Humans and AI: The Skills That Keep You Relevant

AI is changing every workplace but most people are still waiting for someone to explain what that actually means for them, their role, and their future.

Humans and AI: The Skills That Keep You Relevant is a fireside panel event bringing together five exceptional speakers from across technology, education, creative industries, and organisational design. 

Hosted by Sooz Young, founder of Technology Coaching, this is a real conversation about the human skills that matter more than ever in an AI-enabled world and what it takes to stay confident, capable, and competitive.

This is the third year Technology Coaching has delivered an event at Glasgow Tech Week. It consistently sells out.

Technology isn't slowing down, but the question most people are quietly asking isn't about the tools. It's about themselves. Am I keeping up? Do I have the right skills? Where do I fit in a world where AI is doing more and more? How do I navigate this change of work? Will AI take my job? How do I keep myself up to date? What does the future look like?

This event is built around those questions.

Through an honest, unscripted fireside panel conversation, our speakers will explore what's really changing in the workplace, what human skills are becoming more valuable, not less, and how individuals and organisations can navigate this shift with confidence.

No death-by-slide-deck. No jargon. Just five people who are living and working in this space, with a huge range of experiences working across different industries and sectors, working with public sector, private and corporate, charities and third sector and the arts, sharing what they're actually seeing and what they are doing to adapt to the change.

• Fireside panel discussion with five expert speakers
• Real stories, honest insights, and practical perspectives
• Audience Q&A — bring your questions and use the Slido to ask your questions.
• Networking before and after the session
• A welcoming, energising space for a conversation that matters

🎤 MEET THE SPEAKERS

Rachael Arnold — CEO and Founder, Creative Entrepreneurs Club; Entrepreneur in Residence, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Rachael Arnold is the founder of Creative Entrepreneurs Club, a global platform for creative freelancers and small businesses, and Entrepreneur in Residence at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. With 25 years of experience working alongside creative people, Rachael has built her career on a single conviction: you can build a creative career that works for your life. As someone who is ADHD and dyslexic, she talks openly about what it means to build a business with a brain wired for creative thinking — and at a time when human connection has never mattered more, she speaks about creativity, neurodivergence, the future of work, and what it really means to build something sustainable in an age of AI.

Kevin Stewart - Design and Products Leader, Owendale Advisory

Kevin Stewart is a design and products leader with a background in complex transformation projects across healthcare, mobility, and finance. Through Owendale Advisory, he works with executive teams to help them redesign how work gets done in the age of AI and automation — focusing on the human and organisational side of intelligent transformation.

Caroline Laurenson - Managing Director and Co-Founder, TL Tech

Caroline Laurenson is the Managing Director and co-founder of TL Tech, an award-winning IoT services provider and voice app developer championing accessible smart home technology across housing, health, and social care. Caroline's main area of interest is conversational AI — she is the host of the European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit in Edinburgh, and was named a Top 200 Women in Conversational AI at an international event in Tennessee. She is also a Non-Executive Director at North East Scotland College and runs the Women in Tech Aberdeen monthly meet-ups.

Gary Crawford - Strategy and Innovation Consultant, Owendale Advisory

Gary Crawford is a strategy and innovation consultant with deep experience leading product, technology, and leadership teams through business model transformation and digital disruption. His work sits at the intersection of emerging technology and organisational design, helping companies rethink how they operate, grow, and compete in the age of AI.

Bianca Peel - Artist and Founder, NomadAlba

Bianca Peel is an artist, creative therapist, educationalist, UN CSW69 UK delegate, and aHundrED.org SEL Ambassador and Academy Board Member. With over 20 years of experience designing and delivering holistic, trauma-informed learning experiences, Bianca's work centres on the skills that matter beyond the classroom — the human skills. She is currently co-designing an SCQF-accredited Human Skills and AI unit and leading a Women and Future Skills programme at PDA Level 7/8, with a mission to build equity and confidence for Scotland's women, neurodivergent people, and underrepresented communities.

• Employees and team members navigating AI in their organisation
• Team leaders and managers thinking about what this means for their people
• Students and early-career professionals planning for the future of work
• HR, L&D, and people professionals
• Anyone who wants a clear, grounded conversation about where they stand with AI

Technology Coaching, founded by Sooz Young, helps individuals and organisations build the digital skills and confidence to thrive in a world that keeps changing. Through CPD-accredited training, workshops, and events, including three years of Glasgow Tech Week events, Technology Coaching makes complex digital topics feel clear, practical, and genuinely useful.

https://technologycoachingonline.com

This event is free to attend as part of Glasgow Tech Week 2026. Spaces are limited to 100 - register now to secure your seat.

Info: Arrive, get settled, and connect with other attendees

Info: The main event — unscripted, honest, and packed with insight

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Clockwise Glasgow - Coworking & Office Space, 77 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.

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