00:00We start by thanking you all for being here. We're going to have a really good tech week.
00:06We've already kicked off yesterday. We've got some major announcements to make, some real
00:10partnership to do together, and I'm just so pleased to have this opportunity, this privilege
00:16of opening this morning. A real pleasure for me. And my constituency, the area I represent,
00:23is London. I'm a London MP, and that means that I understand firsthand just how important
00:30it is for our sector as we go forward. And, you know, whether it's entrepreneurs, whether
00:38it's the spirit in London, as we go forward, this is hugely, hugely important. We have to
00:44recognize that for many people, they see AI and tech as transformative, going to do so
00:53much. And every time you say over five years or ten years, everybody says to me, shorten
00:57that gear. It's going to be more like five years and three years that we're going to bring
01:01about great change in so many aspects of our life, whether that's in health, where I've
01:08seen for myself the incredible contribution that tech and AI can make. Standing in a hospital
01:14up in the Midlands, talking to consultants who deal with strokes, and they showed me the
01:22equipment, the techniques that they are using, using AI to isolate for stroke victims exactly
01:29where the clot is in the brain, in a microsecond of the time it would have taken otherwise,
01:36brilliantly saving people's lives in that particular occasion. And shortly after that, I had an incident
01:44where I was being shown AI and stethoscopes working together to predict any problem someone might
01:51have. So whether it's health or other sectors, it's hugely transformative what can be done here.
01:58Last week, last Monday in fact, I was standing in Scotland launching the strategic defence review of the
02:05government. This was a review that I commissioned soon after we came into power to tell me what are the
02:13risks that we face as a country in this new era, what are the challenges, what are our capabilities
02:21and how do we make sure that as we go forward our capabilities match the risks and the challenges
02:27that we face as a country. And in that, tech and AI were absolutely central because as you will perhaps
02:36have seen over the last three years or more during this awful conflict in Ukraine, I've been back to Ukraine
02:43on a number of occasions in that three-year period to have in-depth conversations with President Zelensky
02:50to make sure that our support is in the right place. But I was really struck, the trip before last that I did,
02:56this was probably about six or seven weeks ago, the extent to which technology and AI was now having a direct
03:04impact in that conflict was huge. In three years of conflict, the way in which that war was being
03:12fought had changed profoundly. And therefore, what I wanted hardwired into our defence review was a real
03:19sense of how AI and tech would be driving our defence of the future. There are so many examples across
03:27government. I've set the challenge to all of my teams to show me how they can use AI, not just in
03:33the output of government, not just in the partnership with yourselves and others and the delivery of
03:39services, but also in the very way that we do government. How do we transform what we do? And there
03:45are so many examples of that. I spoke to a social worker in Downing Street at one of our receptions,
03:52and she explained to me, with a smile on her face, just how AI is slashing her paperwork and her case
04:01load. And she showed and talked me through the way in which she's now doing her work. And what she said
04:07to me was that this was helping her transform the work that she did, because she was helping her transform
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