Mindstone Practical AI Meetup with UKAI

Barclays Eagle Labs, Grainger Hub, 1st Floor, Maybrook House, 27 Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5JE

Join UKAI and Mindstone for an evening of hands-on AI discovery.

This event features two live demonstrations led by AI experts who walk you through real AI-powered tools in real time. No slides, no theory, just practical AI in action. It's the kind of session that genuinely surprises people and leaves them thinking differently about what's possible. We'll round off the presentations with a concise talk on how to start applying AI meaningfully inside your organisation.

What makes these evenings special is the room itself. From founders building AI-powered products to senior leaders navigating adoption, and from seasoned engineers to those just getting started, everyone brings something different and everyone leaves with something new. We'll have a brilliant mix of local businesses all figuring out the future of AI together.

Then to finish the evening, we open up the floor for networking over pizza and beers. This is where the real conversations happen: swap ideas, share experiences, and connect with people who are thinking about AI just as seriously as you are. Whether you leave with a new contact, a new perspective, or just a better sense of where things are heading, it's an evening well spent.

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Agenda

Doors Open

Welcome to the event

Introduction

Welcome and event introduction

From prompt to production: what it takes to build a reliable AI agent by Peter Cheyne

Getting an AI agent to work in a demo takes an afternoon. Getting it to work reliably, securely, every day is where most teams get stuck. This is a walkthrough of what we learned building AI agents for real business use. Live on stage, I'll build a working agent that reads call transcripts, extracts actions and insights, and writes structured output to Google Sheets. Then I'll walk through what it actually takes to get an agent from "works on my machine" to something your team can depend on.

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How to build Agentic Workflows by Kofo Adebiyi

Wiring AI to do one task is easy. Building agentic workflows your team can rely on every day - gathering the right context, applying your judgement, showing up consistently for every customer - is where the real shift happens. Live on stage, this demo will show how a solo product marketer turns scattered customer context into finished marketing materials, and one that delivers a personalised response to every individual in a group, overnight, with one approval click. At the end, you will uncover the pattern underneath both — and what it takes to make agentic workflows reliable enough for real business use.

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What Does The Future Look Like With AI?

A theoretical talk on the impact of AI on work, life and society.

Wrap Up

Closing remarks and next steps

Pizza, Drinks & Networking

Casual networking with food and drinks

Agenda

Speakers

Attendees