Edward Kay

Edward Kay is Head of Platforms & Development at Imperial War Museums (IWM), having built a career at the intersection of emerging tech and practical impact. With deep expertise in AI, mobile technologies, IoT, multimedia, and identity services, he’s helped shape developer ecosystems and drive innovation across sectors, including working on the first smartphones and developing the first app store. His work spans from architecting scalable solutions to fostering inclusive tech communities.

Edward Kay will be speaking at the Digital Collections Summit :

Re-imagining Accessibility To Collections With The Help Of AI

The scale of Imperial War Museum’s collections outstrips our ability to catalogue them in detail using traditional methods. IWM is creating innovative ways of working at the nexus of cutting edge AI tech, online volunteering, community engagement and the ethics of AI application to cultural collections.

Our multi-disciplinary team will share insights from two current projects, a sound transcription and translation tool built with Google and Capgemini, and a pilot project using a simple and intuitive portal to surface images from our Cold War collections to a group of trained volunteers for validation.