| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 5:00 PM | Chair's Closing Remarks & End of Summit |