Festival of AI 2025
A day of practical AI in Leicester — every session that shaped the community.
Missed the event? Get every replay.
Full-length recordings of every 2025 session, on-demand.
Sessions
AI Agents - The End of Everything As We Know It
Step into the future with Hayley Brown as she explores the rise of autonomous AI agents and their power to reshape the world as we know it. In this gripping session, Hayley pulls back the curtain on a new era where AI agents don't just assist – they act, decide, and collaborate across entire ecosystems without human intervention. As the founder of AllIn1.app and a leading voice in business automation, Hayley shares how her team uses multi-agent AI systems to automate entire departments, compress timelines, and create exponential impact for businesses. With real examples, live demonstrations, and a fearless look at what's coming next, this session is designed to provoke, inspire, and challenge everything you thought you knew about AI. What happens when AI stops being a tool and becomes an operator? What remains when machines can create, optimise, and execute at scale? This isn't a talk about the future. It's a briefing on what's already begun. You'll leave with a new understanding of AI's trajectory – and the uncomfortable, exciting truth that everything is up for disruption.
Hayley Brown
AI For Six Figure Success in Business
In this session, Rick shares how he leveraged AI to build two multi-six-figure businesses with a small team. You'll learn the actual strategies, tools, and systems that helped him streamline operations, scale offers, and simplify marketing. No fluff, just real examples and a clear roadmap for how you can use AI to level up your own business.
Rick Dubidat
All Speaker Q & A
Festival of AI 2025 Q & A session with almost all the speakers
An AI Powered Super Day
Join Heather Murray, Founder of AI for Non-Techies, as she takes you through an AI-Powered Super Day. In this lively session, she will show the difference between a "normal" working day and an AI-powered one, including the clever AI tools and workflows you can learn to get precious hours back. The session will be delivered in Heather's trademark accessible, human way, without a single trace of the dreaded techie jargon.
Heather Murray
Andrew George
Andrew George
Building A Success Mindset
The rate of change with AI is so rapid that it is easy to get lost. In a world of LLMs, Agents and machine learning clarity is in short supply. This talk goes back to the fundamentals to build an understanding what people really mean when they say "AI" and the mindset you need to tune out the noise and identify the opportunities that can change your business. One that looks at your problems and processes first, maps them to the AI world and explores with immense curiosity.
Kristian Downer
Chase Buckner
Smarter Design with Canva AI
In this training, you'll discover how to use Canva's latest AI and automation features including Canva Code, Magic Media, and AI writing tools to create interactive, professional content that works harder for your business. What You'll Learn: - How to create functional tools with Canva Code - Build simple websites, interactive quizzes, pricing calculators, lead-gen tools, and more right inside Canva using Canva Code (no tech skills needed) - How to edit images with ease using Canva Magic features like Magic Edit, Magic Erase, and text-to-image AI - How to write smarter with Canva AI tools like Magic Write to quickly create copy for emails, captions, and sales pages This session is perfect for business owners, freelancers, and marketers who want to save time, stand out online, and build smart content that actually works not just looks good.
Laura Goodsell
The Empathy Engine
We often hear that AI lacks empathy or human insight. But think about this: AI has been trained on decades of human emotion, confessions, fears, dreams, and frustrations poured out freely online. While humans have deep but narrow perspectives, AI offers breadth. It synthesises the hidden emotional truths we share every day, providing rich insights we simply can't access alone. In this session, Chantelle Davison flips the narrative, showing you how to use AI as a powerful psychological profiler. Discover practical, unconventional techniques for building richer ideal client avatars, creating AI-powered empathy audits, and uncovering subtle emotional signals from your audience.
Chantelle Davison
Why AI Replacing You Isn't A Bad Thing
I've been building out AI Agents using my frameworks to do the things my clients find hard implementing. I create an AI-able signature framework and my clients can use the agents side by side with what I teach them. Completion rates are already much higher. I'll teach you how to create one using my framework so you can do this yourself. Some of the agents you'll see in action include: - Sales page agent - Ideal client agent - Content calendar agents (1, 2, or 3 months) - Funnel agent - Lead magnet agent - Pricing and KPI planning agents - Newsletter agent - Brand book agent - Evergreen sales system agent - Launch planner agent - Research and competitor analysis agent You'll leave with ideas (and templates) to help you work less, earn more, and build smarter systems in your business.
Gemma Went