“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet.” 

That observation is increasingly true of artificial intelligence. Frontier capabilities are advancing rapidly, yet practical adoption remains uneven across some of the economy’s most important and complex sectors.

Join this week’s Gemini Call with Louis McKenzie from Mott MacDonald for the launch of the Applied AI Special Interest Group and an important discussion about what may really be holding AI adoption back. 

The challenge is often framed as a lack of technology, skills, resources or appetite. But in complex delivery environments, the deeper barrier may be coordination. Valuable AI-enabled methods can be difficult to recognise, trust, procure, scale and monetise because the confidence needed to adopt them is distributed across clients, suppliers, procurement teams, IT departments, legal advisers, insurers, regulators and other stakeholders. 

No single organisation can resolve this challenge alone. 

This session will introduce the Special Interest Group’s initial focus on this coordination-based capability overhang: the widening gap between what AI can already do and what organisations are currently able to deploy confidently in practice.

Why attend?

AI adoption is not simply a technology challenge. In established sectors, successful deployment depends on organisations aligning around risk, value, assurance, responsibility and new ways of working. 

This session will help attendees understand why promising AI applications can stall between pilot and implementation, and how cross-sector collaboration could create the confidence and conditions needed to move from isolated experimentation to repeatable, scalable delivery. 

Attendees will also have an early opportunity to learn about and engage with the new Applied AI Special Interest Group.

What you’ll learn

• Why advanced AI capability is not translating evenly into practical adoption 
• How coordination barriers can prevent valuable AI-enabled methods from scaling 
• Why confidence is distributed across clients, suppliers, procurement, IT, legal, insurance and regulation 
• What the “capability overhang” means for established and highly regulated sectors 
• How shared approaches to trust, assurance and value could accelerate responsible adoption 
• What the Applied AI Special Interest Group will explore and how the community can contribute 

Who should attend?

This session is ideal for AI and digital twin practitioners, infrastructure professionals, clients and suppliers, innovation teams, procurement specialists, legal and assurance professionals, insurers, regulators, policymakers and anyone responsible for introducing AI into complex delivery environments. 

About the speaker

Louis McKenzie is from Mott MacDonald and will introduce the thinking behind the Applied AI Special Interest Group, including its initial focus on the coordination challenges that prevent existing AI capabilities from being adopted and scaled across established sectors.

Register now for free to join the launch of the Applied AI Special Interest Group and help shape a collaborative approach to turning AI capability into trusted, practical and scalable impact. 

The 30-minute session will include a focused presentation followed by an interactive community Q&A. 

Part of the weekly Gemini Call series, hosted by Digital Twin Hub and Connected Places Catapult.

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