Our 2026 Agenda

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AI Labs

Hands-on demos and technical deep dives into how AI is built, deployed and scaled.
The AI Labs stage takes you under the bonnet of AI. This is where practitioners, engineers and data scientists show how it's actually done, moving beyond the strategy slide to the models, architectures, tools and techniques that power real-world AI solutions.
Through live demonstrations, technical talks and practical walkthroughs, you'll see AI in action and hear directly from the people building it. Sessions cover what worked, what didn't, and the lessons learned along the way, giving you ideas and approaches you can take back to your own team.

 

Tuesday 13 October
9.30am – 10am
Voice or Silence: Inside AI Search and how to Audit What AI Actually Says About your Brand

Yu Jiang, Data & AI Practice Lead, Sia Partners

10am – 10.30am
Sovereign by Design: Turning EU Regulation into an Architecture Backlog

Marian Faryna, Big Data Competence Lead, Sigma Software

10.30am – 11am
Building the Digital Backbone for Scalable Enterprise AI

Kerry Kirkham, Senior Sales Engineer, InterSystems

11am – 11.30am
Visual Search and Summarisation (VSS) For Public Service

Cody Champion, AI Engineering Lead, Accenture

11.30am – 12pm
BOI Digital Assistant

Aaron D’Souza, Senior Data Scientist & Tara Maguire, Data and Behavioural Scientist, Bank Of Ireland

12pm – 12.30pm
The Unspoken Reality of Enterprise AI - Why Enterprise AI Gets Hard When Agents Start Acting

Paul Gilbride, Director of Data & AI, Sogeti

12.30pm – 1pm
CAMDA Labs: Experimenting with the Future of AI

Seanie Dunne, Associate Director – Data Engineering, AI & Analytics, Carne Group


Lunch

Networking
 

Tuesday 13 October
1.30pm – 2pm
Unlocking the Value Hidden in Enterprise Knowledge with Agentic AI

Alina Budnyuk, Data Scientist and a Mathematician, SAS

2pm – 2.30pm
Agent AI: Visibility and Real-Time Security for Enterprise AI

Michael Muldowney, Senior Sales Engineer, Cyera

2.30pm – 3pm
From Data Chaos to AI Success: The Data Blueprint Behind Winning AI

Sidhanth Muralidhar, Principal TAM, AWS

3pm – 3.30pm
Who Controls the Agents? The Control Plane for Governed Enterprise AI

Mihai Criveti, Distinguished Engineer - Agentic AI, IBM

3.30pm – 4pm
Meet Sophia: The AI That Understands Your Business

Rory Gallagher, Director of Quality Solutions & Martin Minnock, Head of Data Solutions, Expleo

4pm – 4.30pm
How Some Organisations are Thinking About AI

Mike Ennis, Partner in the Data & AI Practice, EY

4.30pm – 4.35pm
Closing Remarks

AI Labs Closing Remarks