The Future of Trust & TIC+ in the AI Economy
23 – 25 Sept 2026
JA Mar Hall Golf & Spa Resort - Scotland
EVENT OVERVIEW
Spaces are strictly limited to preserve the quality of discussion, connection and intimacy.
The TIC+ sector is approaching a hinge moment. Artificial intelligence is beginning to verify, audit, inspect and document faster than the human-led systems built to do it. At the same time, capital is moving toward data, software and platform economics — the very markets where trusted institutions once held the centre by default.
The question is no longer whether testing, inspection, certification, compliance, standards and accreditation will change. It is who captures the value when they do — and how — and who discovers, too late, that the work they were paid for has quietly moved elsewhere.
And the disruption may not arrive from inside TIC+ at all. The sharpest threat could come from adjacent sectors — financial compliance, KYC/AML, risk and insurance — whose players already live in continuous, data-driven assurance and could step sideways into our world. The mirror of that threat is our greatest opportunity: the same logic lets TIC step into theirs.
This Forum is built on one discipline: future first, then present. We start in 2035–2045 — the future where today’s TIC+ ecosystem loses or has lost its role, and a future where it becomes more valuable than ever— and only then come back to the decisions that matter on Monday morning.
Who Should attend:
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TIC+ companies working with AI & modern tech
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Accreditation bodies
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Standard Setters
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Software & AI suppliers
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Investors
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Market consultants & M&A advisors
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Demand-side voices — a Chief Risk / Compliance Officer, a procurement lead, an insurer pricing AI risk.
The people who actually buy trust, briefed to tell us what they’d pay for in 2035.
Why:
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See the next decade before it bites
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Stress-test your model against 2035
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Leave with a real bet + 90-day plan
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Sign the room’s 2035 manifesto
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Meet the like-minded few who will actually shape the sector
Format:
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Arrival dinner + two working days
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Chatham House rules
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Mixed tables, no head table
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No stage, no slides, no pitches
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Spaces strictly limited
When
Wednesday
23 Sep 2026
Where
JA Mar Hall
Scotland
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Fourth Connect, powered by Red Swan, is pleased to announce The Future of Trust & TIC+ in the AI Economy — an exclusive forum for leaders across the TIC+ ecosystem, taking place at JA Mar Hall Golf & Spa Resort, Scotland.
This three-day gathering brings together top executives for high-level dialogue on trust, technology, and the future of the TIC+ sector in the age of AI.
The questions we’re here to answer
Six questions sit under everything we’ll do over the two days.
We don’t expect tidy answers — we expect the room to wrestle them honestly.
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Is AI a genuine, imminent transformation of our TIC+ sector and its ecosystem as we know it today — or an overhyped bubble that stalls against slow-moving law, standards and economics? And does the answer change what we should do now?
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Who is even the buyer of trust in 2035 — a human (end-consumer, manufacturer or retailer), or an AI agent procuring and verifying at machine speed, needing proof another machine can check instantly?
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If trust-validation becomes purely digital, where does the value move — and who captures it?
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Where does the real threat to the TIC+ ecosystem come from? Could it be the adjacent sectors — financial compliance, KYC/AML, risk — moving into TIC? And is the mirror of that our biggest opportunity: TIC moving into theirs?
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A new standard takes three to five years; the technology moves every few months. As the people who set standards, accredit and certify — what do we do in the gap?
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If everything can be automated — what must stay human?
