Adam Sobey is Mission Director for Sustainability at The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National AI and Data Science Institute, and Chair of Data-Centric Engineering in the Maritime Engineering Group at The University of Southampton. He also acts as a Non-Executive Director at Theyr Ltd, a Voyage Optimisation Software provider to the marine industry, and AQ Live, providing data/AI assurance. His research focuses on the development of Reinforcement Learning, Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in the context of engineering applications, predominantly for emissions reductions. Through this he has developed a number of products saving emissions and has been engaged in the development of standards to support safety.