DevOps Exchange - London

AI Exchange - Conduct AI, Canonical, Capgemini

Tue, Mar 24 · 6:30 PM GMT

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Join us on Tuesday 24th March for the next AI Exchange event, where we will be hosted at Dawn Capital.

We have three great talks lined up; heavily backed startup Conduct AI will give us insight and lessons on how they've managed to take Agentic AI into some of the worlds largest organisations. Canonical will be diving into how advances in AI have been driven by major improvements in customer interaction and Capgemini are exploring the evolution of Engineering with an AI-native mindset.

As always, doors open at 6:30pm and talks start at 7pm sharp. Drinks and food will be provided.

Agenda:

Henry Thompson @ Conduct AI

Teaching Old Systems New Tricks: Agentic AI in the Enterprise Core

The most valuable AI opportunities in large enterprises aren't greenfield, they're buried inside legacy landscapes and specialist teams who've operated the same way for decades. Most AI deployments never reach them. This session shares what we've learned taking agentic AI into some of the world's largest organisations: the product decisions forced by legacy constraints, the approaches required to ingest complex business data, and what it takes to embed agents inside teams with little AI experience. We take a dive into the technical, organisational, and commercial questions that only arise at true enterprise scale and how you turn that friction into real value.

Artur Vartanyan @ Canonical

How Global Technology Alliances enable AI success
Artur will dive into how 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.

Bio: 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. Prior to joining Canonical, he spent over 10 years at Dell Technologies (EMC) in various sales and leadership roles.
Since 2016, Artur has been working as a visiting university professor and developed 12 educational programs on Big Data, IT Infrastructure and Digital Transformation for the leading universities in the CIS. He also authored 15 scientific publications on digital technologies, including SCOPUS.

Holding a Phd in Economics, as well as honours degrees in Business Management and International Law, Artur was also certified in digital technologies by top universities (Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, Wharton, NYU) and global companies (Dell, IBM, Linux Foundation).

As a digital technologies expert, Artur has been invited as a keynote speaker to over 200 IT-related conferences across the world.
In 2023, Artur was endorsed as a Global Exceptional Talent in the field of digital technologies, by Tech Nation UK.

Ezhil Suresh @ Capgemini

Evolution of Engineering Organisations

Ezhil will explore how static governance models give way to adaptive, AI‑driven controls — forming the backbone of a fully governed autonomous engineering control plane.
When hundreds of engineers rely on shared platforms, standards, guardrails, auditability, and developer experience can’t be afterthoughts. They must be embedded. Becoming AI‑native demands a new mindset: one where engineering systems govern themselves, teams move faster with trust, and AI becomes the multiplier across the entire technology organisation.

Bio: Ezhil Suresh Chockalingham is a cross‑functional technology leader in UK Public Sector , specialising in transforming engineering organisations into AI‑native, autonomous delivery ecosystems. With a background spanning cloud, data platform engineering, developer experience, and large‑scale governance, Ezhil focuses on building high‑trust, self‑governing engineering systems that accelerate value creation across complex enterprises.

Ezhil serves as a strategic bridge across engineering, product, and governance functions — championing adaptive standards, AI‑driven guardrails, and scalable platform capabilities that enable hundreds of engineers to deliver securely and autonomously. Their work is centred on moving organisations from static governance to dynamic, AI‑powered control planes that reshape how modern technology gets built.

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