Laura Ellis

Head of Technology Forecasting, BBC, Keynote Speaker on Effectively Harnessing AI, Managing Technological Change and Leadership

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.

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LATEST VIDEOS

How the BBC is handling Generative AI

Deepfakes

Discussing Disinformation

TESTIMONIALS

Laura Ellis, Head of Technology Forecasting at the BBC, gave the talk that stayed with people. Drawing on years of leading technology change inside the BBC, she explored how to grow AI capability without losing control of it. You carried that conversation into the networking breaks, and we enjoyed every minute of it.

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