Pioneers on Unlocking AI Potential | The Exec AI Gathering, London

Three CEOs of AI-first companies on unlocking AI potential. Twenty executives. A wood-panelled room off the Strand, canapés, and two hours without a slide deck.

This is the third evening in ARPIA's London series, and the format is simple. A 30 minute panel conversation between three leaders of AI-native companies, an hour of open networking, then the bar downstairs for anyone who wants to carry on.

Not a pitch event. No demo, no product walkthrough, no slides. We want the stories from the panel and the questions from the room.

The panel

Kevin Bryant · CEO, Educated Change
Educated Change builds personal AI digital twins now used by a number of senior leaders, and established bandleader.ai as a way to put multiple AI models on the same task.

Dr. Davar Dattawala · Founder & CTO, CyberAI Technologies
CyberAI builds custom AI models for regulated companies, trained on that company's own data and run on their own premises. Better accuracy, lower cost per task, and a security posture that survives a procurement review.

Moises Vega-Guhlin · CEO, ARPIA
ARPIA's platform is the central bridge between AI and enterprise data and access, so governance, knowledge management, workflow orchestration and ecosystem integration happens in one place.

What they get into

• How each pioneer applies AI inside their own company
• Real experiences of helping businesses adopt AI in practice
• How they handle model sovereignty, token budgeting, ecosystem interconnection, and keeping company data out of AI model providers' training sets

The last ten minutes belong to the room.

Most conversations at this level stay at the altitude of strategy decks. The question this evening is actually built around:

What have you already put into production, what did it cost you, and what would you not do again?

"The talks helped me understand better how more advanced AI companies have solved the problems we're facing."

Attendee, ARPIA London series

The evening

• 17:00 Doors, drinks, canapés
• 17:30 Panel: 30 minutes of conversation, 10 minutes of questions from the room
• 18:10 Open networking, more drinks, more canapés
• 19:00 We move to the bar downstairs. Open end, stay as long as you like.

Why come

✔ Three operators who have shipped AI, talking about what it actually takes
✔ A straight answer on sovereignty, cost control, and data protection from people who had to solve it
✔ Twenty executives in a room small enough that you will genuinely meet them
✔ Ten minutes of the panel are yours, and you submit your question when you register

Who this is for

Executives and senior decision-makers who are already doing something with AI, or think now is the moment to start. Mostly SMEs.

Typical guests:

• Founders and CEOs
• COOs, CFOs, and Managing Directors
• CTOs and Heads of Engineering
• Heads of Data or AI
• IT Directors and Heads of Information Security
• Heads of Operations, Finance, or Commercial owning an AI initiative

This is a closed-room conversation between operators. Registrations from agencies, consultancies, and recruiters will not be approved.

The room

The Liberty Room at Smith & Wollensky: wood panelling, low lighting, candles, and about the right size for twenty people to actually hear each other. Chairs face the panel for the first forty minutes, then it is a standing reception. Canapés and drinks throughout.

Two minutes from Charing Cross and Embankment.

Details

Date and time Monday 19 October 2026, 17:00 to 19:00, then open end at the bar

Location Smith & Wollensky, Liberty Room 1-11 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6HT

Tickets Free, and every registration is reviewed. There are 20 places and confirmed guests are expected to attend. If something comes up, cancel your ticket so we can give the seat to someone on the waiting list.

Hosted by ARPIA, makers of Oria. arpia.ai

Questions: Danail Ginin, GTM Europe · LinkedIn

If you are past the point of asking whether AI is worth doing and into the harder questions of what to run, where it runs, and who gets to see your data, this is the right room.