Enterprise Expo – 19th November 2026
Accelerate . Adapt . Achieve
Welcome to Enterprise Expo – Work Avenue’s annual FREE flagship business event, open to entrepreneurs, freelancers, small business owners and anyone thinking about starting their own business.
AI has changed the way we all work. It’s changed how customers find businesses, compete and function day-to-day. But with so much information and new technology out there, it can be difficult to know what is actually helpful and how to start getting the most out of it.
Whatever your business, join us for a morning packed with insight, expert speakers and advice designed specifically for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
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Event Schedule
9:15 am: Arrive
9:30 – 10:25 am: Session 1
Accelerate AI Hacks for Small Business Owners
Discover simple ways to use AI to save time, automate everyday tasks and get more done. Joseph Gale will share practical AI hacks, including how to use AI as your own assistant, assess where AI could make a difference in your business and automate a real business workflow.
10:30 – 11:25am: Session 2
Adapt Beyond Search: How Small Businesses Can Stand Out in the Age of AI
As customers increasingly turn to AI to search for information, recommendations and businesses, how can you make sure yours gets noticed? Glenn White, Trainer and AI Consultant, will explore how AI search is changing the way customers discover businesses and practical ways you can strengthen your online presence, understand your competitors and make your business stand out.
11:25 – 11:55 am: Coffee & Networking
12:00 – 12:50 pm: Session 3
Achieve AI: Game Changer or Just Another Tool
We’ll bring together a panel of business and AI experts to debate what AI really means for small businesses. Is it a genuine competitive advantage or simply the latest business tool? What opportunities should small businesses seize, what should they be cautious about, and what will it take to stay competitive as AI changes the way we work and do business?
12:50 – 1:50 pm: LUNCH
Speaker Profiles:
Joseph Gale
Joseph Gale is the founder of Innate AI, an AI transformation company that helps mid-sized businesses understand, adopt and make practical use of artificial intelligence. He works with organisations to develop AI strategies and build custom AI tools tailored to their business needs.
Joseph works with clients across a range of industries, including merchandising, retail, real estate and financial services, helping businesses identify where AI can create efficiencies, improve processes and support growth.
Prior to founding Innate AI, Joseph spent four years at McKinsey & Company, working as an Engagement Manager in both London and New York.
His entrepreneurial journey began at Oxford University, where he co-founded a technology startup, combining his interest in technology, innovation and business.
Glenn White
Glenn White is a Trainer and AI Consultant who helps businesses turn complex technology into strategies for growth. His work focuses on Generative AI, helping organisations understand how to adopt while maintaining a strong commitment to responsible and ethical practice.
As a Lead Coach and Trainer for Google Digital Garage, Grow with Google and UpSkill Universe, Glenn has supported hundreds of SMEs across the UK and Ireland with AI, digital marketing and business growth.
He also designs and delivers AI training for leaders and professionals across a wide range of sectors. His work has included leadership-focused AI programmes with LCT International, Digital Marketing and AI bootcamps for the creative sector through Mastered, and AI training supporting European workers navigating changes to the workplace through Google.org and Quadmark.
His specialist expertise lies in making Generative AI accessible and useful, giving businesses and professionals the practical skills and confidence to use it to improve efficiency, encourage innovation and support sustainable growth.
Lisa Mandell
Lisa Mandell is founder of Jolt and co-founder of Set-Piece. She advises founders and Management teams on growth, commercial transformation and value creation, and has work with more than 30 marketing and technology businesses including Born Social, Smarts, Coffee & TV and Stonehaven.
Today, through Set-Piece, Lisa work alongside product and AI teams to help businesses identify where AI can create commercial value, redesign how work gets done and turn expertise into repeatable, defensible products and workflows.
Garrick Smith
Garrick Cruise-Smith is CEO of Paayed and brings over 30 years of global banking experience, including Managing Director roles at HSBC. As HSBC’s Global Head of Branch Network & Transformation, he led a 2,500-branch, 40,000-colleague network. Through Paayed, he is focused on transforming financial services for SMEs, delivering simpler, smarter and more integrated solutions.
Vikki Bentwood
Vikki Bentwood is an independent marketing and business development consultant who helps law firms raise their profile, win clients and grow. She has 25 years’ experience in the sector, advising everything from boutique practices to international firms, and founded her consultancy, Legal Linchpin, in 2020. She also trains and advises senior professionals on using AI through her new venture Second Act.
She knows the realities of running a small business first hand. Before moving into the legal sector she built and sold a web development agency in the 1990s. Over the last two years she has changed how she runs Legal Linchpin, with AI now part of almost everything she does, from her website to campaigns and pitches. She brings a practical, honest view of what that has really changed, and what it hasn’t.