CIPD Festival of Work, London
Rahim Hirji spoke from the main stage at the CIPD Festival of Work in London in June 2026, on human capability in the age of AI. The Festival ran on 10 and 11 June 2026 at ExCeL London.
Shape the Future Consortium Summer Forum, at Korn Ferry, London
Rahim Hirji was a guest speaker at the Shape the Future Consortium 2026 Summer Forum, held on 15 and 16 June 2026 at Korn Ferry’s offices in Mayfair, London. The Consortium publishes its own guest speakers page for the Forum, alongside Roger Philby of Korn Ferry, Katell Le Goulven of INSEAD, Piers Lea of Learning Technologies Group, Matt Donovan of GP Strategies and Charles Jennings.
Dubai Arbitration Week
Rahim Hirji spoke during Dubai Arbitration Week in Dubai, at the 2025 edition, which the organiser records as running from 10 to 14 November 2025. He has presented in Dubai many times and has worked for several legal clients in the Emirates.
JESS Dubai
Rahim Hirji delivered a SuperSkills keynote to secondary pupils at JESS Dubai, on the human skills that matter as AI takes on more of the work, and took questions from the floor afterwards.
Imperial College London
Rahim Hirji spoke at Imperial College London on SuperSkills and human capability in the age of AI.
Echo360, EMEA retreat
Rahim Hirji spoke at Echo360’s EMEA retreat on AI and human capability in education. A strategy lead at Echo360 described the session afterwards: “I felt time stood still during your talk, the perfect moment for our event.”
An AI leadership workshop in Madrid
Rahim Hirji delivered an AI leadership workshop in Madrid. The client is not named here.
A regional leadership retreat in Istanbul
Rahim Hirji opened a regional leadership retreat in Istanbul with a keynote, in front of the ANZ leadership team of Kaplan University Partnerships, its partner universities and its priority recruitment agency partners. Tom Dunlop, General Manager for Global Student Recruitment at Kaplan University Partnerships ANZ, described it: “He went well beyond the brief, interviewing students and families directly so he could tell us what was happening on the ground rather than what we assumed from our own data.”
Cited on stage at Ars Electronica 2026, Linz
Reshma Aziz Khan of K’enso Consulting, hosting a Negotiating Humanity session at the Ars Electronica Festival for art, technology and society in Linz, September 2026, closed the morning by reading from SuperSkills: “Human judgement will be the currency that holds value when everything else becomes automated. Not efficiency, not speed, not scale: judgement. The discernment to decide what deserves automation and what must remain human.” She told the room it was the whole morning in one sentence.
Stated at the level the evidence supports: a stage host quoting the work in her own closing, not an invitation from the festival. Her post, with the clip.
The rest of the record
London Tech Week, London. EdTechX. An Oystercatchers event in London, where Rebecca McKinlay, its Managing Director, described Rahim as “a standout speaker” who “told our audience something they did not especially want to hear”.
A session for the Barclays UK Corporate Banking teams, described by Stuart Foster, its Head of Coverage: “He handled a demanding room and left them with something they could act on.” A board day for Next15 Group Plc, of which its chief executive Sam Knights said: “It set up our board day perfectly.”
A 500-person education session. A session for university students in London. A studio recording at Linklaters. On stage at the Muslim International Film Festival. The SuperSkills book launch in London.
On air, 11 BBC appearances across three months in 2026, including BBC Radio 5 Live, the BBC World Service and regional BBC radio. The full broadcast and press record, with links out to each piece, is at media and press.
Seven engagements are written up at length, each with a line saying what it does not show, at case studies.
