Vention Roundtable | The Future is Already Here by Alex McFadyen

​On December 10th at WeWork, Canary Wharf, Vention is hosting an exclusive roundtable event with Alex McFadyen, CTO of ClickTech (https://www.clicktech.com/), who brings together education, AI tools and advertising technology. The roundtable is set for engineering and technology leaders to openly discuss uneven AI adoption, and what it does to delivery, roles and risk. This note is for reading ahead, so you arrive ready to participate.

​Breakfast and Refreshments will be served.

​The premise

​"The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed yet." William Gibson

​The future is arriving fast, and unevenly: across industries, across companies and even across teams. One engineer ships with agents, doing the work of a whole team, while the team next door barely touches a copilot. Around them, governance, security and process may be years behind, or missing entirely.

​The work and the risk don't go away. They move, and collect in the gaps. And it's not just engineering: the rest of the business is building with AI too, and looking to us for guidance.

​The ask

​Come with one or two examples from your own experience: things that work, things that don't, things you want to try. Change the names if you like. Some prompts:

• ​Where your organisation is furthest ahead, and furthest behind

• ​Something AI made faster that created work or risk somewhere else

• ​A non-engineer who built something with AI, and what happened next

• ​A decision you've made, or refused to make, on how much to automate

• ​The thing that worries you most, and what you're doing about it

​The session runs under the Chatham House Rule: share what was said, never who said it.  It won't be recorded. It's a chance to compare notes with peers, see where everyone else really is, and admit we're all making it up as we go.