy; leading the development of the first comprehensive cross-Government Obesity Strategy, "Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives", and securing £370m over three years to deliver it.
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Strategy AdvisorUk Department Of Health Jan 2006 - Dec 2007London, United KingdomResponsible for leading projects, or multiple workstreams within large projects, including developing the overall narrative, managing staff, and commissioning and managing analytical work. Additionally responsible for managing the Unit’s budget.Regularly presented work, both verbally and through written submissions, to Ministers, senior officials, clinicians and other stakeholders. Projects included the future financial sustainability of the NHS, leading work that identified potential efficiencies of c.£5bn across the NHS.
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Policy AdvisorPrime Minister'S Strategy Unit Jan 2004 - Dec 2005London, United KingdomPolicy adviser on projects covering a diverse range of public policy issues, including: police reform, energy and the environment, and housing and planning. Responsible for leading project workstreams including, managing analysts, commissioning analysis, and managing stakeholders. Regularly presented work and advocated policy options to the Prime Minister’s advisers in the No.10 Policy Directorate.
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Associate ConsultantOc&C Strategy Consultants Jan 2002 - Dec 2003Business analyst on projects examining strategic problems in a variety of sectors, including retail, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, engineering, and media. Responsible for data gathering, analysis and problem solving, managing junior Associate Consultants, and written and verbal presentations of project output.
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Politics, Philosophy And Economics
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Oliver Smith works for Eticas.ai
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Oliver Smith attended University Of Cambridge, Oxford University.
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