From AI experimentation to organisational confidence
Plenty of people have tried an AI tool once or twice and stopped there.
This 45-minute session from the BCC AI Academy closes the gap between trying AI and using it with confidence.
You’ll work through real examples and a hands-on exercise at your own pace, and leave with practical ideas you can put to work the next morning.
Built for the people who lead the work, whatever your starting point.
Experimenting is easy. Confidence is the hard part.
The barrier to getting value from AI is rarely the tools. It’s the confidence to use them well, on work that matters. Plenty of leaders have opened ChatGPT, run a prompt or two, and left it there. This session moves you past that: a guided, practical hour that takes you from basic prompting to structured, confident use, grounded in the BCC AI Academy’s work with businesses across the country.
Four reasons this is worth your time
Build real confidence
You leave knowing how to use AI tools well, built on examples and an exercise you work through yourself, not a demo you watch.
Get past basic prompting
Move from one-line prompts to a structured way of working that holds up on real tasks.
Learning that adapts to you
The AI Academy’s approach is personalised, so you work at your own pace and level, whatever your starting point.
Backed by the BCC and PAIR
Delivered jointly by the British Chambers of Commerce and PAIR, through aibl’s partnership with the BCC.
Jenny Hemsley
Finance Director and Company Secretary at the British Chambers of Commerce, and the AI Academy’s senior sponsor at the BCC. She is behind the Academy’s rollout to chambers and their members across the UK, helping business leaders build practical AI capability.
Anne Kuhsiek
Senior Customer Success Manager at PAIR, the applied-AI training company behind the AI Academy. Anne helps organisations turn AI masterclasses into everyday habits, and has written on how teams make new AI skills stick.
Forty-five minutes, hands on
Your hosts show you what confident, structured AI use looks like, then hand over to you. You work through real-world examples and a practical exercise at your own pace, applying the ideas as you go, with help on hand. You leave with things you can use immediately.
How the session runs
Indicative timings.
Where most teams get stuck
About 5 minutes. Why confidence, not tools, is the real barrier.
What good AI use looks like
About 10 minutes. Moving from basic prompting to structured, repeatable use.
Work through it yourself
About 25 minutes. Real examples and a hands-on exercise, at your own pace.
Take it back to work
About 5 minutes. Practical ideas you can apply immediately.
Build your own day across the event
aiblLIVE runs as five pillars, one for each function where AI is landing, plus a strategy layer.
Follow the one that matches your remit, or move across them and build your own day.
Customer
CCOs, CX Directors, Heads of Customer Success and Contact Centre Operations.
Explore the Customer trackEfficiency
COOs, CFOs, Chief Transformation Officers, VP Operations and Operational Excellence leads.
Explore the Efficiency trackAI Infrastructure
CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, Chief AI Officers, Heads of Data and AI Governance.
Explore the AI Infrastructure trackTransformation
CEOs, MDs, founders and Heads of AI or Transformation with the mandate across the business.
Explore the strategy layerPractical, hands on AI adoption
aiblLIVE is a working day, not a spectator sport.
A handful of formats carry the day, each with a clear job, and your pass is the whole event: follow one track end to end, or move freely across all five tracks and every format and build your own day. You are never tied to a single track.
At the centre is the Discovery Zone, the working hub that runs from the first coffee to the closing drinks.
Operator case studies
15 minutes from leaders who have put AI into production: the problem, the workflow, the result.
Hands-on workshops
45 minutes building with real AI tools on a real business challenge. Bring a laptop, leave with a workflow.
Live demos
Real tools on real data, run by the operators and partners who built them. Ask what worked, what broke and what it cost.
Boardroom roundtables
45-minute closed-door peer discussions under the Chatham House Rule.
Smart Networking
Meet the peers and partners worth your time, in a room that is 78% C-suite, MD or business owner.
Micro-consultations at the Expert Bar
Pre-booked 20-minute one-to-one appointments with specialists, matched to the challenge you bring.
Frequently asked questions
Is the workshop included in my aiblLIVE pass?
Yes, it is included with your pass. Seats are limited and pre-booked, so reserve your place when you register.
Do I need to be technical?
No. It’s built for business leaders and managers who already have some familiarity with AI and want to use it with more confidence.
Who is it for?
Business leaders and managers with some AI familiarity, who want to move from experimenting to confident everyday use.
What should I bring?
A laptop, so you can work through the examples and the exercise yourself.
How long is it?
45 minutes.
Will I actually leave with something I can use?
Yes. You leave with practical ideas and the confidence to put them to work straight away.
Book your place
This workshop is one of many hands-on sessions at aiblLIVE London on 20 October 2026. Seats are limited and pre-booked, so reserve your place when you register.
