Name
Rupert Shute
Job Title
Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser
Company
UK Home Office
Speaker Bio
Working at the intersection of technology, regulation and geopolitics, Rupert advises on matters of science and technology, risk and opportunity.
His Government career has included being the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, serving one of the Great Offices of State, and being the Forensic Science Regulator for England and Wales, overseeing a £1bn sector that underpins the criminal justice system.
Rupert is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and holds an MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College London. His technical career spans the development of robotic systems for safety critical applications, pioneering the application of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and deploying large scale Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks.
At a time when many are wrestling with the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rupert brings a globally unique and authoritative perspective in AI, safety engineering and regulation.
His Government career has included being the Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser to the Home Office, serving one of the Great Offices of State, and being the Forensic Science Regulator for England and Wales, overseeing a £1bn sector that underpins the criminal justice system.
Rupert is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology and holds an MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College London. His technical career spans the development of robotic systems for safety critical applications, pioneering the application of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality and deploying large scale Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks.
At a time when many are wrestling with the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Rupert brings a globally unique and authoritative perspective in AI, safety engineering and regulation.