HumanX Amsterdam 2026 Agenda
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Speaking Session
How to Disrupt Centuries-Old Industries
Max JunestrandLegora
Chetan PuttaguntaBenchmark
Tom MackenzieBloomberg
Tue
Sep 22
Wed
Sep 23
Thu
Sep 24
11:00 - 18:30
Registration Hours
Networking
11:00 - 15:30
AI Policy [X]change (invite only)
Sponsored by Prosus
Partner Program
12:00 - 15:00
Brunch & Build: The House of Buildology
Hosted by AI4ALL
Networking
12:30 - 15:40
AI Executives [X]change (invite only)
Sponsored by Google
Networking
12:30 - 16:00
AI Founders [X]change (invite only)
Hosted by Founders Forum Group & EY
Partner Program
14:00 - 16:00
[SESSION FULL] AI on the Amstel Kickoff Meetup: Building Multi-Agent AI
Hosted by AI on the Amstel
Speaking Session
16:35 - 16:50
Welcome to HumanX Amsterdam
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
16:50 - 17:15
How to Disrupt Centuries-Old Industries
Max Junestrand
Legora
Chetan Puttagunta
Benchmark
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
17:15 - 17:40
Pim de Witte in conversation with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Pim de Witte
General Intuition
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Speaking Session
17:40 - 18:05
The Economics of Reinvention
Nikesh Arora
Palo Alto Networks
Iain Martin
Forbes
Networking
18:30 - 21:30
HumanX Opening Reception
Sponsored by Unfold
07:30 - 17:00
Registration Hours
08:30 - 18:00
Show Floor Hours
Networking
08:30 - 09:30
CAIO Leadership Series Breakfast (Invite Only)
Sponsored by Deloitte
Speaking Session
09:20 - 09:25
Opening remarks
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
09:25 - 09:35
A special announcement from NADI (National Agency for Disruptive Innovation)
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Speaking Session
09:35 - 10:00
The Future of Materials Discovery
Max Welling
CuspAI
Larissa Holzki
Handelsblatt
Speaking Session
10:00 - 10:25
When the Barrier to Building Software Falls
Fabian Hedin
Lovable
Iain Martin
Forbes
Speaking Session
10:00 - 10:05
Opening remarks
Masterclass
10:00 - 10:45
AutoML in the Age of Foundation Models: A 45-Minute Masterclass
Sponsored by DataChef
Speaking Session
10:05 - 10:25
The Next Generation of Digital Experiences
John Imah
SPREEAI
Linda Tong
Webflow
Tom Allen
The AI Journal
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | Activating AI Governance As a Performance Lever: How Organisations Simultaneously Excel with Innovation and Operations in Real (Agentic AI) Life
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | The AI Layer for Global Commerce
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Speaking Session
10:15 - 10:20
Opening remarks
Oliviana Bailey
AI4ALL
Speaking Session
10:20 - 10:40
Can Europe and the Middle East Build Their Own AI Stack?
Fabrizio Del Maffeo
Axelera AI
Mehdi Ghissassi
AI 71
Gené Teare
Crunchbase
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:45
From Models to Agents at Scale
Swami Sivasubramanian
Amazon Web Services
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:45
Is This the "End of SaaS" Moment We’ve Been Building For?
Tom Eggemeier
Zendesk
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Job van der Voort, Co-founder & CEO at Remote
Job van der Voort
Remote
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Special Envoy at Techleap
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Partner Program
10:30 - 11:15
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: Parag Parkekh, Chief Digital Officer, Ingka Group
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Sovereign AI
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
Lisa Oder
Tagesspiegel Background
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
Deploying at Scale: The True Cost of AI
Susan Jones
Diageo
James Waters
Booking.com
Dasha Afanasieva
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
Human Taste and Judgment in an AI-Mediated World
Rebecca Shostak
Flodesk
Timothy Young
Jasper
Johnny Rohrbach
SILVERSIDE AI
Katie Street
Marketing in the Madness Podcast
Speaking Session
11:00 - 11:20
Operating at Scale
Daniele Tonella
ING Group
Vishal Talwar
FedEx
Harry McCracken
Fast Company
Masterclass
11:00 - 11:45
The AI model is only the beginning
Sponsored by Nebius
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
Is AI Killing Software as a Service?
Clay Bavor
Sierra
Niall Firth
MIT Tech Review
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
Emotion, Intent and the Future of Voice AI
Shawn Wen
PolyAI
Alex Gay
Otter.ai
Ivan Mehta
TechCrunch
Press
11:15 - 12:00
The Future of AI Sovereignty
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
Roundtable
11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable | Rethinking Strategy in the Age of AI
Jim Harris
AiNews.com
Speaking Session
11:20 - 11:40
Fragmentation is killing Europe
Vojtech Horna
EU–INC
Gloria Baeuerlein
Puzzle Ventures
Aki Tas
Tebi
Pieter Haeck
POLITICO
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Europe’s Billion-Euro Problem
Thomas Clozel
Owkin
Ophelia Brown
Blossom Capital
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
The Next Interface: Why AI Needs Physical Products
Robert Brunner
Ammunition
Jennifer Strong
SHIFT Podcast
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Karen Silverman, CEO of The Cantellus Group
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Partner Program
11:30 - 12:15
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: James Waters, Chief Business Officer, Booking.com
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
11:40 - 12:00
Trusting AI in the Wild
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Matt Rosoff
The Register
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:05
Hybrid AI: What's the Best Balance for a Creative Campaign?
Alex Mashrabov
Higgsfield
Stephan Pretorius
WPP
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:05
Payments & AI
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Rafał Pikuła
Spider's Web
Networking
12:00 - 13:00
CTO Leadership Series Lunch (Invite Only)
Sponsored by SpaceXAI
Masterclass
12:00 - 12:45
Beat the Room: Double Down on Your AI Instincts
Sponsored by WalkMe Ltd
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:30
Building at the AI Frontier
Kareem Ayoub
Google DeepMind
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:25
From Data Access to Delegation: Reinventing Healthcare with AI
Patrick Mans
Philips
Harry Booth
TIME
Press
12:15 - 12:45
Can Security Teams Keep Up with Autonomous Attackers?
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Diana Kelley
Noma Security
Roundtable
12:15 - 13:00
Roundtable | When AI Does the Volume: What is the Future Role of the Human Agent?
Tom Eggemeier
Zendesk
Roundtable
12:15 - 13:00
Peer [X]Change Roundtable | The board's new brief: from AI oversight to AI accountability
Hosted by Boardwave
Speaking Session
12:25 - 12:45
Lessons Learned in Unifying Fragmented Data & Scaling Safely
Ardy Arianpour
SEQSTER
David Bromberg
Lantern
Ioana Hreninciuc
Runware
Ron Miller
FastForward
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Sue Jones, CDO at Diageo
Susan Jones
Diageo
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with John Imah, Co-founder & CEO at SPREEAI
John Imah
SPREEAI
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
12:45 - 13:00
The Next Frontier in Enterprise AI: Video's Compounding Value
Soyoung Lee
Twelve Labs
Speaking Session
13:00 - 13:05
Opening remarks
Stefano Piano
ISEP
Masterclass
13:00 - 13:45
Build Your Own Search Engine: Exactly the Context Your LLM Needs
Sponsored by Bright Data
Partner Program
13:00 - 13:45
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: Patrick Mans, Head of Data & AI Engineering, Phillips
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:30
A Reality Check on How Cyberattackers are Actually Using AI
Madeline Lawrence
Aikido
Diana Kelley
Noma Security
Eric Doerr
Tenable
Rob Pegoraro
PCMag
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Responsible AI Starts with Literacy: Governance from the Boardroom to the Break Room
Oliviana Bailey
AI4ALL
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Keeping Up: Information Flow in the Age of AI
Alex Gay
Otter.ai
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:35
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Q&A
13:30 - 14:15
Q&A with Kareem Ayoub, VP, AI Technical Strategy at Google Deepmind
Kareem Ayoub
Google DeepMind
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:50
The New Luxury: AI is only as valuable as the hands that shape It
Gonzague de Pirey
LVMH
Hanne Jesca Bax
EY
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
13:35 - 13:55
Building AI Search Without Breaking the Open Web
Jim Lanzone
Yahoo
Massimo Marioni
massimomarioni.com
Speaking Session
13:50 - 14:10
The Missing Ingredient in Agentic AI: Context
Bianca Anghelina
AILY LABS
Stefan Ostwald
Parloa
Jeff Wilser
AI-Curious
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:20
Can Europe Actually Build Sovereign AI?
Alexander Rinke
Celonis
James Wise
Balderton Capital
Pieter Haeck
POLITICO
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Who Owns the Future of Music?
Ghazi Shami
EMPIRE
Andrea Czapary Martin
PRS for Music
Jennifer Strong
SHIFT Podcast
Masterclass
14:00 - 14:45
When AI meets the real world. From experimentation to impact at scale
Sponsored by Sinch
Speaking Session
14:10 - 14:30
The Autonomous Finance Office
Daniel Kim
Synthesia
John Glasgow
Campfire
Anna Tutova
Fortune
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Peer [X]Change Roundtable | The Meeting-Driven Modernization Is Dead
Sponsored by DataChef
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Roundtable | Building Reliable AI Agent Infrastructure
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
Hiring, Firing & Reskilling with Agents
Job van der Voort
Remote
Matt Rosoff
The Register
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
The Future of CX: Building Human-Centered Experiences
Abby Godee
Publicis Sapient
Peter Burns
Heathrow Airport
Massimo Marioni
massimomarioni.com
Q&A
14:30 - 15:15
Q&A with James Wise, Partner at Balderton Capital
James Wise
Balderton Capital
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Press
14:30 - 15:15
Inside VC's New Rules for AI Investment
Sasha Vidiborskiy
Atomico
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Jai Das
Sapphire Ventures
Speaking Session
14:30 - 14:50
Finance for Humans in an Automated World
Bianca Zwart
bunq
Biswa Sengupta
JP Morgan
Carmel Crimmins
Reuters
Networking
14:30 - 15:15
Exclusive Performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
The AI Efficiency Race: What It Takes to Scale Smarter
Roxanne Varza
Station F
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
Beyond AI: Deploying Digital Labor Across the Enterprise
Nader Mikhail
Elementum AI
Emmanuel Frenehard
Sanofi
Emil Protalinski
Hard Coded and Techmeme
Speaking Session
14:50 - 15:10
Beyond the Hospital Walls: Predictive Sensing, Clinical AI & Next-Generation Health Intelligence
Ken Froot
Harvard University
Nassib Chamoun
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI)
Lisa Oder
Tagesspiegel Background
Speaking Session
15:00 - 15:20
From Intent to Action
Jan Oberhauser
n8n
Sam Stephenson
Granola
Roundtable
15:00 - 15:45
Roundtable | Crossing the AI Divide: From Safe Infrastructure to AI You Can Stand Behind
Stefan Ostwald
Parloa
Masterclass
15:00 - 15:45
How to Take Your Agent's Memory Anywhere
Sponsored by Walrus
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #1
Andy Lürling
LUMO Labs
Eva Bandelj
The Stack
Larry Li
Amino Capital
Speaking Session
15:10 - 15:25
A Blueprint for Government to Deploy GenAI at Scale?
Vishal Marria
Quantexa
Partner Program
15:15 - 16:00
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: Bianca Zwart, Chief Strategy Officer, bunq
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
15:20 - 15:40
Beyond the Token Race
Arvind Jain
Glean
Harry Booth
TIME
Speaking Session
15:25 - 15:50
Risk, Responsibility & Trusted AI in Zero-Tolerance Environments
Spencer Schaefer
Predaptic, LLC / Lunar Ai, LLC / Dept of Veterans Affairs (ret)
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
Barbara Junge
taz
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Stephan Pretorius, CTO at WPP
Stephan Pretorius
WPP
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Sam Stephenson the Co-founder at Granola
Sam Stephenson
Granola
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
15:40 - 16:00
The AI Investment Reality Check
Sasha Vidiborskiy
Atomico
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Jai Das
Sapphire Ventures
Romain Dillet
Hypertext
Speaking Session
15:50 - 16:15
An Agentic Backbone
Steve Lucas
Boomi
Arun Chandra
NiCE
Nidhi Aggarwal
HackerOne
Tomas Statius
Lighthouse Reports
Speaking Session
16:00 - 16:20
The Race to Build Real-World Intelligence
Alex Kendall
Wayve
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Roundtable
16:00 - 16:45
Roundtable | Your AI Works. So Why Aren’t People Using It?
Abby Godee
Publicis Sapient
Pitch Session
16:00 - 16:30
Pitch Solution Showcases
Roundtable
16:15 - 17:00
Roundtable | It’s 2026 - where did all the customers go?
Robin Daniels
Zensai
Speaking Session
16:15 - 16:40
Leading the Way to AI-Ready Organisations: A Practical Guide for Executives
Rasmus Holst
ZENSAI
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Luna Schmid
GV
Ronan Chambers
etn.
Networking
16:15 - 17:00
Exclusive Performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
16:20 - 16:35
How to Scale AI in a Market That Won't Sit Still
Xuedong Huang
Zoom
Networking
16:30 - 18:00
Startup Reception
Sponsored by Nscale
Pitch Session
16:30 - 17:30
Pitch Competition Semi Final #2
Sebastiaan Vaessen
Prosus Ventures
Friso Jiskoot
Taplow Blue Capital
Ryan Sarver
Inkef
Speaking Session
16:35 - 17:00
Turning the Promise of Frontier AI into Reality
Colin Jarvis
OpenAI
Alex Hern
The Economist
Networking
17:00 - 18:00
HumanX Happy Hour
Networking
17:00 - 18:00
Women @ HX Reception
Networking
18:00 - 22:00
NiCE AI Executive Circle [SOLD OUT]
Sponsored by NiCE
07:30 - 17:00
Registration Hours
08:30 - 17:00
Show Floor Hours
Networking
08:00 - 09:30
JetBrains Executive Breakfast - Scaling AI in enterprises: Balancing developer productivity, cost, and control
Sponsored by JetBrains
Partner Program
08:00 - 09:45
French Tech Amsterdam Networking Breakfast Event
Hosted by French Tech Amsterdam
Speaking Session
09:50 - 09:55
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Speaking Session
09:55 - 10:05
Amsterdam, AI & What Comes Next
Melanie van der Horst
City of Amsterdam
Masterclass
10:00 - 10:45
You’re hired! Building your own team of AI teammates
Sponsored by Optimizely
Speaking Session
10:05 - 10:25
After the Exit: Building and Backing the Next Wave of AI Out of Europe
Peter Sarlin
PostScriptum
Alex Hern
The Economist
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | What's Stopping AI Adoption? Bring Your Own Blocker
Stefano Piano
ISEP
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | The Future of R&D teams in the Age of AI
Dana Lawson
Netlify
Speaking Session
10:20 - 10:25
Opening remarks
Sylv Thomas
Sylv Thomas
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:40
Leapfrogging from Chatbots to Autonomous Workflows
Gautier Cloix
H
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:40
The Agentic Cloud: From Intelligence to Action
Ye Huang
Alibaba Group
Press
10:30 - 11:00
Q&A with Stefan Weitz, Co-founder & CEO, HumanX
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
10:30 - 10:35
Opening remarks
Esther Bisschop
The Stack
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Larry Li, Founder and Managing Partner at Amino Capital
Larry Li
Amino Capital
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
10:35 - 10:55
How the World's Largest Food & Beverage Company Accelerates Digital Innovation
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestlé
Ivan Mehta
TechCrunch
Speaking Session
10:40 - 10:45
Why Verneek Is Betting on Europe’s Retail Economy
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
Verneek AI
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Reliable Creative AI
Matt Rouif
Photoroom
Mikayel Vardanyan
Picsart
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
The Creativity Advantage
Zhenya Loginov
Accel
Jorn van Dijk
Framer
Sarah Jacob
Bloomberg
Q&A
10:45 - 11:15
Q&A with Gautier Cloix, CEO at H
Gautier Cloix
H
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Speaking Session
10:55 - 11:15
What's Holding Europe Back?
Aaron Rosenberg
Radical Ventures
Daniel Khachab
Choco AI
Avid Larizadeh Duggan OBE
Teachers' Venture Growth, OTPP
Leah Hodgson
PitchBook News
Speaking Session
11:00 - 11:15
Voice is the new OS
Neil Zeghidour
Gradium
Masterclass
11:00 - 11:45
How AI-Native Organizations Are Leaving Everyone Else Behind
Sponsored by EY
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
AI with Purpose: Building Responsibility at Scale
Parag Parekh
IKEA
Roundtable
11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable | The Autonomous Company: How Far Are We Really?
Imad Riachi
Honu
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Building for the AI Era
Avani Prabhakar
Atlassian
Chris Burgess
Expedia
Ron Miller
FastForward
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Hiring or Automating? How the Best Companies Scale
Robin Daniels
Zensai
Kristin Fracchia
Gamma
Éanna Kelly
Sifted
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Why Most AI Never Makes It Inside
May Habib
WRITER
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder & CEO at LaunchDarkly
Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Parag Parekh, CDO at IKEA
Parag Parekh
IKEA
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
11:35 - 12:00
Engineering the Physical World
Maria Dunford
Lifebit
Fabrizio Pirondini
Xoople
Rebecca Schaevitz
Mixx Technologies
Rob Pegoraro
PCMag
Speaking Session
11:35 - 11:55
Partnership Models that Move the Needle: Labs, Platforms & More
Carlos Eduardo Espinal
Seedcamp
Tamara Steffens
Thomson Reuters Ventures
Christian Facey
Audiomob
Marcin Lewandowski
turnedVC Show
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:10
Where Capital & Emerging AI Categories Collide
Larry Li
Amino Capital
Philip Chopin
NEA
Shamillah Bankiya
Dawn Capital
Alex Hern
The Economist
Speaking Session
11:55 - 12:20
Show Me the Money: What Gets Funded Now
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Gené Teare
Crunchbase
Partner Program
12:00 - 12:45
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: Euro Beinat, Global Head of AI & Data Science, Prosus N.V.
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
12:10 - 12:30
Unlocking a New Era of Discovery
Alexey Dosovitskiy
Recursive
Niall Firth
MIT Tech Review
Roundtable
12:15 - 13:00
Roundtable | Why Your AI Breakthrough Isn’t Making Headlines
Larissa Holzki
Handelsblatt
Press
12:15 - 13:00
How AI Is Quietly Redrawing the Org Chart
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Rasmus Holst
ZENSAI
Speaking Session
12:20 - 12:40
How Can Startups Solve Deep Enterprise Pain Points with AI?
Rajul Garg
Leo Capital
Romain Dillet
Hypertext
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with John Acunto, CEO at Napster
John Acunto
Napster
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Des Traynor, Co-founder at Fin
Des Traynor
Fin
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Speaking Session
12:40 - 13:00
Digital Workers: What It Takes to Scale Enterprise AI
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Akansha Dimri
Tech Funding News
Speaking Session
13:00 - 13:05
Opening remarks
Jennifer Burns
Bright Data
Masterclass
13:00 - 13:45
AI Agents Aren’t Designed. They Are Discovered.
Sponsored by NiCE
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:20
Don't Skip the "Safe" Switch
Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Sovereign AI: How Much Control Is Enough?
Maria Dunford
Lifebit
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Beyond the Pilot: What It Really Takes to Scale Agentic AI
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestlé
Speaking Session
13:20 - 13:40
When AI Knows the Consumer Better Than the Brand
Ndidi Oteh
Accenture
Katie Street
Marketing in the Madness Podcast
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:35
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Speaking Session
13:35 - 13:55
Past the Demo: Deploying AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
Kartik Sheth
Deutsche Telekom
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Speaking Session
13:35 - 14:00
Bought, Not Sold: Demystifying the Path to Being Acquired
Jeff Wang
Cognition
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Leah Hodgson
PitchBook News
Speaking Session
13:40 - 14:00
The Ethics Tax: Can You Afford to Build a "Good" Model?
Emre Kazim
Holistic AI
Nina Müller
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Q&A
13:45 - 14:15
Q&A with Danila Shtan, CTO at Nebius
Danila Shtan
Nebius, Inc.
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:15
Rewriting the Operating Model for the AI Era
Des Traynor
Fin
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Luisa Bomke
Handelsblatt
Press
14:00 - 14:45
LinkedIn News Workshop - Visibility on LinkedIn: From Best Practices to Thought Leadership
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Human-Machine Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
Verneek AI
Imad Riachi
Honu
Andrey Khusid
Miro
Jeff Wilser
AI-Curious
Masterclass
14:00 - 14:45
From Fragmented Workflows to AI Fluency
Sponsored by Atlassian
Partner Program
14:00 - 14:45
Live BNR podcast recording. Return on AI: Bahadir Yilmaz, Chief Analytics Officer, ING Group
Sponsored by PwC
Pitch Session
14:00 - 15:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #3
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Tamara Steffens
Thomson Reuters Ventures
Sabine Schoorl
identity.vc 🏳️🌈 Backing LGBTQ+ Founders
Akansha Dimri
Tech Funding News
Speaking Session
14:15 - 14:40
When Everyone Can Create with AI, What Makes a Voice Stand Out?
Eric Snowden
Adobe
Brandon Baum
Studio B
Harry McCracken
Fast Company
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Roundtable | The Future of AI: What It Will Actually Take to Get There
Rebecca Schaevitz
Mixx Technologies
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Peer [X]Change Roundtable | Unlocking Enterprise AI: From Experiment to Scalable Impact with AI-Native Workflows
Sponsored by Siemens
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
The Future of Software Architecture in the AI-Native Era
Ivan Burazin
Daytona
Spencer Kimball
Cockroach Labs
Jim Harris
AiNews.com
Q&A
14:30 - 15:15
Q&A with Fabrizio Pirondini, Co-founder & CEO at Xoople
Fabrizio Pirondini
Xoople
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
Deploying AI at 30,000 Feet
Marjan Rintel
KLM
Dasha Afanasieva
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
14:40 - 14:55
Making Military-Grade Robots Safe & Secure
Andrew Reiter
Shield AI
Speaking Session
14:55 - 15:15
Physical AI Meets Real-World Autonomy
Bobby Healy
Manna
Shawn Kerrigan
PlusAI
Éanna Kelly
Sifted
Speaking Session
15:00 - 15:20
The Deterministic Engine
Ron Miller
FastForward
Jessica Reeves
Axoniq
Jacomo Corbo
PhysicsX
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #4
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Victoria Slivkoff
Chemonics
Herman Kienhuis
Curiosity VC
Speaking Session
15:15 - 15:35
The Human Side of AI
John Acunto
Napster
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Roundtable
15:15 - 16:00
Roundtable | The firm of the future: How AI is reshaping what work is worth doing
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Roundtable
15:15 - 16:00
Roundtable | Fundraising at AI Speed: How Early-Stage Fundraising Rounds Have Evolved
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Speaking Session
15:20 - 15:35
Beyond the Pilot: Making AI Agents Work at Scale
Danila Shtan
Nebius, Inc.
Euro Beinat
Prosus N.V.
Harry Booth
TIME
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Ambica Rajagopal, Group Chief Data & AI Officer at Michelin and Darko Matovski, Co-founder at causaLens
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Networking
15:30 - 16:15
Exclusive Performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sponsored by PwC
Speaking Session
15:35 - 16:00
Europe, Sovereignty & the AI Race
Nick Clegg
Hiro Capital
Hadas Gold
CNN
Speaking Session
15:35 - 15:55
Context is King: How to Build AI Systems, Not Just Features
Dana Lawson
Netlify
Omer Primor
Bright Data
Emil Protalinski
Hard Coded and Techmeme
Pitch Session
16:00 - 17:00
Pitch Competition Final
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Victoria Slivkoff
Chemonics
Andy Lürling
LUMO Labs
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Sebastiaan Vaessen
Prosus Ventures
Networking
18:00 - 22:30
HumanX Closing Night Party
Sponsored by Feedzai
Speaking Session
16:35 - 16:50
Welcome to HumanX Amsterdam
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
16:50 - 17:15
How to Disrupt Centuries-Old Industries
Max Junestrand
Legora
Chetan Puttagunta
Benchmark
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
17:15 - 17:40
Pim de Witte in conversation with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Pim de Witte
General Intuition
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Speaking Session
17:40 - 18:05
The Economics of Reinvention
Nikesh Arora
Palo Alto Networks
Iain Martin
Forbes
WEDNESDAY
september 23
Speaking Session
09:20 - 09:25
Opening remarks
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
09:25 - 09:35
A special announcement from NADI (National Agency for Disruptive Innovation)
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Speaking Session
09:35 - 10:00
The Future of Materials Discovery
Max Welling
CuspAI
Larissa Holzki
Handelsblatt
Speaking Session
10:00 - 10:25
When the Barrier to Building Software Falls
Fabian Hedin
Lovable
Iain Martin
Forbes
Speaking Session
10:05 - 10:25
The Next Generation of Digital Experiences
John Imah
SPREEAI
Linda Tong
Webflow
Tom Allen
The AI Journal
Speaking Session
10:15 - 10:20
Opening remarks
Oliviana Bailey
AI4ALL
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | Activating AI Governance As a Performance Lever: How Organisations Simultaneously Excel with Innovation and Operations in Real (Agentic AI) Life
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | The AI Layer for Global Commerce
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Speaking Session
10:20 - 10:40
Can Europe and the Middle East Build Their Own AI Stack?
Fabrizio Del Maffeo
Axelera AI
Mehdi Ghissassi
AI 71
Gené Teare
Crunchbase
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:45
Is This the "End of SaaS" Moment We’ve Been Building For?
Tom Eggemeier
Zendesk
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:45
From Models to Agents at Scale
Swami Sivasubramanian
Amazon Web Services
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Job van der Voort, Co-founder & CEO at Remote
Job van der Voort
Remote
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Special Envoy at Techleap
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Sovereign AI
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
Lisa Oder
Tagesspiegel Background
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
Deploying at Scale: The True Cost of AI
Susan Jones
Diageo
James Waters
Booking.com
Dasha Afanasieva
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
Human Taste and Judgment in an AI-Mediated World
Rebecca Shostak
Flodesk
Timothy Young
Jasper
Johnny Rohrbach
SILVERSIDE AI
Katie Street
Marketing in the Madness Podcast
Speaking Session
11:00 - 11:20
Operating at Scale
Daniele Tonella
ING Group
Vishal Talwar
FedEx
Harry McCracken
Fast Company
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
Emotion, Intent and the Future of Voice AI
Shawn Wen
PolyAI
Alex Gay
Otter.ai
Ivan Mehta
TechCrunch
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
Is AI Killing Software as a Service?
Clay Bavor
Sierra
Niall Firth
MIT Tech Review
Press
11:15 - 12:00
The Future of AI Sovereignty
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
Roundtable
11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable | Rethinking Strategy in the Age of AI
Jim Harris
AiNews.com
Speaking Session
11:20 - 11:40
Fragmentation is killing Europe
Vojtech Horna
EU–INC
Gloria Baeuerlein
Puzzle Ventures
Aki Tas
Tebi
Pieter Haeck
POLITICO
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Europe’s Billion-Euro Problem
Thomas Clozel
Owkin
Ophelia Brown
Blossom Capital
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
The Next Interface: Why AI Needs Physical Products
Robert Brunner
Ammunition
Jennifer Strong
SHIFT Podcast
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Karen Silverman, CEO of The Cantellus Group
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
11:40 - 12:00
Trusting AI in the Wild
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Matt Rosoff
The Register
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:05
Payments & AI
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Rafał Pikuła
Spider's Web
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:05
Hybrid AI: What's the Best Balance for a Creative Campaign?
Alex Mashrabov
Higgsfield
Stephan Pretorius
WPP
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:25
From Data Access to Delegation: Reinventing Healthcare with AI
Patrick Mans
Philips
Harry Booth
TIME
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:30
Building at the AI Frontier
Kareem Ayoub
Google DeepMind
Tom Mackenzie
Bloomberg
Roundtable
12:15 - 13:00
Roundtable | When AI Does the Volume: What is the Future Role of the Human Agent?
Tom Eggemeier
Zendesk
Press
12:15 - 12:45
Can Security Teams Keep Up with Autonomous Attackers?
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Diana Kelley
Noma Security
Speaking Session
12:25 - 12:45
Lessons Learned in Unifying Fragmented Data & Scaling Safely
Ardy Arianpour
SEQSTER
David Bromberg
Lantern
Ioana Hreninciuc
Runware
Ron Miller
FastForward
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Sue Jones, CDO at Diageo
Susan Jones
Diageo
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with John Imah, Co-founder & CEO at SPREEAI
John Imah
SPREEAI
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
12:45 - 13:00
The Next Frontier in Enterprise AI: Video's Compounding Value
Soyoung Lee
Twelve Labs
Speaking Session
13:00 - 13:05
Opening remarks
Stefano Piano
ISEP
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:30
A Reality Check on How Cyberattackers are Actually Using AI
Madeline Lawrence
Aikido
Diana Kelley
Noma Security
Eric Doerr
Tenable
Rob Pegoraro
PCMag
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Keeping Up: Information Flow in the Age of AI
Alex Gay
Otter.ai
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Responsible AI Starts with Literacy: Governance from the Boardroom to the Break Room
Oliviana Bailey
AI4ALL
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:50
The New Luxury: AI is only as valuable as the hands that shape It
Gonzague de Pirey
LVMH
Hanne Jesca Bax
EY
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:35
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Q&A
13:30 - 14:15
Q&A with Kareem Ayoub, VP, AI Technical Strategy at Google Deepmind
Kareem Ayoub
Google DeepMind
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
13:35 - 13:55
Building AI Search Without Breaking the Open Web
Jim Lanzone
Yahoo
Massimo Marioni
massimomarioni.com
Speaking Session
13:50 - 14:10
The Missing Ingredient in Agentic AI: Context
Bianca Anghelina
AILY LABS
Stefan Ostwald
Parloa
Jeff Wilser
AI-Curious
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:20
Can Europe Actually Build Sovereign AI?
Alexander Rinke
Celonis
James Wise
Balderton Capital
Pieter Haeck
POLITICO
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Who Owns the Future of Music?
Ghazi Shami
EMPIRE
Andrea Czapary Martin
PRS for Music
Jennifer Strong
SHIFT Podcast
Speaking Session
14:10 - 14:30
The Autonomous Finance Office
Daniel Kim
Synthesia
John Glasgow
Campfire
Anna Tutova
Fortune
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Roundtable | Building Reliable AI Agent Infrastructure
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
The Future of CX: Building Human-Centered Experiences
Abby Godee
Publicis Sapient
Peter Burns
Heathrow Airport
Massimo Marioni
massimomarioni.com
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
Hiring, Firing & Reskilling with Agents
Job van der Voort
Remote
Matt Rosoff
The Register
Q&A
14:30 - 15:15
Q&A with James Wise, Partner at Balderton Capital
James Wise
Balderton Capital
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Press
14:30 - 15:15
Inside VC's New Rules for AI Investment
Sasha Vidiborskiy
Atomico
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Jai Das
Sapphire Ventures
Speaking Session
14:30 - 14:50
Finance for Humans in an Automated World
Bianca Zwart
bunq
Biswa Sengupta
JP Morgan
Carmel Crimmins
Reuters
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
Beyond AI: Deploying Digital Labor Across the Enterprise
Nader Mikhail
Elementum AI
Emmanuel Frenehard
Sanofi
Emil Protalinski
Hard Coded and Techmeme
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
The AI Efficiency Race: What It Takes to Scale Smarter
Roxanne Varza
Station F
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
14:50 - 15:10
Beyond the Hospital Walls: Predictive Sensing, Clinical AI & Next-Generation Health Intelligence
Ken Froot
Harvard University
Nassib Chamoun
Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI)
Lisa Oder
Tagesspiegel Background
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #1
Andy Lürling
LUMO Labs
Eva Bandelj
The Stack
Larry Li
Amino Capital
Roundtable
15:00 - 15:45
Roundtable | Crossing the AI Divide: From Safe Infrastructure to AI You Can Stand Behind
Stefan Ostwald
Parloa
Speaking Session
15:00 - 15:20
From Intent to Action
Jan Oberhauser
n8n
Sam Stephenson
Granola
Speaking Session
15:10 - 15:25
A Blueprint for Government to Deploy GenAI at Scale?
Vishal Marria
Quantexa
Speaking Session
15:20 - 15:40
Beyond the Token Race
Arvind Jain
Glean
Harry Booth
TIME
Speaking Session
15:25 - 15:50
Risk, Responsibility & Trusted AI in Zero-Tolerance Environments
Spencer Schaefer
Predaptic, LLC / Lunar Ai, LLC / Dept of Veterans Affairs (ret)
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
Barbara Junge
taz
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Sam Stephenson the Co-founder at Granola
Sam Stephenson
Granola
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Stephan Pretorius, CTO at WPP
Stephan Pretorius
WPP
Speaking Session
15:40 - 16:00
The AI Investment Reality Check
Sasha Vidiborskiy
Atomico
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Jai Das
Sapphire Ventures
Romain Dillet
Hypertext
Speaking Session
15:50 - 16:15
An Agentic Backbone
Steve Lucas
Boomi
Arun Chandra
NiCE
Nidhi Aggarwal
HackerOne
Tomas Statius
Lighthouse Reports
Speaking Session
16:00 - 16:20
The Race to Build Real-World Intelligence
Alex Kendall
Wayve
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Roundtable
16:00 - 16:45
Roundtable | Your AI Works. So Why Aren’t People Using It?
Abby Godee
Publicis Sapient
Speaking Session
16:15 - 16:40
Leading the Way to AI-Ready Organisations: A Practical Guide for Executives
Rasmus Holst
ZENSAI
Juan Pablo Ortega
Yuno
Luna Schmid
GV
Ronan Chambers
etn.
Roundtable
16:15 - 17:00
Roundtable | It’s 2026 - where did all the customers go?
Robin Daniels
Zensai
Speaking Session
16:20 - 16:35
How to Scale AI in a Market That Won't Sit Still
Xuedong Huang
Zoom
Pitch Session
16:30 - 17:30
Pitch Competition Semi Final #2
Sebastiaan Vaessen
Prosus Ventures
Friso Jiskoot
Taplow Blue Capital
Ryan Sarver
Inkef
Speaking Session
16:35 - 17:00
Turning the Promise of Frontier AI into Reality
Colin Jarvis
OpenAI
Alex Hern
The Economist
Networking
17:00 - 18:00
HumanX Happy Hour
THURSDAY
september 24
Speaking Session
09:50 - 09:55
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Speaking Session
09:55 - 10:05
Amsterdam, AI & What Comes Next
Melanie van der Horst
City of Amsterdam
Speaking Session
10:05 - 10:25
After the Exit: Building and Backing the Next Wave of AI Out of Europe
Peter Sarlin
PostScriptum
Alex Hern
The Economist
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | What's Stopping AI Adoption? Bring Your Own Blocker
Stefano Piano
ISEP
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | The Future of R&D teams in the Age of AI
Dana Lawson
Netlify
Speaking Session
10:20 - 10:25
Opening remarks
Sylv Thomas
Sylv Thomas
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:40
The Agentic Cloud: From Intelligence to Action
Ye Huang
Alibaba Group
Speaking Session
10:25 - 10:40
Leapfrogging from Chatbots to Autonomous Workflows
Gautier Cloix
H
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
10:30 - 10:35
Opening remarks
Esther Bisschop
The Stack
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Larry Li, Founder and Managing Partner at Amino Capital
Larry Li
Amino Capital
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Press
10:30 - 11:00
Q&A with Stefan Weitz, Co-founder & CEO, HumanX
Stefan Weitz
HumanX
Speaking Session
10:35 - 10:55
How the World's Largest Food & Beverage Company Accelerates Digital Innovation
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestlé
Ivan Mehta
TechCrunch
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Reliable Creative AI
Matt Rouif
Photoroom
Mikayel Vardanyan
Picsart
Speaking Session
10:40 - 10:45
Why Verneek Is Betting on Europe’s Retail Economy
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
Verneek AI
Q&A
10:45 - 11:15
Q&A with Gautier Cloix, CEO at H
Gautier Cloix
H
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
The Creativity Advantage
Zhenya Loginov
Accel
Jorn van Dijk
Framer
Sarah Jacob
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
10:55 - 11:15
What's Holding Europe Back?
Aaron Rosenberg
Radical Ventures
Daniel Khachab
Choco AI
Avid Larizadeh Duggan OBE
Teachers' Venture Growth, OTPP
Leah Hodgson
PitchBook News
Speaking Session
11:00 - 11:15
Voice is the new OS
Neil Zeghidour
Gradium
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
AI with Purpose: Building Responsibility at Scale
Parag Parekh
IKEA
Roundtable
11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable | The Autonomous Company: How Far Are We Really?
Imad Riachi
Honu
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Hiring or Automating? How the Best Companies Scale
Robin Daniels
Zensai
Kristin Fracchia
Gamma
Éanna Kelly
Sifted
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Building for the AI Era
Avani Prabhakar
Atlassian
Chris Burgess
Expedia
Ron Miller
FastForward
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Why Most AI Never Makes It Inside
May Habib
WRITER
Sharon Goldman
Ground Level AI
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Edith Harbaugh, Co-founder & CEO at LaunchDarkly
Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Parag Parekh, CDO at IKEA
Parag Parekh
IKEA
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Speaking Session
11:35 - 11:55
Partnership Models that Move the Needle: Labs, Platforms & More
Carlos Eduardo Espinal
Seedcamp
Tamara Steffens
Thomson Reuters Ventures
Christian Facey
Audiomob
Marcin Lewandowski
turnedVC Show
Speaking Session
11:35 - 12:00
Engineering the Physical World
Maria Dunford
Lifebit
Fabrizio Pirondini
Xoople
Rebecca Schaevitz
Mixx Technologies
Rob Pegoraro
PCMag
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:10
Where Capital & Emerging AI Categories Collide
Larry Li
Amino Capital
Philip Chopin
NEA
Shamillah Bankiya
Dawn Capital
Alex Hern
The Economist
Speaking Session
11:55 - 12:20
Show Me the Money: What Gets Funded Now
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Gené Teare
Crunchbase
Speaking Session
12:10 - 12:30
Unlocking a New Era of Discovery
Alexey Dosovitskiy
Recursive
Niall Firth
MIT Tech Review
Roundtable
12:15 - 13:00
Roundtable | Why Your AI Breakthrough Isn’t Making Headlines
Larissa Holzki
Handelsblatt
Press
12:15 - 13:00
How AI Is Quietly Redrawing the Org Chart
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Rasmus Holst
ZENSAI
Speaking Session
12:20 - 12:40
How Can Startups Solve Deep Enterprise Pain Points with AI?
Rajul Garg
Leo Capital
Romain Dillet
Hypertext
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with John Acunto, CEO at Napster
John Acunto
Napster
David Asabina
PHILIPPS & BYRNE GmbH; Asabina GmbH
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Des Traynor, Co-founder at Fin
Des Traynor
Fin
Marine Boulot
mhatamoto
Speaking Session
12:40 - 13:00
Digital Workers: What It Takes to Scale Enterprise AI
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Akansha Dimri
Tech Funding News
Speaking Session
13:00 - 13:05
Opening remarks
Jennifer Burns
Bright Data
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:20
Don't Skip the "Safe" Switch
Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Beyond the Pilot: What It Really Takes to Scale Agentic AI
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestlé
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Sovereign AI: How Much Control Is Enough?
Maria Dunford
Lifebit
Speaking Session
13:20 - 13:40
When AI Knows the Consumer Better Than the Brand
Ndidi Oteh
Accenture
Katie Street
Marketing in the Madness Podcast
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:35
Opening remarks
Zivile Einikyte
Perception Paradox
Speaking Session
13:35 - 14:00
Bought, Not Sold: Demystifying the Path to Being Acquired
Jeff Wang
Cognition
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Leah Hodgson
PitchBook News
Speaking Session
13:35 - 13:55
Past the Demo: Deploying AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
Kartik Sheth
Deutsche Telekom
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Speaking Session
13:40 - 14:00
The Ethics Tax: Can You Afford to Build a "Good" Model?
Emre Kazim
Holistic AI
Nina Müller
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Q&A
13:45 - 14:15
Q&A with Danila Shtan, CTO at Nebius
Danila Shtan
Nebius, Inc.
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:15
Rewriting the Operating Model for the AI Era
Des Traynor
Fin
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Luisa Bomke
Handelsblatt
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Human-Machine Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
Verneek AI
Imad Riachi
Honu
Andrey Khusid
Miro
Jeff Wilser
AI-Curious
Pitch Session
14:00 - 15:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #3
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Tamara Steffens
Thomson Reuters Ventures
Sabine Schoorl
identity.vc 🏳️🌈 Backing LGBTQ+ Founders
Akansha Dimri
Tech Funding News
Speaking Session
14:15 - 14:40
When Everyone Can Create with AI, What Makes a Voice Stand Out?
Eric Snowden
Adobe
Brandon Baum
Studio B
Harry McCracken
Fast Company
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Roundtable | The Future of AI: What It Will Actually Take to Get There
Rebecca Schaevitz
Mixx Technologies
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
The Future of Software Architecture in the AI-Native Era
Ivan Burazin
Daytona
Spencer Kimball
Cockroach Labs
Jim Harris
AiNews.com
Q&A
14:30 - 15:15
Q&A with Fabrizio Pirondini, Co-founder & CEO at Xoople
Fabrizio Pirondini
Xoople
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
14:40 - 14:55
Making Military-Grade Robots Safe & Secure
Andrew Reiter
Shield AI
Speaking Session
14:40 - 15:00
Deploying AI at 30,000 Feet
Marjan Rintel
KLM
Dasha Afanasieva
Bloomberg
Speaking Session
14:55 - 15:15
Physical AI Meets Real-World Autonomy
Bobby Healy
Manna
Shawn Kerrigan
PlusAI
Éanna Kelly
Sifted
Speaking Session
15:00 - 15:20
The Deterministic Engine
Ron Miller
FastForward
Jessica Reeves
Axoniq
Jacomo Corbo
PhysicsX
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #4
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Victoria Slivkoff
Chemonics
Herman Kienhuis
Curiosity VC
Roundtable
15:15 - 16:00
Roundtable | The firm of the future: How AI is reshaping what work is worth doing
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Roundtable
15:15 - 16:00
Roundtable | Fundraising at AI Speed: How Early-Stage Fundraising Rounds Have Evolved
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Speaking Session
15:15 - 15:35
The Human Side of AI
John Acunto
Napster
Hugh Langley
Business Insider
Speaking Session
15:20 - 15:35
Beyond the Pilot: Making AI Agents Work at Scale
Danila Shtan
Nebius, Inc.
Euro Beinat
Prosus N.V.
Harry Booth
TIME
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Ambica Rajagopal, Group Chief Data & AI Officer at Michelin and Darko Matovski, Co-founder at causaLens
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Khadijah (Rana) Sajarana
CAL | CTRL+ALT+LEAD
Speaking Session
15:35 - 16:00
Europe, Sovereignty & the AI Race
Nick Clegg
Hiro Capital
Hadas Gold
CNN
Speaking Session
15:35 - 15:55
Context is King: How to Build AI Systems, Not Just Features
Dana Lawson
Netlify
Omer Primor
Bright Data
Emil Protalinski
Hard Coded and Techmeme
Pitch Session
16:00 - 17:00
Pitch Competition Final
Anke Huiskes
NP-Hard Ventures
Victoria Slivkoff
Chemonics
Andy Lürling
LUMO Labs
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Sebastiaan Vaessen
Prosus Ventures