aye, there are minimum age laws but whether there is evidence of issues that justify putting govt-verified ID checks into the mix is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

a risk here is that the more govt politicians focus on the "digital" bits of this public service, the less likely they are to deliver the actual universal public service that they need to deliver _if_ govt-verified ID/attribute checks become more widespread and in some cases - like RTW - mandatory

I roughly think that too

Someone that I wouldn't hear from if it was the same event in London/Paris/Washington/&c, and probably someone from a community that has tackled/participated in public sector use of data/AI (so it might be bit of q&a rather than a keynote)

eg teachers in Manchester in recent DfE work? A subpostie?

(Yes, I am both catching up with some work on a Sunday and also watched Star Wars this weekend)

p.p.s. I _suspect_ an important thing is also that the various bits of public sector need to resist the temptation to "hide" the rules from people using AI stuff, instead it's about accepting that more people will be using AI-type stuff to interact with those rules and broader processes/services...