The Technology Chapter UK

Workshop 1: Who Will Be Making Decisions in Your Organization in Three Years?

Hosted by: Dmitry Tikhomirov, EPAM

AI is moving beyond productivity tools and into decision-making, execution, and operations. Yet while AI investment continues to grow, only 30% of technology- advanced organisations have successfully implemented AI at scale .

Join Microsoft and EPAM for a roundtable discussion on how AI agents and autonomous capabilities are reshaping the enterprise and what leaders need to do today to prepare.

Workshop 2: Pragmatism in the age of Hype: Navigating technology Fads - a leadership view

Hosted by: Ian Price, MHR

Workshop 3: Don’t Rent Your AI Advantage: The Case for Enterprise AI Sovereignty

Hosted by: Zach Damasco, Dataiku

Enterprises shouldn't have to choose between competitive speed today and long-term technological independence.

True AI sovereignty goes beyond compliance; it protects your competitive edge against mounting UK/EU regulations and vender concentration, by ensuring your proprietary business rules and logic remain strictly under your control. Capturing immediate value requires frontier models, but sustainable advantage demands an operating model that prevents vendor lock-in while safeguarding enterprise IP.

Workshop 4: Your Competitive Edge Isn’t AI – It’s Your Data

Hosted by: Owen Walker & Sabrina Dar, Iron Mountain

Years of digital transformation have created a data deluge that most organisations are still struggling to harness. Enterprises generate over 1,300 exabytes of dark data every day, and 90% of the world’s data has been created in just the last two years. That’s not just noise — it’s untapped potential. Join our roundtable to explore how your true advantage in the AI era lies not in the algorithms, but in the data you already have. Discuss why so much of it remains dark, unused, or siloed — and explore how discoverability and connectivity are the keys to unlocking its value. It’s time to turn your data into your most powerful asset.

Workshop 5: Connecting Data to Money: economics of data strategy, capability and business value

Hosted by: Pablo Kotey, Schroders

With over a decade of experience across banking, trading, and asset management, Pablo brings a pragmatic perspective on how data and value connect at scale in complex, real-world environments.

This is a session for anyone looking to advance their the data-to-value agenda beyond straplines and into executable workflow for real economic impact at scale.

Workshop 6: Making AI Outputs Trustworthy and Defensible: We need to be able to Reconstruct the AI Model's Case

Hosted by: Pascal Hetzscholdt, Wiley

Workshop 7: Upgrade or Rip and Replace: The Technical Debt Dilemma

Hosted by: Simon Bell, Mott Macdonald

Workshop 8: Control at the edge of autonomy: Building & governing an AI Agent, Live

Hosted by: Umang Shah & Glen Clodore, Kore.ai

As AI agents move from pilot to production, the hardest questions aren't about capability - they're about control. In this session, Kore.ai builds a live, autonomous AI agent, shaped by real scenarios then puts it through the same test a regulator would apply: can you explain why it made that decision? Most enterprises can't.

Workshop 9: From Whitespace to Wins: Data-Driven Technology Strategy

Hosted by: Devika., Head of Digital Transformation, NHS England