Barry Phillips (CEO) BEM founded Legal Island in 1998. He is a qualified barrister, trainer, coach, and meditator, and a regular speaker here in the UK and Ireland, and abroad.
Barry has completed the Oxford University course “Leading AI Implementation” in June 2026. He has trained hundreds of HR Professionals on how to use GenAI in the workplace and is the author of the book “ChatGPT in HR – A Practical Guide for Employers and HR Professionals”
Ellen Murray is Executive Director of Transgender NI a not-for-profit organisation that campaigns for the rights of transgender and non-binary people in Northern Ireland.
Born in 1993 and raised in West Belfast, she founded GenderJamNI a trans youth group and three years later set up the Belfast Trans Resource Centre the first such centre in the UK and Ireland.
Ellen is herself transgender having begun her own journey from male to female in 2003. In a BBC documentary recorded recently, she said: "I probably wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't transitioned".
In May 2016, Ellen became the first transgender person to stand for election to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Green Party candidate for West Belfast.
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