HumanX Amsterdam 2026 Agenda
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Tue
Sep 22
Wed
Sep 23
Thu
Sep 24
Networking
10:30 - 16:00
AI Policy [X]change (application required)
Sponsored by Prosus
Networking
10:30 - 16:00
AI Founders [X]change (application required)
Hosted by Founders Forum Group & EY
Networking
12:30 - 16:00
AI Executives [X]change (application required)
Sponsored by Google
Partner Program
14:00 - 16:00
AI on the Amstel Kickoff Meetup: Building Multi-Agent AI
Hosted by AI on the Amstel
Speaking Session
16:30 - 18:30
Opening night
Networking
18:30 - 21:30
AI Executives Dinner (application required)
Sponsored by Google
Networking
18:30 - 21:30
HumanX Opening Reception
Networking
08:30 - 09:30
CIAO Leadership Series Breakfast (Invite Only)
Sponsored by Deloitte
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
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 |The AI Layer for Global Commerce
Juan 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
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?
Mike Murchison
Ada
Arun Chandra
NiCE
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Job van der Voort, Co-founder & CEO at Remote
Job van der Voort
Remote
Q&A
10:30 - 11:15
Q&A with Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau, Special Envoy, Techleap
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Sovereign AI
Joelle Pineau
Cohere
Jelle Prins
Cradle
Umesh Sachdev
Uniphore
Rowland Manthorpe
Sky News
Speaking Session
10:45 - 11:05
Deploying At Scale
Susan Jones
Diageo
James Waters
Booking.com
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
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
Alex Konrad
Upstarts Media
Roundtable
11:15 - 12:00
Roundtable | When Everything Moves: Designing Agentic Customer Experiences for Travel's Hardest Moments
Mike Murchison
Ada
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Europe's Billion Euro Problem
Judith Dada
Visionaries
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Techleap
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
The Next Interface: Why AI Needs Physical Products
Robert Brunner
Ammunition
Q&A
11:30 - 12:15
Q&A with Clay Bavor, Co-founder at Sierra
Clay Bavor
Sierra
Speaking Session
11:40 - 12:00
Trusting AI in the Wild
Alex Stamos
Corridor
Nia Castelly
Google
Robert Blumofe
Akamai
Matt Rosoff
The Register
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:05
The Store Is Becoming an AI Interface
Dirk Hoerig
commercetools
Melissa Bridgeford
Wizard
Rafał Pikuła
Spider's Web
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:30
The Wrong Kind of Fast
Kareem Ayoub
Google Deepmind
Speaking Session
12:05 - 12:25
How the World's Largest Food & Beverage Company Accelerates Digital Innovation
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestle
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
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
Ioana Hreninciuc
Runware
Ardy Arianpour
SEQSTER
David Bromberg
Lantern
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Sue Jones, CDO at Diageo
Susan Jones
Diageo
Speaking Session
12:45 - 13:00
The Next Frontier in Enterprise AI: Video's Compounding Value
Soyoung Lee
Twelve Labs
Masterclass
13:00 - 13:45
Build Your Own Search Engine: Exactly the Context Your LLM Needs
Sponsored by Bright Data
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:30
A Reality Check on How Cyberattackers are Actually Using AI
Rob Pegoraro
PCMag
Diana Kelley
Noma Security
Willem Delbare
Aikido Security
Eric Doerr
Tenable
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | Beyond the Pilot: What It Really Takes to Scale Agentic AI
Luca Dell’Orletta
Nestle
Roundtable
13:15 - 14:00
Roundtable | The Sovereign Stack: Why Models Are Only 10% of the Trust Equation
Nia Castelly
Google
Q&A
13:30 - 14:15
Q&A with Kareem Ayoub, VP, AI Technical Strategy at Google Deepmind
Kareem Ayoub
Google Deepmind
Speaking Session
13:30 - 13:50
Hiring, Firing & Reskilling with Agents
Mahe Bayireddi
Phenom
Job van der Voort
Remote
Speaking Session
13:50 - 14:10
The Missing Ingredient in Agentic AI: Context
Bianca Anghelina
AILY LABS
Malte Kosub
Parloa
Jeff Wilser
AI-Curious
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:20
Can Europe Actually Build Sovereign AI?
Pieter Haeck
POLITICO
James Wise
Balderton Capital
Clara Chappaz
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Who Owns the Future of Music?
Maejor
The Frequency School
Ghazi
EMPIRE
Andrea Czapary Martin
PRS for Music
Jennifer Strong
PRX
Masterclass
14:00 - 14:45
Shipped, not safe: why AI agents fail in production
Sponsored by Sinch
Speaking Session
14:10 - 14:30
The Autonomous Finance Office
Daniel Kim
Synthesia
John Glasgow
Campfire
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
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
The Future of CX: Building Human-Centered Experiences
Abby Godee
Publicis Sapient
Peter Burns
Heathrow Airport
Roundtable
15:00 - 15:45
Roundtable | Crossing the AI Divide: From Safe Infrastructure to AI You Can Stand Behind
Malte Kosub
Parloa
Masterclass
15:00 - 15:45
How to Take Your Agent's Memory Anywhere
Sponsored by Walrus Foundation
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #1
Speaking Session
15:05 - 15:25
From Intent to Action
Christopher Pedregal
Granola
Jan Oberhauser
n8n
Jochen Wegner
ZEIT ONLINE
Speaking Session
15:10 - 15:25
A Blueprint for Government to Deploy GenAI at Scale?
Vishal Marria
Quantexa
Speaking Session
15:25 - 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
Lunar Analytics
Karen Silverman
Cantellus Group
Thomas Clozel
Owkin
Barbara Junge
taz
Speaking Session
15:40 - 16:00
The AI Investment Reality Check
Sasha Vidiborskiy
Atomico
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Jai Das
Sapphire Ventures
Greg Williams
Economist Enterprise
Speaking Session
15:50 - 16:15
An Agentic Backbone
Steve Lucas
Boomi
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
Networking
16:00 - 17:30
Women @ HX Reception
Pitch Session
16:00 - 16:30
Pitch Solution Showcases
Sponsored by BYOND & Softr & anyformat & Optima Engineering
Speaking Session
16:15 - 16:40
Leading the Way to AI-Ready Organisations: A Practical Guide for Executives
Rasmus Holst
ZENSAI
Juan 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
Speaking Session
16:35 - 17:00
Turning the promise of frontier AI into reality
Colin Jarvis
OpenAI
Networking
17:00 - 18:00
HumanX Exhibitor Happy Hour
Partner Program
08:00 - 09:45
French Tech Amsterdam Networking Breakfast Event
Hosted by French Tech Amsterdam
Masterclass
10:00 - 10:45
You’re hired! Building your own team of AI teammates
Sponsored by Optimizely
Roundtable
10:15 - 11:00
Roundtable | Tormenting the Models - Human Experts in the Age of AI
Radha Basu
iMerit
Speaking Session
10:20 - 10:40
Leapfrogging from Chatbots to Autonomous Workflows
Babak Hodjat
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Gautier Cloix
H
Charlie Perreau
Les Echos
Speaking Session
10:35 - 10:55
The Creativity Advantage
Zhenya Loginov
Accel
Jorn van Dijk
Framer
Speaking Session
10:40 - 11:00
Building Reliable Creative AI
Matt Rouif
Photoroom
Mikayel Vardanyan
Picsart
Q&A
10:45 - 11:15
Q&A with Gautier Cloix, CEO at H
Gautier Cloix
H
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
Don't Skip the "Safe" Switch
Edith Harbaugh
LaunchDarkly
Masterclass
11:00 - 11:45
The Platform, Not the Prompt: What Actually Governs Voice AI
Sponsored by PolyAI
Speaking Session
11:05 - 11:25
AI With Purpose; Building Responsibility at Scale
Parag Parekh
IKEA
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Building for the AI Era
Avani Prabhakar
Atlassian
Chris Burgess
Expedia
Speaking Session
11:15 - 11:35
Hiring or Automating? How the Best Companies Scale
Robin Daniels
Zensai
Katy Nelson
Helena Capital
Kristin Fracchia
Gamma
Éanna Kelly
Sifted
Speaking Session
11:25 - 11:45
Why Most AI Never Makes It Inside
May Habib
WRITER
Alex Konrad
Upstarts Media
Speaking Session
11:35 - 12:00
Engineering the Physical World
Maria Dunford
Lifebit
Fabrizio Pirondini
Xoople
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
Speaking Session
11:45 - 12:10
Where Capital & Emerging AI Categories Collide
Larry Li
Amino Capital
Philip Chopin
NEA
Jahanvi Sardana
Index Ventures
Alex Hern
The Economist
Speaking Session
11:55 - 12:20
Show Me the Money: Investors' Funding Insights
Amrit Saxena
SaxeCap
Alexander Schmitt
Lightspeed
Shamillah Bankiya
Dawn Capital
Gené Teare
Crunchbase
Speaking Session
12:20 - 12:40
How Can Startups Solve Deep Enterprise Pain Points with AI?
Roham Gharegozlou
Dapper Labs
Rajul Garg
Leo Capital
Erin Platts
Octopus Ventures
Romain Dillet
Hypertext
Q&A
12:30 - 13:15
Q&A with Des Traynor, Co-founder at Fin
Des Traynor
Fin
Speaking Session
12:40 - 13:00
Digital Workers: What It Takes to Scale Enterprise AI
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Masterclass
13:00 - 13:45
AI Agents Aren’t Designed. They Are Discovered.
Sponsored by NiCE
Speaking Session
13:05 - 13:20
Voice is the new OS
Neil Zeghidour
Gradium
Speaking Session
13:35 - 14:00
Bought, Not Sold: Demystifying the Path to Being Acquired
Jeff Wang
Cognition
Vivek Sodera
Superhuman / Supercharge.vc
Speaking Session
13:40 - 14:00
The Ethics Tax: Can You Afford to Build a "Good" Model?
Dylan Fox
AssemblyAI
Emre Kazim
Holistic AI
Speaking Session
13:55 - 14:15
The Copilot Era Is Over
Des Traynor
Fin
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Speaking Session
14:00 - 14:20
Human-Machine Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
Nasrin Mostafazadeh
Verneek AI
Imad Riachi
Honu
Andrey Khusid
Miro
Masterclass
14:00 - 14:45
From Fragmented Workflows to AI Fluency
Sponsored by Atlassian
Pitch Session
14:00 - 15:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #3
Roseanne Wincek
Renegade Partners
Speaking Session
14:15 - 14:40
When Everyone Can Create with AI, What Makes a Voice Stand Out?
Eric Snowden
Adobe Design
Brandon Baum
Studio B
Roundtable
14:15 - 15:00
Roundtable | From Seed to Scale: how should investors tailor their approach to backing AI companies as they mature
Erin Platts
Octopus Ventures
Speaking Session
14:20 - 14:40
Open Models & The New Compute Reality
Rebecca Schaevitz
Mixx Technologies
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
Radha Basu
iMerit
Speaking Session
15:00 - 15:20
The Deterministic Engine
Jessica Reeves
Axoniq
Jacomo Corbo
PhysicsX
Ron Miller
FastForward
Pitch Session
15:00 - 16:00
Pitch Competition Semi Final #4
Roundtable
15:15 - 16:00
Roundtable | The firm of the future: How AI is reshaping what work is worth doing
Jennifer Smith
Scribe
Speaking Session
15:20 - 15:40
Europe, Sovereignty, and the AI Race
Nick Clegg
Hiro Capital
Q&A
15:30 - 16:15
Q&A with Ambica Rajagopal, Group Chief Data & AI Officer, Michelin and Darko Matovski, Co-founder, causaLens
Ambica Rajagopal
Michelin
Darko Matovski
causaLens
Speaking Session
15:35 - 15:55
Context is King: How to Build AI Systems, Not Just Features
Prukalpa Sankar
Atlan
Gabriel Banks
Quill AI
Dana Lawson
Netlify
Networking
16:00 - 17:30
Startup Reception
Sponsored by Nscale
Pitch Session
16:00 - 17:00
Pitch Competition Final
Networking
18:00 - 22:30
HumanX Closing Night Party
WEDNESDAY
september 23
THURSDAY
september 24