About Digital Leaders AI

We know that the government and businesses want to help each other use AI, build national resilience and introduce AI effectively. We create environments where great conversations take place to make this happen.
AI is transforming how decisions are made, but AI doesn’t replace leadership – it raises the stakes for it. The challenge isn’t just adopting AI – it’s ensuring accountability, trust, and human judgement remain embedded.

The demand from organisations for AI knowledge and know-how from trusted sources is going to be huge in the next three years as business, government and charities try to keep up and relevant in an AI future where speed and uncertainty will be key stresses for Leaders.

Digital Leaders AI is a main contributor to the UK’s ecosystem for AI Leadership offering its 80,000 members free access to: news; community; expert advice; insight; events; summits; and awards.
For those UK AI experts and businesses looking to share their knowledge to business, government and charities, Digital Leaders AI is one of a few trusted routes to reach and influence UK policymakers and business leaders.

 

A Multi-layered AI Platform

Digileaders AI is essentially a multi-layered AI platform with its key elements already in place being:

• AI News & Insight  → AI Pulse Newsletter / Webinars / Blogs / 12 Topics including Cyber Resilience
• AI Expert → An expert community searchable to find the Experts you need for business and for the experts on the platform, collaboration and clients.
• Week long AI Summits (AI Week / AI Public Sector Week /  National AI Conference / AI Gov Conference) → large-scale engagement and online and in-person
• AI Roundtables → Exclusive high level leadership events in Whitehall and Parliament
  
• AI Recognition & Awards ( AI100 List / AI Impact Awards) → credibility and brand authority celebrating excellence.
• AI Policy Development in Parliament (Digital Policy Alliance) → Working Groups developing and informing policy for decision-makers including: AI for Peers programme; AI Public Services; Defence, Security and Resilience; and Digital Skills.

 

Our Story – From 2011 to now…

Our story began in the basement of a government building in Victoria Street. We were working to promote the “Digital by default “ agenda to transform the UK’s public services, set up in Government with the Cabinet Minister Francis Maude. The UK Digital Champion Martha Lane-Fox;  and the head of the newly created Government Digital Service, Mike Bracken were early participants in our programme. 

Since then we’ve been on a fifteen year journey and have spread our activities to cover the whole of the UK (since 2013). 

2011 – Digital Leaders created

2011 – Taking over the National Digital Conference

2013 – DL Local created across 7 regions 

2013 – DL100 Awards created.

2017 – A national week of Digital Transformation, DLWeek

2018 – Public Sector Innovation Conference started

2020 – Take over of Tech for good Impact Awards  

2024 – AI Week begins

2024 – AI Impact Awards set up

2025 – Digital Policy Alliance acquired

2025 – AI Expert community created

2026 – Open office in Heron House Manchester

 

Our leadership and governance

How are we governed?

The emerging programme and focus of our work is guided by our Advisory Board of cross-sector experts in digital transformation

How are we funded?

In order to maintain a high quality programme of inclusive free at the point of use programme of Conferences, Salons and webinars, we have funding partners who are carefully selected to ensure that our agenda remains independent and non-aligned to any particular business models, commercial perspectives, or specific set of technologies.