[Commlist] From Panic to Practice: Governing AI in Higher Education conference

*From Panic to Practice: Governing AI in Higher Education*
*17*^*th* * September 2026, 10am to 7pm *
King's College London, Bush House 8th floor, WC2R 2LS
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/digitalhumanitieskcl/2361365 
<https://www.tickettailor.com/events/digitalhumanitieskcl/2361365>

As AI is rapidly reshaping higher education—transforming teaching, 
research, and administration – universities are grappling with questions 
around leadership, ethics, capability-building, and institutional 
strategy. But AI is prompting not only new governance challenges but 
also a reconsideration of the university’s societal mission, its 
relationship to technological development, and, as a site for critical 
inquiry, its responsibilities in shaping democratic and sustainable futures.

Please join us for this one-day conference organised by Circle U., the 
Coimbra Group, and King's College London. The event brings together 
scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and sector leaders to critically 
examine how higher education institutions are — and ought to be 
—governing AI.

Draft agenda is below.
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*Speakers*
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*9.00 – 9.30*
	
*Registration and coffee*
	
*9.30 – 9.45*
	
*Introductions and welcome*
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*9.45 – 10.45*
	
*Governing through capacity building*
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  * Carolin Odebrecht, Director of Interdisciplinary Centre Digitality
    and Digital Methods Campus Mitte (HU Berlin)
  * Professor Mirjam Hauck, Open University, Academic Lead for AI in
    Learning, Teaching and Assessment
  * Professor Thibault Philippette, President of the Louvain Learning
    Lab, UCLouvain

*10.45-12.00*
	
*3 Years On – Where do the principles take us? Perspectives of 
London-based Russell Group Universities: positionality, policy and practice*
	

  * Professor Chie Adachi, Dean for Digital Education, QMUL
  * Professor Sophie Rutschmann, Associate Provost (Digitally Enhanced
    Learning and Teaching), Imperial College London
  * Professor Parama Chaudhury, Pro Vice Provost (Education: Student
    Academic Experience), UCL
  * Dr Claire Gordon, Director, Eden Centre for Education Enhancement, LSE
  * Dr Fiona Strawbridge, Director of Digital Education, King's College
    London

*12.00 – 13.00*
	
*Lunch*
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*13.00 – 14.00*
	
*The people behind the policy: AI Leads*
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  * Coco Nijhoff, Imperial College London, Senior Teaching Fellow and
    Lead AI Futurist
  * Dr David Jiří Šlosar, Charles University, AI Methodologist
  * Dr Jelena Dzakula-Fuller, Senior Lecturer, King's College London

*14.00 – 15.15*
	
*Decolonizing AI Governance in Higher Education*
	

   *  Dr Zahra Rizvi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bergen
  * Elise Marie Strand Hagen, Researcher, University of Bergen
  * Dr Ashraf Pullikamath, Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics
  * Dr Steven George, Postdoctoral Researcher, King's College London

*15.15 – 15.45*
	
*Coffee break*
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*15.45 – 17.00*
	
*Beyond Compliance: Rethinking AI Governance*
	

  * Iain Cross, AI Lead, King's College London and Dr Alina Congreve,
    Vitae Associate
   *  Iain MacLaren, Director, Centre for Excellence in Learning &
    Teaching, University of Galway
  * Dr Joanna Ślaga, Assistant Professor, Jagiellonian University
    Museum; Deputy Director for Strategic and Scientific Affairs
  * Dr Silvia Gallagher, Research Fellow, Trinity College Dublin

*17.00– 18.15*
	
*Keynote panel*
	

  * Dr Kate Hoskins, Reader in Public Policy, Deputy Director of the
    School for Government, King's College London
  *
    Professor Graham Wynn, Vice President, KCL
  * Tbc

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