About this Event
AI for Business Growth: From Ideas to Action
AI is everywhere. But the real question for small businesses is: how can you actually use it to grow?
Join Julie Creffield for a practical, hands-on workshop designed to help you move beyond playing with AI and start applying it to real business challenges and opportunities.
During this 90-minute session, you’ll explore how AI can help you find and understand customers, save time, develop ideas, improve your marketing and make running your business easier.
This isn’t a technical AI session. There’s no coding, complicated jargon or expectation that you already know what you’re doing. Instead, Julie will share practical strategies, real-world examples and simple activities that you can immediately apply to your own business.
You’ll leave with new ideas, useful prompts and practical actions you can start experimenting with straight away.
Your host
Julie Creffield is the Innovation Director at Broxbourne Enterprise Centres, where she supports local businesses to innovate, grow and turn ideas into action.
She also heads up the Google-funded Emerging Tech programme at the nearby Theobalds Enterprise Centre, helping businesses explore and adopt emerging technologies including AI, data and automation.
Alongside this work, Julie is an AI and business strategist, keynote speaker and author of Grow Your Business with the Help of AI — a practical guide for ordinary business owners who want to do extraordinary things.
This workshop also marks the local launch of the book.
🎁 Everyone attending will receive a FREE eBook copy of Grow Your Business with the Help of AI, worth £5.99.
📅 Thursday 1st October 2026
⏰ 10:00am–11:30am
📍 Hoddesdon Enterprise Centre
Open to HEC businesses, local founders, small businesses and anyone curious about using AI to grow.
Come with a business challenge. Leave with ideas you can actually use.
Event venue & nearby stays
Hoddesdon Enterprise Centre (part of the Broxbourne Enterprise Centres), Pindar Road, Hoddesdon, United Kingdom
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