25 Jun 2026
The Connected Life Summit is a one-day, student-led conference focused on what it means to live in an increasingly connected world.
For over nine centuries, Oxford has been a place where intellectual and technological transformations have been studied and debated. The Connected Life Summit builds on that tradition by examining how new forms of intelligence build on longstanding questions of governance, ethics, and social organisation.
Host: Howard Leong
Motion: This House Believes that AI is the Great Equalizer
Proposition:
Vilas Dhar, President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Dr. Fazl Barez, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Martin School
Gabriela Ramos, Senior Fellow, the Institute for Artificial Intelligence Policy and Strategy
Opposition: Dex Hunter-Torricke, Former Head of Communications, Google DeepMind / Elon Musk / Mark Zuckerberg
Dr. Rachel Adams, Executive Director, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Global Centre on AI Governance
Huw Roberts, doctoral researcher at the OII and Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).