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Leading with AI: Business Transformation Workshop

September 23, 2026 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Booking Details

Tickets are £100 per person and the event is open to C2S members and guests.

All bookings are made directly through Emerge Digital.

C2S members receive an exclusive 15% discount. Simply enter the code C2S at checkout to receive your discount.

Event Details

Turn AI into practical action for your business

Led by C2S Official Partners Emerge Digital, this four-hour, hands-on leadership session is designed for business leaders looking to understand where AI can genuinely create value within their organisation.

The session will be led by facilitators who use AI daily within Emerge Digital and with their clients, including Melanie Cheeseman, OnyxAI Programme Director; Tom Henson, Managing Director; and Steve Brady, Head of Innovation.

Working through real business scenarios, you’ll explore where AI can improve operations, support growth and enhance employee engagement, with a focus on identifying practical next steps you can take straight back to your team.

 

The Golden Triangle

The session will explore how value is created when three areas align:

  • Humans – creativity, judgement and leadership

  • AI Tools – capability, speed and scale

  • Operations – the workflows that turn capability into results

Running throughout the session is The MEL Method™ – Mindset, Energy, Leadership, taking you from why AI matters to what you’ll actually do about it.

 

What you’ll leave with

  • A clear view of where AI tools, automation and agents genuinely support growth and better decisions

  • Confidence to lead the human side of change, not just the technology

  • One or two automation opportunities specific to your business, ready to take back to your team

  • A working AI agent concept, including where people stay in the loop

  • A shared language to discuss AI transformation with your leadership team, without needing to be technical

Agenda

Breakfast & welcome

Arrive, enjoy breakfast and network with fellow leaders.

 

Stage 1: The Human in the Loop AI Adoption

Melanie Cheeseman, OnyxAI Programme Director

Explore the same business task two ways: first with general-purpose AI, then with Microsoft 365 Copilot in a workplace context. Build a clear view of the AI tool landscape and where human judgement adds the most value.

Break

 

Stage 2: Intelligent Automation: Business Process Automation

Tom Henson, Managing Director

Sketch a priority process from your own business, identify where friction and repetition sit, and leave with one or two automation opportunities worth exploring further.

Break

 

Stage 3: The Autonomous Enterprise & Agentic AI

Steve Brady, Head of Innovation

Shape an AI agent concept around a business challenge: what it could do, where people stay in the loop, and what would need to be true before moving forward.

 

Close & commitments

 

Pull the thinking together and leave with clear, practical next steps.

Speakers / Hosts

Melanie Cheeseman

OnyxAI Programme Director 

Tom Henson

Managing Director

Steve Brady

Head of Innovation

Venue details

Kingsholm Stadium

Kingsholm Road, Kingsholm, Gloucester, GL1 3AX

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