Professor Andrew Dubber is the Director of MTF Labs, a Senior Researcher and Steering Board Member at the Industry Commons Foundation and is an author, academic, media producer and broadcaster.
He is an innovation and management consultant, advisor and board member of AI and music technology startups and other digital creative businesses, as well as across a wide range of domains within both the private and public sectors.
Dubber’s work is frequently characterised by his interest in emerging technologies and the cultures and ethics surrounding them. While there is often a broad diversity in the range of projects he undertakes, several connecting threads run throughout.
He is always interested in creating conversations and connections across different verticals of thought as a way to break down silos, whether between different industry sectors, academia and industry, generational divides, or (more frequently) art and science.
His projects typically focus on issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability, as well as the power of education, system design, and hands-on, collaborative experimentation as tools to address them. He consults on leveraging the affordances of technologies to create value and drive both commercial and societal change.
He is currently engaged in a governance and sustainability design pre-study for the establishment of a cross-domain Industrial Innovation Centre in the North of Sweden. He has recently started two major European-funded projects: LUMEN, which leverages leading edge technologies to advance cross-domain collaboration between Social Sciences and Humanities, Mathematics, Molecular Dynamics and Earth Systems; and GRAPHIA, which is building the first comprehensive SSH Knowledge Graph (KG) that integrates currently disconnected data into a single entry point, leveraging advanced AI for data visualisation.
As Director of MTF Labs, Dubber has developed and overseen international initiatives such as JUST Data, which works to establish a standard for ethical data annotation; Open MiMore...