AI in the Boardroom
You don’t need an AI strategy. You need a strategy for the world created by AI.
Hosted by Alice Breeden
Alice is a Board and CEO advisor with 25 years experience at the top table. She has advised boards and chief executives whilst at Heidrick & Struggles and McKinsey & Company and was Director of People of Operations at Google. Alice is the founder of The Remarkable Network and a trustee of Breast Cancer Now. She holds an MBA from London Business School and has recently completed AI and governance certifications at Harvard Business School and INSEAD.
Two truths a board has to hold at once
AI is already an efficiency story. It’s also a risk story, and increasingly a business model story, reshaping how companies compete and how people work. For boards, the hard part is holding both at once while the pace of change keeps rising: mitigating the risks AI introduces, and acting on the opportunities in front of them.
A Room of Peers
Twelve chairs and non-executive directors from UK businesses across sectors and sizes, comparing notes on what they are doing about AI and how they are thinking it through.
What the board has to hold at once
Risk
The new exposures AI introduces across the business, and who is watching them.
Opportunity
The efficiency gains already on the table, and the ones management is missing.
Transformation
How AI reshapes the way the company competes and the way its people work.
All at once
The hard part is not any one of these. It is holding all three while the pace of change keeps rising.
A candid peer exchange, not a lecture
Sixty minutes, off the record under the Chatham House Rule. You will do most of the talking. Nothing is attributed to a person or their company, and nothing is recorded, which is what lets directors compare notes honestly.
The governance questions behind it
Indicative timings.
Where does oversight sit?
Where should AI expertise and oversight sit on the board?
Who owns it?
Does an existing committee own it, and if so which one, or does it need its own?
How do we stay grounded?
How do directors build genuine grounding in what’s happening, and what’s coming next?
What good looks like
How peer boards are actually handling it, compared in the room.
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
60-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.
Good to know
Who is the room for?
Chairs and non-executive directors of UK businesses, across sectors and sizes. It is a table of a dozen peers, so the conversation stays candid and specific.
Is it really off the record?
Yes. The session runs under the Chatham House Rule. What is said in the room can be used, but nothing is attributed to a person or their company, and nothing is recorded.
Is it included in my aiblLIVE pass?
Yes. A delegate pass to aiblLIVE London 2026 gives you the whole day, and this roundtable is one of its sessions. Seats are limited to twelve, allocated first-come to pass-holders.
Book your place
AI is a risk story and a transformation story at the same time. Boards have to hold both. Spend 60 minutes off the record with a dozen chairs and NEDs on how they are doing exactly that.
