Why Simon
Credibility built through delivery - not prediction.
Simon Ellis is an executive technology and AI leader with more than 25 years’ experience turning strategy into investable transformation across retail, veterinary healthcare, insurance, digital, logistics, energy and defence.
“The opportunity is not simply to automate more work. It is to redesign how enterprises operate, how people lead and work, and how customers buy and receive service.”
Keynotes and executive sessions
Six ideas for the age of intelligent agents
The Orchestrated Enterprise
How organisations must evolve when software can understand, decide and act.
Rethinking Work: The Human-Agent Enterprise
How leadership, roles, skills and accountability change when colleagues and agents work together.
Agentic Commerce
What happens when customers delegate discovery, decisions and purchasing to intelligent agents.
Agentic Service
How service moves beyond answering questions towards understanding situations and resolving outcomes.
The Architecture Pivot
Why architecture must move from documenting systems to shaping intelligent action.
Governing Appropriate Autonomy
How leaders balance speed, authority, accountability and human judgement.
Conference keynotes · Leadership off-sites · Board briefings · Panels · Podcasts · Facilitated conversations
Ways to work together
From provocation to practical progress
Keynote
A compelling, tailored perspective for conference or corporate audiences.
Executive briefing
A candid, evidence-led discussion connecting external change to your strategic agenda.
Human-agent workshop
A facilitated session to redesign work, roles, decision rights, skills and leadership practices around intelligent agents.
Strategic advisory
Independent support spanning AI strategy, operating models, architecture, customer transformation and governance.
Every engagement is shaped around the audience, strategic context and outcome required. Fees and travel are agreed by proposal.
Proof in practice
A practitioner’s perspective, grounded in delivery
Annual value from an enterprise autonomous fraud agent, with substantially reduced investigation effort.
Delivery on Microsoft’s agentic AI platform for enterprise fraud detection, featured in a global keynote and campaign.
Retail Disruptor and Innovator of 2026, recognised by the Retail Technology Show.
Global Microsoft cloud transformation spanning 400+ application migrations across EMEA, Asia and South America.
Selected stages and appearances
A trusted voice in the conversations shaping enterprise AI
Microsoft World Tour · London
Pets at Home’s autonomous fraud agent featured in Microsoft’s CEO keynote and subsequently in a global Copilot agent campaign.
Salesforce UK AI Centre opening
Panel contributor on AI adoption, enterprise transformation and moving from experimentation to business value.
London Tech Show
Panel discussion covering autonomous agents, conversational brand identity, customer experience and meaningful measures of AI value.
Retail & technology forums
Invited speaker on the GenAI journey, future retail, enterprise architecture and agentic transformation.
Designed for decision-makers
What audiences leave with
A shared language
A practical way to discuss agents, autonomy, orchestration and control without disappearing into technical jargon.
A strategic lens
Clarity on where intelligent agency changes customer experience, operations, architecture and leadership.
Real-world evidence
Lessons from deploying AI in a complex, regulated, multi-business enterprise - not a laboratory.
A path to action
Concrete questions, decisions and next steps appropriate to the organisation’s level of maturity.
Suitable for boards, executive teams, architecture and technology leaders, transformation communities and retail audiences.
Speaking & advisory brochure 2026
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Explore Simon’s topics, formats, credentials and ways to work together.