Agenda Information
Our detailed agenda and full speaker line-up will be announced around September time but please take a look through the information below to understand more around the focus areas for the event and format.
2026 Focus Areas 👇
Building AI-Ready Organisations
As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, organisations are rethinking how they structure teams, processes, and technology strategies. This topic explores how businesses are creating scalable AI roadmaps aligned to commercial objectives, operational priorities, and long-term digital transformation goals.
Scaling AI Across the Enterprise
Moving beyond isolated pilots remains one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today. Sessions will explore how businesses are operationalising AI across departments, integrating AI into existing infrastructure, and driving measurable business outcomes at scale.
AI Investment & Business Value
Senior leaders are under increasing pressure to demonstrate ROI from AI initiatives. Discover how organisations are evaluating investment priorities, measuring impact, and building business cases that support sustainable AI adoption across the enterprise.
Innovation Through Intelligent Automation
AI-powered automation is enabling organisations to reduce manual processes, improve accuracy, and accelerate decision-making. Hear how enterprises are combining automation and AI to create smarter, more agile business operations.
Responsible & Ethical AI
As AI adoption accelerates, organisations must ensure systems are transparent, accountable, and aligned with ethical standards. This topic explores the frameworks and governance models helping businesses deploy AI responsibly.
Innovation, Culture & Organisational Agility
Successful AI adoption depends not only on technology, but also on culture and adaptability. Hear how forward-thinking organisations are fostering innovation, experimentation, and agile decision-making across their business.
Technology Platforms & Enterprise Solutions
Discover the latest AI platforms, tools, and enterprise technologies enabling organisations to accelerate transformation and unlock operational efficiencies across the business.
Building Strategic AI Partnerships
Collaboration is becoming increasingly important within the AI ecosystem. Explore how organisations are partnering with technology providers, startups, and innovation specialists to accelerate growth and competitive advantage.
Previous agenda snapshot
Take a look through a few sessions from our last event run
From Acceleration to Orchestration: Leading IT Transformation When AI Rewrites the Rules
Arrie van der Dussen
Executive Director, Digital Services
AstraZeneca
An exploration of how organisations can navigate the intersection of digital transformation and AI adoption in highly regulated environments, where the need for speed must be carefully balanced with compliance. This keynote examines a critical shift: AI is not simply accelerating existing processes, but fundamentally reshaping how work flows across organisations. Rather than incremental improvement, this demands structural reinvention of operating models, governance, and decision-making. Bridging digital transformation and AI strategy, the session will offer a forward-looking perspective on managing uncertainty, aligning stakeholders, and redesigning organisations to thrive in increasingly complex, regulated landscapes while unlocking the full potential of AI-driven change.
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Building an AI-Powered Trade Business: Lessons from Checkatrade
Gorden Pretorius
Chief Technology Officer
Checkatrade
Checkatrade sits at the intersection of two worlds; a consumer marketplace and the operating backbone for tens of thousands of tradespeople. This session explores how we're using AI across both: from scaling operations without scaling headcount, to reimagining how trades run their businesses. Gorden will share what's working, what's not, and why the biggest unlock isn't the model, it's the data, the culture, and the courage to move fast in a regulated, trust-sensitive market.
Keynote Presentation
AI is Keeping CEOs Awake at Night, Here's Why That Should Matter to You
Mark Simpson
Chief AI Officer
GW
AI is making the future of the enterprise deeply uncertain, and CEOs know it. The question is no longer about adoption, it’s about survival, relevance, and what the business becomes next. Yet most organisations are responding with disconnected tools and isolated use cases, creating complexity instead of advantage. Activity is rising, but transformation is not, widening the Business Impact Gap and putting future business models at risk. This session will outline how to move beyond experimentation quickly, align AI across the business, and build the systems needed to shape, not react to, an unpredictable future.
Keynote Presentation
From Hype to Control: Making Agentic Systems Enterprise-Ready
Natalia Konstantinova
Lead Enterprise Architect, AI
NatWest Group
As organisations move beyond AI experimentation, the challenge is no longer capability, it’s control. Agentic systems promise autonomy and scale, but introduce new risks around reliability, coordination, data, and governance. This session explores how leading enterprises are shifting from hype to engineered AI systems that are predictable, testable, and safe. Through practical design patterns including constrained autonomy, orchestration, guardrails, and observability you’ll learn how to build agentic systems that deliver real business value without sacrificing oversight. This talk reframes AI from intelligent magic to disciplined engineering, offering a clear path to enterprise-ready, trustworthy AI at scale.
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