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Professional community · Applied AI studioLDN ↔ CHN

Where people connect.
Ideas take shape.

KuKu Group brings curious professionals together to share what they know, learn in public and build useful things with AI.

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Good systems begin
with human context.

KuKu Group is a professional community built around generous knowledge, thoughtful connection and practical action.

Our network brings engineers, strategists, creatives and operators into the same conversation. It gives organisations access to lived market context and gives practitioners a place to share, learn and collaborate.

01

Exchange useful knowledge

Open conversations grounded in real work, not abstract trends.

02

Find the right perspective

Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary insight from people who understand the context.

03

Build together

Turn a promising connection into a seminar, prototype, product or long-term collaboration.

Different reasons to arrive.
More ways to take part.

Some people come to learn. Some come with a question, an unfinished idea or experience worth sharing. The community gives each of them a useful place to begin.

01
Open sessions

Learn from work in progress.

Practical talks, live demonstrations and honest discussion about what new technology can and cannot do.

02
Peer exchange

Meet people who understand the context.

Small conversations across engineering, design, strategy and operations, connecting experience between China and the UK.

03
Collaborative builds

Turn shared insight into something useful.

When the right people and problem meet, we help shape the next step: a prototype, research project, product or longer collaboration.

How community and consulting connect

Our consulting work grows from the same habit: listen closely, understand the real context and build with the people who will use the result.

From a real workflow
to a working system.

We help teams identify where AI is useful, prove it safely and deploy it with the people, data and systems already in place.

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Discover

Find the work worth improving.

Map the workflow, constraints and measures of success. Choose an opportunity with real value.

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Prototype

Make the idea tangible.

Build a focused prototype around real tasks and test it with the people who will use it.

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Deploy

Connect it to the real environment.

Integrate the right models, data and tools with clear security, reliability and ownership.

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Enable

Help the team make it theirs.

Train users, document decisions and improve the system through measured feedback.

Typical engagements
  • AI opportunity & readiness
  • Workflow automation
  • Applied AI prototypes
  • Production integration
  • Team training & governance

Learn in public. Build with care.

A place for honest
conversations about AI.

Our sessions bring technical and non-technical people together to understand new tools, see how they work and discuss where they should — and should not — be used.

Next session · Online01 / 2026

AI in traditional workflows

Understand AI’s capabilities and limits through practical demonstrations and responsible engineering practice.

Date
25 September 2026
Time
13:00–14:00 BST
20:00–21:00 China
Where
Online · Tencent Meeting
ID 151-404-114

Technology needs
different perspectives.

We combine engineering, applied AI, creative technology and cross-cultural strategy.

Portrait of Ziyan Zhao
Founder · Creative technology & strategy

Ziyan Zhao 赵梓言

Ziyan works where strategy, creative technology and emerging AI meet. With a background spanning architecture, immersive media and AI-led creative work, she turns new tools into practical experiences and marketing workflows.

AI workflows · Immersive media · Creative strategy
Portrait of Dennis Qian
Founder · Engineering & applied AI

Dennis Qian

Dennis is an engineer and AI practitioner with experience across big tech engineering, solution architecture and applied machine learning. He turns complex technical possibilities into dependable products and systems.

Applied AI · Product engineering · Deployment

Have a workflow in mind?

Let’s find where AI
can make a real difference.

Tell us what your team is trying to improve. We will start with the problem, the people and the context.

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