AI STRATEGY FORUM

AI Strategy Forum at London Tech Week

Monday 8 June | 1pm–5pm | VIP Village, ICC Room 1

The AI Strategy Forum is a closed-door, invitation-only gathering of 75 of Europe’s most senior enterprise technology leaders. Taking place as part of the VIP agenda at London Tech Week 2026, the Forum is a carefully curated afternoon of senior-level panels, candid fireside conversations and closed-door deep-dive roundtables.

The Forum brings together CxO technology leaders responsible for owning, governing and executing AI strategy at enterprise scale.

Why this Forum?

AI is now board-level, budget-critical and organisation-wide, yet many enterprises remain caught between experimentation and durable, measurable impact.

The AI Strategy Forum exists to create a high-trust environment where senior leaders can step out of delivery mode and compare how AI strategy is actually being structured, governed and scaled inside large organisations.

This is a forum for leaders making consequential decisions under real scrutiny from boards, regulators and shareholders.

The focus is practical, strategic and peer-led:

  • How enterprises are structuring and owning AI strategy in practice, and where decision rights sit.

  • Why unclear accountability and misalignment slow progress and increase risk.

  • How leaders align data, platforms, operating models and governance to move from pilots to scale.

  • What separates AI programmes that deliver sustained business value from those that stall despite investment.

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Speakers

 

  • Kanishka Narayan MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety), UK Government
  • Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder & CEO, ElevenLabs
  • Niresh Rajah, Chief Data & AI Officer, Chair UK AI – Financial Services   
  • Sam Kini, Chief Information Officer, Unilever  
  • Marcus Hunter, Chief Technology Officer, Evri  
  • Irfan Hussain, Group Chief Information Officer, LSEG  

Agenda

13:00 – 14:00  Private Lunch & Networking 

14:00 – 14:05  Chair’s Opening Remarks 

14:05 – 14:25 Keynote: Microsoft UK  

14:25  14:45 C-Suite Panel Discussion: Who Actually Owns Enterprise AI Strategy? 

In most large organisations, AI is everyone’s priority and no one’s clear mandate. Strategy spans data, platforms, products, risk, and operating models, yet ownership is often fragmented across roles, committees, and transformation programmes. This panel brings senior AI, data, and technology leaders together to unpack how enterprise AI strategy actually works in practice, where it breaks down, and how leading organisations are resolving decision rights to unlock scale and value. 

  • Where does enterprise AI strategy actually sit today, and how often does reality diverge from the org chart? 

  • Who truly holds decision rights, and how does clarity (or ambiguity) affect speed, risk, and delivery? 

  • How are platforms, data, and intelligence being aligned to move beyond pilots and into sustained enterprise impact? 

  • Why do some AI programmes deliver measurable business outcomes, while others stall despite serious investment? 

Niresh Rajah, Chief Data & AI Officer, Chair UK AI – Financial Services   
Sam Kini, 
Chief Information Officer, Unilever  
Marcus Hunter, 
Chief Technology Officer, Evri  
Irfan Hussain, 
Group Chief Information Officer, LSEG 
 
Moderator: Deloitte Executive TBC  

14:45 - 15:00 Keynote UK Government Perspective on AI Strategy 
 
Kanishka Narayan MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety), UK Government
 

15:00 – 15:20 Founder Fireside: Making AI Enterprise-Ready at Scale 
A candid fireside on what organisations often underestimate when trying to scale AI. Drawing on real-world deployment experience, the conversation explores why so many AI programmes stall, and what leading companies do differently to move from pilots to trusted, board-ready impact. 

  • Why reliability, safety and governance decide whether AI ever leaves pilot mode. 

  • Operating models that allow rapid progress without fragmenting accountability. 

  • What separates AI initiatives that survive board scrutiny from those that quietly fail. 

Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder & CEO, ElevenLabs 
Moderator: TBC 

15:20 – 16:20  Roundtable Discussions  

  • Who Really Owns AI in the Enterprise? 

  • Building Resilient AI Foundations 

  • AI in the Real Economy: From Software to Sovereign Industry 

  • Demonstrating ROI from AI investments 

  • Governance: Balancing Innovation with Risk Management 

  • Scaling AI Across the Enterprise 

  • Skills-led transformation: are we building talent or replacing it?

16:20 – 16:40 Roundtable Insights 

16:40 – 17:30  Chair’s Closing followed by drinks & networking 

17:30 – END 

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