Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in BST.

8:30 AM
Registration & Networking Breakfast
 
9:05 AM
Keynote Address - The UK's AI Infrastructure & Policy Landscape
  • The UK Government's AI Action Plan and its implications for business
  • The US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal in practice: shared compute, large-scale datasets and collaborative research programmes
  • The AI Safety Institute's evolving role and what pro-innovation regulation looks like
  • International alignment: EU AI Act, US Executive Orders, and what UK firms need to know
  • Accessing Government-backed AI programmes, accelerators, and funding streams
9:15 AM
Keynote Address - The Agentic AI Revolution: from automation to autonomous value
  • Defining agentic AI: what distinguishes it from traditional and generative AI
  • From chatbots and co-pilots to fully autonomous agents: the evolution of capability
  • Strategic opportunities: customer service, sales automation, compliance, financial forecasting and personalisation at scale
  • Risk landscape: where autonomous decision-making creates legal, operational and reputational liability
  • Building the board-level business case: ROI frameworks and the metrics that matter
9:30 AM
Panel - Why Agentic AI matters for UK business competitiveness
  • The competitive imperative: why UK businesses must act now or risk falling behind
  • Current adoption rates and how the UK compares to the US, EU and China
  • The productivity dividend: measurable gains from early adopters across key sectors
  • The US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal: what the Anthropic, Nscale, OpenAI, Microsoft and NVIDIA investments unlock for British firms
  • From pilot to production: setting the ambition for the day ahead
9:45 AM
Case Studies - Agentic AI in Action: Real-world deployment across sectors
  • Financial services: automating compliance checks, fraud detection and financial forecasting
  • Retail & e-commerce: personalising customer experiences at scale and autonomous demand planning
  • Logistics & operations: workflow orchestration and supply chain optimisation
  • Public sector & government: autonomous processing, citizen services and defence applications
  • Cross-sector lessons: what separates successful deployments from costly failures
  • Measuring impact: the KPIs and business metrics that boards want to see
10:45 AM
Morning Coffee & Networking
 
11:05 AM
Keynote Address - Regulation, Liability and the Compliant Agentic Enterprise
  • Current and emerging UK regulatory requirements for autonomous AI systems
  • FCA, ICO and sector-specific compliance considerations
  • Liability frameworks: when an agent makes a mistake, who is accountable?
  • The Government's pro-innovation approach — and where the guardrails are
  • Preparing your legal and compliance teams for the agentic age
  • Speaker to be confirmed
11:20 AM
Keynote Panel - Building Trustworthy and Compliant Agentic AI
  • Governance frameworks for autonomous systems: accountability at board and executive level
  • Human-in-the-loop design: when and how to maintain meaningful oversight
  • Dynamic policy enforcement and real-time compliance monitoring in production
  • Ethical guardrails: bias, fairness, transparency and explainability in agentic systems
  • Data privacy in agentic workflows: managing sensitive data handled by AI agents
  • Practical steps to audit-readiness: documentation, logging and explainability
12:05 PM
Keynote Panel - Scaling Agentic AI: Overcoming Organisational Barriers
  • Change management: building buy-in from board to front line
  • Upskilling and reskilling: developing internal AI capability and literacy across the workforce
  • Data and infrastructure readiness: what you need in place before deploying agents
  • Integration challenges: connecting agentic AI to legacy systems and existing workflows
  • Procurement and vendor selection: what to look for in an agentic AI partner
  • Culture and trust: overcoming internal resistance to autonomous decision-making
12:50 PM
Lunch & Networking
 
1:50 PM
Keynote Panel - The Future of Leadership and the Workforce in the Age of Agentic AI
  • How executive roles will evolve: the AI-augmented C-suite
  • Decision-making in the age of autonomous systems: what remains distinctly human?
  • The digital workforce of tomorrow: humans and agents working in tandem
  • New job categories, skills and career paths created by agentic AI deployment
  • Managing a blended workforce: performance, accountability and organisational culture
  • Board-level AI governance: what directors and non-executives need to understand
2:35 PM
Keynote Panel - Innovation Spotlight: Emerging Agentic AI Technologies & Frameworks
  • Latest tools and frameworks: CrewAI, LangChain, AutoGen and what comes next
  • Multi-agent collaboration: orchestrating teams of AI agents to tackle complex tasks
  • Advanced reasoning models and their practical business applications
  • Deployment strategies: cloud-native, on-premise and hybrid enterprise architectures
  • The open-source vs proprietary debate for enterprise agentic AI
  • Horizon scanning: where Agentic AI will be in 12-24 months and how to prepare
3:20 PM
Keynote Panel - Action Planning: Next Steps for UK Businesses
  •  Identifying the right agentic AI use cases for your organisation: where to start
  • Building the internal business case: engaging your board and securing investment
  • Governance and risk frameworks to establish before you deploy
  • Quick wins vs long-term transformation: a phased and pragmatic approach
  • Measuring success: KPIs, ROI modelling and reporting to the board
  • Resources and support: UK Government programmes, industry bodies and the ecosystem
4:05 PM
Afternoon Tea & Networking
 
4:20 PM
Breakout Roundtable Discussions

A.  Agentic AI for Customer Experience: Automating complex service journeys

  • Designing end-to-end autonomous customer journeys across digital and voice channels
  • Personalisation at scale: using agents to tailor products, communications and pricing
  • Managing customer trust and transparency in AI-driven interactions
  • Handling edge cases, complaints and escalations in automated service environments
  • Measuring CX impact: NPS, satisfaction, retention and revenue uplift

B.  Agentic AI in Operations: Workflow orchestration and supply chain optimisation

  • Mapping your operations for agentic AI deployment: where the highest-value opportunities lie
  • Workflow orchestration: connecting disparate systems through autonomous agents
  • Supply chain use cases: demand forecasting, logistics, procurement and inventory
  • Reducing operational costs and error rates through intelligent automation
  • Integration with ERP, CRM and enterprise data platforms

C.  Agentic AI for Decision Support: Predictive analytics and autonomous planning

  • Moving from dashboards to autonomous insight and action
  • Data quality requirements for reliable and trustworthy agent outputs
  • Risk management in AI-assisted and autonomous decision-making
  • Use cases: financial forecasting, fraud detection, demand planning, regulatory reporting
  • Maintaining human accountability when agents influence major decisions
5:00 PM
Chair's Closing Remarks & End of Summit
 

Agentic AI represents a transformative leap for UK businesses: autonomous systems that execute complex tasks without constant human oversight, delivering dramatic productivity gains that reshape competitive advantage. This summit brings together industry pioneers, policymakers, and AI experts to provide the insights and connections UK business leaders need to capitalise on this next stage in AI deployment.

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