Accelerate Your Innovation
Our 5th Year of Impact: The Premier Workplace Innovation Event Returns on Wednesday 13th May 2026.
From powering across tracks to cutting through open water.
Once, success in a digital world felt like a racetrack: clear goals, steady ground, and progress powered by skill and speed.
Now, it’s “open water”.
Change is coming faster and from every direction - AI, security threats, automation, data complexity, workforce transformation...and all converging into a powerful, accelerating current. You can’t slow the tide, but you can strengthen your vessel, sharpen your crew, and choose how you move forward.
Join industry leaders to prepare your organisation for the realities ahead, and learn how to navigate the continuous tides of change with confidence, clarity, and control.
Our 2026 Guest Speakers & Agenda
Explore the exclusive sessions and expert insights shaping this year’s Accelerate Your Innovation experience.
- Becky Simms
- Mike Bates
- Katie King
- Confidently Managing the Tides of Change: Progress in Practice
- The Mercedes‑AMG Track Experience
Augmented Intelligence: Designing the Human & AI Workplace
with Becky Simms, CEO of the Human First Collective & appointed member of the UK Government’s Digital Skills Council.
An exploration of how organisations design workplaces where human capability, AI, and emerging technologies work in true partnership…amplifying people, accelerating progress, and redefining the essentials for high performance.
Turning ambition into high performance, decisive action
with Mike Bates ,Former Marine, human intelligence specialist, covert counterterrorism operations leader, entrepreneur and adventurer.
Step inside the mindset forged in elite sport and high‑stakes intelligence work…and discover how focus, resilience, and repeatable habits convert pressure into decisive action and sustained success in "fast‑moving environments".
Reading Tomorrow's Signals Before They Becomes Today's Rapids
with Katie King, a recognised authority in AI and digital leadership.
Look beyond today’s digital disruption to the horizon already forming, where the choices made now will define who leads over the next 12–18 months and beyond. As AI becomes infrastructure and automation, cyber security, and workforce change converge, this session delivers clarity and a practical framework to navigate today and lead what’s next.
Confidently Managing the Tides of Change: Progress in Practice
A candid, practical conversation focused on what’s working now, grounded in real examples of progress today. Our panel explores how leaders and teams are building capability, strengthening resilience, and confidently navigating change by adopting the right technologies, redesigning work, and upskilling for what’s next.
The Mercedes‑AMG Track Experience
End the day with an unforgettable, adrenaline‑charged driving experience.
Feel the power of a Mercedes‑AMG on track, master skid‑pan control and test your straight‑line speed alongside professional drivers. Who will take home “Driver of the Day”?
Register your interest for Accelerate Your Innovation 2026