As part of Leeds Digital Festival, Audacia is hosting Tech Talks Live, an afternoon of live sessions, joined by clients, covering topics across engineering, data and AI.

Audacia is shortlisted for AI Innovation of the Year (with MHRA), Services Company of the Year, and Best Place to Work at the UK IT Industry Awards 2025.

As we’re over halfway through 2025, we’re rounding up the most popular content read by IT directors, CIOs and other tech leaders on our industry insights blog so far this year.

Recent research captures that half of all knowledge-workers are now using “shadow-AI” tools that their employer hasn’t approved, and a reported 46% even saying they would continue to even if those tools were banned. This article looks at why the problem is accelerating, where the exposure lies, and what moves technology leaders are making to channel shadow AI into governed AI.

Increasingly, AI is being woven into the fabric of modern engineering. Whether it’s enterprise models like ChatGPT, off-the-shelf cloud tools or bespoke machine learning pipelines. This article sets out a practical foundation for technology leaders looking to implement or update AI governance.

Technology leaders regularly make decisions that shape the technical direction of organisations. Each choice regarding frameworks, languages or tools influences how systems are built and maintained. The challenge is keeping those decisions aligned across organisations. One of the most effective ways to achieve that alignment is by using a Tech Radar.

As we’re over halfway through 2025, we’re rounding up the most popular content read by IT directors, CTOs and other tech leaders on our technical insights blog so far this year.

Successful software projects are rarely the result of chance. They emerge from a disciplined approach to understanding the problem, structuring requirements , and aligning teams. These same principles – clarity of vision, scope control and collaboration – are as essential to replacing a medieval Lego castle as they are to delivering a complex software system.

In this session, Technical Director Richard Brown will outline a framework for introducing AI into the engineering lifecycle, covering the foundations, rollout, and continuous improvement required to make AI adoption sustainable and scalable across the SDLC.

This panel session brings together voices from data, engineering, delivery, and project management from MHRA and Audacia to share lessons from a successful GenAI implementation that is now helping to inform transparent AI in regulation around the world.

In this session, we will look at how AI is influencing software delivery today. Drawing on real team experience in delivering large-scale, enterprise software projects, the session will examine where these tools are genuinely helpful, where they introduce new risks, and what they mean for developer roles and engineering culture in the longer term.

Drawing on project experience delivering AI roadmaps with the Legal Ombudsman, this session will take a measured look at how to design and implement AI governance that works in the real world, with frameworks that are understood, adopted, and adaptable as systems evolve.