Appendix B: Workshop Participant List

Title 

Full name 

Affiliation 

Position 

Dr 

Adam Cook 

Food Standards Agency 

Head of The Science and Research Unit 

Prof 

Ahmad Lotfi 

Nottingham Trent University 

Professor of Computational Intelligence 

Mr 

Alec Kyriakides 

Independent 

Consultant 

Dr 

Ayman Salama 

Amazon Web Services 

Senior Partner Solutions Architect 

Ms 

Cassandra Whelan 

SUSTAIN AI CDT, University of Lincoln 

Project Coordinator 

Mrs 

Catrin Hughes 

MNGP Food Assurance 

Technical Manager 

Mr 

Chris Gilbert-Wood 

IFST, ex Two Sisters, Tech Director, ex M&S meat 

Consultant 

Ms 

Claire Nicholson 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Prof 

Cronan McNamara 

Crème Global & Adjunct Professor in University College Dublin 

Founder and CEO 

Ms 

Dawn Welham 

Aldi 

QA Director 

Prof 

Emily Burton 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Ms 

Emma Hanby 

Campden BRI 

Associate Director – Research and Consulting 

Prof 

Georgios Leontidis 

University of Aberdeen 

Professor of Machine Learning 

Mr 

Imtiaz Shams 

 Flox 

CEO 

Mrs 

Jacqueline Healing 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Mr 

James Whittaker 

Boparan Food 

Technical Director 

Prof 

Jeremy Graham Frey 

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton 

Professor of Physical Chemistry 

Dr 

John Donaghy 

Nestle 

Global Head of Food Safety 

Mr 

John Figgins 

LGC Group / BRCGS 

Senior Technical Manager 

Prof 

John O’Brien 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Chair 

Ms 

Julia Hewerdine 

Dawn Meats Group / Dunbia 

Group Food Safety and Quality Projects Manager 

Ms 

Julie Pierce 

Food Standards Agency 

Director of Information and Science 

Dr 

Kathleen Mooney 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Secretary  

Mr 

Kiran Srimama 

Google Cloud 

Field Chief Technical Officer 

Prof 

Louise Manning 

University of Lincoln 

Professor of Sustainable Agri-food Systems 

Prof 

Mike Tildesley 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Dr 

Nick Birse 

Queen’s University Belfast 

PhD Supervisor 

Mr 

Paul Nunn 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Secretariat Lead 

Prof 

Peter Gregory 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Dr 

Phil Hadley 

International Meat Secretariat (IMS) 

Secretary General 

Prof 

Po Yang 

The University of Sheffield / School of Computer Science 

Professor of Pervasive Intelligence 

Prof 

Rich Smith 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Prof 

Rick Mumford 

Food Standards Agency 

Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor 

Mr 

Robert Nugent 

Prosur (Productos Sur) 

Technical sales manager 

Prof 

Roger Maull 

University of Exeter 

Professor of Management Systems 

Ms 

Sara Mortimore 

Ex-Walmart 

Consultant 

Prof 

Simon Parsons 

University of Lincoln 

Professor of Machine Learning 

Prof 

Simon Pearson 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Mr 

Simon Thorpe 

Red Tractor (Assured Food Standards) 

Senior Technical Manager 

Prof 

Steven Cummins 

Food Standards Agency Science Council 

Member 

Miss 

Victoria Balch 

Food Standards Agency 

Secretariat 

Mx 

Villanelle O’Reilly 

UKRI SUSTAIN AI CDT (Hosted at the University of Lincoln, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences) 

PhD Student