Event presentations
3 November 2025 • Central Hall Westminster, London
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Registration, lunch and networking
12:30 PM - 12:35 PM
Welcome and vision
Max Ghenis, Co-founder & CEO, PolicyEngine
12:35 PM - 12:40 PM
The Nuffield Foundation's vision for evidence-based policy
Anvar Sarygulov, Research Grants and Programmes Manager, Nuffield Foundation
12:40 PM - 12:50 PM
Technology and AI for UK policymaking: The PolicyEngine approach
Max Ghenis, Co-founder & CEO, PolicyEngine
Nikhil Woodruff, Co-founder & CTO, PolicyEngine
12:50 PM - 1:05 PM
Scope of the model: Policies, households, and dynamics
Vahid Ahmadi, Research Associate, PolicyEngine
1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
Localising policy impact: Parliamentary constituencies and local authorities
Nikhil Woodruff, Co-founder & CTO, PolicyEngine
Ben Ogorek, Data Scientist, PolicyEngine
1:25 PM - 1:40 PM
UX research and design of PolicyEngine v2 platform
Biniam Gebre, Co-Founder, Citizen Codex
MaSara Myers, Creative Director, Citizen Codex
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Live demo: PolicyEngine v2 platform
Anthony Volk, Software Engineer, PolicyEngine
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Tea break and networking
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM
NIESR's use of PolicyEngine in its living standards review
Max Mosley, Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Microsimulation of a carbon dividend
Malcolm Torry, Co-founder and Director Emeritus, Citizen's Basic Income Trust
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
VAT analysis with synthetic firm microdata
Vahid Ahmadi, Research Associate, PolicyEngine
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
PolicyEngine US: Tools for deconstructing complex policies
David Trimmer, Policy Research Fellow, PolicyEngine
Daphne Hansell, Research Analyst, PolicyEngine
3:40 PM - 4:25 PM
Panel discussion: The future of evidence-based policymaking
Max Ghenis, Co-founder & CEO, PolicyEngine
Arun Advani, Director of CenTax and Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
Anvar Sarygulov, Research Grants and Programmes Manager, Nuffield Foundation
4:25 PM - 5:00 PM
Looking ahead: AI-powered policy analysis
Max Ghenis, Co-founder & CEO, PolicyEngine
Nikhil Woodruff, Co-founder & CTO, PolicyEngine
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Reception and networking