Beyond the Buzz: How the Thomson Reuters Foundation and TAAP Showcased the Future of Generative AI App Building
February 14, 2025
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What happens when you bring together business leaders, developers and AI experts for a single day with a mission to solve real-world challenges?
On 28th November, we did exactly that. The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), in partnership with TAAP and London Tech Leaders, hosted an exclusive hands-on Generative AI App Building Workshop. A unique opportunity to go beyond the AI hype and see how cutting-edge technology delivers real business impact.
This wasn’t about theory. It wasn’t about chatbots. It was about building fully functional enterprise applications in just one day, an approach that’s redefining how organisations think about development, digital transformation, and AI integration.
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A Hands-On Approach to AI-Powered App Development
At TAAP, we believe AI should be more than a buzzword, it should drive practical, tangible results. That’s why this workshop wasn’t about passive learning but about active problem-solving.
A Real Business Challenge: TRF provided a live operational challenge, one that impacts their workflows and efficiency.
AI-Powered Speed: With TAAP’s AI App Builder, recently recognised by Gartner for innovation in digital workplace tools, attendees saw first-hand how AI can generate a working enterprise application in seconds.
Refine, Enhance, and Deploy: Teams collaborated to iterate, refine, and enhance the app, bridging AI-driven automation with real human expertise.
The result? A fully functional, enterprise-grade application, built in a day, solving a real problem for Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Beyond the Hype: AI That Works in the Real World
What made this event so impactful was the pragmatic approach to AI integration. Instead of AI being positioned as a distant, futuristic concept, attendees got to see exactly how it can streamline workflows, eliminate inefficiencies, and drive operational agility.
What Attendees Had to Say
“When it comes to productivity gains exploring Low Code, No Code Solutions with embedded AI like TAAP is part of our internal AI adoption Journey for productivity gains and business intelligence transformation.”
Massimo Gibilaro, Director of Product & Technology, Thomson Reuters Foundation
“One of the key things about this whole process is it’s not something that we could have done by ourselves we don’t have the budget or the time to spend a lot of money and a lot time on something like, a big Salesforce development to create a portal that people can log into. So that’s why we’re here working with TAAP specifically to put something together in a much faster time frame than we’d ever be able to do if we had to develop something by hand and code it from scratch. Working with external partners that we can trust is very important to us.”
Rahul Soni, Head of Technology, Thomson Reuters Foundation
“So one of the things that’s really struck me is how fast you can get stuff done. What I love is the fact that it’s really making sure that the business requirements, the business need gets a much higher voice, that’s where the investment is going not in the coding part.”
Ian Hopper, Director of Transformation, Wrap
“One of the reasons that I attended today was about data privacy and data control. The advantage of being able to have TAAP in your own infrastructure with your own instance and deciding exactly how it’s access and by whom is really important from a control point of view.
“If you’re looking really for long-term return investment you’ve got to be looking at things that are automating the processes which gives you the technical debt and that’s where application generation comes from, it’s ability to generate vast amounts of code and infrastructure without the huge investment in time and people and that’s about taking the architectural design, the business requirements and translating them into code and infrastructure as quickly and with as little resources as possible and that’s what TAAP gives you, having watched it say it’s impressive.”
Chris Greengrass, Information Security Director, Starling Bank
“I didn’t believe you could build an App in a day so I was very enticed to come down to the workshop and sort of prove that wrong. As a former engineer who knows what’s involved in building an App but it turns out you can build an App in 13 seconds which is absolutely incredible”
Neil Douek, Platform Engineer, Fujitsu
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The response was clear, generative AI is ready to transform how businesses develop and deploy enterprise applications.
If you’re ready to experience how AI can help your business build applications faster, smarter, and more efficiently, get in touch.