Wednesday, 24 September 2025
09:30 - 16:00
(
6 hours 30 mins )
Online
AI isn’t coming — it’s already here. From recruitment to retention, compliance to culture, artificial intelligence is reshaping how HR operates. The pace is fast, the pressure is high, and the stakes are only getting bigger.
This full-day event is your opportunity to pause, take stock, and move forward with clarity. Whether you're experimenting with AI tools or just beginning to explore their potential, we’ll help you separate hype from reality. Hear from legal experts, workplace specialists and AI professionals — all in one place, on one day — and leave equipped with practical, compliant steps tailored for the HR function.
If your role involves shaping how your organisation responds to digital change, this day is for you.
This is a defining moment for HR. Don’t get left behind.
Find out what's on the programme for Implementing AI in the Workplace: 2025 Review:
Get to Know Us: Familiarise yourself with the functions of our online event to ensure you maximise return on your investment.
Laura McKee from Legal Island’s Knowledge Team welcomes delegates to our event.
The AI race has begun. The winners won’t be the ones with the best tools - they’ll be the ones with the most prepared people. In this eye-opening keynote, Michael Matania, Founder, Mycelium will unpack:
You’ll walk away with:
Don’t just adopt AI. Out-adopt your competition.
An introductory session designed to explain and simplify the existing myriad of legislation that currently regulates AI. Delivered by Bryony Long, Partner & Co-Head of Data, Privacy & Cyber, Lewis Silkin
Whether your organisation operates within the EU or outside it, the message is clear: you need to assess and categorise your workplace use of AI. But where do you start?
In this essential session, Will Woodhouse, Head of Product and Digital Innovation at Hays Recruitment, will walk you through how to audit AI tools and systems in your organisation — and classify them based on risk. Is the use prohibited? High risk? Limited or minimal risk? You’ll explore what falls into each category and why it matters.
We’ll also examine:
Three employers share where they are in their AI journey, their current challenges, learning and advice to others.
Chaired by Barry Phillips, Legal Island. Panel members to be confirmed.
Where are you on your AI in the workplace journey?
We break you into small groups to talk about your own experiences with AI to date what you’ve taken away from the sessions so far.
60 minutes to get lunch, stretch, catch up on emails... whatever you need.
Curious about AI agents but not sure where to start? This introductory session offers a practical look at what AI agents are — and how you can begin building one to support everyday tasks.
We’ll cover:
Whether you're hands-on with tech or just AI-curious, this session will help demystify the concept of AI agents — and show you how accessible they really are.
As AI becomes more embedded in workplace systems, responsible implementation is no longer optional. This session shares current thinking on how to align AI use with your organisation’s values and responsibilities.
Topics include:
Gain practical insights to support ethical, transparent and informed AI use across your organisation.
Delivered by Jeff Pole, CEO, Warden AI
This session focuses on turning ideas into impact. You'll explore how to use AI to run a Pulse Analysis — giving you real-time insights into team morale, engagement, and potential friction points.
Led by Christopher Lind, the session will help you:
It’s a hands-on, grounded session designed to help you make meaningful progress with AI in your organisation.
James Ryan of Work Matters explores the real future of work, not through the lens of technology, but through the power of people. As AI reshapes jobs, skills, and team dynamics, James challenges leaders to reimagine what only humans can do: The Human Edge. The session will unpack how HR organisations can move from overwhelm and busyness to agility, empathy, and high performance. In a time of shifting talent, work, and values, this talk offers a grounded vision for how leaders can respond and design organisations which are more human.
We’ll bring the day to a close by revisiting the key insights, sharing final thoughts, and helping you focus on what to take forward into your own workplace.
Event close at 4pm.
Globally recognised, digital-first HR leader living at the intersection of business, technology, and the human experience. Author of Relentless Intention. Host of Future-Focused. Chief Learning Officer at ChenMed. Devoted husband and father of 7 under the age of 12.
Bryony Long is Co-Head of Lewis Silkin’s Data, Privacy & Cyber group. Their practice spans three core areas: data, privacy and cyber; technology and AI; and consumer and commercial law.
While their primary focus lies in data, privacy and cyber, they also bring a strong background in commercial, consumer and technology matters, advising clients regularly across all three domains.
In the field of data, privacy and cyber, they have advised a range of high-profile clients on complex data protection matters, particularly in relation to data collection, commercial exploitation, and corporate governance. Their experience includes handling several high-profile regulatory investigations for large multinational clients and advising on numerous data breaches. They hold the IAPP CIPP/E data protection and privacy accreditation and have spoken at various industry events on data, privacy and cyber issues.
From a commercial, technology and consumer standpoint, they possess extensive experience advising both suppliers and purchasers on a wide variety of commercial agreements. These include agreements for the supply of goods and services, software licensing and distribution, cloud services, agency and distribution arrangements, franchising, warehousing and logistics, sponsorship and ticketing, client/agency relationships, media buying, and confidentiality matters. They have also advised on e-commerce compliance and general consumer law, and have acted on behalf of well-known retailers in multiple consumer regulatory investigations.
Their particular areas of specialism are in the retail and adtech sectors, and they are an active member of the firm’s retail and advertising & marketing groups.
Mycelium was founded by Michael Matania, a survivor of PTSD, addiction and Psychosis, who dedicated his life to sharing what he had discovered through his recovery with others. Michael’s previous achievements included co-creating Mindkit, the UK’s biggest peer-led mental resilience programme, establishing the ‘Workplace Mental Health Champions’ professional network for Time to Change, the UK’s biggest national mental health campaign, and co-designing Mind’s national mental health strategy for schools. Led by Michael, Mycelium has become the market leader in personal resilience building, achieving industry recognition and awards for its flagship curriculum Mixed Mental Arts.
Laura joined Legal Island as a Knowledge Partner in January 2023. Prior to that she worked as an employment law and dispute resolution solicitor with Eugene F. Collins (now Addleshaw Goddard LLP), A&L Goodbody Dublin & Belfast and as an In-House Employment Counsel Secondee at Google.
Laura is also a qualified personal and executive coach, yoga and mindfulness teacher.
James Ryan, Senior Consultant at Work Matters Ltd, brings 30+ years of expertise in Technology and HR. A passionate coach and consultant, James specialises in fostering organisational adaptivity through innovative tech solutions and modern ways of working. With a Degree in Electronics and Information Systems, a Masters in Interactive Digital Technologies plus qualifications in HR, Employment Law, Predictive Analytics, and AI for Business, James uniquely blends technical acumen with people-focused insights to help organisations shape the future of work.
Will's role is centred around tackling the complexities of problem-solving, spearheading innovation, and overseeing change management. His keen insight and unwavering commitment to AI technology enable him to develop, integrate, and manage pioneering AI solutions at Hays. Driven by a passion for discovering emerging AI technologies, Will leads forward-thinking strategies that promote technological progress and corporate achievement. His efforts have earned him a prestigious spot where he can both impart his knowledge and gain from other industry luminaries on platforms such as this. At Hays, he is an integral member of a vibrant team dedicated to unlocking the boundless possibilities of AI.
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