Tech Connect: The Future of AI
Date: Tuesday 30th September 2025
Venue: The Catalyst, Helix Science Square, NE4 5TG
Be Part of the Ultimate AI & Tech Event in Newcastle this September
Tech Connect
2025 is where innovation meets opportunity.
Whether you're an industry
professional eager to explore the latest AI advancements
or a business looking to gain exposure and build valuable connections, this is the event for you.
Join us for an incredible day of insights with inspirational speakers and expert panelists as we explore:
🔹 AI Architectures – What’s shaping the future of AI?
🔹 AI Ethics – The challenges and responsibilities ahead.
🔹 AI Applications – How AI is transforming industries today.
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Meet our Partners
Charity Partner: The Charlie and Carter Foundation
The Charlie & Carter Foundation (CCF) provides financial support to parents of seriously ill children with life limiting conditions that require 24 hour nursing care or specialist nursing facilities.
Bursary Partner: Layers Studio
Strategic delivery from cross disciplined experienced teams, working together from the beginning of your ideation process. Match your industry insight with our creativity and technical knowledge and see what your real potential looks like.
Exhibitor & Lanyards Partner: Apexon
Apexon is a problem-first IT consultancy committed to delivering tangible solutions to complex business challenges. We focus on providing strategic IT guidance and robust technical expertise, specialising in IT Strategy, Data & AI, and Digital Engineering. Our approach prioritises solving real-world problems through the application of advanced technology, partnering with our clients to deliver business objectives and unlock significant value.
Supporting Partner: CLR Law
CLR Law is a firm of solicitors specialising in employment law, HR, dispute resolution and corporate/commercial law. We are based in Gateshead’s Baltic Business Quarter and deliver services locally and beyond. ​Originating from a commitment to deliver a better and more flexible service to our clients, our sole dedication lies in enhancing the experience of engaging with a solicitor and attaining their desired outcome.
Supporting Partner: MSP
Have you watched Formula 1 and wondered how they make the cars? Flown abroad and wondered how they make the plane’s wings? Are you fascinated by rockets and spacecraft? At MSP, we work in high-tech industries to help manufacturers make their parts quicker and more accurately. We’re a creative and diverse team, transforming manufacturing every day using metrology, data and now AI.
Supporting Partner: Waterstons
At Waterstons, we’re here to help organisations solve real business problems with smart and transformational technology. From bespoke software and AI solutions to cyber consultancy and managed IT, we build strategic digital partnerships grounded in trust, collaboration, and a people-first approach. Curious about how AI could work for you? Book a free 45-minute session with our experts at ai@waterstons.com
Supporting Partner: Literal Labs
Literal Labs builds logic-based AI models that are dramatically faster, more energy-efficient, and easier to explain than neural networks—achieving 54× speed and 52× lower energy usage in the MLPerf anomaly detection benchmark, and up to 250× faster performance than XGBoost. Literal Labs was spun out of Newcastle University by renowned professors Dr. Alex Yakovlev and Dr. Rishad Shafik, and is led by former Arm executive Noel Hurley.