A collaborative peer-to-peer session for senior leaders in regulated businesses, built around real lived experiences, real firms, real visionaries, an off-the-record panel giving you the good, the bad and the ugly about their experiences to date, and the kind of conversation that just doesn't happen on a webinar.
They're slow because the consequences of getting it wrong are very real. The consequence of doing nothing is now equally concerning, and that argument is landing in boardrooms.
Most events on this topic are vendors showing slides that lack substance and real-world evidence, or theoretical conversations with no operating substance. This one is built differently. The speakers are people running AI in production inside regulated firms, the panel is closed and off the record, and the demonstration uses live working agents against the kind of workflows you actually care about.
That's the room. Here's what you walk out with.
Beyond what's on the agenda, the point of putting this room together is to send people home with a sharper view on the questions every firm is wrestling with right now.
This is the line that separates the firms doing this well from the firms running into internal resistance. Agents as a way to handle more volume in high-throughput work, give junior people access to senior-level expertise on demand, take repetitive work off desks, reduce errors, and start surfacing how your business actually functions. Not a quiet replacement strategy. If nothing else lands, this one is the one to take back.
Past the buzzwords. Is "we need to sort our data lake out first" a real prerequisite, or a way of stalling? Where firms are finding their first agents that earn their keep without a multi-year data programme.
The questions investors are putting to portfolio firms, and what good answers look like. Useful whether you're PE-backed today, being prepared for it, or sitting on the investor side of the conversation.
Practical thinking on where the time savers already sit inside your operation. What to look for, what to leave alone, and how to think about the next twelve to twenty-four months in concrete terms.
We are keeping the room intentionally small. The invite list focuses on managing partners, CTOs, COOs, heads of innovation, heads of risk, and PE-side operating partners across legal, accountancy, financial services and healthcare.
Around 20 to 30 senior leaders from regulated and professional services firms.
Every speaker on the bill is running AI inside a regulated business, advising firms doing it, or holding regulators to account. No outside commentators. No theory.
Solicitor, Senior Partner at Aequitas Legal and founder of inCase, the legal client communication platform acquired by The Access Group in 2024. NED, investor, and past President of Manchester Law Society.
Sucheet's keynote sets the frame for the evening. Most regulated firms aren't short of ideas or ambition. They're held back by the chasm between a board that wants to move and a compliance function designed to pump the brakes. His session is for the leaders trying to cross that gap, with the practical framing for where the line sits between AI assisting humans, AI operating within guardrails, and AI taking on higher-stakes decisions.
AI agents are being sold as the next leap in productivity, and for regulated businesses the pitch is irresistible: faster contract review, automated compliance checks, intelligent document processing. The demos are dazzling. The reality is messier.
Chris will show live examples of agents missing critical clauses in contracts while reporting 95% confidence, and explain in plain language why this happens. The session then walks through what separates a polished demo from a production system you'd let near your clients: evaluations, grounding, prompt engineering, and the audit trails regulators will eventually ask you for.
Sarah ran the adoption programme at Thorntons Law as part of the Innovate UK TiPs Accelerator, achieving a 97% adoption rate of licensed safe-use tools. She chairs the Law Society of Scotland's LawScotTech Advisory Board and sees the regulator's evolving position on agentic AI from the inside.
Her session covers what actually worked, what didn't, and why the champions you expect aren't usually the ones who make the difference. She'll close with three things every leader in the room can start doing tomorrow, and bring her current view on the rapidly changing build-versus-buy picture as frontier models disrupt the legal tech wrappers.
Group CTO at Movera, with technology responsibility across ONP Solicitors, Cavendish Legal and LMS. The core business runs over 140,000 conveyancing transactions a year, PE-backed and SRA-regulated.
Andrew brings the "doing it now, at scale, under pressure" perspective. Thousands of automation tasks already running daily, with AI extending that surface area into agents handling the mundane, repeatable work. Expect him to be direct on the tension between a hungry tech department and a compliance officer rightly treading carefully, and on what AI actually changes at significant transaction volume.
Noah leads a 20-strong AI and data science team at Fletchers, one of the UK's leading specialist firms in serious injury and clinical negligence law. Background in operations and process improvement, with a Cambridge Materials Science degree and a career applying manufacturing-sector methodologies to legal process.
Noah brings the in-house buyer's perspective. How he evaluates the market, what good and bad pitches look like from the buy side, and what firms should be asking vendors that they're not. Expect a candid view on the legal tech wrappers unlikely to survive contact with frontier models, and on the question of how AI changes the underlying business model when 20 hours of work becomes 3.
A live demonstration of working agents running against real regulated workflows. The point isn't the wow factor. It's showing the gap between what looks impressive in a sales deck and what actually holds up when a regulator asks how it works. And honestly, it's the bit of the evening we have the most fun with.
Our AI engineers are on standby through the evening. Ask how an agent is built, what fails when, how we handle compliance, and where the seams really are. No press releases, no sales script.
A demo of a live build, and at least one thing that's there purely because we thought it would be fun. The whole point of being in the room is that it can't be packaged into a slide.
The kind of thing that has to work when someone asks how it works. Rough edges still visible. No polish for the sake of polish.
There will be questions you can ask out loud. There will be things you'd quietly like to see broken. Bring both.
Synextra is in our 13th year as a Microsoft Azure native managed service provider. For the past 18 months we have been building agents alongside clients in regulated sectors.
For the last six months we have been deep in conversations with executive teams, PE backers and subject matter experts across legal, accountancy, financial services and healthcare.
The stage time is for the speakers and the panel. If the conversation leads somewhere afterwards, that is up to you.
Warrington isn't central London, and we know what an afternoon out of your diary actually costs. We have thought hard about whether to host this somewhere more convenient. The truthful answer is that the room we are putting together deserves the trip.
Warrington sits at the geographical centre of the UK. Roughly two hours from London on the train, half an hour from Manchester airport, an easy drive from Leeds, Birmingham and Edinburgh. The motorway and rail links are as good as anywhere outside the M25.
And we will look after everyone who makes the journey. Generous food, proper wine, and the kind of evening that makes the day make sense.
Synextra, Fifth Floor, 401 Faraday House, Faraday Street, Birchwood Park, Warrington WA3 6GA.
Free parking on site at Birchwood Park. Plenty of space, no booking required.
Birchwood station is a short taxi ride away. Warrington Bank Quay is also straightforward and well connected to London, Manchester and Scotland.
If you're travelling and would prefer not to head home late, let us know. We are happy to recommend nearby hotels.
Welcome drinks from 2:30pm, coffee and wine during the break, and a full networking evening with food and drinks from 5:30pm onwards.
Flag anything we need to know when you confirm and we will take care of it.
Get in touch with us directly. Tell us you're in, flag any dietary requirements, and if you've got a question you'd like the panel to address on the night, send it through. We can't promise every question gets answered, but the panel will go in knowing what the room actually wants to hear.