AI Ready: Empowering People, Shaping Strategy

To watch the Online Summit please register your details below

As AI moves from theory to everyday application, the question is no longer if AI will impact your organisation—but how ready you are to lead with it. 

AI Ready: Empowering People, Shaping Strategy, is an engaging online summit hosted by Agile Business Consortium and created in collaboration with our trusted partners.  

This event is your go-to guide for navigating the practical stages of AI adoption - with people at the heart of the process. Expect more than theory. 

There will be real stories, challenges, and wins from those already putting AI to work in their organisations. Whether you’re just starting out or further along your AI implementation, walk away practical ideas, and a sharper vision of what it takes to lead confidently in the AI era.

What should I expect? 

• Fireside Chat on AI Readiness - Gain insights on what it means to be AI-ready, from infrastructure, data strategy and governance.  
• Human Side of AI - Explore how AI is reshaping the workplace, roles, and skillset & how to encourage employees to collaborate with, not compete against it. 
• Agile Innovation - Explore how AI is driving the creation of value propositions through lean thinking, clear purpose, and adaptive change, ensuring innovation remains efficient, relevant, and impactful
• Interactive Q&A Sessions - Bring your questions and our speakers and panellists will address challenges

Partner Sessions

Readiness is the real AI advantage
Charlie Symonds, Alirity

AI is transforming industries, but how ready is your organisation to adopt it?  

AI isn’t just a technology investment. It’s an organisational shift.  It impacts how you manage data, design processes, govern responsibly, and engage your people. Without careful preparation, organisations risk wasting investment, launching fragmented initiatives or damaging trust with customers and employees. In this fireside chat, Charlie and Fallon discuss the different factors in your organisation that you can take control of, to enable the best possible outcomes from AI adoption – to create value, and not disruption.

Embracing the new frontier of human and machine collaboration requires a strategic and thoughtful approach. Agile practitioners have the unique opportunity to harness the strengths of both entities, driving innovation and efficiency. By leveraging data-driven insights, fostering creativity, streamlining operations, and prioritising ethical considerations, agile practitioners can navigate this transformative era with confidence and success. The future is collaborative, and those who embrace this synergy will undoubtedly lead the way in shaping the next generation of groundbreaking solutions and products. 

We will explore, inter alia:

• The Current AI landscape
• The augmentation of humans by machines and vice versa
• Going back to basics through simplified process architecture
• The orchestration of value delivery through a curated mix of humans and machines
• Moving to 1-day sprints
• How to manage the change

AI Jidoka: Empowering Agile Innovation of Value Propositions with Lean, Purpose, and Change
James Dwan, Catalyst Consulting

If the avalanche of AI headlines has you wondering whether your hard-won Agile chops still matter, this fireside chat is your reality check. AI thrives on rapid feedback, lightweight governance, and fearless experimentation. In other words, exactly what you already do in stand-ups, retros, and sprint reviews. We’ll dive into the data, which shows that fully Agile teams are 3× more likely to deploy AI end-to-end and 66 % say the tech actually boosts their agility. In this 15-minute presentation, Melissa Reeve reveals how your existing efforts in Agility turn AI from whiz-bang idea into a productive part of your everyday work. You’ll leave seeing how AI integration needs your Agile skills now more than ever.

The Agile Business Consortium’s Online summit is delivered in collaboration with our partners and sponsors, who will act as joint data controllers for the event. Following the event, the Agile Business Consortium and its partners and sponsors may contact you directly with information and offers. You may unsubscribe at any time. For further details, please refer to our Privacy Policy, and consult the individual privacy policies of our partners and sponsors, available on their respective websites.

Who Should Watch?

• C-Suite Executives - looking to align AI with organisational vision, performance, and long-term growth.
• Business & Transformation Leaders - responsible for shaping and driving change.
• HR & People Professionals – exploring the evolving relationship between people, skills, and AI.
• Marketing & Customer Experience Leaders - exploring AI-powered personalisation, automation, and data-driven decision-making in campaigns and customer journeys.
• IT & Data Teams - responsible for building and managing the systems that make AI work.
• Agile Coaches & Change Practitioners - guiding organisations through transformation.