- keynote - Keynotes - Day 2
AI with Actual Impact
Thursday 16th October 2025 • 10:00 AM - 10:20 AMThis is a real world story of AI, that's not about technology. It's a story about the people we can help and it's about the people who make it happen.
About Dr Laura Gilbert CBE
Dr. Laura Gilbert is the Senior Director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute, running a new AI Incubator delivering real AI solutions for better government. From September 2020 to January 2025, Laura worked in 10 Downing Street as the founding director of 10DS, the data science and analytics team. In 2023 Laura created and directed the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI) and was awarded a CBE for Services to Technology and Analysis. She is a visiting professor at LSE.