Ali Hessami is currently the Director of R&D and Innovation at Vega Systems, London, UK. He has an extensive track record in systems assurance and safety, security, sustainability, knowledge assessment/management methodologies. He has a background in the design and development of advanced control systems for business and safety-critical industrial applications. Hessami represents the UK on European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) & International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) – safety systems, hardware, software, cybersecurity and AI standards committees. In 2017 Hessami joined the IEEE Standards Association (SA), for the new landmark IEEE 7000 standard focused on “Addressing Ethical Concerns in System Design” and was appointed as the Technical Editor and the Chair of the standard to its publication in 2021. In November 2018, he was appointed as the VC and Process Architect of the IEEE’s global Ethics Certification Programme for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS) developing six suites of AI Ethics Criteria and associated assessment and certification system under IEEE brand, CertifAIEd. Ali also supported the IEEE 2089 standard for Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework based on the 5Rights Principles for Children, as Technical Editor. Ali currently chairs the “Universal Ethics Community of Practice on AI”, focused on developing and publishing open access guidelines on Safety of Agentic AI, Digital Trust, Avant-garde Governance and Cybersecurity of AI.