AI Lunch & Learn
AI. Without the hype.
Over lunch.
A complimentary, 60-90 minute practical session for boards, leadership teams and working groups who want an honest conversation about what AI actually does and where it actually works. No sales pitch. No jargon gatekeeping. Bring questions.
Not another webinar. Not another sales pitch.
AI has been the loudest conversation in business for two years, and most of it has been noise. Vendors selling magic, headlines selling fear, slide decks selling roadmaps. Very little of it sounds like your Tuesday morning.
The Xerini AI Lunch & Learn is the opposite: a grounded, hands-on conversation led by practitioners who build AI systems for a living. You will see the tools we actually use, the places we have seen AI deliver, and the places we have seen it fall over.
Bring your team, your questions, and an appetite.
Five themes. One very useful lunch.
We tailor the material to your sector and the room. Here is the skeleton every session runs on.
AI Fundamentals
Plain-English introduction to generative AI and Large Language Models. What AI can and cannot do in practical business terms. Real capabilities versus common misconceptions.
Live Demonstrations
Hands-on with the tools we use every day, beyond ChatGPT. Real business scenarios, prompting techniques, and how we stitch off-the-shelf tools into working workflows.
Sector Applications
AI opportunities relevant to your industry. Examples of where AI is already delivering value in your sector, drawn from our client portfolio across finance, built environment, manufacturing and more.
Implementation Realities
Lessons from AI projects that shipped, and a few that didn't. Data quality, integration, governance, compliance and hallucinations, covered without the scaremongering.
Strategic Insights
Where the technology is heading over the next 12-24 months. How to evaluate AI opportunities inside your organisation, and when to bring in expert help versus building internal capability.
In the room
We run these. Regularly.
From school leadership teams and charity boards to professional services firms and industry conferences, these sessions have been delivered across the UK. Real rooms, real sandwiches, real questions.
Who it is for
If your team is curious, sceptical, or completely lost with AI, this session is designed for you. We have run it for all three.
Boards & SLTs
Directors wanting a clear, honest view of what AI can do, what it costs, and where it creates real operational leverage.
Operations teams
Working groups drowning in manual processes who want to see exactly what a private LLM or agent would actually change day to day.
Clients & partners
Professional services firms running AI briefings for their own customers, with Xerini as the expert facilitator in the room.
Who is delivering it
Sessions are facilitated by one of our three founding directors. 20+ years each, building mission-critical software and AI systems for banks, asset managers and industrial clients. No junior consultants reading from a deck.
20+ years in banking technology. Real-time market data platforms supporting billions of dollars of trades at UBS, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan.
14+ years in financial software. AI and machine learning specialist, including an in-car ML application for road safety. Builds the systems he talks about.
20+ years as a technology leader. Headed Morgan Stanley's regulatory control and reporting for EMEA, established cloud SaaS offerings across Asia and North America.
What your team walks away with
Practical knowledge
- Clear picture of what AI can and cannot do
- Tools your team can use from Monday morning
- Prompting and workflow techniques that transfer
Strategic clarity
- Realistic expectations on timelines and investment
- Understanding of compliance and ethical guardrails
- Awareness of risks and proven mitigations
Actionable next steps
- Specific tools ready for immediate use
- Resource and investment priorities
- Contacts and resources for continued learning
Set Up a Session
Bring it to your team.
Every session is tailored, so we always start with a short conversation: who is in the room, what you want them to walk away with, which sector examples to lean on. Sessions are complimentary and entirely educational. Travel within London is on us; outside London we charge travel and travel time at cost.