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Meet the team

AISAT is run by volunteers. The organisers below find the venues, chase the speakers, read every membership application and moderate the WhatsApp group, around day jobs that mostly involve building the same things you do.

AI SAT Rap

AI SAT Rap

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Lyrics: AI SAT Rap

  1. step into the AI room
  2. strategy automation transformation is here
  3. we put the AI to work
  4. london and leeds meetups appear
  5. building tools that shape the earth
  6. demos break we do not care
  7. candid talks off record share
  8. women that use AI lead
  9. practitioners fulfill the local need
  10. welcome to AI SAT
  11. engineers and founders chat
  12. skip the future keynotes
  13. ship code take notes
  14. directory shows real facts
  15. no false bio acts
  16. threads up every day
  17. we will lead the way
  18. whatsapp group pinging day and night
  19. online meetups keep the vision bright
  20. inference costs and long procurement time
  21. we discuss it all in this rhyme
  22. demos break we do not care
  23. candid talks off record share
  24. women that use AI lead
  25. practitioners fulfill the local need
  26. welcome to AI SAT
  27. engineers and founders chat
  28. skip the future keynotes
  29. ship code take notes
  30. directory shows real facts
  31. no false bio acts
  32. threads up every day
  33. we will lead the way
  34. product managers and operations leads
  35. we focus on community needs
  36. uniting builders across the land
  37. with automation tools in hand
  38. no prospects allowed to work rooms
  39. only real projects in full blooms
  40. welcome to AI SAT
  41. engineers and founders chat
  42. skip the future keynotes
  43. ship code take notes
  44. directory shows real facts
  45. no false bio acts
  46. threads up every day
  47. we will lead the way

Across AISAT

  • Photo of John Bowman

    Founder

    John Bowman

    AI and Automation Lead

    I set up AISAT because unless you have a big AI team behind you, you’re on your own. Founders spend all day talking to agents with nobody to bounce ideas off, yet there are countless ways to solve a problem with AI, and talking them through with other people is the fastest way to get good. None of us knows everything about AI. AISAT is where you meet the people who know the part you don’t.

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  • Photo of Andrew Knowles

    London Community Lead

    Founder, Knowles Recruitment

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    Photo of Andrew Knowles

    London Community Lead

    Andrew Knowles

    Founder, Knowles Recruitment

    Andrew is a specialist recruiter focused on AI, software engineering and the people building and leading AI transformation. He spends much of his time speaking with AI leaders, engineers and businesses about where the market is heading, what skills are actually in demand and how organisations are turning AI into something useful. Corner him at a meetup if you want to talk AI talent, hiring trends, community building or simply compare notes on what’s happening in the market.

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  • Photo of Samantha Carson, MSc, EMCC

    Women that Use AI Lead

    Senior Change Manager & AI Adoption Specialist

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    Photo of Samantha Carson, MSc, EMCC

    Women that Use AI Lead

    Samantha Carson, MSc, EMCC

    Senior Change Manager & AI Adoption Specialist

    Samantha helps organisations actually get people using AI, not just buying it. With 11 years within change management across financial services, energy, gaming and Big 4 consulting, she’s spent the last several years focused on AI adoption specifically: the people-and-process side that determines whether a rollout sticks or quietly dies. She works freelance. Corner her if you want to talk change management, AI transformation, women in AI or why the tooling was never the hard part.

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    Online Community Lead

    Prof Andy Pardoe

    Professor of AI

    Andy is a Professor of AI with 30-plus years in technology and business leadership, from Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and HSBC to ARM, the NHS and West Midlands Police. He advises CEOs and boards on AI strategy, governance and responsible AI, and has written 14 books on AI, including Confident AI and the Executive AI Handbook. Corner him at a meetup if you want to talk about AI at board level, or how to get it past one.

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  • Photo of Nick Edell

    London & Online Community Lead

    Senior Principal AI Innovation, Infosys Consulting

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    London & Online Community Lead

    Nick Edell

    Senior Principal AI Innovation, Infosys Consulting

    Nick Edell is a Senior Principal at Infosys Consulting, specialising in AI-enabled technology transformation, with a particular focus on the energy sector. His work spans AI strategy and innovation, decision-making and organisational behaviour, and the design and prototyping of AI-enabled products and services. Outside his consulting work, Nick runs Resonant AI, an independent studio exploring the intersection of AI, design, decision intelligence and human behaviour.

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    Community Lead

    EMEA AI Strategy Advisor, Transient.AI

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    Photo of Wen Jie Lee

    Community Lead

    Wen Jie Lee

    EMEA AI Strategy Advisor, Transient.AI

    Wen Jie works at the intersection of AI, financial services and regulated transformation, helping organisations move from experimentation to AI that actually works in production. He previously led global regulatory solutions and strategy at UBS/Credit Suisse, and is particularly interested in agentic AI, AI sovereignty, governance and running capable models on local infrastructure. Corner him at a meetup if you want to talk about what it really takes to make AI useful inside a regulated business, or just how his personal AI projects are going.

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  • Photo of Dr Colin Kelly

    London Organiser & Online

    Independent AI Advisor, Agathon

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    London Organiser & Online

    Dr Colin Kelly

    Independent AI Advisor, Agathon

    Colin runs Agathon, an independent AI advisory practice in London: judgement for expensive, hard-to-reverse decisions. Most of his work is technical due diligence for acquirers, investors and boards asking whether the AI under a valuation is real: reproducing the headline result the deal rests on, with a mandate to falsify rather than confirm. The rest is advisory, from which claims to trust to fractional CTO work. Corner him if you want to know whether an AI claim holds up.

    LinkedInWebsite
  • Photo of Ted Stroud

    London & Malta Organiser

    Ted Stroud

    Chief AI Strategy Officer

    Ted helps companies plan and deploy their AI strategy, guiding them on which use cases will bring real ROI and time savings. That runs from large GPU cluster design and deployment through to agentic workflows across a business.

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  • Photo of John Archbold

    Organiser

    John Archbold

    Governance Specialist

    John helps micro and SME businesses put AI governance in place without the enterprise-sized overhead: EU AI Act risk classification, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, ethics and responsible AI. Oversight that’s actually proportional. He also keeps a close eye on where AI regulation and policy are heading, tracking UK parliamentary debates, regulatory change and the research behind it. Corner him if you want to talk about what proportional governance could look like for you.

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  • Photo of Keith Thomas

    Organiser

    AI Advisor and Co-founder, Meritos Consulting

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    Organiser

    Keith Thomas

    AI Advisor and Co-founder, Meritos Consulting

    Keith is a co-founder of Meritos Consulting. With more than 20 years of technology consulting and delivery experience, he helps organisations get AI into mainstream use. His experience of advising and mentoring CIOs across blue chip companies and the public sector is put to good use when looking at the specifics of rolling out AI capabilities that deliver because they are usable, understood and supportable. Corner him if you want to talk about AI governance, operating models, HR, financials, supplier selection and vendor management.

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  • Photo of Natascha McIntyre Hall

    Women that Use AI & Community Lead

    Head of Automation and AI, Turner & Townsend

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    Photo of Natascha McIntyre Hall

    Women that Use AI & Community Lead

    Natascha McIntyre Hall

    Head of Automation and AI, Turner & Townsend

    Tasch suffers from the Fear Of Missing Out so much so that she taught herself AI for non-techies before it was cool! She is Director and Head of Automation and AI for Energy and Natural Resources at Turner & Townsend. She is completing an apprenticeship in AI Strategy and Leadership and on the side helps female-owned micro-businesses to use AI so they can focus on the bit of their job that they’re passionate about. She believes in equality and will try and onboard anyone (her dad even wrote the play he’s been talking about for years using the help of Claude). A pure mathematician and regular speaker, she focuses on the part of AI strategy that decides whether it survives in a real organisation, and she tests the tools on her two most stubborn projects: a young dressage horse and French.

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Where we meet

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Every chapter is hosted by its own organisers, and turning up is the fastest way to meet them. Dates and registration for each one live on its own page.

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Fancy helping run one?

Chapters are always short of co-organisers, and if you want to start one in another UK city, that conversation starts with an email. You do not need event-management experience. You need to turn up reliably and care about the quality of the room.

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