Alison Gow, former head of digital innovation at Reach publishing, will be chairing our event on AI and the effects it will have on journalism- one of the most important discussions of our times in terms of jobs, ethics, influence and information.

Panellists are:
- Emma Byrne, is a journalist and scientist with a PhD in AI. When she’s not developing intelligent systems, she writes for Forbes, the FT, Wired, and the Guardian. She is co-host and exec-producer of NonFicPod and frequently appears on Sky News and the BBC talking about the future of artificial intelligence and
robotics.
- Charlie Beckett is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE. He is the founding director of Polis, the London School of Economics' International Journalism Institute. He is currently leading the Google DNI Journalism
and AI research project. He was the leader of the 2018 LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission.
- Nic Newman is a journalist and digital strategist who played a key role in shaping the BBC's digital and internet services over more than a decade. He is now Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute.
- Marcus Ryder MBE is a leader on the issue of diversity in the UK media industry, backed by a track-record of award-winning news and current affairs productions. He is Head of External Consultancies for the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity

Lorraine Candy is an award-winning journalist and editor. A former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, ELLE, and most recently Sunday Times Style, she began her career on The Cornish Times before going on to become Woman’s Editor at The Sun and then Features Editor at The Times. Her first book: Mum What’s Wrong With You: 101 Things Only the Mothers of Teenage Girls Know (published in 2021), is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller.

She will be her talking about her career across newspapers and magazines, fashion and news. and also how she has reinvented her career in media in midlife, using her journalistic skills and life experience to write two books, create a podcast and become a social commentator.

Lorraine’s second book What’s Wrong With Me – 101 things midlife women need to know is a memoir and tackles career reinvention among other stuff . Her first book, Mum What’s Wrong With You was a Sunday Times best-seller about raising teenage girls.

As a mum of four she has over a decade of experience writing about parenting in national publications, including columns with the Sunday Times Magazine and Femail in the Daily Mail. She also writes for the monthly and weekly fashion and beauty magazines. Lorraine is co-host of the chart-topping lifestyle podcast Postcards from Midlife. She is on the advisory board at Tate Modern and on the Tate gallery membership council.

Lorraine is a champion of educating young girls, working on the media advisory board of the global charity Their World. She’s also an ambassador for the charity Women In Sport and the newly launched Menopause Charity.

Louise Court, WiJ Director of Events will be interviewing Lorraine. Louise's early journalism career included work as an entertainment writer at Express Newspapers, deputy editor of Prima, and assistant editor of Woman's Own. Louise was then deputy editor at Best magazine, becoming editor later, and was also editor of Cosmopolitan UK.