Event

Artefact Data & AI Circle on Generative AI - London

Generative AI: leveraging today’s innovation for tomorrow’s competitive edge

Join us to celebrate our 10th anniversary with the launch of Artefact’s Data & AI Circle – a forum of industry leaders and experts exploring the application of technology to businesses’ most difficult problems.

In the first of a series of events at our new London office, we’ll be joined by our tech partner and clients to dive deep into the benefits and pitfalls of Generative AI – as well as enjoy a champagne reception.

Date: Thursday 18th April

Time: 6-9pm

Location: Artefact UK, 62 Queen Street, London EC4R 1EB

We will:

Demo tangible GenAI use cases and share how to implement them
Exchange practical insights with our clients, partners and guests
Examine the ethical, environmental and regulatory implications
Toast to 10 years of AI acceleration with Artefact, global leader in data & AI consultancy.

Agenda

6:00pm – Welcome drinks & networking
6:30pm – Welcome & Introduction by Pascal Coggia, Managing Partner Artefact UK
6:40pm – Generative AI Showcase with Alex King, Head of Data, Analytics & AI Partners, EMEA at Google Cloud, Hanan Ouazan, Artefact Global GenAI Lead & Aleksandra Semenenko, Artefact UK Consulting Director

At Artefact, we have already built strong expertise in Generative AI use case development for several clients.

We will present demos of concrete generative AI use cases in 3 main categories:
- INTERACT: Use LLMs to understand and analyse data and requests in natural language
- CREATE: Use LLMs to create outputs ex nihilo, whatever their format and medium
- AUTOMATE: Use LLMs to augment people by optimising and automating tasks
7:00pm – Panel discussion on Gen AI implementation with our Artefact experts and George Kapas, Chief Revenue Office at DigiDisruptor and Ian Hepworth, Board Advisor and CTO & Digital Strategy Consultant:

Topics covered will include:
- Impact on use cases and organisational structures in businesses:
  - How to deploy Generative AI-based solutions at scale?
  - What new organisational models?
- The future of employment, evolution of professions, and training:
  - What impact on employment and professional activities of tomorrow?
  - How will companies organise and train their employees?
- Ethical and environmental challenges of Generative AI:
  - What’s the impact of the AIACT and how to apply this new regulation?
  - How to meet ecological challenges
8:00pm – 10 year celebration with buffet & champagne

SPEAKERS

Alex King, Head of Data, Analytics & AI Partners, EMEA

Google Cloud

Alex King leads Google Cloud’s partner ecosystem for Data, Analytics & AI across EMEA, helping our partners and customers collaborate to deliver business transformational outcomes with their data and AI. Prior to Alex’s five years at Google he led GE Digital’s industrial software ecosystem strategy team in Europe.

Pascal Coggia, CEO of Artefact UK and Managing Partner

Artefact UK

Pascal Coggia is CEO of Artefact UK where he is responsible for expanding the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven products and services in the region. A founding partner at Artefact, he was previously based at its headquarters in Paris,
during which time he launched the company’s operations in Dubai. Previous positions include consulting roles at AT Kearney and Columbus Consulting Shift in France, as well as Rocket Internet SE in the UK. He has a masters degree from the HEC Business
School in Paris.

Hanan Ouazan, Partner & Global Lead for Generative AI

Artefact Global

Hanan, a “well of science”, has been involved from the beginning of Artefact in the development of AI technology to meet customer needs. He accompanied the rapid transformation of data-driven organizations and professions with his unique field and tech knowledge, across all business sectors. Hanan graduated from one of the best engineering schools in France, Centrale Lille, and obtained a Master’s Degree from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in 2015 in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Statistical Learning, etc.
Today, he’s our Generative AI expert, with a dedicated task force that deploys operational use cases at scale with our clients.

Aleksandra Semenenko, Data Science & Consulting Director

Artefact UK

Aleksandra has used genAI to develop multiple tools for her clients: marketing suite automation – build a creative using a prompt, create a persona for your campaign & chat with this persona to tailor the campaign for their specific needs – as well as consumer support automation – genai helps us to work with consumer reviews, address alarming messages, turn consumer interest into marketing campaign or a promo.

Ian Hepworth, Board Advisor // CTO & Digital Strategy Consultant

Ian is an experienced and seasoned C-Suite leader focused on technology and product growth with a deep SaaS background. He has worked within the VC-funded startup space as a founder, AIM listed high growth, multi-product SaaS, and PE backed high growth SaaS. He has delivered technology and product strategies that have realized well in excess of $1.5bn in Enterprise value. Focusing on product integration and digital / SaaS transformation, scale, and growth.

With a background in organic and M&A derived growth, team scaling and integration, maintaining a deeply technical focus, and with a background as a software and infrastructure developer and architect. He has in recent years developed a focus in the AI space to deliver commercial value propositions from existing business data sets and capabilities working with internal teams and external partners to deliver commercial success and sustainable, investable growth

George Kapas, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer

DigiDisruptor

George is the Chief Revenue Officer of DigiDisruptor and has 15 years of experience in Sales, Consulting, and Executive Search spanning multiple sectors, geographies, and global Enterprise companies. With a network of CEOs and technology leaders, George has many vantage points on strategy, technology demands, capability, and skills.
George now spearheads the DigiDisruptor proposition, aligning problem statements to solutions through business design, technology and innovation.

DigiDisruptor is founded by three industry experts with a proven track record of delivering hundreds of successful digital and business change projects. Our mission is to help businesses scale profitably. Risk reduction, speed, reliability, and trust are all important factors. Our aligned delivery process ensures that we can accelerate to offer you advanced capabilities for enduring results and minimize risk.