Event: Exploring the Potential of Agentic AI
Join us in London for our half-day event to examine the potential for AI assistants and AI agents to improve your business processes.
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king place in London, this event is your chance to engage with industry experts and move to the next stage of your AI journey.
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 1.00pm-5.30pm
Venue: IBM UK Ltd, 20 York Road, London SE1 7ND
Join us for our half-day event to examine the potential for AI assistants and AI agents to improve your business processes. We’ll look at some of the technology that sits behind assistants and agents, show you where businesses are already using the technology, identify where the benefits can be found and help you find opportunities to integrate assistants and agents into your own business.
Please note: Attendees are required to bring a form of Government issued photo ID to gain access to the venue, as this is IBM policy. This includes:
- current valid passport for any country
- current biometric residence permit for the UK
- current full or provisional photo card driving licence from the UK, Isle of Man or Channel Islands
Agenda and Speakers
During the event, speakers from DeeperThanBlue and other industry experts will talk about:
- AI Assistants and Agents
- How Agentic AI will impact the Business World
- Use cases for Assistants and Agents
- The future of AI in Business
You will hear from experts with experience in implementing AI solutions for business processes and advanced technical applications.
Presentation: AI – A Year in Review
Speakers: Chris Booker and Stephen Birch, DeeperThanBlue
Presentation: AI That Lands: Where Strategy Meets Human Experience
Speaker: Carolyn Shepherd, Emmeline.AI
Outline: What does it take for AI to move from plan to practice — and actually deliver performance gains? In this talk, Carolyn Shepherd shares real-world use cases and one powerful personal story to show how adoption happens when people see themselves in the change. She introduces the idea of next-gen job crafting — a human-first approach to role evolution that helps individuals hand off low-value tasks to AI and refocus on work that truly makes a difference.
Presentation: The Great AI Disconnect
Speaker: David Royle, Tanhill.AI
Outline: 800 million people use AI weekly, yet 95% of AI projects fail to deliver measurable results. The Great AI Disconnect explores the gap between soaring adoption and lagging value, framed around five traps: Technology vs Business Leadership, Training vs Employment, Convenience vs Job Security, Adoption vs Value, and Hope vs Risk. As a bonus, David will also touch on Educational Pathways in an AI World — practical advice for parents and young adults preparing for the future of work. With market insights, real-world examples, and a pragmatic 90-day playbook to move beyond pilots and into scale.
Panel discussion: AI for Business – Where are we heading?
Panellists: David Royle, Carolyn Shepherd, Chris Booker (DeeperThanBlue)
Chair: Stephen Birch (DeeperThanBlue)
Who should attend
This event is suitable for business and technical leaders working across a broad range of sectors, including Automotive, Banking, Consumer Products, Financial Markets, Healthcare, Industrial Products and Manufacturing, Insurance, Retail, Distribution and Wholesale, Telecommunications, Travel and Transportation.
Speakers
Our speakers come from different sectors, but are equally passionate about how AI can be adopted in business.
David Royle
David Royle is a management consultant and founder of Tanhill.ai, created to help mid-market firms navigate the transformational value (and hype) of AI. With 25 years’ digital transformation experience in leadership roles across several global consultancies, his work has been highly commended by UK Finance, the Financial Times, and the Management Consultancy Association.
Over the past decade, he has worked with international banks, major technology firms, and national brands on AI adoption and strategy. David also delivers training programmes for industry bodies and the UK government on AI fundamentals and operationalising AI, and serves as Chair of the Cornhill Club, which brings senior leaders together to explore the future of finance and technology.
Tanhill.AI
Tanhill.ai are passionate about harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world challenges. The team of experts brings together years of experience in AI development, data science, and machine learning, offering tailored solutions that drive innovation and efficiency for businesses of all sizes.
Carolyn Shepherd
Carolyn Shepherd is an AI Workforce Transformation Consultant, LinkedIn Learning AI Tutor, and founder of both the AI Learning Lobby and The Work Intelligence Partnership. A non-practising barrister with a background in L&D strategy, HR change programmes, and innovation projects, she helps organisations bridge the gap between AI ambition and human adoption — empowering non-technical professionals to lead with clarity and confidence in the AI era.
Carolyn is Founder of Emmeline.AI, a community of non-technical professionals encouraging each other to master Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and beyond in the belief that having these skills will increase our productivity, wellbeing and career choices.
Working in collaboration with...
DeeperThanBlue is collaborating with IBM to bring you this event.
As a world-leader in the IT world, IBM are one of the most advanced businesses in the development of AI, offering tools and applications suitable for organisations from start-ups to blue-chips.
What happened at our Sheffield event...
On Wednesday 18 June 2025, we hosted this half‑day event at The Victoria, Sheffield. Hear what the attendees said and get a flavour of what you’ll see in London.
AI Agents and Assistants
AI assistants have been with us for some time, whether that has been as chatbots on websites or virtual assistants on smart speakers. They have evolved quickly, becoming more useful and more intuitive.
They can also be implemented by companies of any size to help staff and customers make better use of their time.
AI agents, however, are still relatively new. While AI assistants are designed to help users with specific requests and tasks, often acting as virtual assistants in a human-like way, AI agents, are more autonomous, making decisions and taking actions independently to achieve predefined goals, often in more complex environments.
AI for Business at DeeperThanBlue
At DeeperThanBlue we focus on helping business gain benefits and efficiencies from Generative AI. We do this through the following service offerings:
- Workshop
- Discover problem and pain areas in your business
- Review areas that might be a good candidate for using AI.
- Consider repeatable Use Cases that apply to your business
- Building a proof of concept quickly—in days/weeks
- Build out a minimal viable product—and get that into production in weeks.
- Scale out once the ROI has been proven.
- Select the correct AI platform provider, Large Language Model or Foundational Model for results accuracy and understanding the total cost of ownership.
