Alan W. Brown is a professor in digital economy at the University of Exeter Business School, Research Director at the Digital Policy Alliance, and AI Director at the Digital Leaders Network, where his weekly "AI Pulse" briefing reaches more than 65,000 UK digital leaders. He is the co-author of "Digitizing Government" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), which helped guide the UK's Government as a Platform reforms, and he has spent more than thirty years supporting large-scale digital transformation programmes - including as an IBM Distinguished Engineer and a European CTO. He is a fellow of the British Computer Society and a former fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.