LEEDSAI WEEK
19th - 25th Oct 2026
Join Leeds AI Week and explore AI in Business, Education, Tech, the Environment, Engineering, and Healthcare
MONDAY
MONDAY
AI in Business
Exploring whether artificial intelligence is delivering real productivity across the corporate landscape or just driving up costs, and how it affects future employability
Panel: Is AI delivering real productivity, or just an expensive trend?
TUESDAY
TUESDAY
AI in Education
Rethinking the university. What higher education offers the next generation when answers are a prompt away.
Panel: What is a university for in the age of AI?
Speakers
Professor Sarah K. Howard
Professor of Digital Education, Lead of the Centre for Research in Digital Education
Dr Lorna Waddington
Associate Professor of International History, University Academic Lead for Academic Integrity
Professor Kahryn Hughes
Professor of Sociology
Dr Luisa Cutillo
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics
Mohammad Tasfiq Jawaad
Chair, Leeds AI Week
WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY
AI in Tech
Rewriting the career path. How the next generation of developers and engineers can thrive when AI writes the code.
Panel: If AI can write the code, what does a tech career look like?
Speakers
Jon Skeet
Distinguished Engineer at Trainline
Dr Fouzhan Hosseini
HPC & AI Solution Architect at Intel
Ian Thomas
Risk Area Tech Lead at Meta
Mohammad Tasfiq Jawaad
Chair, Leeds AI Week
THURSDAY
THURSDAY
AI and the Environment
Every AI prompt draws electricity and water. Learn what that adds up to across billions of users, where the UK's data centres are heading, and where AI can genuinely help.
Seminar: What is the environmental impact of AI?
FRIDAY
FRIDAY
AI in Engineering
Where physical engineering meets digital intelligence. A live demo of physical AI, and talks from a Leeds PhD researcher and Hydra Manufacturing.
Showcase: Where is AI already at work in engineering?
WEEKEND
WEEKEND
Project Foundation
Leeds AI Week is a student-led initiative founded and led by Mohammad Tasfiq Jawaad.
It brings together founders and executives, researchers and academics, AI specialists and students to discuss what artificial intelligence means for us all: the future of work, the integrity of education, the environmental cost of the technology, the way software is now built, and its role in engineering and healthcare. The week runs through panel discussions, a workshop and a hackathon.
Mark your calendar.
Enquiry: [email protected]