BIMA X ORN | Online Safety & Digital Trust in the Age of AI

This event brings together senior leaders from agencies and brands across the digital and tech industry for a focused conversation on digital trust and online safety.

As digital advertising, platforms, and AI technologies scale, trust and safety are now core business priorities. The discussion will explore the leadership role agencies and brands play in setting and upholding standards, alongside key challenges such as misinformation, AI-generated content, brand safety, and consumer confidence.

Looking ahead, the conversation will focus on what a safe, trustworthy digital future looks like in practice and how stronger collaboration across agencies, brands, technology partners, working with the Online Responsibility Network can drive meaningful change.

The session will be hosted by Andrea Jane Evans-Bilham (ORN) and Matt Sullivan (BIMA) and is designed to be practical, honest and participatory not theoretical.

Your Hosts:

Andrea Jane Evans-Bilham,Director Regulation,ORN

Matt Sullivan, Managing Director, BIMA

Guest Speakers:

Emily Conyard, Digital Lecturer ,Manchester Metropolitan University

Emily Conyard is a Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University with over a decade of industry experience across organisations including Visualsoft, NHS, Ministry of Justice and the North East England Chamber of Commerce.

A trained multimedia journalist, she specialises in using data, visuals, and storytelling to create meaningful and trustworthy digital content fuelling her ongoing interest in misinformation, digital truth, and the ethics of content creation in an AI‑driven world.

Emily teaches across undergraduate, postgraduate and degree apprenticeship programmes, with academic interests spanning multimedia content marketing, social media strategy, digital culture, and campaign development. She also supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate research projects.

Alongside her teaching, Emily serves as Communications Lead for the Innovation and Teaching Excellence Learning Lab (I‑TELL) and is the departmental lead for Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA) and AI. In these roles, she supports staff in critically and responsibly integrating digital tools and AI into pedagogy. Her current research explores digital literacy through the lens of the Jisc Digital Capabilities Framework, working directly with students to understand how they navigate today’s complex online environments.

Time:
12:15: Arrival, lunch and Network

1:30 – 3:00pm: Event

Location:
WPP Office MCR, 1 New Quay St, Manchester M3 4BN

Spaces are limited so make sure to book your place!

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