{"id":10279,"date":"2026-11-03T17:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newtonimpact.com\/?post_type=content_library&p=10279"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T17:35:08","slug":"from-insight-to-impact-inside-day-2-of-the-enterprise-ai-summit","status":"publish","type":"content_library","link":"https:\/\/newtonimpact.com\/en-us\/content-library\/blog\/from-insight-to-impact-inside-day-2-of-the-enterprise-ai-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"From insight to impact: Inside Day 2 of the Enterprise AI Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From insight to impact: Inside Day 2 of the Enterprise AI Summit<\/h1>\n

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An IT Revolution event in partnership with Newton<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n \n\n\n

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If AI expands our capacity tenfold or more, how do we decide what\u2019s worth doing, and how do we need to change our organisations to make it possible? These questions shaped Day 2 of the Enterprise AI Summit, hosted by IT Revolution in partnership with Newton.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Summit Chair Gene Kim welcomed the 150 \u201ckindred spirits and fellow travellers\u201d back to Bletchley Park today, commenting that the quality of conversations he\u2019s already had proves the adage, \u201cso many outcomes in life are determined by the company you keep\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Across sectors, speakers agreed that our ambition for AI should be enormous. Simply doing the same things faster and with fewer people misses the opportunity to do what was previously impossible. Speed only creates value when organisations can keep up. Traditional approval processes, organisational silos and decision-making structures now risk becoming the biggest barriers to progress.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n \n\n\n

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Beyond speed: changing how work gets done <\/h2>\n <\/hgroup>\n \n
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To open the day, Gene challenged organisations to look beyond 20% productivity improvements, arguing that advanced teams are achieving gains many times greater. The opportunity is not simply to make existing processes faster, but to rethink what can be accomplished.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With fair warning that \u201cthere will be maths\u201d in his talk, Gus Paul explained how Morgan Stanley is translating the impact of AI productivity gains to the dollars and cents that matter to leadership. Measuring speed alone is not enough, as he has learned in his role leading the software development life cycle (SDLC) optimisation programme at the global firm. Organisations must quantify business value and understand how speed in one area can create bottlenecks in another.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Against the backdrop of Bletchley Park, Dustin Warner, Director of Software Engineering at NRC Health, acknowledged that the \u201cemergency\u201d behind his team\u2019s transformation paled in comparison with a world war.<\/span> He described how a small AI-enabled team built a business-critical software platform in only 90 days after a competitor bought their technology provider.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n \n\n\n

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If there were a prize for listening, it would go to Matt Klosterman, Senior Director, Mobile Software Engineering at Hilton, who incorporated examples from almost every session from Day 1. <\/span>He also described how building teams of citizen developers at Hilton is helping shift mindsets and broaden participation in AI development.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before lunch, delegates joined breakout groups for frank discussions on some of the most pressing strategic questions inside their organisations. How do we know when AI is helping rather than replacing our judgement? Where will the next senior engineers come from? And how do we distinguish business value from increased activity and output?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Opening the afternoon sessions, Stuart Pearce, Portfolio CTO at HG Capital, explored why teams with the same AI tools are achieving very different results. The difference lies in how they use them \u2013 and how willing they are to rethink established ways of developing software.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n \n\n\n

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Keith Hebard, Head of AI at Ministry of Defence agency AWE, explained how it is scaling AI to improve pace, productivity and price simultaneously, equipping teams to build and maintain their own agents and freeing up cognitive capacity for more demanding work. Underscoring his point that AI adoption is a human challenge, he introduced us to the concept of giving teams a \u201cwarm, loving AI hug\u201d to bring them along on the AI journey.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adie Holt, Founding Defence Lead at Cosine, and Peter Passaro, Director of AI and Data at Babcock International, explored how sovereign AI models and secure, locally deployed tools are opening up opportunities for defence and other highly regulated sectors. From training models for UK-specific needs to Babcock\u2019s Nomad product, which helps war fighters process high volumes of data and intelligence in the field, their examples highlighted the challenge of moving quickly while providing bullet-proof assurance when the stakes are life and death.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stuart <\/span>Jennings, Engineering Manager at the UK government\u2019s AI Security Institute, shared eye-opening research revealing how rapidly AI capabilities are advancing, bringing increasingly serious cybersecurity and societal risks. Warning that these threats are already becoming reality, he urged organisations to strengthen their cyber defences, starting with Cyber Essentials certification and the National Cyber Security Centre\u2019s Early Warning service as a minimum.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for AI? Despite the inescapable uncertainties and apocalyptic predictions about this transformative technology, Dr Laura Gilbert CBE closed the summit on an uplifting note: the future is in our hands. Highlighting the high economic and societal costs of inequality, she urged everyone at the summit to recognise their power to build a society with fairness, inclusion and human wellbeing at its heart.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n \n\n\n

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New capabilities, different demands <\/h2>\n <\/hgroup>\n \n
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At the close of <\/span>two days of candid discussion, practical examples and shared learning, a clearer picture has emerged of what it takes to turn AI\u2019s potential into meaningful outcomes. Spoiler: it might mean reimagining every aspect of how organisations work.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Several themes stood out for leaders to take forward:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n