
Jonathan Melhuish has been working with AI for 23 years, since choosing it as his degree subject at the University of Birmingham in 2003. He has been a Research Associate on the €4.2m EU CASAM machine learning project, an AI Product Manager at RebelDot leading deployments for multinational clients in industrial retail, advertising and insurance, and the founder of Makuma, an AI-enabled education platform.
Alongside his AI work, he has spent twelve years running verkla, his own service design practice, and has trained senior professionals in Systems Thinking for the EU's ClimateKIC programme. He works with leadership teams on the human side of AI adoption: where it fits, what it costs in change effort, and how to lead a team that increasingly includes AI as a autonomous agents, not just a tool.