Current, Not Behind: AI for your return to paid work

About

An event for women on maternity leave getting ready to return to paid work – and wanting to walk back in AI-confident.

Taking months off with a baby is enough to make going back feel daunting. Add the sense that AI has moved on without you — that the job you left might not be the job you return to — and it's no wonder it feels like a lot.

Here's the reframe: you're not behind, you're out of practice, and that's fixable fast. Your brain has just done the hardest reskilling there is. You might be surprised how much you can get current on with a mobile app and your baby on your hip.

This is a beginner-friendly couple of hours to get one or two things genuinely under your belt, built in real time.

It's not a lecture, and you won't be talked at. You'll leave with three things:

Something you'll do. Build your own "what's changed while I was out" briefing — a live, personalised catch-up on how AI is reshaping your exact industry, so you walk back in current, not behind.

Something you'll keep. The returner mindset shift to tackle how your role has changed. You'll hear from a career coach who works with women navigating exactly this moment and the confidence wobble, because getting back to paid work – and a potentially new AI-operationalised role – is a head game as much as a skills one.

Something you'll see. How one mum upskilled fast using AI after returning to paid work at an AI-first advertising platform.

Bring the baby — noise is welcome and expected.

Who it's for: women on maternity leave, any industry, any starting point — from "I've never touched AI to "I've had a play but wouldn't trust myself with it at work."

The details

* B-Y-O-B(aby)
* Plus X Innovation, Brighton
* Driving? Park at Aldi/Hobbycraft/B&Q (3 hours free)
* Coffee and snacks included
* 11am arrivals (network with likeminded mums) for a 11.30am start
* Pop in and out to change baby as you need
* Cafe on site for mum chats/networking afterwards
* No tech bros

Join our WhatsApp community — women on leave figuring this out together — and you'll help decide what events we run next.

Limited spaces.

A photographer will be present to document the event but every endeavour is taken not to photograph babies’ faces.