Archives of IT’s (AIT) 2026 Forum will focus on the lessons the IT industry can learn from the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.
Horizon: Lessons Learnt? is a joint event with the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists (WCIT) Ethical & Spiritual Panel, chaired by Richard Harvey, Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of East Anglia.
During the evening event, we will explore what we have learnt so far from one of the UK’s greatest miscarriages of justice, which resulted in more than 700 sub-postmasters prosecuted due to a defective Horizon IT system.
The forum will give attendees access to the definitive journalistic experts on the Horizon enquiry and will start the discussion of what ethical and practical steps the IT industry should take to prevent something similar happening again.
Speakers:
Our keynote speaker is Private Eye Journalist, Richard Brooks, who relentlessly pursued the fallout of the scandal and last month published a book Post Mortem: the Post Office Horizon IT Scandal, a ‘forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people’.
He will be joined by Bryan Glick, the award-winning editor of Computer Weekly whose publication uncovered the scandal and two of WCIT’s distinguished Past Masters, Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE, Lord Lieutenant of London and John Carrington. There will also be compering from Tola Sargeant, AIT CEO and the WCIT’s Richard Harvey.
Date and time
The Forum will take place at the WCIT Hall in Central London from 7pm–9pm on Tuesday 20 January 2026.
You are invited to arrive from 6.45pm for tea & coffee before a 7pm start to formal proceedings, which are scheduled to finish by 8.30pm with discussion continuing over drinks and nibbles.
Book Tickets
In-person tickets are £20 and the event is free for those joining online. Tickets can be booked by following this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horizon-lessons-learnt-tickets-1975812055044?aff=oddtdtcreator
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