Following a brilliant first year, the Head Resourcing Talking Data and AI webinar series is back for its second year bringing you inside stories from the people using AI and data to solve real business problems, not just talk theory.
Across the series, we’ll explore what it really takes to move from AI ambition to impact, from enterprise pilots that never make it into production, to agentic operating systems, adaptive digital experiences and the leadership needed to make AI work in practice.
We’ll be joined by an expert speaker line-up including;
⭐ John Brodie, Founder and CEO of Kallidin AI
⭐ Col MacKenzie, VP AI Engineering at Multiverse
⭐ Gary Crawford, Chief Advisor at Owendale Advisory.
Find out more and secure your spot below!
The POC Graveyard - Why 90% of Enterprise AI Never Ships.
16th September, 12noon
Join our first Talking Data and AI webinar of 2026 and hear from our amazing speaker, John Brodie, Founder and CEO of Kallidin AI.
John will join us to discuss;
The POC Graveyard: Why 90% of Enterprise AI Never Ships. The uncomfortable audit. What actually kills pilots, and why it's almost never the model.
About our speaker: John Brodie is co-founder and CEO of Kallidin, which builds multi-agent systems that do the work of a data team. He has spent 25 years in data, starting client-side at Bank of Scotland. He co-founded Aquila Insight in 2012, grew it to 200 people and sold it to Merkle in 2017, then founded Forth Point in 2021 and sold it to Blend360 in 2023. Between them the two businesses won 12 Data IQ awards, including Best Place to work in Data and the Data Top 100.
What building AI-native actually costs a business
1st October, 12noon
Col Mackenzie, VP AI Engineering at Multiverse will discuss what changes in how you plan, review and ship when most of the code is written by agents, which of your existing rituals stop earning their place, and where the real cost lands. Col will bring specific examples from his current and past experiences.
He will also talk about his own personal AI stack and how that supercharges his own productivity day to day.
This is one webinar you won’t want to miss!
About our speaker: Col Mackenzie, VP of AI Engineering at Multiverse, based in Edinburgh. He leads how Multiverse builds, covering the engineering platform, delivery model and quality bar for AI-native software, and the internal AI transformation across the business. During his time at Amazon he built the foundational generative AI platform that powers every AI product across the organisation, creating the infrastructure that made AI-native advertising possible at Amazon scale. He also led a team of more than 50 managers, engineers and data scientists, driving the next generation of machine learning and generative AI.
The Intelligence Trap
8th October, 12 noon
The media is full of debate about when AI will match, or even surpass, human general intelligence. But what if that’s the wrong focus? What if AI’s real advantage isn’t superior intelligence, but its ability to coordinate, collaborate and persist at extraordinary speed and scale? What happens when machines can organise work more effectively than the companies deploying them?
In this talk, we’ll explore the emerging capability of AI to orchestrate and collaborate towards a common goal:
Coordination over cognition: why collective action may matter more than individual intelligence.
Persistence without fatigue: what changes when systems can keep working, checking and iterating indefinitely.
Speed and scale: how AI can compress work that takes organisations days or weeks into minutes.
And ultimately: what does this mean for how organisations should approach AI adoption today?
About our speaker: Gary Crawford, Chief Advisor at Owendale Advisory.
Gary Crawford has decades of experience leading transformative change for global enterprises. He has held senior roles at top consultancies, including ThoughtWorks and AKQA, and most recently served as Chief Innovation Officer at Waracle. As the founder of Owendale Advisory, Gary specialises in Intelligence Transformation, equipping senior executives to strategically harness AI for enhanced efficiency, productivity, and customer experiences.