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The Practical AI programme aims to inform and catalyse the adoption of practical AI with local entrepreneurs, businesses, policymakers, public sector delivery bodies, and communities to drive meaningful innovation that improves people’s everyday lives and enables local economic growth. 

This will be delivered through two strands:

  • Inform: stories of responsible AI adoption.
  • Catalyse: unblocking barriers to innovation.

Inform

Practical AI: Inform is an exciting new series of online discussions to share stories of how AI can deliver benefits for people and places. We’ll be talking to AI innovators, users and adopters about the reality of adopting AI and what they've learnt from the experience.

Explore the three previous events below.

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How can discreet home monitoring support individuals living with dementia?

How do you embed person-led accessible technology within home environments?

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Keeping London’s super sewer healthy with embodied AI

What happens when AI-enabled robotics are integrated into critical infrastructure inspection? How can teams navigate the transition from trial to trusted operations, and what lessons can be learned. 

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Through the experience of Transport for West Midlands and VivaCity, we explored what happens when AI is integrated into physical infrastructure, how teams navigate the messy early stages of adoption, and what lessons can be learned from projects like the West Midlands near-miss pilot. 

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Catalyse

Practical AI: Catalyse aims to use the Academy's convening power to catalyse responsible AI adoption where it can drive public benefit. We are hosting workshops with problem owners in the public sector and experts to help them work through their specific AI adoption challenges, such as security, data governance, etc.