The Old Bailey originated as the sessions house of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of the City of London and of Middlesex. There are two sheriffs and I had the honour, with Chris Hayward of being the first two-term sheriffs since 1228 AD. As Lord Mayor, I returned to open the first of two sessions during my term. The next will happen in October.
Continue readingPollinating Common Council Together
Achieving carbon neutrality should go alongside steps to promote green spaces in the City as places for human well being as well as biodiversity. I hope you all saw the Pollinating London Together exhibition in the Ambulatory on your way in to the Guildhall or Common Council. If not, do take a look on your way home as enhancing biodiversity is also a policy area within our 5 year strategy. I am delighted to be a patron!
Article: Square Mile and Me – Michael Mainelli on becoming Lord Mayor and bringing more pubs to the City
Article: Optimistic London
How Would I Know If I Were A Robot@Christmas?
One small, seasonal task was spending 12 hours undertaking the CISI’s Certificate In Ethical Artificial Intelligence, below:
This is all part of the 695th Lord Mayor’s Ethical AI Initiative. This course applies to people working in finance (of all sorts) and technology. You can find and take the course here, http://www.cisi.org/ai:
Members (£60)
The course for members comprises four mandatory modules with online tests (8 hours total) and an additional 4 hours of flexible CPD in AI learning via the CISI Learning Platform.
- Ethical AI and Professional Codes of Conduct
- Risk Management in AI
- Strategic Approaches to AI
- Tactical Development of AI (Executive Management)
- Additional four hours of CPD in AI learning via the CISI Learning Platform
Non-members (£150)
The non-member course comprises five mandatory modules with online tests (10 hours) and a further module of curated AI learning (2 hours) for a total of 12 hours of learning.
- AI – An introduction
- Ethical AI and Professional Codes of Conduct
- Risk Management in AI
- Strategic Approaches to AI
- Tactical Development of AI (Executive Management)
- Further module containing curated AI learning (videos/articles)
We anticipate rolling out similar courses in several other sectors over 2024. Perhaps completing the course over the seasonal break is a sign of a robotic approach to holidays (Batteries Not Included) or, better, a resolved start to a Connect To Prosper New Year!
Mayor’s Progress – January
Remembering Christmas
The Lady Mayoress and all of the Aldermanic consorts pulled together a host of presents for refugee children. Here she is getting them ready to take to the charity for distribution.
Lord Mayor’s Bulletin To The Livery – 20 December 2023
Article: Philanthropy
Kimchi
One of the earliest highlights of being Lord Mayor was hosting the President of South Korea at our State Banquet on 21 November. Imagine my delight when a week later we received two generous boxes of kimchi, some 30 packages.
It turns out that our City community enfolds many kimchi devotees like myself. With alacrity, they were all gone within ten days! Now on to mustard from the French president…