# Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins

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ℹ️ About this Document

This document sets out a high-level plan for a series of workshops, designed to promote the sustainability of the Trustworthy and Ethical Assurance of Digital Twins project; help foster a multi-disciplinary community of practice; and identify a core team of collaborators with whom to develop subsequent grant proposals.
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## TEA-DT: Philosophical and Ethical Foundations

**Host Organisation**: University of Bristol
### Topics

1. What are digital twins? How does the philosophical conception affect the manner in which we approach their assurance?
2. Which methods in formal epistemology can help us to model assurance cases?
- Also see separate document on this topic: https://hackmd.io/@tea-platform/By-KY1uWC
4. Can and should LLMs be used in assurance?

### Speakers

- Geoff Keeling (Google DeepMind)
- Jason Konek (Bristol)
- David Wagg (Turing)
- Steffen Zschaler (Kings College London)

## TEA-DT: Open and Reproducible Infrastructure

**Host Organisation**: Alan Turing Institute

### Topics

1. How should we build a community of practice that can ensure a flourishing assurance ecosystem?
2. How do we build bidirectional pathways for impact between research and application areas?
3. How do we empirically test the impact of assurance cases?

### Speakers

- Sophie Arana (Turing)
- Ibrahim Habli (York)
- Linda Sheard (Microsoft)

## TEA-DT: Assuring DTs for Healthcare Applications

**Host Organisation**: Imperial College London

### Topics

1. What are the challenges of assuring novel healthcare technologies such as cardiac digital twins?
2. How can we ensure healthcare digital twins are not just safe but ethical?
3. Are there patterns for open and reproducible DT pipelines, which can help us identify requirements for assurance cases?

### Speakers

- Steve Niederer (Imperial)
- Christopher Burr (Turing)
- Michiel Schaap (Heartflow)
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## TEA-DT: Legal and Regulatory Perspectives

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### Speakers

**Host Organisation**: University of York

- Sue Chadwick (Pinsent Masons)
- Nuala Polo (Responsible Technology Adoption Unit)
- Michael Katell (Turing)
- Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh)