AI Week 2026
For 2026’s Artificial Intelligence Week, CRN UK is providing an expansive look at artificial intelligence during a full week of targeted coverage. We will look at the impact AI is having on the IT channel and the opportunities this emerging technology area is creating for solution providers.
Topics will include a look at the emerging implications of AI for cybersecurity, AI use cases driving real productivity gains for MSPs and more.
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Day 1:
What the 2026 EMEA Channel Leaders really think of the channel's preparedness for AI
On Day 1 of AI Week, CRN's EMEA Channel Leaders suggest the channel is still finding its feet when it comes to selling AI. Vendors are increasingly bringing monetisable AI offerings to market through partners, yet concerns around partner readiness, skills gaps and customer understanding continue to slow adoption.
Day 2:
The UK’s sovereign AI ambition: reality, rhetoric and the channel opportunity
Sovereign AI or sovereign ambition? In Day 2 of AI Week, Christine Horton’s deep-dive feature looks into the UK’s balancing act between homegrown innovation and global tech. The UK government wants Britain to become a sovereign AI power. But as ministers unveil new investments and partnerships with tech giants, a question is becoming harder to ignore: is the UK building sovereign AI capability, or simply becoming an attractive place for other countries’ AI companies to do business?
Day 3:
Ten AI use cases driving real MSP productivity gains right now
On Day 3 of AI Week, MSPs reveal how deploying AI and automation internally is uncovering practical use cases that drive measurable productivity gains and improve customer service.
Day 4:
How AI agents are making identity security more ‘critical’ than ever: Partners
On Day 4 of AI Week, identity emerges as a critical foundation for AI adoption, with GuidePoint Security’s Kevin Converse arguing it is essential to managing emerging agentic use cases and securing how organisations deploy and control AI.
Day 5:
As part of AI Week, CRN is shining a spotlight on a UK initiative to help partners build, test and take monetisable AI solutions to market. TD SYNNEX, Nvidia and Dell are urging partners to move past internal AI pilots and start creating monetisable use cases using customer data. The clarion call comes with the opening of a new UK AI lab designed to help the channel build and test these use cases before scaling them in market.