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CAL Conference 2025

Leadership and Artificial Intelligence

The CAL Conference 2025 took place on 18 November 2025.

The conference focused on the link between Leadership and Artificial Intelligence.

The link between leadership and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving. AI offers leaders opportunities to enhance decision-making, streamline operations, personalise communication, and manage teams through data-driven insights.

AI is set to enable predictive analysis, improved efficiency, and lead to faster strategic planning. However, AI also presents challenges, including ethical concerns about bias, transparency, and privacy. Leaders must navigate job displacement, ensure accountability for AI-driven outcomes, and maintain trust among teams.

Leadership in the age of Artificial Intelligence requires leveraging its capabilities while safeguarding values, inclusivity, and moral judgment. It is not just about how leaders use AI as a tool but also how AI is reshaping leadership itself.

Keynote speakers were: 

• Lieutenant Colonel David Falconer, SO1 Leadership
• Major General Nick Cowley OBE, Director Leadership
• Professor Alan Brown, University of Exeter
• Jenny Griffiths MBE, Oracle
• Brigadier Richard Byfield MBE, CDDO
• Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Dawe
• Lieutenant Colonel Haydn Gaukroger OBE
• Army Sergeant Major, Warrant Office Class One John Miller
• Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Roland Walker KCB, DSO ADC Gen 

Morning panel:

• Panel Chair Joyce Hakmeh, Chatham House
  • Panel discussion with Alan Brown; Jenny Griffiths MBE, Natalie Billingham, Chris Loveday, and Laura Spear.

Afternoon panel:

• Panel Chair Claire Fry, Senior Civil Servant, UKStratCom 
  • Panel discussion with Brigadier Richard Byfield MBE, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Dawe, Lieutenant Colonel Haydn Gaukroger OBE, and Lieutenant Colonel Kitty Small.

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