Autumn 2025 Business Clinic speaker event series

Doors open at 4.30pm and the workshop/talk starts at 5pm and lasts up to an hour. Thereafter, drinks/canapés are served with opportunities for networking. Participants will be our students and local businesses. The aim is to bring everyone together to showcase expertise and stimulate ideas/opportunities for projects with local businesses led by academics and students.

Start-ups, entrepreneurship, and leveraging AI

30 September 2025, presented by Kofi Amegashie

Kofi Amegashie is a Senior Lecturer in Business Management with the School of Business at St Mary’s University Twickenham. He has some 30 years’ experience with blue-chip multinationals, including Chevron, Shell and the Coca-Cola Company. The bulk of his career was spent in line management positions in Southeast Asia, India, Africa, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

 Attendance is free of charge but to reserve a place, please register.

 

AI as a tool in accounting, finance, and market research – Creating that competitive edge

23 October 2025, presented by Ali Ibrahim

Ali Ibrahim is a researcher and academic with over 10 years’ experience in higher education, having worked at international institutions, including universities in the UK and the Middle East. He is currently a Lecturer in accounting and the Course Lead for undergraduate and postgraduate accounting programmes at St Mary’s University. He is specialised in accounting, finance, and emerging financial technologies, and has taught a broad range of modules, including taxation, auditing, forensic accounting, financial accounting/reporting, and management accounting. His research areas focuses on forensic accounting, auditing, blockchain, and anti-money laundering mechanisms.

Artificial intelligence is transforming accounting, finance, and market research by automating tasks, extracting insights from large datasets, improving accuracy, and enabling real-time decision-making. Many organisations are already piloting or adopting AI to enhance financial processes and gain deeper market intelligence. This session will explore the benefits and challenges of AI in accounting and finance, alongside its expanding role in market research, offering practical insights.

 

 

From hype to action: marketing AI that actually works

27 November 2025, presented by Celia Rizothanasi

Celia Rizothanasi FCIM, the Queen Bee of Marketing AI and co-founder of iA: intelligent acceleration, will show you the fastest way to turn AI talk into outcomes.

Live demos with ChatGPT, a practical toolstack mapped to real marketing and sales jobs, and a clear primer on agentic AI. Built for solo founders and micro teams. For small and mighty businesses.

Reasons to attend

• Live prompting you can copy the same day
• Tool picks by job to cut research time
• Ready-to-use workflows for content, research, outreach and reporting
• Agentic AI explained in plain English so you know what to do next
• Budget-friendly, low-friction steps that fit tiny teams and tight diaries.

Celia Rizothanasi FCIM is the Queen Bee of Marketing AI and Co-Founder of iA: intelligent Acceleration.

As an AI Trainer and Adoption CMO, Celia bridges the gap between AI promise and practical marketing implementation through hands-on training, adoption strategies, and AI agent development.