Event details
AI adoption across UK local government is accelerating, delivering clear benefits in cost savings, efficiency, and innovation. Yet with these opportunities come important responsibilities. In the public sector, where strong governance is critical, copyright compliance must be embedded into risk management and digital transformation strategies.
Public bodies are expected to demonstrate due diligence in all areas of operation—including the use of generative AI. Alongside data governance, organisations must remain vigilant about the risks of copyright infringement. By establishing robust governance frameworks, councils and agencies can harness the advantages of generative AI while safeguarding compliance and maintaining public trust.
This webinar will convene leading experts and practitioners to share insights, best practices, and practical guidance on adopting and implementing generative AI responsibly. Participants will gain strategies to balance innovation with governance, ensuring that public sector organisations can embrace AI confidently and ethically.
Presenters
Tanya Arnold
Host
Public Sector Executive
Most recently I've presented BBC TV's Rugby League World Cup coverage, and hosted the 5Live Rugby League World Cup podcast. I was also the the pitch side reporter on a number of games including doing the interviews with the victorious wheelchair team for radio. For the women's games I played a key role in bringing together an all female on air team and we got record viewing figures for women's rugby league, which will hopefully prove to be a new platform for the game to build.
Host of the former weekly BBC highlights programme Super League Show.
Sports Reporter and presenter for BBC Look North in Yorkshire, reporting, planning and covering all different sports in the region.
I've covered two Olympic Games and one Commonwealth Games - 2012 was a very big career highlight. I found myself live on BBC1 interviewing Peter Wilson moments after he'd claimed old in the shooting.
I've hosted numerous awards ceremonies, conferences and panels, both sporting and non sporting.
I'm always looking for new opportunities to do new things, and challenge myself!
Kurt Frary
Head of IT/Chief Technical Officer
Norfolk County Council
Kurt Frary is the Head of IT/ CTO at Norfolk County Council and also the Vice president of Socitm. Kurt has over 35 years’ experience working in ICT for both public and the private sector and his passion for digital innovation, change and technology is compelling. He is currently leading Norfolk’s AI innovation programme, chairs Norfolk's AI Governance board and had just delivered Norfolk's Future Network programme.
Madeleine Pow-Jones
Policy and Contracts Manager
Copyright Licensing Agency
Madeleine Pow-Jones is the Policy and Contracts Manager at The Copyright Licensing Agency.
Madeleine has been with CLA since January 2009. As Policy and Contracts Manager, her role involves working to support CLA’s policy objectives of maintaining a strong copyright framework in the UK including drafting CLA’s response to the recent Government consultation on AI and Copyright. Madeleine also supports CLA’s legal team, and the wider business with commercial contracts work.
In 2025 she studied and passed the CILEX Diploma in Law, and in 2010 she studied and passed a Postgraduate Diploma in UK, EU and US Copyright Law at Kings College, London.
Faith Gakanje-Ajala
Councillor
Nottingham City Council
Cllr Faith Gakanje-Ajala is a Community Development Officer, Nottingham City Councillor, and author of A Life Robbed: A Reflection of My Asylum Journey in the United Kingdom.
Drawing on lived experience and over 20 years of service in the voluntary sector, she advocates for inclusive policy, gender empowerment, and accountable public sector leadership.
Her work bridges grassroots community insight with strategic governance, with a particular focus on ethical decision-making, risk management, and responsible innovation in local authorities. In the context of AI governance, she brings a practical policy perspective on compliance, public trust, and ensuring emerging technologies are used safely, transparently, and within clear legal frameworks