AI & ML
Hosted by Portico Library
When
Tuesday 10 November 2026
6:30pm
Where
The Portico Library
57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY, Manchester, GB
Price
£10
A one-hour fireside chat and book launch at the Portico Library asking a blunt question about AI: whose problems is it actually being built to solve.
Jenny Garrett OBE and her daughter Leah-Sunshine Garrett are in conversation as part of the library's Portico Ubuntu: Queens in Print series. The pairing is the point — two generations on who gets designed for and who gets designed around as AI systems are built out.
Doors 18:00, talk 18:30 to 19:30, at 57 Mosley Street. GBP 10, and suitable for ages 14 and over.
a short, cheap counterweight to the build-first AI events filling the rest of the Manchester calendar, in one of the city's better rooms. Best for people shipping AI products who want the equity question put to them by someone outside tech.
The Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY, Manchester, GB
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Tuesday 10 November 2026
6:30pm
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The Portico Library
57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY, Manchester, GB
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