Thriving not just surviving in times of change!
What’s the event about?
Building on his highly successful “Love Your Disruptors” talk, Steve brings his perspective as a seasoned IT professional and board-level influencer to provoke you to think about what you are going to do with “this AI stuff”? It’s a simple question really… Would you rather be DISRUPTING instead of following in other’s footsteps? In his talk “Love Your Disruptors…
Key Discussion Points:
- How AI is impacting the behaviours of your people
- How to tell if your people are handing in AI-generated work and why you should care
- The different types of AI out there for you to harness if you want to…There’s a lot more than just GPT and Chat Bots
- An AI heat map for each area of your business
- The benefits and pitfalls of using AI in areas like recruitment
- Where to start and if you’ve already started how to tell if you’re doing it right!
Event timings
8:30 – 9:00: Arrival, coffee and networking
9:00 – 10:30: Speaker + Q&A
10:30 – 11:00: Coffee and networking
Speakers
Steve Houghton-Burnett
Fractional IT Leader | Freeman Clarke
Steve Houghton-Burnett is an award-winning speaker with over twenty-five years experience of positive and lasting business change mostly driven by IT. He has spoken and delivered workshops on the topic of Positive Disruption in the UK, USA, Europe and the Far East. He was the founder of one of the first UK Internet Service Providers which subsequently sold for £300 million. Steve has worked with many other successful start-ups and growth organisations and was Entrepreneur in Residence at Staffordshire University. He has also successfully graduated from the Oxford Saïd Business School specialised Artificial Intelligence Programme achieving an overall mark of 94%. He regularly consults with small businesses who want to change the world and with big businesses who can learn a lot from them. He often brings the two cultures together in a way that creates a dynamic environment with fantastic results for both. An accolade only 70 UK professional speakers have achieved, Steve is a Fellow of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA).
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