AI in Careers Lightning Conference 2026: event resources

This event was delivered by the Career Development Institute in partnership with CareerChat UK and University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research on Wednesday 29 April.

To support delegates further, we are sharing some useful documents below.

Speakers' presentations and videos

We are grateful to our speakers for kindly sharing their presentations (only content approved for sharing has been listed below).


Welcome & Introduction - Morrisby
Steve Cole 
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Talk 1 - Talk 2 - Talk 3
Chris Brown, Peter Chambers & Luisa Moreno, Laura Asbridge
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Talk 4 - Talk 5 - Talk 6
Marianne Wilson, Cato Rolea, Emily Tanner 
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Talk 7 - Talk 8 - Talk 9
Alex Zarifeh, Peter Dickinson, Marie Zimenoff
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Talk 10 - Talk 11 - Talk 12
Chris Percy, Tom Staunton, David Timis
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Deep dive session 1 - Home nations
Chris Brown, Luisa Moreno, Oliver Jenkin
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Deep dive session 2 - AI's impact on work
Peter Dickinson, Marie Zimenoff, Chris Webb
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Deep dive session 3 - Practitioner perspectives: AI, practice and professional identity
Tom Staunton, Marianne Wilson, Deirdre Hughes
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Deep dive session 4 - AI in education and the wider community
Alex Zarifeh, Cato Rolea, Emily Tanner, Joanne Carrington
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Final plenary session & Close
Chris Webb, Deirdre Hudges, Michael Larbalestier, Oliver Jenkin  
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