We're heading to EVOLVE [26]. And we're bringing two very different conversations with us.
On Friday 26th June, the Brighton Centre fills with over a three thousand people who care about where technology is taking us. EVOLVE [26], Silicon Brighton's flagship event, is about shaping tomorrow rather than just adopting it.
We're proud to be sponsoring. We're prouder still to be on stage. Twice. With two talks that look like opposites on the surface and, underneath, ask the same question.
What stays human as the machines continue their inexorable march forward?
Talk one: After AI, The Human Advantage
On the Collaborators Stage
Efficiency is becoming the baseline. When everyone has the same tools, optimisation stops being an edge and starts being the price of entry. So the interesting question isn't how fast you can go. It's where human value sits next.
Jon (our MD) intends to make the case that creativity, imagination and original thinking aren't being replaced by AI. They're being made more valuable by it. As automation pushes more of the world's output toward the average, the rare thing becomes the ability to think differently. Taste. Judgement. The instinct to make something nobody asked for and everybody remembers.
Jon reframes AI not as the threat in the room but as the catalyst. He'll challenge some tired assumptions about productivity, skills and worth. And he argue that the people and organisations who win next are the ones who protect what's hardest to copy.
This will be a forward-looking talk about future skills and creative leadership. The short version: the human advantage matters more after AI, not less.
Talk two: Who's Accountable? Making AI Ethics Real Inside Organisations
On the Pioneers Stage
Everyone agrees AI should be used responsibly. Far fewer can tell you who's actually responsible when it isn't.
Paul (our Head of Creative Strategy) joins this panel to drag AI ethics out of the slide deck and into the room where the work happens. Not the legal angle. Not the regulatory framework. The harder, messier version: behaviour, culture, decision-making, the systems people actually use on a Tuesday afternoon when they're under pressure to move fast.
Where does responsibility sit when a system shapes the outcome? How does a company get from a high-minded principle to something a team can actually enforce? And what does responsible AI look like when nobody has time to be careful?
This is exactly the territory we've been working in for years. The craft of helping large, complex organisations shift how people behave, not just what the policy says they should.
Paul brings a lens the panel needs. Not technical, not compliance, but human; because accountability isn't a framework ... It's something people have to understand and act on. And that makes it a storytelling problem as much as a governance one.
The bigger question underneath it all: as AI becomes part of how organisations run, are we building things we can genuinely stand behind?
Why both, and why us
One talk says protect the human. The other says hold the human accountable. They're two halves of the same idea. As the tools get more capable, the things that matter most are the things only people can do. Make good judgements. Earn trust. Decide what's worth making in the first place.
That's the work we care about at Tilt. We help complex organisations grow, change and perform through storytelling and experience design. The kind that lands with real people, rather than sitting politely in a deck nobody opens.
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EVOLVE [26] is the right room for it. Curious? Come say hi.
Friday 26th June 2026 · Brighton Centre
Tickets and full agenda: evolve.siliconbrighton.com
