The full hour-by-hour running order is announced in October, once contributors and workshop times are confirmed. Below is the shape of both days: the stages and zones, the speakers already confirmed, and the hands-on sessions you can take part in.
Macro StageFrontier technology, science, the economy and society, made understandable to founders, institutions and the public.
Main Stage
Headline speakers, media leadership, creative businesses, rights and public trust. The main stage of the AIMI Conference at FLIRT.
Film, TV, journalism, publishing, games and visual storytelling, on the AIMI Conference at FLIRT programme.
Music, audio, artist careers, production and live performance.
Deep tech, robotics and edge AI: hardware, autonomous systems and intelligence that runs where the work happens.
Changing jobs and skills, inclusive organisations and technology people can actually use. Explore technology that opens doors, with the people whose experiences should shape its design.
Practical ways to improve operations, reach customers and measure whether the technology actually works.
Accountable deployment, public-interest technology, rights, and the energy and climate cost of compute. Tackle the big questions behind the technology: who controls it, who benefits and what it costs the planet.
Meet founders building their next chapter and investors looking for theirs. Talk traction, tackle the hard questions and find your next collaborator.
From a blank page to your first screening. Working in a small crew, turn a supplied brief into a 20–30 second short with guidance from a filmmaker. Shape the story, create selected shots and assemble your edit using prepared assets and a guided AI workflow. Finish by watching the films together.
You leave with: Your team’s film or rough cut, an editable project and a guide to making your next one.
How do you turn something you feel into something people want to sing? Join Daniel Bedingfield to explore how an idea becomes a lyric, a melody and a memorable hook. Working in small groups, develop a chorus from a shared starting point, record a rough demo and hear Daniel work through selected ideas with the room.
You leave with: A rough recording of your group’s chorus, your lyrics and a practical approach to developing it into a song.
Pick a repetitive job: sorting enquiries, following up leads or organising content. With an automation specialist, adapt a ready-to-build workflow, connect its steps and test it using sample data. Then deliberately throw it a problem to find out where it needs a human.
You leave with: A tested sandbox automation, a reusable template and a setup guide showing what you need before using it in your business.
Bring a three-minute pitch or a one-page business outline. In small feedback groups, put your proposition through the questions investors ask: what problem matters, what evidence supports it, how does the business work and what will the money unlock? Rewrite your weakest section, then try it again.
You leave with: A revised pitch section, feedback on your proposition and three priorities before your next investor meeting.
Bring one business problem you want to solve. Map how the work happens today, challenge where AI would actually help and compare the likely benefit with the cost, effort and risk. With an experienced operator, design one small experiment you can run in the next 30 days.
You leave with: A one-page experiment plan with a budget, a success measure and a clear decision point: continue, change or stop.
Your campaign is ready to launch. It includes AI-generated images, a synthetic voice, music and a claim that might not stand up. Working as an editorial team, decide what you would publish, change or hold back. Compare your decisions with an expert’s assessment and explore the questions you missed.
You leave with: A reusable pre-publication checklist and practice spotting issues that need further checks or specialist advice.
A fictional organisation has launched an AI product. Now evidence of harm is emerging, a journalist wants answers and your team disagrees about what to do. Take a role, respond to new information and decide whether to pause, change or defend the launch. Then face questions about your decision.
You leave with: A decision log, an expert debrief and a crisis exercise you can take back to your team.
Build something that gives people time back. Pick a focused problem, build a small prototype with AI coding tools, test it with another team and demonstrate it.
You leave with: A demonstrable prototype, project files and feedback on usefulness, usability and responsible design.
Start with a cleared stem pack and creative brief, then build a 60–90 second track or remix with producer support. AI tools are optional.
You leave with: A team track, project files, agreed credits and feedback from music professionals.