Stop Chatting to AI, Start Delegating.
Most event planners still use AI as a chat window. In this hands-on workshop you connect it to the tools you already use, pick up ready-made skills for the tasks you repeat every week, and leave with a personal plan built around you.
Free for BNC Show delegates. Limited places.
- De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms
- One hour, hands-on
- Any level of AI experience
THE WORKSHOP
AI is more useful when it can reach your work.
A chat window only knows what you paste into it. Connect AI to your email, calendar and files, teach it the tasks you repeat, and it stops being something you talk to and starts being something you hand work to.
This session shows you how, then gives you twenty minutes to do it yourself with help on hand. No technical knowledge needed.
AI as a chat window
- You copy and paste between AI and your inbox.
- You explain the same task from scratch every week.
- AI drafts something, then you do the rest.
AI you delegate to
- AI is connected to your email, calendar and files.
- Ready-made skills handle the tasks you repeat.
- You hand off real work and check what comes back.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Four things you can use the next morning.
Everyone also gets a follow-up pack by email on the evening of the show.
A personal plan
Matched to your role, your tools and your experience: which connection to switch on, which skill to use and what to hand off first.
A pack of ready-made skills
AI skills for common event tasks, ready to use the next morning.
Connections, explained safely
A plain-English guide to connecting AI to your email, calendar and files without handing over the keys to everything.
One real task started
You leave with a task from your own workload already under way, not a list of things to try one day.
THE RUNNING ORDER
Twenty minutes of talk. Twenty minutes of doing.
Fifty minutes of content in a one-hour slot, with the middle of the session handed over to you.
- 0 to 8 min
What the room wants
What event planners say they want from AI, then the answers from the people in the room.
- 8 to 11 min
Where are you?
A simple ladder from basic chat to AI that works across your tools. You place yourself on it.
- 11 to 22 min
Connections and skills
How to connect AI to email, calendar and files safely, what a reusable skill is, and a live event-planning demo.
- 22 to 42 min
Your turn
Your personal plan arrives by text and email. You work through your track with help on hand.
- 42 to 50 min
Show, tell and take home
Two or three people share what they made. Everyone gets a follow-up pack by email that evening.
THREE TRACKS
Start where you are.
Beginner, intermediate and advanced tracks run side by side, so nobody sits through what they already know.
- BEGINNER
You rarely use AI, or only ask it questions
Switch on your first connection and hand off one small task you do every week.
- INTERMEDIATE
You use AI for drafts most weeks
Turn a task you keep explaining into a ready-made skill you can reuse.
- ADVANCED
You have set up projects or connected tools
Link AI across more of your tools and plan how to roll it out to your team.
WHY GO TO THE BNC SHOW
A day out of the office that pays off.
The workshop is one hour of a full day built for event planners.
Free for event planners.
A room of your peers
500+ event planners, every one checked by BNC, so the people you meet do the job you do.
Suppliers worth meeting
100 handpicked exhibitors, from venues to event tech, chosen because they are relevant to the room.
Talks with substance
Short, sharp seminars and live panels from senior event professionals on the topics that matter this year.
Free, and well looked after
Free for event planners, with food and drink all day, a goodie bag and a prize draw for every delegate.
The Lowdown: London’s Most Exciting New Venue Openings (And How to Book Them Before the Competition)
A Hire Space panel on the venues opening across London: which ones are worth a look, what they are like to work with, and how to get your dates in before everyone else does.
Add it to your agenda alongside the workshop and make a day of it.
- Panel discussion
- 45 minutes
- De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms
THE HIRE SPACE ZONE
Find us on The Hot List
The Hot List is the Hire Space zone at The BNC Show: the venues our clients ask for most, grouped in one place, with our team on hand all day.
The Hot List
The BNC Show 2026
Come to the workshop, then come and find us. The venues bookers ask for most are a short walk away.
- 01
The venues in demand, in one place
Walk one part of the floor and meet the venues our clients book most, instead of hunting for them stand by stand.
- 02
Introductions from people who book events every day
Our account executives know every venue in the zone and can walk you over to the right one for your next brief.
- 03
Bring a brief
Planning something now? Bring the details and talk it through with our team on the day.
Some of the venues on The Hot List
HOW TO SAVE YOUR SEAT
Three steps to a seat in the room.
Places are limited, so add the workshop to your agenda as soon as it opens.
- STEP 01
Register for The BNC Show
The workshop is part of the show, so you need a delegate place first. It is free for event planners.
Register for The BNC Show - STEP 02
Register your interest here
Let us know with the form on this page, so we can shape the session around the people in the room.
Go to the form - STEP 03
Add the workshop to your agenda
Closer to the show, BNC opens the agenda in the show app and on the show website. Add this session to yours to save your seat.
- Bring a laptop if you can. A phone works too.
- No technical knowledge needed
REGISTER
Register your interest
Stop Chatting to AI, Start Delegating: A Hands-On AI Workshop Built Around You. Thursday 29 October 2026, 1.45pm to 2.45pm, De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. Let us know you are coming.
- WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
- 1
Register for The BNC Show
If you have not already, take your free delegate place.
- 2
Add the workshop to your agenda
Closer to the show, BNC opens the agenda. Adding this session to yours saves your seat.
- 3
Join us on the day
Thursday 29 October 2026, 1.45pm to 2.45pm, at De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms. Your personal plan lands on your phone during the session.