AI Campaign Week 2025
Welcome to AI Campaign Week 2025!
Under the theme #SeizingTheAIOpportunity, we are excited to launch our annual AI campaign week, running from Monday 12 May to Friday 16 May.
techUK’s AI Campaign Week 2025 brings together a wide range of stakeholders, including thought leaders and industry experts, to shine a spotlight on the UK’s AI ecosystem and explore the next steps needed to fully realise our AI potential. Through a week of dedicated content, we’ll explore how the UK can drive leadership to remain a global leader in AI, as well as critical themes such as AI adoption, AI assurance, compute and infrastructure and skills and development.
We'll explore how each of these elements are essential to the growth and deployment of AI at scale. Additionally, we are exploring how AI can be a key driver in boosting economic growth and productivity, improving vital public services, and unlocking new opportunities across sectors and industries.
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Blogs
UK AI Leadership (Monday)
Shaping our AI-future: what does it mean to be a leader in AI?
AI Adoption (Tuesday)
Scaling AI for impact: overcoming challenges to seize the AI opportunity
AI Assurance (Wednesday)
Building confidence in AI: operationalising safety, transparency, and accountability
Compute and Infrastructure (Thursday)
Powering progress: the infrastructure and compute foundations for AI growth
AI Skills and Talent (Friday)
Building a future ready workforce for the AI revolution
Videos
Quotes
techUK - Seizing the AI Opportunity
The UK is a global leader in AI innovation, development and adoption.
The economic growth and productivity gain that AI can unlock is vast, but to fully harness this transformative opportunity, immediate action is required. Our aim is to ensure the UK seizes the opportunities presented by AI technology and continues to be a world leader in AI development.
Get involved: techUK runs a busy calendar of activities including events, reports, and insights to demonstrate some of the most significant AI opportunities for the UK. Our AI Hub is where you will find details of all upcoming activity. We also send a monthly AI newsletter which you can subscribe to here.
Upcoming AI events
AI and Inclusion: Breaking Barriers and Inspiring Inclusion in Work and Learning
Online
GDS Cloud & Platforms market engagement - FinOps health-check for public sector
Hybrid - techUK Offices and Online Market briefing
Digital transformation and cloud modernisation in UK public sector
techUK Office ConferenceLatest news and insights
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Contact the team
Usman Ikhlaq
Usman Ikhlaq
Usman joined techUK in January 2024 as Programme Manager for Artificial Intelligence.
He leads techUK’s AI Adoption programme, supporting members of all sizes and sectors in adopting AI at scale. His work involves identifying barriers to adoption, exploring solutions, and helping to unlock AI’s transformative potential, particularly its benefits for people, the economy, society, and the planet. He is also committed to advancing the UK’s AI sector and ensuring the UK remains a global leader in AI by working closely with techUK members, the UK Government, regulators, and devolved and local authorities.
Since joining techUK, Usman has delivered a regular drumbeat of activity to engage members and advance techUK's AI programme. This has included two campaign weeks, the creation of the AI Adoption Hub (now the AI Hub), the AI Leader's Event Series, the Putting AI into Action webinar series and the Industrial AI sprint campaign.
Before joining techUK, Usman worked as a policy, regulatory and government/public affairs professional in the advertising sector. He has also worked in sales, marketing, and FinTech.
Usman holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a GDL and LLB from BPP Law School, and a BA from Queen Mary University of London.
When he isn’t working, Usman enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He also has a keen interest in running, reading and travelling.
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