--- title: YLD Innovate description: An exclusive evening for C-suite technology and business leaders. Real conversations about what AI actually looks like inside real organisations. image: https://events.yld.com/hubfs/Featured%20Image.png --- [Skip to content](https://events.yld.com/the-ai-speed-trap#main-content) --- [![YLD Innovate Full](https://events.yld.com/hubfs/YLD%20Innovate%20Full.svg "YLD Innovate Full")](https://yld.com) ![AI Sparkles](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Group%2019.png?width=48&height=48&name=Group%2019.png "AI Sparkles") London, UK · 3 December 2026 # The AI Speed Trap YLD Innovate brings together C-suite level technology, business and product leaders for an evening of open, peer-level conversation. On 3 December, join us at the Financial Times headquarters to talk about what happens when AI moves faster than the systems meant to govern it. Emmanuelle Savarit, PhD (Founder and Advisor, ES Ltd), Karl Oskar Teien (Chief Product Officer, Financial Times), Assad Hussain (Programme Manager, Nationwide) and Carl Anderson (VP Engineering, Qonto) will look at regulatory pressure and the trade-off between speed and quality in decisions that often have no clear owner. Key details: Date: 3 December  Time: 6-9 PM Venue: The Financial Times headquarters - Bracken House 1 Friday Street, EC4M 9BT Seats are limited, so please register your interest via our form, and we will be in touch to confirm your attendance. --- ## A curated evening for engineering, product and design leaders. Most AI-in-engineering discussions stop at the individual developer. We're going further: what's working when you roll this out across hundreds of engineers with different tools, codebases, and risk tolerances. We'll cover where AI actually shifts the numbers (and where the gains evaporate), what changes for team structure and code review, and how engineering leaders are rethinking how they measure effectiveness. You'll leave with:
 - Concrete examples from organisations rolling this out across thousands of engineers. - A clearer view of where the productivity claims hold up and where they don't. - Time with peers running into the same problems you are. ## Fireside chat AI is giving product and design teams new capabilities faster than oversight can keep up. This conversation will look at where AI is already changing decisions, and what leaders should ask before handing over more of them.  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Luis-3](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Luis-3.png?width=720&height=720&name=Luis-3.png "Luis-3") Luis Klefsjö  Head of Product Design YLD  ✦ SPEAKER  ![Emmanuelle](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Emmanuelle.png?width=360&height=360&name=Emmanuelle.png "Emmanuelle") Emmanuelle Savarit, PhD Founder and Advisor ES Ltd  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Luis-3](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Luis-3.png?width=403&height=403&name=Luis-3.png "Luis-3") Luis Klefsjö  Head of Product Design YLD  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Luis-3](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Luis-3.png?width=403&height=403&name=Luis-3.png "Luis-3") Luis Klefsjö  Head of Product Design YLD  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Luis-2](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Luis-2.png?width=360&height=360&name=Luis-2.png "Luis-2") **Luis Klefsjö** Head of Product Design YLD xxx    ✦ PANELIST  ![empty](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/empty.png?width=360&height=360&name=empty.png "empty") **Emmanuelle Savarit** Founder and Advisor ES Ltd xxxxx  ✦ PANELIST  ![Sérgio Ramos](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Sergio.png?width=768&height=768&name=Sergio.png "Sérgio Ramos") Sérgio Ramos Head of Engineering YLD  ✦ PANELIST  ![Sérgio Ramos](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Sergio.png?width=768&height=768&name=Sergio.png "Sérgio Ramos") Sérgio Ramos Head of Engineering YLD --- ## Agenda 18:00 Doors open, welcome drinks and food --- 18:30 Welcome remarks and intros --- 18:45 Fireside chat with someone from Anthropic --- 19:15 Break --- 19:30 Panel discussion and Q&A --- 20:15 Closing remarks --- 20:30 Networking and drinks --- ## Panel discussion Speed used to be fixed, with quality as the only lever, and AI has made speed a choice. The panel will discuss who owns that choice and how leaders keep confidence in what ships as volume grows.  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Sergio-3](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Sergio-3.png?width=720&height=720&name=Sergio-3.png "Sergio-3") Sérgio Ramos Head of Engineering YLD  ✦ SPEAKER  ![Karl](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Karl.png?width=360&height=360&name=Karl.png "Karl") Karl Oskar Teien Chief Product Officer Financial Times  ✦ SPEAKER  ![Assad](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Assad.png?width=360&height=360&name=Assad.png "Assad") Assad Hussain Programme Manager Nationwide  ✦ SPEAKER  ![Carl](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Carl.png?width=360&height=360&name=Carl.png "Carl") **Carl Anderson** VP Engineering Qonto ---  ✦ MODERATOR  ![Sergio-3](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Sergio-3.png?width=360&height=360&name=Sergio-3.png "Sergio-3") Sérgio Ramos Head of Engineering YLD Sérgio has been at the heart of YLD's technical evolution since its earliest days, shaping the engineering culture and strategic direction that define the company today. He is committed to empowering the engineering team and ensuring every client engagement delivers real, lasting impact. With AI reshaping the industry, he is focused on what comes next: how engineering teams can go deeper, build smarter, and create truly differentiated products.  ✦ PANELIST  ![Assad](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Assad.png?width=360&height=360&name=Assad.png "Assad") **Assad Hussain** Programme Manager | Cloud, Digital and Integration Nationwide Building Society Assad Hussain is a Digital Transformation leader who exemplifies the highest standards of project professionalism, delivery discipline, and people-centred leadership in delivering outcomes for Nationwide Building Society customers. He has successfully led complex, multi-million-pound programmes over 2 decades across Digital Banking, Open Banking, and AI initiatives, ensuring clarity of scope, strong governance, and reliable execution.  ✦ PANELIST  ![empty](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/empty.png?width=360&height=360&name=empty.png "empty") **Karl Oskar Teien** CPO Financial Times xx  ✦ PANELIST  ![empty](https://events.yld.com/hs-fs/hubfs/empty.png?width=360&height=360&name=empty.png "empty") **TBC** xxx xxx xxx ## Agenda 18:00 Doors open, welcome drinks and food --- 18:30 Welcome remarks and intros --- 18:45 Fireside chat with someone from Anthropic --- 19:15 Break --- 19:30 Panel discussion and Q&A --- 20:15 Closing remarks --- 20:30 Networking and drinks --- ## Agenda highlights ### Where governance hasn't caught up We'll get into where responsible adoption and human oversight are struggling to keep pace, and what leaders should be asking before they hand more of that decision-making over to AI systems. ### Speed as a variable, not a constant What changes when teams can choose their pace, and how do leaders decide where to spend the capacity AI frees up?   ### Security as a quality dimension AI has made large-scale stress-testing commercially viable for teams that could never previously afford it. 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