About this Event
Right now, progressives are playing catch-up on how AI and technology is reshaping work - and in turn our day to day experiences, as well as key issues of wealth distribution and concentration of economic power.
While governments, tech giants and management consultants race ahead with AI development and deployment, workers and unions are working hard to build momentum to respond. But can we ever have progressive pro-worker AI Strategy?
We’re bringing together spealers from across the trade unions and legal sector to ask: How do we defend workers and shape technological change? Can we turn AI from a threat into a site of democratic power?
Moving on from the theoretical we want to focus on what narratives, organising, policy and legal regimes we need to get there.
The event will be a mix of panel discussion, open conversation and social to build relationships and momentum across a range of perspectives.
Pelican House, 28 April 2026, 7pm
Speakers:
Adam Cantwell-Corn, TUC lead on AI
Kate Jones, UNISON AI policy officer
Aparna Surendra, AWO algorithm governance lead
Chair:
Liam Welch, Haldane Co-chair
Adam Cantwell-Corn is the tech policy lead at the Trades Union Congress. Through organising, strategy and policy Adam works to the goal of ensuring AI and new technologies benefit workers and society at large.
Kate Jones is a policy officer leading on technology, digitalisation and AI at UNISON, the union representing over a million public sector workers.
Aparna Surendra leads the algorithm governance workstream at AWO, a leading digital rights law firm.
Liam Welch: Liam is an experienced trade union lawyer specialising in employment rights, and co-chair of Haldane.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
