22nd May ai:NOW UK Conference, 8 Northumberland Av, London

Last Week CXO Portals and ai:NOW hosted our second highly successful AI Conference.

Event Chairs:

Rosanne Werner and Dr Andrea Isoni

Agenda

9:00 Unifying Data with AI Panel – Saurav Gupta, Cybele Wong, Robert Chilvers, Imtiaz Adam

10.00 Keynote – Dennis Curry, TalkTalk – Back to the Future, AI, Decision Support & Agentic Reasoning

10.00 Keynote – Niall Carter, Cognigy – Innovation Without Transformation How AI Agents Deliver Impact Now

11.00 Kari-Anne Clayton, Natwest – AI for Public Good

11.00 Keynote – Daniel Hulme, WPP – Rethinking AI and Its Impact on Business and Humanity

11.00 Robin M, Feder8 – The Governance Advantage Turning AI Oversight Into Your Scaling Catalyst

11.00 Suzanne Ellison, Lloyds – Scaling AI for Customer and Business Value

11.40 Belinda Djamson, Accenture – Beyond the Pilot, Quantifying AI’s Impact at Scale in FS

11.40 Kevin Neogy, Kanoo Group UAE – Delivering Immediate ROI Affordable

11.40 Keynote – Mohsen Ghasempour – Generating Value with AI Unlocking the Power of Your Data

11.40 David Matthias Roebel, MING Labs & Slava Drigloff – Transforming Customer Experience with GenAI

13.20 AI-Driven Decision-Making Panel – Claudia Villasis-Wallraff, Elangoraj Thiruppandiaraj, Monika K., Maximilian Karmann

14.40 Charles Juba, London Marathon – Conversational AI for Customer Engagement

14.40 Neil Holden, Manish Yadav, Ignite AI Partners – Leveraging AI in Retail and Consumer Services

14.40 Rosanne Werner, XcelerateIQ – The Human Element of Data and AI Mindset and Culture

15.40 Case Study – Claire Agutter, Scopism – SIAM An Integrated Approach to Deliver AI ROI

15.40 Case Study – Damien Deighan, Data Science Talent – How To Hire the Top 5% of the Data & AI Talent Pool

15.40 Manivannan (Mani) Janakiraman GCB.D – From Generative to Agentic AI

16.20 Creating Monsters Panel & 2025 Industry Trends – Giles Lindsay (FIAP FBCS FCMI), Dr Zara Ghazoui, Ravi Jay, Sneha Bedi

17:15 Slava Drigloff, ai:NOW Partner – AI and CX Revolution

Such a successful event wouldn’t have been possible without our dedicated and hardworking team

A huge thank you to every speaker, as well as our fantastic Event Partners: Intersystems, Cognigy, MING Labs, FEDER8, Scopism, Ignite AI Partners | AI For Retail and Consumer Services, Data Science Talent , Tenon Search, Data Nectar (Data, Gen AI Consulting & Solutions) and Bosch Software and Digital Solutions

Our venue, 8 Northumberland Avenue, was world-class. Everyone agreed that the rooms, food, and staff service were fabulous.

To our attendees—you are the heart of these events. Thank you for being part of an experience we hope will be remembered and discussed for days to come.

The Post-Event Report is currently being finalised. Photos of sessions, the venue, networking, and more are available—just ask one of our team if you’d like access for your socials.

Finally – Save the date – The ai:NOW Leaders Summit UK returns on 12th November 2025 in London. – Don’t miss it!

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