Chief AI Officer Summit London 2026

Tickets & pricing

Who should attend (and who shouldn't)

Leaders at Director, VP or C-level AI and technology titles who want an advanced, one-day room of about 125 people in London, with sessions on governing an AI workforce, scaling agentic AI and the cost of inference, are the target. It is not the place for juniors or hands-on builders, given the Advanced level. Vendors should note the separate Vendor Pass costs £2,495, while the Summit Pass is listed as 0.

The organizer names: Director, VP, C-Level AI/technology titles. Level: Advanced.

About Chief AI Officer Summit London 2026

At the InterContinental London - The O2, 1 Waterview Drive, the AI Accelerator Institute stages a one-day, advanced-level gathering on Tuesday, December 1, 2026. It bundles three summits under one roof: Chief AI Officer, Agentic AI and Generative AI. Director, VP and C-level AI and technology titles are who it is built for.

Twenty-nine speakers and 18 sessions are listed. Ha Cole, Chief AI Officer at Microsoft, and Anton Hinel, VP, Machine Learning Research at American Express, are among the names. Talks include The agent development lifecycle and one on how boards must govern the AI workforce. Organizers expect 125 attendees, with a happy hour for networking, and tickets are on sale.

Location

1 Waterview Drive, London, United Kingdom

Venue: InterContinental London - The O2

Agenda

Tuesday, December 1

• 08:00–09:00 · Networking opportunities
• 09:00–09:30 · Embedding AI into your organisation — Kirstine Dale
• 09:30–10:00 · The agent development lifecycle — Robert Xu
• 10:00–10:30 · Why AI infrastructure is becoming a full-stack problem
• 11:00–11:30 · From copilots to colleagues: How boards must govern the AI workforce — Ha Cole
• 11:00–11:30 · From individual experiments to engineering-wide adoption: Scaling agentic AI responsibly — Wojciech Malinowski
• 11:00–11:30 · The economics of inference: what generative AI actually costs in production — Dr Nikolay Burlutskiy
• 11:30–12:00 · Shipping AI at scale: A look back, current patterns and what’s next — Stuart McMeechan
• 12:00–12:30 · How AI-generated software gets to production
• 12:30–13:00 · Panel | From AI adoption to driving measurable enterprise value: Scaling what actually works
• 14:00–14:30 · Planning and executing AI transformations — Hasta Vanchinathan
• 14:00–14:30 · Moving beyond pretraining: When and how to fine-tune language models — Reshinth Adithyan
• 14:30–15:00 · Panel + Roundtables | The AI operating model: How should today's enterprise organise for AI?
• 15:00–15:30 · Why causal AI Is the next step for enterprise AI — Guglielmo Iozzia
• 15:00–15:30 · Panel | Inside the black box: Observability and debugging for autonomous agents — Disha Mukherjee, Astitva Karunesh
• 16:00–16:30 · Panel | Governing agentic AI: Balancing autonomy, trust, and risk
• 16:30–17:00 · Panel | Is it doing the right thing? The new job of checking your agents' work — Ramy Erfan, El Mehdi Amaziane
• 17:00–18:00 · Happy hour

Tracks & topics

• Chief AI Officer Summit
• Agentic AI Summit
• Generative AI Summit

Speakers

• Ha Cole
  Chief AI Officer, Microsoft
• Kirstine Dale
  Chief AI Officer, Met Office
• Bala Viswanath
  Chief Technology Officer, Identity & Fraud Prevention, Experian
• Hasta Vanchinathan
  Head of Applied Machine Learning, EMEA, Cohere
• Nidhi Sharma
  Global Head of Engineering, AI and Incubation, Just Eat Takeaway
• Anton Hinel
  VP, Machine Learning Research, American Express
• Anuj Agarwal
  Head of Product, Agentic & AI Solutions, Natwest Group
• Ingrid Verschuren
  EVP, Data Intelligence & AI Governance, Dow Jones
• Stuart McMeechan
  EMEA Applied Engineering Leader, OpenAI
• Robert Xu
  Deployed Engineer, Langchain
• Wojciech Malinowski
  Senior Staff Data Engineer, Midjourney
• Dr Nikolay Burlutskiy
  Head of Applied AI, BBC
• Ghanasham Apte
  Head of Artificial Intelligence, BT
• Sharon Richardson
  Director, Artificial Intelligence, Hoare Lea
• Guglielmo Iozzia
  Director, Machine Learning & AI, MSD
• Teresa Wu
  VP, Software Engineering, JP Morgan Chase
• Ramy Erfan
  VP, Business & Technology Enablement, Citi
• El Mehdi Amaziane
  Head of Product, AI, Amazon
• Disha Mukherjee
  Lead Data Engineer, Ford Credit
• Astitva Karunesh
  Data Science and AI Business Lead, Lloyds Banking Group
• Yao Li
  Chief Product Officer, Global Data Intelligence, Experian
• Subrata Bose
  VP, Data, Imaging & AI, Bayer
• Hitesh Patel
  Global Data & AI Director, IHG Hotels & Resorts
• Amit Nandi
  VP, Solutions and Data & AI Architecture, Barclays

Networking & recordings

Networking opportunities; Happy hour

Social

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