We’re heading to the London edition of Microsoft's AI Tour next week and wanted to give this community a quick heads‑up on what we’ll be talking about. With around 5,000 attendees expected at the Excel Centre on Tuesday 24th February, this is a significant event for organisations invested in Microsoft technology and considering their AI strategy.
More details on the event itself at the end of this post. We'll have a big presence there and would love to see you - either on the Advania stand, at our headline breakout session, or both!
Our talk - "Case Study: A Frontier Firm and Partner in Motion"
Our session is a real case study on becoming a “frontier firm” with AI – what worked, what didn’t, and what surprised us along the way. Whether you like Microsoft's new label of "frontier" firm or not (personally, I'm mixed on it to be honest), it does signify how organisations getting real returns from AI today have approached it.
We’ll cover themes like:
- Copilot beyond individual productivity
- Agents vs. SaaS (and why that conversation is heating up)
- The importance of tailoring AI to your people, data and workflows
- Why expertise and coherence matter more than the latest model release
As the title conveys, this is actually two case studies in one - our work to drive real transformation and ROI in one of clients with fairly holistic AI (not just one tool or approach), and how we've transformed some of our processes at Advania with agents.
To bring things to life, we'll demo some of the high value AI agents and solutions we've built and explain the measurable returns they're driving.
If you’re wrestling with AI strategy, adoption, ROI, or scaling responsibly, it should be a useful conversation.
We'd love to see you there! See our earlier post with how to attend:
https://community.advania.co.uk/events/28-join-advania-at-the-microsoft-ai-tour
As a final word, here's the official session abstract for our talk if you want to understand more of our key messages:
Bold organisations succeed with a clear view of AI value creation and a team delivering holistically – which could span Microsoft 365 Copilot to transform productivity, targeted agents for high‑value processes, and bespoke solutions on Microsoft Foundry for complex data. With real-world demos and compelling data, we share how – in different ways - Microsoft AI is transforming a global law firm (including an RFP agent saving 400 days per year) and the partner delivering it.
