Dr Colin Kelly

Dr Colin Kelly is a distinguished AI advisor and researcher with over a decade of experience implementing cutting-edge machine learning solutions in challenging commercial environments. His expertise is underpinned by deep academic foundations (BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Oxford; PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge) and draws on an extensive career in AI consultancy from IBM and PA Consulting.

Colin has assisted clients in industries ranging from energy (npower, National Grid) to automotive (BMW, JLR, Audi, Ford) and financial services (HSBC, Lloyds, Merrill Lynch, ING).Colin has further led scale-up teams in pioneering work across applied AI research (Adarga), neurosymbolic AI (Unlikely AI), and agentic and reasoning-enhanced AI (Agathon).

He has further founded and chaired a Responsible AI Committee, developing practical frameworks that balance innovation with safety. His unique insights on AI experimentation, evaluation and safety stem from his hands-on experience, consistently championing technical excellence alongside ethical considerations and commercial pragmatism.