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A two-day conference featuring MIT’s Paul Cheek, designed to transform how Northern Ireland’s businesses, public sector, and start-ups deploy AI.
Presented by NI Chamber, Catalyst, and Software NI, a series of sector-specific, hands-on sessions will teach proven frameworks used by MIT startups and Fortune 500 companies to drive revenue growth, improve public services, and accelerate business transformation.
Day One: Tuesday 30 September
8.00am – 1.30pm
Rewriting the script: Unlocking AI for NI Business
Stop watching AI from the sidelines. Start building it into your business now.
A practical workshop for established businesses that are ready to roll up their sleeves and put AI to work in their own operations.
Applicable to business leaders in all sectors of Northern Ireland’s economy, this interactive session is designed to help local firms to experiment, iterate, and scale transformational AI solutions at pace.
As well as a masterclass and live demos from Paul Cheek, attendees will learn from the practical experience of local businesses who are already leading the charge by using AI to streamline operations, deliver superior quality, innovate and grow.
This high-energy, practical session is a must-attend for established businesses seeking AI strategies to boost sales and revenue.
Join us to learn the approaches which have already helped countless MIT startups and Fortune 500 companies to excel through successful AI transformation.
📅 Tuesday 30 September
🕰️ 8.00 am – 1.30 pm
📍The MAC, Belfast
🤝 £75.00 + VAT (networking lunch included)
Session Sponsor: Ergo
Day One: Tuesday 30 September
2.00pm – 5.00pm
Digital Dawn: AI in Government & Public Sectors
Public sector innovators driving change
An opportunity for senior leaders from across central and local government, agencies, and their suppliers to truly understand the role of AI in transforming Northern Ireland’s public services.
Focusing minds on possibilities, not barriers, Paul Cheek will deliver an intensive session on how AI can be utilised to save money, deliver value, and improve outcomes across public services. Drawing on global exemplars and local use cases, he will deliver a high-energy session specifically tailored for those with responsibility for AI strategy and roll-out in the public sector and its arm’s length bodies.
This session will be especially beneficial for senior leaders in the public sector, those with responsibility for digital transformation and relevant suppliers in the private sector.
📅 Tuesday 30 September
🕰️ 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm
📍The MAC, Belfast
🤝 £75.00 + VAT (refreshments included)
Session Sponsor: Slalom
Day Two: Wednesday 1 October
9.00am – 12.00pm
The New Entrepreneurship Playbook (Start-ups only, strictly limited)
For nearly four decades, the entrepreneurial journey, especially for innovation-driven enterprises, has followed a familiar path: build a team, raise capital, secure mentorship, join an accelerator, meet investors and scale.
That model made sense in an era when tech products took years and millions to build.
Today’s most competitive startups, AI-Driven Enterprises (AIDEs), are lean, fast and built with powerful tools that bypass traditional structures.
Expect live demos, real-world tools, and practical activities to help you start, or scale, faster. In this hands-on, fast-paced session, Paul Cheek will guide attendees through the process of building an AIDE from scratch.
Using practical tools, real-world frameworks, and live demos, he will show how modern founders validate ideas, prototype solutions, and go to market faster.
📅 Wednesday 1 October
🕰️ 9.00 am – 11.30 am
📍Catalyst, Belfast
🎟️ REGISTER INTEREST AS A STARTUP 🎟️
About your speaker: Paul Cheek
Paul Cheek is a globally renowned technologist, entrepreneur, and educator who serves as the Executive Director and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.
A respected practitioner with deep expertise in AI, Paul has co-founded and led multiple tech companies, including ventures that leverage machine learning and data science to drive business transformation.
Those ventures earned him recognition by Forbes 30 Under 30, the definitive list of young people changing the world.
On 30 September and 1 October, Northern Ireland’s established, emerging and start-up businesses will have a unique opportunity to learn from the master, with intensive workshops, live demonstrations, and hands-on learning labs designed to help organisations understand and practically deploy AI in their own organisations.
Crossing the AI Frontier is supported by:
Department for the Economy, EY, Microsoft, Matrix
