UK's AIBusiness Summit
For non-technical business leaders, founders and marketers who build and ship real products, tools and automations with AI.
A room full of people who build — not people who talk about building.
Every AI conference in the country talks about what's coming. This one is built around a single promise: you leave having shipped, or knowing exactly how to. One day, three rooms, 300 business leaders and the only event in the UK where SME owners, marketers and founders come to build real software for their own businesses.
Two rooms. One promise.
Main Stage
The shared moments. One live build; an audience problem shipped as a working app in 45 minutes. Plus show & tells from real builders sharing revenue numbers, what broke, and what the AI got wrong.
Conversations
The business track. Governance, security, data protection, distribution, cost-cutting. The room where leaders get the answers their board and IT department will ask before saying yes.
Build Rooms
Laptops open, capped capacity. A beginner track — your first app, shipped today — and a scale track covering auth, payments and databases. What separates a demo from a product.
What you'll walk out having built
The actual thing, live and deployed.
A word from Joy Eneghalu
The Next Step Summit was built for every business leader who's been told building software is for someone else. It isn't. Watch this short message to find out what we're building and why November 2026 is the moment.
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The moment that sets the tone. An honest look at why this is the most important window for women in business to build — and what AI makes possible.
The blockers every business leader hits when deploying AI — security, governance and data protection answered.
Speakers who made different decisions. The real economics of building your own tools versus buying.
The headline moment of the day. An audience problem becomes a working deployed app on stage in 45 minutes.
Build a professional video presence with AI — no camera crew, no studio. In partnership with HeyGen.
One guest, one conversation. How AI tools are being used to build products for real communities.
One practitioner, one clear repeatable system for getting found. Actionable from the moment you leave.
How AI turns what you already know into software you can sell — the monetisation talk for professionals.
How AI tools serve — or fail — businesses operating across languages, dialects and non-Western markets.
Blank screen to deployed product in 45 minutes. Bring a problem. Leave with something real. Workshop Room A.
Auth, databases, APIs — what separates a demo from a production-ready product. Workshop Room A.
No polish required. Honest is more valuable than impressive. The session people remember six months later.
Built for people with a business & an idea
If you've ever been quoted £15,000 for a product idea or you have an idea sitting in your notepad, this summit is for you.
SME Owners
Replace agency quotes and IT dependencies with tools you build and own yourself.
→Marketers & Operators
Ship your own campaign tools, lead capture, dashboards and client portals without waiting on developers.
→Intending Founders
Launch your first product — especially if you're a woman who's been told building tech is for someone else. It isn't.
→Corporate & L&D Teams
Assess AI governance, risk and the capability your team needs to build safely and at scale.
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Birmingham · 19 November 2026 · Limited seats.
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