Milsted Langdon's Mark Smith takes the Lead Lightning stage at Brazen Festival

Milsted Langdon's Chief Technology Officer, Mark Smith, is among the speakers at Lead Lightning: One Slide, Ten Minutes, part of this year's Brazen Festival in Bristol on Monday 9 November. The format is as disciplined as it sounds. Each speaker is given a single slide and ten minutes to share what they have learnt about leadership, change and technology.

It is a brief that suits a firm whose technology lead has spent recent years turning talk of artificial intelligence into working practice. By his own account, Mark's ten minutes will touch on what happens when a business stops discussing the possibilities and starts doing something with them, and on the value, when everything is moving quickly, of pausing to ask whether the problem being solved is still the one you started with.

No.20 wishes him a fair wind at the lectern.