Cloud Lighthouse and Oaka Studio to co-host the AI Trust Forum London
Convened by the Center for Trustworthy AI, this free, one-day event on 1 October 2026 pairs Cloud Lighthouse, the AI lab behind Centru, with Oaka Studio’s partner, go-to-market and ecosystem knowledge.
Cloud Lighthouse and Oaka Studio are co-hosting the AI Trust Forum London on 1 October 2026, bringing two different halves of the same problem into one room. Cloud Lighthouse is expert in the technology. It is the lab behind Centru, a model that reads an organisation across twenty-five dimensions, keeps that reading current against the systems it actually runs, and directs the agents that build there. The premise is that an AI strategy should run, not sit in a document. Oaka Studio is expert in the technology partner business, bringing alliances, sales, go-to-market and practice enablement built on its Partner Accelerate Framework. Put together, technology and commercial decisions get made by the same people, in the same conversation.
The Forum is convened by the Center for Trustworthy AI and runs 09:00 to 17:00, with doors open from 08:30, at The Storey Club, 4 Kingdom Street, Paddington. It’s free, it runs for one day, and it puts the people who build AI, the people who answer for its consequences and the people who regulate it in the same room. They work on how AI gets built, bought, adopted, governed and trusted, and on what to do with the answer once the day is over.
Cloud Lighthouse and Oaka Studio co-host the AI Trust Forum London on 1 October 2026 at The Storey Club, Paddington.
One Forum, two co-host perspectives
The Center for Trustworthy AI convenes the Forum and keeps it anchored to real operating decisions rather than theory. Senior leaders come because nobody in the room is selling to them, and they engage for the same reason. Cloud Lighthouse and Oaka Studio, as co-hosts, shape the agenda and bring in the senior audience. Cloud Lighthouse brings Centru and the research it publishes openly through the Center. Oaka Studio brings partner growth, go-to-market and ecosystem experience. Between them the two co-hosts cover both halves of the same problem. On the technology side it runs from strategy through responsible adoption, agent deployment at scale, and the future workforce. On the partnership side it asks how organisations choose the right partner, build a working relationship with them, and move past experimentation into sustained value.
CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CAIOs, chief risk and legal officers, policymakers and regulators attend because they are the people who actually decide how AI gets built, bought, used and governed. The Forum isn’t tied to one technology stack, and it looks past the technology itself. Industry leaders share original work and research through the Forum’s symposia. Working sessions take on the operational questions those leaders are actually wrestling with, where engineering, ethics and regulation collide in a real decision, and the roles vendors and partners play in all of it. Participants build tools and frameworks during the day. Afterwards, anyone can use them.
AI Trust Forum Fellows
Confirmed fellows for the London Forum include Mike Bugembe, Chief Digital Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and Dona Sarkar, Director of Enterprise AI Advocacy at Microsoft, alongside leaders from the Center for Trustworthy AI and its co-host organisations. Fellows aren’t conventional conference speakers. They’re builders, business leaders and policy shapers who bring first-hand delivery experience into the room, along with a wider view of how AI is changing organisations and society. Their job is to connect strategy with implementation, and to test ideas against how organisations actually operate rather than how a slide deck says they should.
“The word I keep coming back to is retreat. Most AI events are conferences, which is to say a stage, an audience and a sales floor. The Forum is a small number of people who each lead an organisation’s AI agenda, out of the office for a day, working on the same problem at the same table. Nobody is selling. Senior people engage when they are not being pitched to, and what they build together goes out afterwards with their names on it. It is that simple, and it is rare,” — Andrew Welch, Managing Partner, Cloud Lighthouse.
“Most AI conversations seem to sit at one of two extremes. There is the high-level future-of-work version, heavy on statistics and light on what anyone does back at their desk and there is the hands-on build version that assumes the operating model underneath it already works. The useful ground is in the middle: how adoption actually happens, how return gets demonstrated and how an organisation gets from the operating model it has to the one it needs. That is the conversation partners and their clients are already having privately. London is where we get it into a room, on the record, with the people who can act on it. — Lucy Bourne, Director, Oaka Studio
Attendance is free and reviewed on a rolling basis.
