28 min Exhibition recap
Advanced Engineering 2026
Two days at the UK's show for manufacturing and engineering, as Associate Sponsor of the Main Stage. Rafie Faruq asked which contracts you can safely hand to AI, and the stand ran Genie live on real supplier and customer contracts.
With Rafie, Naz, Alex and Will
Photo: Advanced Engineering, earlier edition - When
- 4 to 5 November 2026
- Main Stage talk on Wednesday 4 November
- Where
- NEC Birmingham, stand Q220, Halls 3 and 3a, Birmingham
- What we did
- Exhibiting, Sponsoring, Speaking
- Who was there
- Rafie Faruq, Co-founder and CEO
- Naz Tareque, EMEA Business Development Lead
- Alex Sinani, Account Executive, EMEA
- Will Bond, Content Marketing Lead
- Organiser
- Advanced Engineering
- Who it is for
- Manufacturing and engineering leaders in operations, sales and procurement
Our session
On stage
Which contracts can you safely hand to AI?
Rafie Faruq, co-founder and CEO of GenieAI
Wednesday 4 November, Main Stage
Engineering businesses sign a steady stream of supplier agreements, customer terms and NDAs, and most of them never reach a lawyer. The talk sorted that work into what AI can draft and review on its own against a company's standards, and the decisions that still need a human eye.
Which contracts can you safely hand to AI?
The recap
What happened
We spent both days on stand Q220 with Genie running live on the screens, so visitors could watch Genie work through a contract rather than hear us describe it. The show fell in the same week we launched the Agentic Legal Specialists.
On the Main Stage, Rafie Faruq took the question from our Legal Geek talk and put it to engineering: which contracts can you safely hand to AI? The answer: set your standards once, let Genie draft and review against them, and keep a person on the calls that move risk.
- Genie ran live on the stand for both days, on supplier and customer contracts.
- The Main Stage talk applied our Legal Geek argument to engineering and manufacturing contracts.
- The show fell in the launch week of the Agentic Legal Specialists, so the stand showed agents at work, not slides.
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Missed us at Advanced Engineering?
Thank you for your interest. We'll be in touch shortly.
In the meantime, try GenieAI for free; we'll then be able to discuss any specific product or procurement questions during your bespoke demo.
Try GenieBook a session and we will show you what we showed on the day, on your own contracts.
In 30 minutes we could cover:
- Genie working on one of your own contracts, live
- How it drafts and reviews against your playbook and standards
- Which contract work AI can take on alone, and where a person signs off
- Security, data handling and how you control AI training
- What a pilot would look like for your team
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