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Transformational AI: beyond the pilot

Join our upcoming expert panel and networking event

Immersive real time maturity assessment workshop

Join Berkeley’s AI Transformation experts for an immersive workshop with your AI teams. Our real-time review will show where you are on your journey, assess strategy and readiness, and outline clear next steps to maximise your AI investments.

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We’re excited to welcome you to our “AI Beyond the Pilot” event, where we’ll explore how organisations can move from experimentation to real impact with AI. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with peers, share insights, and build your network with others passionate about shaping the future of AI and operating models.

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Our panellists

Alex Jones

Global Head of Artificial Intelligence at Belron

Alex is the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Belron, leading Belron’s global AI function. Alex is responsible for AI strategy, deployment and governance. Alex has experience of developing AI strategy, delivering key AI projects and developing use case specific AI frameworks which are then reusable across business segments.

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Andrew Rochester

Group Director of Artificial Intelligence at IAG

Senior Technology Executive with extensive experience of driving material EBITDA benefit in FTSE100 enterprises, using intelligent automation, cloud, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and gen AI.

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Dr. Laura Weis

Global Talent Innovation Director at WPP

Laura is an ex-academic with a PhD in Social and Organisational Psychology from UCL. She moved from lecturing and consulting into leading Future of Work strategy and product design at Satalia. Today she is Global AI Work Innovation Director at WPP, helping turn AI efficiency into reinvention by reshaping workflows, culture, and leadership through M-shaped professionals. She is also a mum and former England boxing champion, ready for today’s world of work, where it takes resilience, timing, and rolling with the punches.

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Mark Thirlwell

Global Digtital Director at BSI

For over 20 years, Mark has shaped and led transformational technology strategies across diverse industries, including Financial Services, Healthcare, and the Circular Economy. At the British Standards Institution, he initially founded and led a team focused on AI assurance and regulatory services. Now serving as Global Digital Director, he is responsible for BSI’s digital strategy and leads efforts to build Digital Trust externally - advancing a fairer society and a more sustainable world. His work spans emerging technologies from AI to Quantum, where BSI is helping lay early foundations to manage risk and enable responsible innovation across the ecosystem.

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Morgan Vawter

Chief Digital Officer, Personal & Home Care at Unilever

Morgan has spent her entire career driving top and bottom line impact through digital, data, analytics, and AI, supporting over 25 Global Fortune 500 companies. Morgan’s sense of purpose is to ignite the potential of individuals' and organizations’ results through exponential digital technologies, such as big data and AI. Most recently, at both Unilever and Caterpillar, she has led multiple global Data & AI enabled programs recognized externally by our investor community as driving profitable growth, and internally for transforming our ways of working.

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