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Navigate the AI era with futures thinking

Location: CGI Leeds office, 1 Whitehall Quay, Leeds LS1 4HR

Date and time: 23 September 2026, 17:30 – 21:00

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Navigate the AI era with futures thinking

Location: CGI Leeds office, 1 Whitehall Quay, Leeds LS1 4HR

Date and time: 23 September 2026, 17:30 – 21:00

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How do you prepare for the future when AI is moving faster than organisations and individuals can react?

Join us for a highly interactive discussion, where we will dig deeper and longer term into the implications and opportunities of AI. 

This is not your usual stand and receive information event. It is a chance to get hands-on with other curious minds. Are you ready?

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What to expect

This session is less about technology and more about the impact on how we work, deliver value and identify potential disruption. We’ll set the scene with thought-provoking  lightning talks on AI and the futures framework as a tool for navigating change.

 You’ll then immerse in a futures scenario workshop to gain some of the techniques and mindsets to think strategically beyond the now. Finally, we’ll gather to unpack what we’ve experienced with a panel of regional technology leaders.  

  • Scenario planning to explore plausible futures that help you adapt in uncertain times
  • Gain practical techniques for strategic thinking.  
  • Learn how the ‘3-horizons framework’ enables you to think about optimising current, near and long-term models.  
  • Explore with like-minded colleagues and shape the future together.

Agenda

17:30 Arrival, networking and refreshments

18:00 Lightning talk 1: AI today – what does the current world of AI look like and what does this mean in real terms?

18:15 Lightning talk 2: Ways to think about the future – introducing the futures frameworks

18:30 AI futures workshop – practical session exploring the implications of AI 

19:15 Networking, refreshments and canapes

19:45 Expert panel discussion 

20:15 Networking, refreshments and canapes

21:00 Event close

Who should attend

This session is aimed at anyone who is interested in not just how AI technology works, but what it means for them, the organisations they work for and society.

All-star speakers

The session will be facilitated by innovation, design and experience leader, Terry Dixon, Director Consulting Services – CGI UK.

The full line-up of speakers will be shared soon.

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