Executive Leadership Talk: AI for Scotland’s Future
Join Alba Partners for a focused executive session designed for senior leaders, decision-makers, and transformation stakeholders across Scotland’s public and third sectors.Live online
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Description
About Alba Partners
Alba Partners is a practitioner-led consultancy and engineering studio specialising in responsible AI, agentic digital transformation, and regulatory innovation across complex programmes.
They combine strategic advisory with hands-on engineering to deliver measurable impact, spanning digital asset infrastructure, AI product lifecycle leadership, and data-driven capability building, supported by a proven record of transformation across the UK and international markets.
Why Attend
- Gain practical frameworks to translate Scotland’s AI Vision into operational action within your organisation
- Understand why 95% of AI pilots fail, and how to build the 5% that scale successfully
- Discover real examples and partnership pathways that will shape the Scottish public-sector AI ecosystem through 2025 and beyond
Key Themes and Session Overview
- Leadership & Strategic Planning for a creator nation
- Systematic AI integration: From vision to production
- Citizen-centric and responsible, ethical adoption
- The Scottish AI Action Plan and what it means for your organisation
Scotland’s national vision is clear: to be a creator, not just a consumer, of trustworthy, ethical, and inclusive AI.
This 60-minute leadership session, based on Alba’s AI Training Programme, offers strategic clarity and practical insights for public-sector adoption.
You’ll explore:
- Leadership in an AI-Driven Nation: What it means to lead as Scotland becomes an AI creator
- Embedding AI into Product Lifecycles: Moving from pilot to production, what actually works in real-world public-sector settings
- Delivering Citizen Value: Ensuring every implementation advances fairness, transparency, and trust
Speakers
John Hall – Partner, Alba Partners
A practitioner and transformation leader specialising in responsible AI and digital systems within regulated sectors. John focuses on connecting strategy, technology, and policy to build sustainable AI capability across complex organisations.
Prashanth Irudayaraj – Co-Founder, albaX
A deep-tech engineer and AI innovator with experience spanning Georgia Tech Research Institute, Tesla’s Model S and Model 3 programmes, and sovereign AI infrastructure projects across the UK, US, and UAE. Prashanth leads albaX’s engineering practice, where his focus is building agentic AI systems, permissioned blockchain frameworks, and sovereign-grade digital twins for mission-critical use cases.
Together, John and Prashanth bridge the gap between executive understanding and real-world implementation, making AI practical, explainable, and resilient by design.
Context
This session supports the Scottish Government’s AI Action Plan and the Think Data and AI Programme, contributing directly to the national goal of building a balanced, self-sustaining Scottish AI ecosystem.
Be part of the conversation shaping Scotland’s digital future.
Joining Instructions
You will receive the meeting URL before the event starts. Please add the session to your diary.