The last mile - why so many great AI ideas die before they get to patients, and what you can do about it.

Start: 10:05 BST

Finish: 10:45 BST

Prof Alastair Denniston from HDR UK and the University of Birmingham will deliver the opening keynote address of UK AI 2025.

Professor Alastair Denniston is AI Strategic Advisor to HDRUK, Consultant Ophthalmologist at University Hospitals Birmingham and Professor of Regulatory Science and Innovation at University of Birmingham. He leads the Birmingham AI & Digital Health Group, a research group supporting innovators, regulators and policy-makers in ensuring AI technologies are safe, effective and equitable, and that they are of real benefit in the real world. At the national level, he leads the UK’s Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation in AI & Digital Health (CERSI-AI) and is a Council Member of the Regulatory Horizons Council to the UK Government.