Webinar - Practical AI! What to Do – and What Not to Do! - NEW

This event is exclusive to members of The Henley Partnership.

To book please contact your HR or Learning and Development team at your organisation.

Unsure who to contact? Please do not hesitate to contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk

AI might be seen as the latest panacea for many process efficiencies and cost savings – and while this is true to some extent, like any IT project, it will fail without bringing your people along for the ride. Some may see themselves as ‘zoomers’ – keen to embrace the technology, others may be ‘doomers’. However, a structured approach to implementation, both at Board and management level, will help land this exciting technology effectively, encouraging uptake and realising the much hoped-for efficiencies.

Learn what AI is, where it’s going, how to create an AI roadmap, the pitfalls – for instance, running so many pilot projects that your business and people can’t keep up and ideas for suggested efficiencies fall on stony ground – and, most importantly, how you can show your team that it will enhance their jobs not just change or replace them.

By the end of this session, you will:

• have an overall knowledge and awareness of AI
• know how to create an AI roadmap for implementing AI in your business
• know how to bring your people along

Company directors and senior managers outside the IT function, who are keen to know more about how to direct AI implementation in their businesses.

As one of the UK and Europe’s most recognised IT channel personalities, having been at the helm of one of the Thames Valley’s largest privately owned companies (IT distributor Westcoast) for 16 years and in distribution for 30 years – Alex has recently entered into a new phase in his career.

He sits on the board or is advisor to several portfolio businesses, all with an IT channel focus. These include: QBS Software, CI Group, 360 Insights, Bench IT, Designed to Talk and Closing the Loop.

Alex maintains a close relationship with the Thames Valley and local businesses – he is a careers adviser to Maiden Erlegh School in Reading, sits on the advisory group establishing a tech Hub in the Thames Valley and leads the Cornerstone Employers Group for Berkshire for the Careers & Enterprise Company. He is passionate about improving diversity in the IT industry.

Alex also sits on the Technology Leadership Group for the King’s Trust. He is a fully qualified chartered accountant, with a BSc in Zoology from Durham University and was educated at Eton College. He has an ebullient personality and is one half of the UK’s longest married reality TV couple (having met on Blind Date in 1988).

*Up to 50 places per member organisation. 'Up to' indicates the maximum number per member organisation. All places are subject to availability at the time of booking.*