Tech Events by The Curve

An online session from The Curve on the operational side of AI governance — what has to happen after the framework is signed off for controls to still be working six months later, and where governance programmes typically decay.

Somewhere in your business right now, someone is probably using AI you don't know about. Not maliciously. Just because there's no sanctioned way to do it properly, so people quietly route around the gap. That's not a discipline problem. It's a design problem.

A 30-minute online session from The Curve on moving an organisation from reporting towards measurable returns on its data work. Free, listed through Manchester Digital.

A closed-door breakfast roundtable on how to size a digital transformation investment when the harder number to pin down is what standing still already costs you. The Curve runs it under the Chatham House Rule for senior leaders, with no presentations and no pitches - the format is discussion around a table, an hour from 09:00 at No.1 Circle Square. The agenda works through quantifying what the current state costs the business, defining outcomes before picking technology, sizing spend against the organisation's own data, sequencing a phased programme, and where AI, automation and infrastructure actually belong in that order. Free, breakfast provided, places strictly limited. No speakers are named - the draw is the other people at the table, not a platform. Why go: it is a rare Manchester room where transformation budgets get discussed candidly rather than pitched at. Best for CIOs, transformation leads and operations directors who have to hold the business case.

AI made building easier. It didn't remove the work that used to sit between an idea and something safe to rely on. It just moved that work later, and made it easier to skip. That's the trap. Someone in your organisation has already vibe-coded something. It works, or it looks like it does.

A short online session from The Curve on what comes after an AI-assisted prototype: the engineering, governance and operational work needed to take something vibe-coded and make it production ready. Aimed at teams who have already shipped something with AI tooling and now need it to hold up.

What does AI actually look like inside your organisation? A grounded, Chatham House breakfast for senior leaders. Manchester, 30 Sept.

A real project on what it actually takes to turn scattered systems into decisions you can trust. Is it still worth sending an engineer to that site? For a leader, it's a five-second question. Answering it properly, factoring in support ticket volume, engineer cost, contract terms and history, took days, several people, and still came with caveats attached.