AI Strategy & Practice Conference 2026

Official hashtag: #AIStratLondon

About AI Strategy & Practice Conference 2026

One day, October 21, 2026, at Ham Yard in London, United Kingdom, is given to the question of how organizations get AI into production safely. Safe Intelligence organizes the event, and the four themes run from scoping a workable strategy to judging what is safe enough to deploy and keeping systems useful, reliable and accountable.

The schedule runs a morning keynote with panels, afternoon sessions on balancing risk and reward, and a closing reception. Seven speakers are listed, including Richard Masters of Ankura, Stuart McMeechan of OpenAI (Applied AI Engineering Lead, EMEA) and Phoenix Williams, Responsible AI Specialist at Lloyds Banking Group. It targets engineering leads, business unit leads and compliance teams at intermediate level, with about 120 attendees expected.

Location

1 Ham Yard, London, W1D 7DT, United Kingdom

Venue: Ham Yard

Agenda

Wednesday, October 21

• 09:30–10:30 · Registration & Welcome Coffee
• 10:30–12:30 · Morning Keynote Address & Panels: Living up to the hype with real delivery
• 12:30–13:30 · Networking Lunch
• 13:30–17:00 · Afternoon Sessions & Panels: Practical advice on delivery, keeping risk and reward in balance
• 17:00 · Program Close & Event Reception

Audience

• Engineering leads
• Business unit leads
• Compliance teams

Level: Intermediate

Speakers

• Richard Masters
  Head of AI Strategy, Ankura – AI by Design
• Mira Pijselman
  Managing Director & AI Governance Engineering Solution Leader, Ankura
• Stuart McMeechan
  Applied AI Engineering Lead, EMEA, OpenAI
• Huma Lodhi
  Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Sky
• Jovita Tam
  Business Strategy & Execution Operator
• Phoenix Williams
  Responsible AI Specialist, Lloyds Banking Group
• Richard Sargeant
  Founder of Agentometry, AI Advisor at BCG

Social

• linkedin

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