Ali Hessami is the Director of R&D and Innovation at Vega Systems, London, UK.  He has an extensive track record in systems assurance and safety, security, sustainability, knowledge assessment/management methodologies. He has background in the design and development of advanced control systems for business and mission-critical industrial applications.

Ali represents the UK on European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) & International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) – safety systems, hardware, software and cybersecurity standards committees. Ali was appointed as Technical Editor of the landmark IEEE7000 standard “Addressing Ethical Concerns in System Design” in 2017 and later the Chair of the standard. In 2018, he was appointed as the Vice Chair and Process Architect of the IEEE’s global Ethics Certification Programme for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS) developing six suites of AI Ethics Criteria and associated assessment, certification, training and expert accreditation system under IEEE CertifAIEd brand. He also chairs IEEE P7801 standard “Recommended Practice for Technical Knowledge Commons”.

Ali is the founder and chair of AI Community of Practice (CoP), a global group of altruistic experts with diverse insights and expertise in AI technologies. The CoP conducts exploratory research and publishes outcomes under the Creative Commons License aimed at regulators, public and private enterprises, governments and for the benefit of humanity.

Ali is a visiting professor at London City University and Beijing Jiaotong University school of informatics. He’s a Fellow of UK-IET and RSA and Senior Life Member of IEEE.