The Agenda
Take a look at full days schedule here!
All plus ticket holders will also gain access to the Digital Transformation sessions, available here.
Agenda is subject to change.
Explore the agenda for the day here, including further details on the presentations, panel discussions & networking sessions.
⏰ Quick timings snapshot:
| 08.15 - 09.00 | Arrival |
| 09.00 - 10.30 | Opening keynote presentations |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning coffee & networking |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Keynote panel & further keynote presentations |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch break |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | First afternoon session |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon coffee & networking |
| 15.30 - 16.30 | Diagnostics session |
| 16. 15 - 17.00 | Networking drinks |
👋 Event check in & light breakfast
08.15 - 09.00
Arrival & check in, pick up your name badge then head to Beatrice Suite for breakfast, coffee, tea and refreshments, Also a great time for some early morning networking with your fellow delegates.
09.10 - 09.35
Keynote Presentation with Q&A
Debabrata Nag | Chief of Central Operations, Bolt
From AI Ambition to Operational Impact: Leading Transformation at Scale
Turning AI ambition into business impact demands more than experimentation. In this opening keynote, Debabrata explores how global organisations connect AI investment with digital transformation, embed change into everyday operations and measure meaningful results. Drawing on his perspective at Bolt, he examines the leadership decisions and practical choices involved in scaling improvements across teams, processes and markets. Attendees will gain insights into identifying valuable opportunities, prioritising investment, balancing global consistency with local needs and engaging people as workflows evolve. Discover how to move beyond isolated pilots and build the operational foundations for sustained, measurable transformation through AI across the business.
Beyond the Use Cases: Delivering AI Value Through People and Ways of Working
AI That Works: Evidence, Trust and Human Judgement
☕ Morning Coffee Break
Digest the opening session with your fellow delegates over coffee, tea and light refreshments. Also a great opportunity to meet our event exhibitors offering an array of solutions and services.
Scaling Agents: From AI Experimentation to an Engineering Operating Model
Moving from individual AI experiments to scalable engineering productivity requires more than widespread agent adoption. Drawing on practical experience at Booking.com, this session explores how to build an operating model around shared engineering workflows, clear specifications and consistent handoffs between roles. Attendees will learn to measure the cost of completed work, match model capability to each delivery stage, and create portable agent profiles that control context while allowing teams to adapt. Key takeaways include standardizing artifacts rather than personal setups, preserving flexibility within organizational standards, avoiding vendor dependencies, and turning everyday feedback into reusable improvements that spread across multiple teams.
11.25 - 11.45
Keynote Presentation
Natalie Keightley | VP, Product Marketing, SS&C Blue Prism
Presentation details coming soon
Presentation details for this session will be added very soon!
From AI Ambition to Adoption: Lessons from the NHS and Beyond
Drawing on experience at NHS England and Microsoft, this session explores how large, complex organisations can turn AI ambition into practical adoption. From the early rollout of Copilot to emerging opportunities for AI in NHS services, it examines the foundations, organisational challenges and strategic choices that shape successful implementation. The session will consider how people, technology and processes need to work together to support sustainable adoption at scale. Attendees will take away practical insights on developing AI strategy, preparing organisations for change and moving beyond pilots, with lessons for leaders across healthcare, the public sector and the wider business community.
The People side is the Change: What CIOs Must Lead in the Agentic Era
🍱 Lunch Break
Lunch is served! A great chance to discuss the keynote content with your fellow delegates and meet some like-minded professionals. Refresh and get ready for an afternoon of further insights!
Panel Session: Business Resilience: Turning AI Strategy into Practice
13.30 - 14.15
Embedding AI into business strategy requires clear priorities engaged people and the ability to adapt as technology and business needs evolve. How can organisations build an approach that delivers value today while strengthening their readiness for tomorrow? This panel will explore practical ways to connect AI initiatives to business objectives establish effective governance and build the skills and culture needed for lasting adoption. Panellists will discuss best practice for moving from experimentation to wider implementation measuring progress and making informed decisions about where to invest. The discussion will also address what happens when plans encounter challenges from resistance to change and fragmented data to disappointing results and competing priorities and how organisations can respond learn and adjust.Designed for business leaders functional teams and those responsible for AI strategy and adoption this session will offer practical perspectives on making AI part of a more adaptable resilient organisation.
Moderator: Nick Hodder, TEDx Speaker & Computing's IT Leaders 100
Panellists;
Amine Beylaggoun, Programme Director, AI & GBS, Enterprise Transformation, Reckitt
Francesca Beaumont, AI Enablement Specialist, Bumble Inc.
Sourav Das, AI Sourcing Product Leader, A.P. Moller - Maersk
14.15 - 14.30
Presentation
Details posted soon for this session
Presentation details coming soon
Presentation details for this session will be added very soon!
Frozen at Training Time: Why Memory Is How Agents Actually Learn
Turning AI investment into sustained business value requires agents that can retain knowledge and adapt as organisations change. Yet deployed models do not automatically learn from use. Drawing on experience building automated research and infrastructure systems at Revolut, this session makes the case for dynamic memory as a practical alternative to costly retraining and static knowledge retrieval. It explores how agents can retain new facts, learn from experience and reuse successful processes, offering leaders practical lessons for building more adaptable AI capabilities, preserving organisational knowledge and improving operational performance over time.
☕ Afternoon Coffee Break
Digest the afternoon session with your fellow delegates over coffee, tea and light refreshments. Another great opportunity to meet our event exhibitors offering an array of solutions and services.
Why Context Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI
As powerful AI models become widely accessible, competitive advantage increasingly depends on the context organisations bring to them. This session explores how business processes, data relationships, user intent, security boundaries and live operational signals make AI useful, trusted and relevant. Attendees will discover how connecting data, people, processes and governance can support better, faster decisions, automate workflows and deliver meaningful business impact. The session highlights why enterprise AI needs more than access to a capable model: it needs the right organisational knowledge at the right moment. Learn how context provides the essential bridge between AI capability and lasting business transformation.
Diagnostics Session: From Insight to Action: The AI Business Clinic
You’ve heard the ideas, now bring your challenges. This interactive, 35-minute session puts the audience’s real-world AI questions at the heart of the conversation. Drawing on the day’s presentations, our expert panel will work through selected audience challenges, diagnose what’s holding progress back and suggest practical next steps. From choosing where to start to moving beyond pilots and bringing colleagues on board, the discussion will connect the day’s insights to the realities of your organisation. Come ready to ask questions, share experiences and learn from others facing similar hurdles and leave with a clearer sense of what to do next.
🍸 Networking Drinks
Wrap up the day with a beer, wine or soft drink and one last opportunity to forge long lasting business relationships with our 2026 cohort of speaker, delegates and sponsors!
Opt for the Plus ticket type and have access to even more talks from the Digital Transformation Sessions ⤵️
Hayley Deaner
Future Digital Capabilities Lead
innocent drinks
Randa Bennett
Head of Programmes
Tesco
Gabriella Overeem-Yee
VP, Consumer Growth
Checkatrade
Richard Adams
Group Head of Architecture
DFTO
The full Digital Transformation sessions available here.