Economist Impact AI and Business Innovation Summit 2026
Join us at the Economist Impact AI and Business Innovation Summit
Softwire will be at the Economist Impact AI and Business Innovation Summit this March, joining senior leaders from a range of industries to discuss how AI can deliver lasting value in organisations.
Fireside chat: Can growth be maintained when the AI novelty wears off?
Our CTO, Tim Benjamin, will be taking part in a fireside chat on what it takes to move from pilots to AI that is effective and scaled in production. The initial excitement of a new tool is the easy part; scaling it across an organisation, building the right data foundations, and convincing a board to treat it as a long-term investment is where most businesses struggle.
If you are attending the summit, make sure to catch the session.
25th March | 11:50–12:05
Meet the speaker
Tim Benjamin
Chief Technology Officer
Tim Benjamin has spent 25 years putting technology into production in sectors that fight back: financial services, energy, government, and more.
As chief technology officer at Softwire, he now leads AI and data strategy for clients navigating the gap between executive ambition and engineering reality. He is also a classical composer, which may explain his conviction that the best complex systems are built from ingenious, elegant, and well-rehearsed parts.
He is currently helping organisations answer the question that follows every successful AI proof of concept: why is scaling this across the business so much harder than anyone told the board it would be? Where’s the value?
