Engaging, informative, and focused on real-world applications, four headline speakers will be followed by a panel discussion, promising to provide mid-market leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to harness AI effectively and drive their businesses forward.
Join us to stay ahead of the curve and turn AI into your competitive advantage, before your competitors do.
What we intend to deliver:
- A comprehensive understanding of what AI is (and isn’t) and how AI has evolved and is transforming the mid-market landscape.
- Why and how AI is going to change the way we do business and how it can drive competitive advantage now
- Pragmatic insights and real-world examples relevant to business leaders.
- Clear, actionable steps that MDs/CEOs/Owners can take today to leverage AI for growth.
- What are the legal implications.
- Where is the risk and how to mitigate it?
What the audience will get:
- A clear roadmap on integrating AI into their business and marketing strategies.
- Enhanced knowledge to make informed decisions about AI investments.
- Tools to improve efficiency, decision-making, and customer engagement.
- Ideas to future-proof their business in an increasingly AI-driven market.
- An opportunity to ask your own burning questions to the speakers and panellists.
Speakers
Speaker
David helps leaders understand how AI impacts their industry, sector and business. From AI labs roadmaps, to how your competitors are leveraging the technology. With thirty years of experience in communications and five years in AI, he uses his knowledge to help leaders understand how transformative technology will impact their industry, sector and business.
He studied AI at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, and has since created a number of AI business solutions for enterprise and NGO’s. David is motivated by transformative technology and business, and his first book, Zoom! The Faster Way to Make Your Business Idea Happen was included in Independent Newspapers’ Top 10 Business Books. He has given talks on AI and futurology at SXSW, TEDx, and various global events.
Speaker
Mark Boulton is a technology and marketing expert, entrepreneur, author and mentor. Mark originally trained as an advanced systems design engineer before pursuing a commercial career in sales and marketing. Mark has started and run multiple businesses and has spent the last 25 years working in senior sales and marketing positions for some of the world’s largest brands. In 2019, Mark worked as CMO for one of the first generative AI companies, successfully selling their revolutionary product to hundreds of Tier 1 brands including Virgin Atlantic, eBay and Saks 5th Avenue before the business was sold to PE investors.
Mark now works as a fractional CMO for The Marketing Centre and is also in the process of writing his 2nd book: “The Elephant in the Room”, which guides non-technical leadership teams through the critical process of introducing and living with AI.
Speaker
Richard Hann
Richard joined The Legal Director in 2025 and brings over 25 years of experience leading in-house legal teams in the technology sector to provide effective, practical, actionable and pragmatic legal services that identify and help achieve business objectives whilst managing risk. He has worked extensively for US public technology companies, with specific experience of creating and scaling legal functions in Europe within hypergrowth environments that are demanding and fast-paced.
Richard is known for being a generalist lawyer covering a broad range of matters such as data privacy, ethics and compliance, employment and real estate. Richard is also an early-stage investor in a UK-based legal tech startup.
