Overview
Building on the success of City & Financial Global’s Data & AI events portfolio over the last 12 years, we are pleased to invite you to our inaugural AI and the Future of Work and Skills Summit, which will be chaired by Niresh Rajah, Chief Data & AI Officer, Board Chair – Microbit, Chair – UK AI for Financial Services, Fellow at Imperial College and Associate Fellow at Oxford University and taking place in Central London on 23 February 2027.
The AI revolution is no longer a future forecast—it is an immediate board-level necessity, and this exclusive event is designed to answer the five critical decisions shaping the future of work: board accountability, workforce economics, the entry-level talent pipeline, legal compliance, and value realisation.
The future of work will not be determined by technology alone. It will be shaped by today’s decisions about people, skills, governance and value. Whether you are making multi-million-pound enterprise AI bets, rewriting your talent strategy, or shaping national digital frameworks, this summit provides the hard data, governmental insights, and legal blueprints required to de-risk your roadmap to 2027 and beyond.
Why you can’t afford to miss this event
- Hear from the UK Government detailing exactly what it will deliver on skills funding, and what it expects from employers in return
- Align your corporate governance with evolving digital frameworks and define clear legal and ethical boundaries for AI deployment within highly regulated sectors like financial services and beyond
- Understand more about growing your future experts: graduate and apprentice hiring, redesigned early-career roles, new routes into the professions and the risk of a missing cohort in five years' time
- Be advised on the most effective ways for AI agents and humans to work together: task allocation, supervision, error management, human judgement and accountability in hybrid workplaces
- Learn how to move past AI proof-of-concepts to achieve tangible, scalable ROI and de-risk your business operations with a clear view of market data on sectoral exposure, wages, and entry-level hiring
- Collaborate directly with top-tier academic researchers, and industry leads to refine national upskilling initiatives
- Understand the scale of investments required in job redesign and workplace practices to construct an elite, AI-ready workforce
What sets us apart
- High-level speakers, both government and industry cross-sector
- Innovative and highly - interactive session formats, including Evidence Briefing, Disruption & Innovation Studio, Cross-Sector Debate, Deployments Case-Studies, and Roundtables
- Carefully selected audience, both for sponsors and attending delegates
- Facilitated networking before and during the conference