AI native entrepreneurship: Keeping human needs front and centre

Each industrial leap, from the steam engine to electricity, from the assembly line to the internet, reshaped how people worked, built, and connected. Today, artificial intelligence marks the next great transformation. However, unlike past technologies, AI isn’t just an instrument of progress; it’s a collaborator, a system that reasons, learns, and acts alongside us. This shift challenges a deeper question: What becomes of agency, leadership, and trust when human judgment is no longer the only intelligence at work?

The AIT Forum 2025, hosted on Level 50 of One Canada Square, will bring together the Albanians in IT (AIT) community, UCL faculty, Albanian tech diaspora, and industry leaders to explore this frontier under the theme “AI-native entrepreneurship: Keeping human needs front and center.”

Across three sessions: spanning agentic AI, macro and micro innovation management, and human-centered creativity, participants will connect frontier research with lived entrepreneurial experience. The forum offers a platform where academia, industry, and diaspora insights converge to shape a new understanding of innovation in the intelligent age.

Agenda

• 10:00 – Welcome and Opening Remarks by Nensi Ahmetbeja (Innovation Expert, AIE)
• 10:30 – The Next Phase of AI: From Assistants to Autonomous Agents. Keynote by Besart Shyti (Machine Learning Institute, ex-Meta) and Aurora Kapo (AI Strategy Manager & Senior AI Ambassador, HSBC UK), Moderated by Eniselda Tusku (Applied Innovation of AI, JP Morgan)
• 11:30 – Coffee Break
• 11:45 – Startup Models Rewritten: Tiny Teams and the New Growth Mindset. Keynote by Mario Husha (CTO, LevelFT, UCL graduate) and Elkida Bazaj (Director of Albania, XponentL Data), Moderated by Dhimiter Gero (AI Business Analyst, Deloitte alumnus; UCL graduate)
• 12:45 – Human-Centered AI: Can Wellbeing and Creativity Co-Live with Global Connectivity and Automation? Keynote by Alastair Moore (Founder & CEO, DeepFlow; ex-UCL researcher & entrepreneur)
• 13:45 – Closing Remarks & Networking
• 15:00 – Event Concludes

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Host or Publisher UCL School of Management