David built his first website in 1998. Back then, the internet felt full of possibilities, with something new to discover around every corner.
After attending OpenAI’s DevDay Exchange in London, he came away with that same excitement again.
On 3 November, David travelled down from Lichfield to join business founders, developers and the OpenAI team at Corner Corner in Canada Water. The event brought together live demonstrations, hands-on sessions and conversations about how AI is developing—and how businesses can put it to good use.
Take a look at the video below for a peek inside the event, including demonstrations, chats with the OpenAI team and David’s thoughts at the end of the day.
A look inside OpenAI DevDay Exchange London
Getting hands-on with the possibilities
There was plenty to explore. Attendees could open their laptops, share projects and discuss ideas directly with the people building the technology. Alongside the presentations, David had the chance to see tools in action and ask questions about their practical uses.
Demonstrations included AI helping to create applications, working through tasks in a browser and combining different tools to carry out more involved jobs. Hearing from businesses such as Synthesia and Wordsmith also offered insight into how they have developed their products and responded to what customers need.
What could this mean for our clients?
For David, the most useful part was thinking about how those lessons could benefit inLIFE’s clients.
The team will be using the knowledge gained to improve services, make better use of time and explore new ways to help businesses work more smoothly. That includes opportunities to simplify everyday processes, improve customer communication and build useful AI-powered systems around a client’s needs.
An enquiry process could become easier to manage. Information could be brought together so staff spend less time searching for it. Reports could become clearer and quicker to prepare, helping clients understand their progress and decide what to do next.
The aim is to find practical improvements that make a difference to the people using them.
Clearer updates through video
One area that sparked ideas was AI-generated video. Tools such as Synthesia can turn scripts and supporting information into videos, opening up possibilities for clearer client updates, useful explainers and website tutorials.
inLIFE will be exploring how automated progress videos could help communicate the work being completed and highlight useful next steps. The focus will be on whether they make information easier to understand and provide enough value to become part of the service.
A message that came through in the founder discussions was the importance of creating something people trust and want to keep using. Faster production still needs clear thinking, good judgment and a strong understanding of the customer.
That is how inLIFE intends to approach these opportunities: combining the team’s experience with the capabilities of the tools.
Bringing the learning back to the team
David also made sure the learning from the event could be shared across the business.
He used his Plaud recorder to capture sessions and automatically produce transcripts and summaries. He then used ChatGPT to help organise the recordings and his own notes into a practical briefing for the whole inLIFE team.
The takeaways were grouped around the areas most relevant to each part of the business, with explanations of the tools and suggestions for how the ideas could support their work and benefit clients.
David reviewed and refined the briefing so it would be useful to people coming to the technology for the first time. It was a practical example of AI helping to capture knowledge, share it and turn it into ideas the team can take forward.
Fresh ideas, practical next steps
There were plenty of good conversations throughout the day too, along with custom Codex cards and an AI photo booth.
As his end-of-day round-up shows, he left London with plenty to think about and renewed enthusiasm for what comes next.
inLIFE will now be building on that knowledge to strengthen its services and help clients find useful opportunities for their own businesses.
Got a process that takes too much time, or an idea for making the business run more smoothly? Get in touch with inLIFE – the team would love to explore what could be possible.
