150+ consulting leaders. One invitation-only day at BMA House, London, on 22 October 2026. One question: what does AI really mean for the future of consulting? Case studies instead of slideware, workshops with takeaways you can use on Monday, confidential peer circles, and table captains to close the day.
Doors open from 8:00 AM. Come at your own pace for coffee, fresh pastries and fruits, and get the first conversations of the day in before the opening.
C-level communities in 7 countries and 20+ cities. Today, London.
How a small circle of consulting leaders grew into a community across Europe, and what makes this room different: everything said here stays here, and nobody gives advice, only experience. Our London Ambassador shares why he is part of it.
About 3 minutes each. Name, firm, one fun fact.
Two circles, eight partners, one horn to switch speaker, two horns to move on. Before the first keynote you will know more people in the room than at most full-day conferences.
Three studies, 2024 to 2026. What changed, and who is turning AI activity into results.
How AI adoption, proficiency and ROI expectations have shifted across three years of SPI Research benchmarks. Where leaders now expect AI to change the business most, what that means for delivery teams, and the data, skills and measurement habits that separate high performers from everyone else.
AI hit professional services first and hardest. Most firms still tolerate it instead of adopting it.
Capgemini Invent is working to make AI part of the firm's DNA and its clients'. What actually works: the strategy behind an AI-first consultancy, why most training programmes fail, and the ladder from literacy to fluency to human-AI chemistry. Then the proof: tools that leaders in this room built at the pre-summit hackathon, with no coding background.
Hoping AI will spare your firm is not a strategy.
StrategyFrame AI grew from EUR 1M revenue in 2024 to EUR 5.5M in 2025 and is on track for double-digit millions in 2026. Christian Underwood shows how the next-generation consultancy is built: product-first, AI-native, and ready for what is coming.
AI is not an efficiency conversation. Treat it like one and you pay for it.
Fewer hours, thinner margins, a race to the bottom: that is the usual AI story in consulting. Three leaders argue the real opportunity sits in how a firm is structured, how its delivery engine runs and how its leaders lead, and in getting all three to move together. What becomes possible when they do, and what it costs when they don't.
Agents on the staffing plan. People on the client. Who manages what?
Leaders who are launching agentic service lines share how it is changing delivery. How do you manage a hybrid workforce of agents and people, and what does it do to the true economics of services?
AI now runs business workflows. Almost nobody can measure what they deliver.
A way to measure AI-powered workflows across observability, cost, performance and result quality, and to compare them with others across the industry. See how it works, challenge the thinking, and find out how to put one of your own workflows through the assessment.
Started at 22 with no clients, no partners, no network. Now about 110 people in three countries.
much. went from €100k in 2018 to an expected €12-13M this year, and 80-85% of new clients had never met the firm. Every time they hit a wall, they systemized instead of hiring: 100% inbound demand in DACH with about 250 qualified opportunities per quarter, a pipeline that gives a 6-9 month signal for hiring, and an automated back office at a 10:1 ratio of billable consultants to HQ staff.
Your network only reaches people you already know.
Your best work comes from relationships. But the buyers you haven't met yet stay out of reach, and cold outreach gets deleted. A hands-on session on how community-led sales puts you in the room with them, trust first, before any pitch.
When agents do 50-60% of the work, the fee model breaks.
Two cases. Protect margin: a team where AI agents now handle 50-60% of execution. Win the recurring mandate: an agentic CFO control tower that becomes ongoing work inside portfolio companies. Live polls show where your peers stand, then you work in small groups on your own answer: what do you change first in pricing, staffing or offer? You leave with one move to take back to your firm.
Five leaders and one professional coach per group, in three parallel groups. Confidential. Groups are matched on the challenge you submit in the app.
A board of consulting leaders who want to shape LEADERS IN CONSULTING in London.
David Williams announces the London City Board. Want a seat? Join him at the table captains tonight. We close with the membership deal, what you get and what we ask, and the next London dates.
Captain tables to close the day.
Food, drinks and open conversation.