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Equal Experts is at Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2026 in Barcelona.

Come and talk to us about the operating model and governance changes that actually make AI-native delivery work. Book a meeting with our team at Gartner Barcelona by completing the contact us form.

We’ve got the tools. What hasn’t changed is how you work.

Most large organisations have already bought the AI tooling. What hasn’t changed is how teams are structured, how they work, and how that work is governed. That’s the gap between AI-augmented – humans led, AI assisting – and truly AI-native – AI-driven, human-supervised. It’s where the real value is sitting, unclaimed.

Equal Experts works alongside enterprise engineering teams on exactly that shift: redesigning operating models – team structures, ways of working, the human-AI workforce – and getting governance and cost control right as you scale, rather than bolting it on afterwards.

We’re not here to sell you a product or a roadmap deck. AI-native delivery is only ever perfected by experienced people working inside your teams, not by tooling alone – and that’s who we bring. A network of practitioners who’ve done this in large, regulated, complex organisations, honest about what’s working and what isn’t. Our aim isn’t to become a permanent fixture; it’s to build your team’s own capability so you need us less over time, not more.

Three reasons to come find us on the floor:

• We talk operating models, not buzzwords. How team structures, roles and ways of working actually need to change to get value from AI – not another generic “we’ve solved agentic AI” pitch.
• We know governance can’t be an afterthought. Cost control and AI governance built in as you scale, not bolted on once things have already gone sideways.
• We’ve done this in complex, regulated organisations – government, financial services, manufacturing — where “just move fast” isn’t an option.

Jon Dickinson, Chief Commercial Officer

Leading our stage session on why the operating model, not the tooling, is really blocking AI value.

Mike Lamb, Global Head of Business Development

Ask him about scaling AI delivery across large, complex organisations.

Dave Sammut, Head of Architecture EMEA

Deep enterprise delivery experience – peer-level conversations on scaling AI in complex environments.

Simon Bostock, Managing Director, Benelux

Deep enterprise delivery experience – enterprise-scale AI delivery, no fluff.

Simon Case, Global Head of Data and AI

Bringing the data lens to AI-native delivery, ask him how your data foundations hold up once AI is actually driving the work.

Sarah Wilkinson, Event Lead

Say hi on the stand, she’s running the show and can point you to the right person.

Our speaking session

Moving From AI Coding Tools to Measurable Value

Most organisations have given their software teams AI tools and are still waiting for the return. Buying the tools is the easy part, and most organisations get stuck there. The value comes when teams change how they work, moving from what Gartner calls AI-Augmented to AI-Native software engineering, and it only compounds on sound engineering foundations.

In this session, Equal Experts is joined by Adam Linford, Technology Director at AXA UK, to share what that shift actually takes inside a large, regulated enterprise: how AXA built governed, versioned AI workflows, why the real bottleneck moved from writing code to changing it safely, and how they are turning released capacity into measurable value.

You’ll leave with a clear, practical view of where to invest to make AI pay off in software delivery.

About Equal Experts

Equal Experts is a global network of 4,000+ senior consultants across five continents, helping enterprises solve complex business problems and create leading digital products and services. We decide with data, design for users, deliver at pace and scale sustainably.