An exclusive panel discussion for senior leaders navigating the most consequential business shift of their careers, featuring leading names from the national and global AI agenda.
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Richard Potter
CEO of artificial intelligence firm Peak, named by DataIQ as one of the 100 most important and influential people in data-driven business.
What will it cost your business to get AI wrong?
You’ve built something that matters. You know your industry inside out. You might be 30 years into your career, but none of that will protect you if you get this wrong.
AI is not another technology cycle to observe from a distance and adopt when the market matures. This is the reset. The leaders who move now will define the next decade. The ones who don’t will watch their legacy unravel in real time.
Apprentify Group and Flero are bringing together a select group of CEOs, MDs and senior leaders in Wilmslow for an honest conversation about what winning the AI race actually requires. Chatham House Rule throughout.
The Panel
This is not the kind of panel you usually find at a regional breakfast event. We have brought together practitioners and thought leaders whose names appear in national and global conversations about AI; people who will speak plainly about what it actually takes, and what it costs when you get it wrong.
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Chris Maguire
Executive Editor, BusinessCloud
Chris is the Executive Editor of BusinessCloud, the go-to publication for technology business news across the North of England. With a career built on holding the tech industry to account, he brings an editorial rigour to the chair that the panel format demands.
Richard Potter
Co-Founder and CEO, Peak – a UiPath company
Richard co-founded Peak, one of the UK’s most respected AI companies, scaling it to acquisition by NYSE-listed UiPath. He speaks from direct experience about what separates businesses getting real commercial results from AI from those still running pilots.
Paul Gouge
CEO & Co-Founder, ForthStar · Investor, Flero
Paul co-founded Playdemic, creators of Golf Clash, acquired by EA for $1.4bn. His latest venture ForthStar has been built with AI from the ground up, placing him at the practical frontier of AI adoption; well beyond the pilot stage most businesses are still navigating.
Jonathan Fitchew
Group CEO, Apprentify Group
Jonathan leads Apprentify Group, The Sunday Times ranked 30th fastest-growing private company in Britain. He speaks to AI from the operational: what genuine workforce adoption looks like at scale, and what the widening skills gap actually costs a business that waits.
Ed Chan
Head of Legal Technology and Innovation, Hill Dickinson LLP
Having practised as a corporate lawyer for 11 years, including eight at DLA Piper, Ed has since 2013 focused on bridging lawyers and tech teams to deliver automation and AI solutions that transform the delivery of legal services.
Karen Lough
Director of People, Ciphr
Karen is leading Ciphr’s AI strategy and workforce adoption from the inside, navigating the organisational, cultural and human realities in real time. She brings what the other panellists can’t: lived experience of what AI does to a workforce when you’re the one responsible for bringing people through it.
Get this right and you take your business somewhere it couldn’t have gone before. Get it wrong and you risk everything you’ve spent your career building.
The stakes don’t get higher than this.
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Places are limited to 50 senior leaders. Complimentary parking available. Breakfast served.
A quick note before you apply. This event is designed for senior business leaders: CEOs, MDs, Directors and those with real strategic responsibility. We review every application individually, so please take a moment to tell us a little about yourself and your role. We’ll come back to you promptly and look forward to seeing you there.