# Event Details - **Event Name**: Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 08 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Wed, 08 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Event Description**: This hands-on workshop introduces assurance cases as a practical method for responsible research and innovation.About this EventBioDr Christopher Burr is a Principal Research Scientist and Theme Lead for Trustworthy and Assured AI at the Alan Turing Institute. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Sheffield and a Visiting Fellow at the University of York's Centre for Assuring Autonomy.His work sits at the intersection of philosophy, computer science, and policy, and focuses on a central question of AI governance: how do we establish justified trust in increasingly autonomous systems? He leads the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance (TEA) platform, open-source tooling for building structured, evidence-based assurance cases, which is included in the UK Government's Introduction to AI Assurance as a primary case study. He has also designed and delivered responsible research and innovation training for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, including through the Turing Commons platform.His current research addresses the assurance of agentic AI and AI-enabled digital twins across safety-critical domains, from healthcare to critical national infrastructure. From April 2026 he will be PI for — funded by the UK’s Digital Twin Centre (Digital Catapult).Workshop DescriptionTitle: Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance (TEA) PlatformResponsible research is easy to endorse and hard to evidence. How do you show, to a funder, an ethics board, or an affected community, that a claim like "this system is fair" or "this system protects privacy" is actually justified, and not simply asserted?This hands-on workshop introduces assurance cases as a practical method for responsible research and innovation, using the open-source Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance (TEA) platform, developed with support from BRAID UK. An assurance case makes a structured argument: a top-level goal, the property claims that must hold for that goal to be true, and the evidence that grounds each claim.After a short presentation and a clarificatory Q&A, you will work in small groups to build an assurance case for a single, demanding case study: an AI-driven facial recognition system designed to identify individuals from aerially captured drone imagery, with applications in surveillance, crowd monitoring at large public events, and locating missing persons. The system pairs generative AI for face reconstruction with energy-efficient neuromorphic classifiers, and it raises exactly the responsible-research questions that are hard to answer well (e.g. privacy and the protection of sensitive biometric data, demographic bias and fairness, transparency and explainability, and accountability in a national-security setting).Each group chooses one of these as its assurance goal, agrees a strategy for decomposing it, and develops a few well-formed claims along with the evidence that would support them, working directly on the TEA platform. Although you will not finish a complete case, you will leave with a working grasp of how to turn a responsible-research principle into an argument you could actually defend.No prior experience with assurance cases or the TEA platform is required.Please note registration data will be shared with BRAID UK for the purpose of programme monitoring, reporting, and research processes. Your data is managed confidentially and it will be held by the University of Edinburgh, it will always be processed in accordance with data protection laws, in particular, the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the General Data Protection Regulation. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edinburgh/responsible-research-and-the-trustworthy-and-ethical-assurance-platform/100001992811617192 - **Event Categories**: workshops, it, science-fair, artificial-intelligence - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Edinburgh - **state**: SC - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Larch Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building, The University of Edinburgh - **lat**: 55.92196 - **long**: -3.1728191 - **full address**: Larch Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building, The University of Edinburgh, Thomas Bayes Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/2c5af8d38a3fc1f72ed2d933ed54f8f77f7f33e6ec679519452f88b0999770d0-rimg-w1200-h600-dc43485a-gmir.jpg?v=1783361107 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform being held? - **A:** Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform takes place on Wed, 08 Jul, 2026 at 01:00 pm to Wed, 08 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Larch Lecture Theatre, The Nucleus Building, The University of Edinburgh, Thomas Bayes Road, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform? - **A:** Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform is organized by School of Engineering. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Responsible Research and the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance Platform is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Edinburgh, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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