Small Table, Big Ideas: Navigating the AI Phase Change in Enterprise Technology
An exclusive breakfast conversation for technology leaders about what's changing, what's working, and what it means for the leaders responsible for making it happen.
25th March - 08:30 - 10:00
Groucho Club, 45 Dean Street, London W1D 4QB
Hosted by Opulent Mind and Red Badger, this is a closed-door session for progressive technology leaders in enterprise and scale-up. No panels. No pitches. No slides from sponsors.
AI is rewriting the rules of enterprise technology: how it's built, how it's bought, and how careers are made leading it.
The latest models are generating production code. Integration problems that took months are collapsing into days. The build vs. buy equation that shaped the last decade of enterprise IT is being overturned in real time.
But behind the headlines, a harder truth is emerging: £billions are being spent on AI across industry, and very little sticks. The pattern is familiar: some innovation theatre, a few scattered bets, and value that never compounds, while existing legacy drags on.
There are wins - and they are showing up in national productivity numbers. A small number of technology leaders are doing it differently. They are laying foundations, proving value first, scaling what works, and building careers that define what comes next.
This breakfast brings those leaders, and those who want to join them, to the same table.
Why Join Us?
It's not a conference. Fifteen people around a table. The conversation goes where the room needs it to go.
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Hear what's actually working. Not vendor claims: real adoption patterns from practitioners building and shipping AI in enterprise today.
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Pressure-test your strategy. Chatham House Rules. Bring your hardest problem and get honest, experienced perspectives from peers facing the same pressures.
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No obligation, no spam. This is an insights event, not a sales funnel. Come for the conversation and the company.
Understand the career landscape.
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Opulent Mind sees how boards are hiring technology leaders right now, what's valued, what's changed, and what will matter next.
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Red Badger sees how complex enterprises decide, fund, shape and deliver progressive engineering choices and those that lead them.
Key Topics:
1. The ‘omni-tax’ and why your architecture is working against you
Every new capability extracts a tax from your existing stack. Integration, latency, cost, fragility. The cumulative weight is the thing slowing you down, not any single system.
2. Build vs. buy: AI changes the equation
AI-assisted engineering is collapsing delivery timelines. Features that once justified a SaaS contract can now be built, owned, and iterated in-house, faster and cheaper. The rationale around platform investment is shifting beneath your feet.
3. From human latency to agentic latency
Your current architecture was built for human behaviour (a user waiting two seconds for a page to load). It won't survive agentic demand where an AI needs to query multiple systems and distributed context - instantly at scale. This isn't a chatbot problem. It's a platform readiness problem.
4. Proving value first: the compounding framework
The technology leaders who build breakthrough capability inside complex enterprises share a common approach: small teams, short cycles, value that flows from week one. Not transformation programmes. Not 18-month roadmaps. Assured success through continuous, compounding bravery.
5. Your next move: leading through a phase change
The decisions technology leaders make in the next 12–18 months will define career trajectories for a decade. Those who understand the shift, and can articulate it to a board, will lead it. Those who wait for consensus will follow.
About your hosts
Opulent Mind - connecting exceptional talent with visionary organisations
Opulent Mind connects strategy to talent. It's an executive search and recruitment partner built for CEOs, boards, and investors who demand results. WIth over 20 years of combined experience supporting PE, Listed Companies, VCs and Mid-Market scale-ups, Opulent Mind has a team of deep experts that act as the conduit between supply and demand.
Red Badger - The Digital Product Consultancy for Enterprise
We help modern enterprises continuously evolve their products and services. We work across Financial Services leaders (JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, HSBC, Compare the Market), global media (FT, BBC, Sky), leading brands (Fortnum's, Selfridges, Nando's, Levi's) and Public Sector (Government, agencies and their suppliers).
The platforms and products we build drive critical revenue and business lines. We craft digital products customers love, build next generation platforms and embed new digital capabilities across enterprises.
