AI, Ethics and Manufacturing

Steve Brewer works at the intersection of culture, technology, and education, with experience at the University of Lincoln, the University of Southampton, and Infoculture. At Lincoln, he contributes to teaching and research that combined creative practice with digital innovation, exploring new ways of linking cultural inquiry with emerging technologies. At Southampton, Steve supported interdisciplinary projects that encouraged collaboration across faculties, enabling researchers, students, and practitioners to investigate how digital tools can transform scholarship and knowledge exchange.

Beyond academia, Steve founded Infoculture, a platform dedicated to examining the relationship between information, culture, and technology. Through Infoculture, he highlights how digital systems are reshaping communication, creativity, and cultural engagement, while also addressing the opportunities and challenges of technological change.

Across these roles, Steve has demonstrated a commitment to bridging higher education and cultural practice, using digital innovation to foster collaboration and new approaches to learning.

Sharan Kaur is the Cognitive Robotics and Automation Lead at the Advanced Manufacturing Research centre. Their focus on integrating humans into cyber-physical systems. Their research centres on digitalizing human states and virtual human representation to achieve seamless human- machine collaboration. Sharan also serves as the chairperson for the BSI Committee on Immersive Technologies, IST/31. She is passionate about social sustainability, along with the accessibility and usability of systems that span both the real and virtual worlds.

Dr Princy Johnson is a Reader in Sensors and Data in the School of Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University. She received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from King’s College London in 2000. During her tenure at Nortel Networks UK Ltd., she had a patent issued for a novel re-configurable OADM. Her research interests include novel sensor applications, neural networks and machine learning, Intelligent algorithms, Internet of Things, and Trustworthy AI. Her pedagogy in leaderships skills is the result of her passion for developing great leaders. She works with local industries to develop digital technology solutions for sustainable future. She is an avid collaborator and a registered PRINCE2® practitioner, and has built an extensive collaborative network across Europe, Canada and USA.

She is a senior member of IEEE (SMIEEE), senior fellow of HEA (SFHEA), Chair of IEEE UK&I WIE affinity group, and a trustee for Chifundo UK charity empowering women in Malawi through self-sustainability programmes.