AI in Surrey 2025 | Tech Summit
When? Thursday, May 15, 2025. 08:00 - 14:00
Venue Details: Shilling Building Lecture Hall
Royal Holloway University, University of London
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
At INV Group, we are excited to partner with Surrey Chambers of Commerce, Fluid One and Royal Holloway University to bring you AI in Surrey 2025 on May 15 2025.
This summit has been designed to create an exclusive space where business leaders and decision-makers can explore the transformative impact of AI on industries and organisations across the region.
We’re looking forward to an engaging audience of professionals from Surrey, London and Berkshire, all keen to understand how AI is shaping the future of business. It’s an opportunity for you to connect with brilliant minds in the industry, hear from leading experts and engage in discussions that will challenge the way you think about AI’s role in your business.
The AI Summit will feature a varied agenda, including keynote addresses, panel discussions, presentations and great networking opportunities.
Don’t miss your chance to learn from the leading voices in AI, connect with like-minded professionals, and explore the future of technology in business.
Agenda
8:00 - Arrivals, coffee and networking
8:50 - Intros and welcome from Paul Zimmerman, INV Group
9:00 - Keynote: “How AI is Radically Changing How We Do Business”Professor Alan Brown, University of Exeter
9:30 - “Reimagining How We Get Work Done in the 2020s” Himanshu Sahni, AWS EMEA AI / ML Lead
9:45 - “Protecting your Business in the AI Age” Russell Horton, CEO of Fluid One
10:00 - Panel
10:20 - Coffee and networking
10:35 - Representative from UK Gov on AI (tbc)
11:10 - "Where AI will Lead Business in the Next Few Years" Professor Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway University
11:40 - “What We Can Achieve with AI Agents Today” Billy Clackers, MD of Invotra
11:50 - “The Latest in AI and Drone Technology” Jürgen Adam, Professor, Royal Holloway University and Director of Royal Holloway’s Omnidrone Research & Innovation Centre
12:10 - Panel
12:30 - Speed pitches from local businesses offering services in AI
12:45 - Summary and close
13:00 - Networking lunch (provided by Fluid One)
14:00 - [Optional] Tour of the OmniDrone Research and Innovation Centre
Speakers
Paul Zimmerman
Paul is a public speaker and guest lecturer on diverse subjects ranging from AI to entrepreneurship to the future of communications in the workplace.
Paul has been an accomplished executive in the technology sector for 25 years, when he initially joined Amazon’s early retail management team in the UK in 1999. Today, Paul is the co-founder and Chief Communications Officer with the INV Group, having previously served for 10 years as Group Chief Operating Officer.
Professor Alan Brown
Alan has been delivering impact as an entrepreneur and in business for over 30 years, working predominantly in software delivery to power business transformation. He is also a university professor, researcher, coach and trusted adviser to start-ups and established organisations across the public and private sectors. He has written several books on enterprise software delivery and digital transformation, and holds a Professorship in Digital Economy at the University of Exeter, UK and from March 2019 to September 2023 held a Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and AI.
Keynote 1: Alan Brown: "Preparing Your Business for AI"
Alan Brown is a Professor of Digital Economy at the University of Exeter and a Director of AI for Digital Leaders.
More info: https://dispatches.alanbrown.net/authors/0d926254-6503-44c2-8fe3-baaf8eb60483
Professor Chris Watkins
Keynote 2: Chris Watkins "What We Can Expect from AI in the Next Few Years"
Chris Watkins has been a Professor of AI at Royal Holloway, University of London, for over 25 years. His research interests include reinforcement learning, evolution and evolutionary algorithms, immunology, kernel methods in machine learning, LLMs and reading, and visualisation of high dimensional data. Chris also worked for Bell Labs in America.
More info: https://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~chrisw/
Major speaker: Himanshu Sahni
"How Businesses are Using AWS Services to Create Opportunities in AI"
Himanshu Sahni, Tech Business Development Lead AWS EMEA AI / ML
Himanshu has been at AWS for over 4 years, where he helped businesses and organisations prepare for and meet the challenges posed by opportunities in AI. He is a seasoned AI/ML Professional combining 20 years of revenue generation, product development and technical expertise to deliver transformative solutions.
More info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/himanshu-sahni-25a7374/
Sponsor Speaker
Sponsor: Fluid One
Speaker: Russell Horton, CEO of Fluid One
Title: "Securely Enabling AI"
Sponsor Speaker
Sponsor: INV Group / Invotra
Speaker: Billy Clackers, MD of Invotra
Title: "What We Can Achieve with AI Agents Today"
If you’re ready to dive into the world of AI, learn from industry leaders, and connect with other professionals interested in how AI is changing our future, don’t wait, register now.
Spaces are limited, so grab your spot and get ready for an event full of insights, discussions, and plenty of opportunities to network
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