Volunteer & Sponsor.

Volunteer & Sponsor.

Brighton AI is looking for volunteers and sponsors

With over 2,000 people in the network, from business, academia and policy-making, we want to continue to offer ground-breaking events, and create collaborations that drive social & economic impact across Sussex.

As an entirely volunteer-run organisation, and almost wholly self-funded, we need volunteers and sponsors to support this amazing community. Please contact us if you’d like to support an event or series of events, or if you’d like to volunteer as an event coordinator, speaker, mentor or community representative.

Sponsorship options are available for every size of organisation.

Local AI Innovation in Action: Meet the Innovators

Brighton & Hove isn’t just a brilliant, creative city by the sea – it’s fast becoming a testbed for AI innovation. From researchers, to startups & scale ups, to long-established businesses, our community is experimenting with new ways of building, creating, and solving problems with AI.

At September’s Brighton AI, we showcased three very different local innovators who are putting AI to work in the real world.

This isn’t theory – it’s AI in action, right here in our city 🤩. Heard how they approached it, what they're learning, and what’s next. Check out the YouTube here

Meet the Innovators

  • Cecilia Drevon-Barbecot from 15gifts (https://www.15gifts.com)
    For over a decade, Brighton-based 15gifts has been driving digital sales success for some of the world’s leading Telcos across the UK and US. This year, 15gifts launched Humara - a specialist AI sales agent. Powered by 13+ years of expertise and trained by top performing salespeople, Humara combines agentic AI with sales psychology to power intelligent digital conversations that build trust and drive confident buying decisions.

  • April Baker – CEO of Together Co (https://togetherco.org.uk).

    Together Co is Brighton’s leading loneliness and social health charity, connecting people through befriending and social prescribing. Since becoming CEO in 2022, April has championed innovation and learning to tackle isolation in new ways. Together Co is exploring how charities can embrace AI responsibly,  from income generation and reducing admin, to crafting compassionate communications and using data to design better services. April will share both the opportunities and the risks they have identified, and how outlined a roadmap for safe, ethical adoption where technology enhances, rather than replaces, the power of human connection.

  • Shaun Ring – PhD researcher at the University of Sussex and Co-Founder of LHC Labs.
    Born out of a collaboration with Oracle, Quistor, and Sussex, LHC Labs is building an AI toolbox and consultancy that delivers a range of AI solutions across research, operations, and innovation - including hate speech & social media analysis.

Thanks to Plus X Innovation for hosting, and Silicon Brighton for recording & streaming.

‘Eutopia’ or Dystopia?

Read our Brighton AI blog post and watch the recording of our June event featuring Matthew Holman, Tech, Data & AI Partner at Cripps LLP, one of the first UK law firms to receive B Corp™ certification. We debated two issues that will deeply affect our community as AI becomes ubiquitous.

Catch up on the Peter Kyle interview

The video is now available on YouTube! Hear the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation & Technology speaking candidly to the Brighton AI audience about his vision for technology-driven growth, and opportunities for social and economic impact - regionally, nationally and internationally.

Hot off the press!

Our next No Code meet-up - designed for people with zero technical or coding knowledge - will be back at 15gifts on Thursday July 10th.

Sign up on the Brighton AI MeetUp page. These fill up quickly!