Future‑Ready Organisations: Digital Innovation & AI‑Driven Roles

Schedule

Wed May 13 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

AECOM | Salford, EN

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A dual‑topic, high‑impact session designed for leaders, PMOs, transformation teams, and practitioners navigating digital innovation
About this Event

“Future‑Ready Organisations: Digital Innovation & AI‑Driven Roles”

A dual‑topic, high‑impact session designed for leaders, PMOs, transformation teams, and practitioners navigating digital innovation in a federated operating model and AI‑augmented work.


EVENT OBJECTIVES

•Equip attendees with clarity on the challenges faced in implementing digital innovation in a federated model.•Demystify AI’s influence on roles, skills, and organisational capability.•Inspire leaders, practitioners, and experts to build future‑proof, adaptive, and empowered teams.


KEY TOPIC 1: Digital Innovation in Federated Models

•Practical examples of digital innovation delivery in federated environments.•Understand the key challenges and how they were overcome.

KEY TOPIC 2: AI & How It Is Influencing Roles

How AI is reshaping PMO, project, product, and operational roles.

The shift from task‑based work to judgement‑based, value‑driven work.

New capability expectations: data literacy, prompt engineering, oversight.

How AI augments—not replaces—human expertise.



Guest Speakers

Simon Horton - Significant experience in managing corporate change programmes across sectors. A well-grounded thinker who combines problem solving, influencing and analytical skills to develop and implement practical solutions to drive performance in pressurized, complex organisatons. Confident, enthusiastic and a strong communicator that has experience in delivering change from operation to board level through a variety of methodologies.

Sam Sheldon - Digital transformation leader who turns strategy and challenge into practical capability that enables change in how organisations operate.

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AECOM, 100 Cathedral Approach, Salford, United Kingdom

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