Own Your AI: How to run AI cheaper, safer, and without vendor lock-in
Most businesses adopting AI today are renting it. Every prompt leaves your network, every price rise is someone else's decision, and every model deprecation is your problem to solve.
There is another route. Open source models have closed much of the capability gap, and running them locally or in your own cloud is now realistic for teams without a research budget. The question is no longer whether it works, but when it makes commercial sense.
Wojtek Kołodziejczak (AI Business Consultant) and Paweł Kiezyński (AI Architect) take both sides of that decision: the business case and the build.
What you'll take away:
→ Where local and open source AI genuinely beats AI subscriptions on cost, and where it doesn't
→ How keeping data inside your own environment changes your compliance position under GDPR and the EU AI Act
→ What vendor lock-in actually costs, and how to structure an AI stack you can move
→ The practical setup: what hardware, which models, and what a realistic first deployment looks like
→ How to run a hybrid approach, so you're not choosing between capability and control
Format:
5:00 — Welcome and introductions
5:05 — Presentation (25 minutes)
5:30 — Q&A
5:45 — Open networking
The networking half is not an afterthought. Come with a question, a problem you're stuck on, or something you're building, the room is full of founders and technical leaders solving the same things.
Who it's for: Founders, CTOs, IT leads, and anyone responsible for AI decisions in a small or mid-sized business, particularly in regulated sectors.
London Tech Chapter, in partnership with Impactful Community CIC and Polish Business Link