A half-day workshop designed to help understand the artificial intelligence opportunity, demystify the jargon, and equip small businesses with a concrete AI adoption action plan.
We connect innovative partners such as Microsoft with the best experts in the field who can bring their know-how and tech-agnostic recommendations from real AI use cases to an audience of SMEs.
We brought together 45+ small business leaders, as well as influential business leader and entrepreneur Piers Linney of Dragon’s Den and Implement AI, a cutting-edge technology partner dedicated to supporting businesses to understand, develop and implement AI-driven strategies.
And finally, we use robust evaluation methodology to track pre and post-event participant behaviours, based on our Be the Business SME engagement expertise and the latest academic research.
Insights from the day:
Strategic Advantages
We discovered that the main opportunities for the businesses in the room were boosting business efficiency, optimising supply chains and enhances marketing automation. While also aiding in tasks like relationship management and onboarding.
Challenges
Adoption comes with particular hurdles for small businesses like system rigidity and tool uncertainty. Leaders explaining that security concerns and data quality issues also pose significant challenges.
Key Barriers
Certain barriers can cause extra pressure for small businesses for example high costs, lack of expertise, regulatory uncertainties and potential job disruptions. These can all cause reluctancy towards adopting AI.
Feedback from attendees
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“I had a brilliant time… it was truly a well-organised and insightful workshop. My table seemed to face challenges related to inspiration primarily.”
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“It was incredibly informative and provided valuable insights.... The speakers were engaging, the topics were relevant and networking opportunities were invaluable. We came away with a much clearer understanding of the AI landscape and practical strategies for implementation.”
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“A seamlessly well run event. I don’t think I’ve been to an event with that level of positive engagement from so many people before.”
Let’s work together
Interested in hosting an event like this and how we could work together? Contact our team to discuss our approach, results and next steps.
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Productive Business Index
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