Matthew Blakemore

Chief executive of AI Caramba!, named AI Solutions Provider of the Year in 2025, which builds a suite of tools for businesses adopting artificial intelligence, and European Regional Director of Monarrch.

He contributed to the EU AI Office's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, the rulebook that Chapter 8 of Avoiding Checkmate describes, and was one of four global sub-editors who co-authored and co-edited ISO/IEC 8183, the international standard on the data life cycle for artificial intelligence. He sits on the Innovate UK BridgeAI Advisory Committee and holds a United States patent. His work over more than a decade spans AI strategy, product development, governance and standards.

He created the Snakes and Ladders AI Framework and Chess: The AI Act Framework, and is the co-author, with Angus Finney, of a forthcoming book on AI strategy, governance and risk from Routledge. He is also an award-winning AI filmmaker and a songwriter. He lives in Bedfordshire.