Richard Foster-Fletcher Keynote Speaker

• The State of AI: What the leading models can now do

Conference main stages, annual meetings, company events.

AI models are becoming more capable at reasoning, research and analysis, and at work that runs across many steps. This keynote explains where the leading models have reached, which developments are a real change rather than repackaging, and where current claims run ahead of the evidence.

It also examines the distance between the strongest models and the AI most organisations are actually running, why that distance exists, and what it costs a company to leave it there. Senior audiences leave with a clearer view of what the technology can now do and how far their own organisation is from it.

• The Gap Between Commitment and Capability

Why the AI a company deploys may no longer do what its commitments assume

For boards, executive committees and the P&L holders carrying AI-dependent commitments. Delivered as a closed board session or to a wider leadership audience.

Companies have made commitments to the market that depend on a level of capability being available from their AI systems. That capability may exist in the original model and still not survive deployment, once governance and security controls are applied. Those controls raise stability by limiting what the model produces, and the teams responsible for making AI safe are rarely the teams making commitments to the market.

That separation opens a gap between what is required from the AI and what it is permitted to do. Public documents show that companies are not testing whether the system, once deployed and governed, remains capable of the work their commitments assume. The briefing sets out why the gap opened, which functions and processes produced it, and how to trace where it is showing up. Senior leaders leave knowing which functions need to be involved, what evidence is missing, and what closing the distance between the commitment and the system would require.