The AI Summit London Launches Strategic Partnerships with London Business School and General Purpose to Ignite New Era in AI Leadership

The AI Summit London, the conference where commercial AI comes to life, has announced strategic collaborations with London Business School and General Purpose to introduce two dedicated AI Training programmes, taking place ahead of the conference on 9 June.

Drawing upon the globally recognised expertise in executive education at the London Business School’s Data Science & AI Initiative (DSAI), the one-day AI Leadership Accelerator is a high-impact session designed to equip senior business leaders with the knowledge and tools to unlock real and profitable value from AI.

The DSAI at London Business School helps leaders make sense of AI in a way that goes beyond the hype, focusing on what it really means for their organisations, industries, and competitive positioning. Drawing on rigorous, cross-disciplinary research, DSAI provides clear, evidence-based insights - equipping executives with the perspective needed to make confident, high-stakes decisions.

“Through our work we increasingly see that the central challenge of AI adoption is not technical capability alone, but organisational readiness, leadership alignment, and responsible implementation,” said Keyvan Vakili, Associate Professor, Strategy & Entrepreneurship, London Business School. “Success with AI depends on how organisations and leaders adapt, how they redesign organisational processes, align decision-making, manage stakeholders, and build the structures needed to deploy and scale these systems effectively.”

The track for practitioners and more general users of AI,Mastering AI: From Prompts to Agents led by General Purpose, a UK AI enablement and training company, operates as a hands-on technical workshop designed to take business professionals of varying backgrounds from confident AI assistant user to capable agent builder in a single day, underscoring the continued evolution of The AI Summit London as a forum where insight meets implementation.

“As artificial intelligence assumes a central role in shaping enterprise strategy, the need for informed, capable leadership has never been more pronounced,” said Rory Crone, Senior Marketing Director, The AI Summit Series. “Through our new partnerships with London Business School and General Purpose, the new programmes provide a platform for successful AI adoption that hinges not only on technology, but on executive acumen, strategic integration, and organisational readiness.”

Part of the expanded Summit’s 2026 offering, the bespoke training will take place at Studio Spaces located across from Tobacco Dock and offers a focused learning environment tailored to decision makers seeking to translate artificial intelligence from concept into commercial impact.

10 Stages. 14 Tracks. Zero Fluff.

Attendees holding the Tobacco Dock Campus Pass gain access to the Headliners Stage, The AI Trail, The Quayside Networking Lounge, Start-Up & Investor Village, Creative AI Stage, AI Demo Tours and more than 100 immersive exhibitions showcasing the future of technology. All other passes will have access to additional conference tracks and programming, including:

• Next Generation Track: Focusing on the development of forward-thinking applications, infrastructure and hardware.
• Beyond AI at Scale Track: Covering critical topics like responsible AI governance, strategic scaling, and balancing innovation with regulation.
• Industrial AI Track: Focusing on adopting AI in manufacturing, energy, utilities, transportation, aerospace, defence, and other regulated and mission-critical industries.
• Data Excellence Track: Focusing on stabilising and scaling AI systems by addressing data-related challenges such as fragile data foundations, pipeline failures, governance issues, and maintaining trust in enterprise-scale environments.
• Finance Track: Reviewing the impact of generative AI, safeguarding digital integrity, ethical development, and celebrating female leaders in the financial services field.
• Creative AI Track: Showcasing the groundbreaking influence of generative tools in film, design, music, marketing, and interactive media, with sessions covering new production workflows, IP protection, human–AI collaboration, and the future of creative work and storytelling.
• Science Track: For healthcare and life sciences, AI is no longer experimental, it’s transforming how breakthroughs happen, and the Science Track will showcase how organisations harness AI to accelerate research, validate results with confidence, and turn data into real-world patient impact.
• AI Cybersecurity Track: Focusing on the rapidly changing threat landscape with in-depth sessions on AI-powered defense, red-teaming, identity protection, SecOps automation, threat intelligence, and protecting enterprises against both AI-enabled attacks and model-specific vulnerabilities.
• Start-Up & Investor Track: Hear from leading venture capitalists on what sets successful AI start-ups apart, why some thrive while others don’t, and catch Day 2 of the Start-Up Pitching Competition to see the next generation of AI innovators in action.

The 10th edition of The AI Summit London is presented in part by sponsors IBM, Glean, Nebius, Elsewhen, DX, Hewlett Packard Enterprise & NVIDIA, EY, Amazon Web Services, EverWorker, Italian Trade Agency, NiCE, CoreWeave, Make, Red Hat, Reflection AI, Tricentis, and World Wide Technology.

Delegates have options when attending The AI Summit London with new and existing travel offers from partners Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Eurostar and HotelMap.

To register for the 2026 show running 10-11 June, visit www.london.theaisummit.com. Early Bird pricing ends 23 April. Interested members of the press and analysts may register here to attend.

ABOUT THE AI SUMMIT LONDON

The AI Summit London is the UK and Europe’s leading event for applied artificial intelligence, bringing together forward-thinking technologists, business leaders and policymakers from around the world to explore how AI is being deployed at scale across enterprise.

Taking place at Tobacco Dock on 10–11 June 2026, the Summit marks its 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade of progress in commercial AI. Over two days, the event delivers an immersive experience combining strategic insight, practical use cases and live technology demonstrations, empowering organisations to move confidently from experimentation to real-world impact.

As the flagship AI event of London Tech Week, The AI Summit London provides unparalleled opportunities for AI adopters to connect with peers, partners and innovators, equipping them with the knowledge, tools and relationships needed to accelerate responsible, results-driven AI initiatives.

ABOUT THE AI SUMMIT SERIES

If you’re building, buying or backing AI, The AI Summit Series is where ideas become outcomes. We cut through the buzzwords to spotlight real use cases, live demos and candid playbooks that help you deploy faster, govern smarter and prove ROI with confidence. No hype, just AI that transforms business.

Launched by Informa in 2016, at a time when artificial intelligence events were largely focused on research and academia, The AI Summit Series was the first conference and exhibition dedicated to what AI means in practice for business.

For a decade, the Series has convened senior executives, investors, technology providers and data scientists to share insight, showcase breakthrough solutions and shape the commercial AI ecosystem. Trusted long before the hype, The AI Summit has established itself at the centre of the global AI community.

Today, the Series delivers world-class events across London, New York, Singapore, and Melbourne continuing to set the standard for enterprise-focused, responsible AI worldwide.

For more information, visit www.london.theaisummit.com.

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