Georgina Shute | What Are You Doing With the Time Ai Is Saving You? | Agile Yorkshire July 2026

This presentation explores the importance of creating “thinking space” at a time when AI is designed to save time, yet many professionals feel increasingly overloaded.

Through three career experiences, the speaker shows what happens when thinking space collapses, how it can be protected and how it can be restored. The examples range from a rushed product launch that failed through poor stakeholder alignment, to successfully scaling a loyalty programme to 15 million customers, and helping a divided team complete a complex five-petabyte data migration.

The session encourages us to pause before rushing into tasks or relying on AI, continually ask what value we are creating and for whom, and remember that people remain at the heart of every successful team.