Artificial Intelligence - Navigating AI's Ethical Promise and Pitfalls

Hosted by Rob Walden, this AI Keynote and Sharing Forum takes a fresh look at AI - with a particular focus on current and future challenges and concerns.

This event is for leaders of any profile who are navigating the complexities of artificial intelligence. We’ll explore challenges and risks such as environmental sustainability, mental health, equity and equality, as well as 'fake news' - disinformation, misinformation, and conspiracy theories (which is now a part of the latest KCSIE guidelines).

Optionally, feel free to come with a snippet of news, a 'did you know', any questions, good or bad practice, anecdotes, events, research or resource - focused on the leadership of AI.

1) Optional sharing of case examples, anecdotes, questions and challenges

2) Keynote - shaped by sharing

Example topics include...

• Latest DfE updates - guidance, audits and training modules
• Spotting, understanding and mitigating AI's more 'unusual' behaviour
• Ofsted's approach to AI from November 2025
• How Generative AI works - and why understanding this is so important in safety and safeguarding
• Equality and equity of access - an aspiration or reality?
• Why are SEND teachers and students so valuable in ethical AI adoption?
• The sustainability challenge - the issues and mitigations
• Adaptive or Generative AI? What's the difference and why does it matter?
• How 'fake news' - misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy (KCSIE)
• Who is most vulnerable to AI risks?
• Impact on academic integrity and cognitive overload
• Effective engagement with parents and students - what do they need to know, and who's delivering the message?

Your host: Rob Walden

Rob champions ethical AI adoption at Eastern Education Group, focusing on safe and effective implementation. His work shines a spotlight on the evidence, research and anecdotal case examples of industry trends, and how these shape everyday AI use and current and future challenges in behavioural patterns, safety, safeguarding, cyber security and critical thinking.

Rob is committed to scaling and weaving AI into the fabric of education, aligning it with safeguarding, compliance, and learner development - not as a standalone tool.