AI Exchange

AI Exchange - Canonical, Sky & AWS

Wed, Mar 4 · 6:00 PM GMT

Amazon UK Corporate Office LHR14, 60 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FD, London, GB

And we're back! We are excited to announce that on Wednesday, March 4th, we will host our first AI Exchange event of the year at AWS London.

Join us for another night of insightful conversations, expert perspectives and real world examples exploring how AI is being built, scaled, and applied across industries.

We have three brilliant talks to kick us off this year. Hope to see you there and please RSVP as soon as you can to secure your place.

Agenda:

Artur Vartanyan @ Canonical

How Global Technology Alliances enable AI success

Modern advances in artificial intelligence have been driven by major improvements in how customers experience and interact with AI. These advancements are largely enabled by strategic technological alliances. Instead of competing, leading tech companies are joining forces to make AI more accessible and impactful.

This talk will explore the programs and tools that enable collaboration among technology companies in developing AI solutions, supported by real-world examples of successful alliances.

Key messages of the talk:
Prove that AI progress is driven by collaboration;
Identify the role of tech alliances in technological progress;
Provide some tools and programs that are needed to build tech alliances.

Artur has 20+ years of business development experience in the IT industry across EMEA. Since January 2024 Artur has been working as Dell Alliance Manager at Canonical in London, UK to drive joint Canonical/Dell efforts in the AI, Cloud and Open Source. As a digital technologies expert, Artur has been invited as a keynote speaker to over 200 conferences across the world.

Amit Dhingra @ AWS

The Agentic Enterprise: How AI Agents Are Rebuilding Business in 2026

This session explores the transformative shift from AI assistants to autonomous AI agents in 2026, showcasing real-world production deployments across finance and retail that are fundamentally changing how businesses operate.

The Paradigm Shift: We've moved from AI as chatbots (2023) and copilots (2025) to autonomous agents (2026) that plan, decide, and execute complete workflows independently. While 64% of professionals now use AI agents, only 25% use them regularly—creating a widening competitive gap.

Amit will discuss how agentic AI differs fundamentally from current AI tools they useConcrete examples of agents operating in production today. The career implications for developers, technical professionals, and business leaders.

Unlike the internet transition that took 20 years, the agentic AI shift is happening in 20 months. Organizations that master agent orchestration in 2026 will have significant competitive advantages, while those waiting risk falling permanently behind.

Lisa Smisson @ Sky

AI Journey and Software Development Transformation Summary

Lisa's AI journey started with a simple need: creating illustrations for a story she’d written for her daughter. After her arty husband quoted a couple of weeks to create a few pictures to illustrate it, she decided to try ChatGPT's image generation capabilities. In just a few hours, she created all the illustrations needed, a moment that revealed AI's transformative potential.

Lisa will take us through her journey of software development using AI coding assistants, without ever having written a line of code. Calling out key points to consider on AI transformation.

Lisa is an AI Delivery Manager at NBCUniversal/Sky, on her 12-month AI journey and its implications for software development transformation.

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

All the best,
Tony, Andrea and The AI Exchange team

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