UK time: 08:30-10:00

Aus time: 17:30-19:00

AI is generating much excitement and turbulence as to its possibilities within care and health, with debates shifting between its potential to radically improve outcomes for people and families, and the ethical and practical risks it poses to quality of care and relational practices. This webinar is the latest in a series coordinated by the School for Social Policy and Society at the University of Birmingham, UK and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University, Australia.

The WM ADASS AI Playbook – Co-Producing Ethical AI for Independent Living

This presentation will explore the development of the WM ADASS AI Playbook, a co-produced resource built from real stories of people who draw on adult social care and are using AI-enabled tools in their everyday lives. Rather than focusing solely on systems or efficiency, the Playbook centres lived experience, examining how AI can support independence in the “gloriously ordinary” aspects of life—communication, memory, organisation, and self-expression.

Pete Jackson is Improvement Director at West Midlands ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services), where he leads regional strategies to support improvement, innovation, and system leadership across adult social care.

Keymn Whervin is Convenor of the WM ADASS Co-production Advisory Group and an experienced unpaid family carer. Through her leadership, she brings lived experience directly into regional strategy and innovation programmes.

Unlocking Infinite Capacity: How AI Can Empower the Healthcare Workforce

Clinicians globally are working under immense pressure, leading to high levels of burnout and psychological burden. In this session, Dr. Jarrel Seah will explain how the next generation of AI can act as a clinical “co-pilot,” through the example of Harrison.rad.1, a new type of “smart assistant” within radiology. Unlike older tools that could only look for one specific thing, this model has been trained to reason over millions of medical images and text, much like a human clinician would.

Dr Jarrell Seah is the Chief Medical/AI Officer, Harrison.ai & Annalise.ai, and Radiologist Alfred Health, Melbourne. He has a keen interest in developing and applying novel deep learning algorithms in radiology and explainable AI.

Getting ready: how can care and health organisations prepare for the opportunities and risks of AI?

This presentation is based on insights of the AI Readiness Project which supports UK health and care provider organisations to and built on existing knowledge and governance structures, the framework provides a systematic approach to help organisations make more informed and confident decisions about adopting AI technologies. It offers two key components: an assurance framework outlining concepts applicable across AI technologies and provider settings, and a practical checklist to help users apply these concepts to evaluate their organisation’s readiness for a specific AI tool.

Dr Caroline Webb is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Birmingham (UoB), and qualified social worker with experience in statutory children and families work and child protection. Caroline is currently based in the AI & Digital Health Research and Policy Group at UoB where she is developing valuable cross-sector insights in the use of AI across both health and social care settings.