Agenda

Time
Title
Speaker/Company
8.00
Registration & Refreshments
The Zen Garden
9.30
Welcome address
David Hilland, IT Partner, RSM
9.35
Is AI Making Us Stupid?
Russell Gammon,
Chief Innovation Officer Tax Systems
10.00
Meet Active
Andrew Collings, Country Manager UK, Active
10.05
Meet Agilico
David Newman, Head of Legal & Accountancy Sector, Agilico
10.10
Private Equity And The New Tech Mandate:
what every CTO/CIO needs to know
Andrew Bone, Co-Founder & VP Product, Dayshape and Charlie Ross, Partner, Cow Corner
10.35
Leveraging AI in Accountancy, Balancing Compliance, Cost & Control
Rhodri  Stone, Director of Cloud and Managed Services Solutions, Exponential-e
11.00
BREAK
11.35
Meet Trullion
Amar Hack, Solutions Consultant, Trullion
11.40
Meet Databarracks
Richard Simpkins, Senior Business Development Manager and Sam Gillett, Enterprise Cloud Business Manager Databarracks
11.45
Planning the Future with Caseware
Simon Warren, Managing Director, Caseware UK Ltd,
12.10
Meet ANS
Garth Niblock, Industry Lead; Professional Services and Daniel Robbins, Senior Consultant, ANS
1.05
LUNCH
2.10
Data Swamp Blues: Is AI the Lead Singer?
Mark Ryan (CEO), Keiron Trott (CIO) and Adam Walton (Head of Project & Programme Management) at Cynare
2.35
Meet Epos
Lorna Hardie, Corporate Sales Manager, EPOS
2.40
Meet Quorum
James Frost, Data & AI Director, Quorum
2.45
Meet Apogee
Sam Procter, Divisional Sales Director, Apogee
3.40
BREAK
4.15
PANEL DISCUSSION
Balancing Innovation and Risk: How Investment, AI, Cybersecurity & Talent Challenges are Re-Shaping the Accountancy Marketplace – moderated by Matthew Canning-Wall
A discussion with Esther Mallowah, Head of Tech Policy, ICAEW, Richard Hattersley, Managing Editor, AccountingWEB and Kyle Wilkinson, Strategic Industry Advisor, Workday
4.55
Reimagining Compliance with AI
Richard Bowes, Senior Compliance Growth Director, Intapp
5.20
MTD for Income Tax: What IT Leaders Need to Know
Dorcas Mbwiti, Senior Product Manager, Wolters Kluwer
5.45
Day 1 Conference Close
David Hilland, IT Partner RSM
5.50
At Leisure
7.15
Drinks Reception
The Zen Garden
8.00
Dinner
The Zen Garden
10.00
Drinks and entertainment
The Sphere Bar
Time
Title
Speaker Company
9.00
Gather in the networking area – coffee
The Zen Garden
9.30
Day 2 Welcome Address
David Hilland, IT Partner, RSM
9.35
AI and Your Firms Future: Rethinking Strategies as Code Competes with Human & Capital
Karan Gupta, Chief Vision Architect, SPNX
9.45
Two Systems, One Firm: RPG's Integrated Practice Management with Microsoft & Beeye
Ben Brownson, Group Board Director and Head of Operations at RPG Chartered Accountants
10.50
BREAK and NETWORKING TIME WITH VENDORS
12.10
KEYNOTE SPEECH by Manas Chawla
Manas Chawla, Founder of London Politica and renowned political risk expert will explore the intersection of technology, geopolitics and the future of work.
12.55
Closing Speech & Conference End
David Hilland