Post by The Alan Turing Institute

💡 Moving from impressive potential to trusted, useful systems  Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been contributing to conversations about where AI and data science go next and how we move from impressive potential to trusted, useful systems. Yesterday, as part of London Tech Week, our Interim Chief Scientist Jason McEwen moderated a panel on the next evolution of AI in enterprise, joined by Opal Perry, Chief Data & Technology Officer at easyJet, Tarah Lourens, Chief Operating Officer at Rightmove and David Casem, Co-Founder & CEO, Telnyx. The discussion looked beyond chatbots to multimodal data, agentic systems, world models and the benefits of smaller, specialised models. Together the panellists explored the practical challenge of turning promising demos into tools that create real commercial value. Also at London Tech Week, our Executive Advisor to the CEO and Chief Scientist Mark Girolami moderated a session on harnessing data and AI to power high-impact digital twins, with Will Cavendish, Global Digital Services Leader at Arup, George Economides, Deputy Director for Advanced Analytics at the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom and Dr Zara Ghazoui, AI and Data Strategy Lead at Accenture. The panel explored the barriers that need to be overcome to maximise digital twins and the economic and societal benefits they can unlock. And at SXSW London last week, Jason joined David DeSanto for a panel asking: “Who controls the AI stack?” That conversation tackled the balance between open and closed models, general versus specialist models and the growing debate about sovereign capability, including the UK’s unique strength when it comes to sovereign datasets.     #LondonTechWeek #LTW2026 #SXSW