The 2024 AI Summit was jam-packed with cutting-edge technology, inspiring ideas, and hope for the future. What does our panel of charity leaders think this means for third sector organisations?

As a charity and community, we want our mission, strategy, and values to be fully aligned and working for everyone involved with us. Our values underpin all areas of our work and inform all our decisions.

We have refreshed our approach, offering more guidance, the potential for more impactful insights for participant organisations, and more opportunities to share learning across the sector.

Elizabeth is our new Project and Events Manager, passionate about her background in public engagement.

Caitlin Loftus is DataKind UK’s new Data Science Project Manager.​​ She supports our data science programmes, triaging, scoping, and overseeing our projects.

DataKind UK is really excited to introduce our new CEO, Kye Lockwood. Kye has been working in the charity sector for two decades, most recently as the CEO of Hackney Foodbank.

We reflect on the incredible achievements of our outgoing CEO, Giselle Cory, as we look to the future.

We know that embedding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into our processes will improve the service we provide to charities, as it gives us more diversity of experience and thought in our projects.

Exits are always hard, but I know the time is right for me to pass on this wonderful privilege to a new CEO. Nearly four years ago I stepped into my dream job.

Welcome to our new board member, community representative Kate Vang! Kate has been an active member of the DataKind UK community since 2015, previously serving as Chapter Lead, where she helped grow its incredible community of volunteers.

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to our new board member Lindsey MacDonald as our new Vice-Chair of trustees. Lindsey is passionate about tackling inequality and creating a charity sector that delivers on the promises it makes.

Tariq Khokhar joins us as the new Chair of our board of trustees. With his extensive background in both international development and technology, we know he’ll be a driving force behind DataKind’s activities and mission.

Nicole is DataKind UK’s Communications Officer and ensures the world knows as much as possible about their work and impact. She has been working as a charity communicator for more than six years, with a background in literature and journalism.

Dulcie oversees our data science support initiatives, providing technical oversight and working directly with charities to understand their data science needs.