Laura Ellis
Specialist Topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Emerging technology,
- Machine learning
- Generative AI
- Leadership
- Managing Technological Change
- Disinformation
- Deepfakes
- Data ethics
- Personalised and automated journalism
- Media provenance
Biography
Laura Ellis is a Technologist, Journalist and Keynote Speaker on AI, with a focus on emerging technology, machine learning, disinformation, and data.
Laura has worked on news teams in radio, TV, and online and led two regional news and current affairs teams through significant technology change, establishing the BBC’s first end-to-end digital newsroom.
In her current role she focuses on ensuring the BBC is best placed to take advantage of emerging technology and takes a particular interest in ethics, personalised and automated journalism, machine learning, generative AI and media provenance.
Laura is popular speaker how to onboard AI as a society and in industry, managing technological change and leadership.

How the BBC is handling Generative AI

Deepfakes

Discussing Disinformation
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