As AI moves from support tools to systems that act, governments face rising pressure to deliver growth, opportunity, and cohesion amid fragmentation. This breakfast convenes public leaders to examine how sovereign AI capabilities can strengthen state capacity, modernize service delivery, and support economic mobility while ensuring accountable governance of autonomous systems and sustaining public trust.

AI is becoming a game-changer in M&A, reshaping why deals happen, how targets are valued, and which industries will evolve next. This session will challenge traditional assumptions and explore the future of deal-making. How is AI redefining what companies seek to acquire, is the motive shifting toward securing talent and technology, or toward adapting to new business models as existing ones mature? How should deal teams think about valuing AI capabilities, are they worth a premium, or becoming part of the standard operating baseline? Do acquisitions of AI-intensive businesses introduce new types of risk, or simply amplify familiar integration challenges? And how does AI influence the overall M&A lifecycle? This session is designed for dealmakers, strategists, and innovators looking to understand how AI is not only influencing M&A, but reshaping the strategic logic behind it.

As AI rewires the architecture of the global economy, nations and industries are diverging into producers of intelligence, consumers of AI, and coordination hubs. This shift is reshaping GDP trajectories, productivity frontiers, and the distribution of economic power. Organizations that recognize this transformation early will build systems that sense market changes, adapt operations, and evolve offerings in real time, creating data and capability advantages that rapidly broaden the gap between emerging leaders and those struggling to keep pace. For many, AI unlocks unprecedented opportunity; for others, the accelerating transition is profoundly destabilizing. With progress now measured in months rather than years, this panel examines how the global industrial map is being redrawn, how power is being redistributed, and what resilience demands in an era defined by adaptive, intelligence-driven competition.

Startups are a vital component of the innovation engine. For Europe’s future competitiveness, it is essential not only to foster academic excellence and startup creation, but also to enable scaling and sustained growth. This session brings together international decision-makers from industry, politics, academia, investment, and Europe’s most innovative scaleups to chart the path forward. Together, they will define the priorities, partnerships, and policies needed to unlock Europe’s next generation of global champions.

This roundtable presents insights from the first global alumni survey capturing how business school graduates worldwide assess leadership capabilities, systemic disruption, and societal trust. The discussion highlights AI as a central force reshaping leadership expectations, decision-making, and responsibility across sectors. Drawing on diverse perspectives, the session explores how leadership and education must evolve to address AI-driven change, bridging the gap between academics and industry application, and promote contribution to resilient, trustworthy, and sustainable systems.

AI is no longer just a technology, it’s a global infrastructure shaping economies, societies, and innovation. To make it trustworthy at scale, we need shared systems that turn principles into practice. From certification schemes and audits to technical benchmarks, we’ll examine how governance principles become operational assurance and how organizations like ISO, IEEE, the UN, and OECD are shaping globally coherent standards. Drawing lessons from climate and nuclear governance, the discussion tackles jurisdictional fragmentation while fostering innovation and competitiveness. The goal: a durable, collaborative system that ensures AI safety globally.

Governments around the world are facing rising expectations to deliver services that are faster, fairer, and more responsive to citizens. This panel discussion will cover how AI is reshaping public administration, from crisis response and digital identity to predictive service delivery and real-time policy feedback loops. The conversation will aim to surface new models for embedding AI into governance frameworks that are transparent, inclusive, and designed around people, not just processes.

This roundtable explores how regional innovation ecosystems enable societies to actively co-create AI futures through cross-border collaboration and civic empowerment. Examining the Heilbronn-Munich-Zurich triangle, participants discuss how strategic partnerships strengthen public engagement in AI development, close knowledge gaps through accessible education programs, and create pathways for communities, startups, established companies, and social sector organizations to shape AI systems that serve societal needs. The discussion highlights concrete mechanisms through which regional collaboration amplifies local strengths, democratizes AI literacy, and builds capacity for innovation that addresses social and ecological challenges alongside economic opportunities.

As AI is being deployed at unprecedented speed, making it safe, secure, and trustworthy is a global priority. This roundtable brings together world leading AI experts from policy, industry, and academia to explore how to accelerate the shift from high-level AI risks and principles to practical implementation of AI governance and risk management. The session will focus on using verifiable evidence to build trustworthy, safe, and secure AI systems to enable fast AI adoption while safeguarding both business and society.

How should large-scale AI be governed? By states, public–private partnerships, or international coalitions to ensure transparency, accountability, and democratic oversight? What would it mean to treat AI as a public good that promotes fair access to computational and data resources across regions, sectors, and communities? What models and standards (interoperability, safety, data portability) are needed to build scalable, reliable, and open AI infrastructure and what lessons can be drawn from other public systems like the internet or energy grids? How can nations coordinate to ensure responsible, environmentally sustainable AI infrastructure that avoids fragmentation and serves as a shared global resource?

This roundtable examines how data shapes AI models’ capabilities and risks, focusing on data collection and curation for training, responsible deployment, and evaluation. The discussion will address best practices and open challenges across the AI pipeline, including how data quality and diversity influence model performance, how evaluation data supports safety, privacy, fairness, and accountability, and how progress can be reliably measured. Participants will explore the future of AI and data generation, the impact of limited data availability, evolving definitions of “high-quality” data, and shifts in data needs as research advances. The conversation will also consider issues of data governance, intellectual property, global regulatory disparities, and the ethical balance between accuracy, diversity, and representativeness. The goal is to identify practical insights for developing AI systems that are both powerful and responsible.

As AI becomes the backbone of national competitiveness, the physical and digital infrastructure supporting it can no longer be seen as neutral. This roundtable will examine how infrastructure, from data centers to sovereign cloud, is evolving into a strategic asset for governments and enterprises alike. We will explore its role in enabling compute equity, digital sovereignty, and sustainable growth in the AI age. Bringing together voices from policy, industry, sustainability, and finance, the conversation will focus on infrastructure as a site of both national resilience and global interdependence and how decision-makers can future-proof it for geopolitical, technological, and environmental change

AI is learning the rules of biology and rewriting the pace of drug discovery. This session explores how generative and predictive models are compressing the path from target hypothesis to designed molecules and proteins. We’ll unpack what it takes to move from promising outputs to trustworthy decisions, through rigorous validation, reproducible workflows, and governance that builds trust with scientific and regulatory stakeholders. Beyond productivity, the session asks a deeper question: what diseases become solvable when we redesign discovery itself?

In this roundtable, participants are asked to share candid perspectives on the realities of building secure and compliant sovereign AI. This discussion explores national and organizational challenges, concerns, and expectations as we strive to secure trusted, autonomous AI ecosystems while balancing innovation, resilience, and global collaboration in an interconnected world.

This panel explores how societies can actively shape the future of AI through inclusion, literacy, and broad civic participation. It examines how to strengthen public engagement in AI policymaking, close knowledge gaps through accessible education programs, and build tools that enable transparent, participatory governance. The discussion highlights how informed communities can influence the development, deployment, and oversight of AI systems that impact daily life and democratic decision-making.

Urban ecosystems are becoming increasingly complex, with mobility, transportation, healthcare, and infrastructure deeply interdependent. This session explores how the “connection of everything” can create smarter, more resilient cities, where integrated systems leverage Agentic AI and sensing, self-driving systems to anticipate disruptions, optimize resources, and enhance quality of life. By taking a holistic view of urban resilience, we can unlock innovation that strengthens sustainability, security, and trust in the face of global challenges.

While governments worldwide explore AI's transformative potential for public services, this roundtable shifts focus from vision to operationalization. Participants examine why agentic AI represents a critical inflection point for public administration and how strategic prioritization of governmental functions creates actionable implementation pathways. Using Bavaria's approach to identifying five priority functions as a concrete example, the discussion addresses practical challenges of deployment, the essential role of ecosystem collaboration between government, applied research institutions, and technology providers, and the importance of clear governmental signals of adoption readiness. Through commitments and concrete pledges, participating organizations identify mutual support mechanisms and requirements needed to move from concept to citizen impact.

The AI landscape is moving with dizzying speed, with sky high valuations achieved before a product is even built, let alone hitting the market. In this panel, leading investors will share how they evaluate real value in a noisy market, from pre-seed to growth stage and implications for the public markets. They’ll discuss where technological breakthroughs are emerging, how business models are changing in the age of AI, and whether an AI “bubble” bursts in 2026.

Join us for an evening of drinks and discussion as GPs and LPs come together to explore AI’s fast-changing investment landscape. This cocktail event offers a unique opportunity to mingle with peers, share perspectives, and discuss breakthrough trends and transformative applications. Let's raise a glass to the partnerships driving AI innovation forward.

Europe is at a crossroads in the global AI race. As AI becomes a defining force in geopolitics, Europe faces a widening sovereignty gap compared to the USA and China. To address this challenge, the “AI Geopolitics 2030: The New Power Distribution Through Strategic AI Sovereignty” study closely examines the competitiveness and geopolitical significance of AI in Europe, both within Europe and in comparison with the United States and China. The study will introduce the Strategic AI Capability Index, a robust framework to measure actual AI capabilities across nations and determine the economic cost of Europe’s sovereignty gap. It will also feature exclusive CXO interviews, aiming to deliver strategic recommendations to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness and sovereignty in the age of intelligent systems, as well as future scenarios outlining potential global AI geopolitical developments. This dinner, with the launch of the study, aims to share insights on how Europe can navigate the shifting power dynamics of AI geopolitics and AI governance.

AI and robotics move fast, yet the idea that machines will soon take over most human work ignores a harder truth. Real-world performance requires long, uneven engineering progress, and breakthroughs rarely arrive on cue. Even strong technology does not guarantee broad adoption. This session explores that gap. Participants enter a future where robotics has advanced, but not as boldly as predicted. The diverse group examines how such a shortfall could arise and what it reveals about technology, regulation, safety, economics and public acceptance. The format brings together leaders for a focused, confidential exchange that supports clear thinking and unconventional perspectives. People leave with a sharper view of intelligent machines, expected robotics and AI progress, stronger connections, and maybe a few positive surprises.

As AI redefines medicine, the focus is shifting from treating illness to preserving health and extending human longevity. This panel will explore how intelligent systems are enabling a proactive, preventative, and personalized approach to care - from genomic insights and biomarker discovery to continuous diagnostics and digital twins. Panelists will discuss how these technologies are converging to reframe aging not as an inevitability, but as a solvable challenge. The conversation will also explore the infrastructure, ethical, and access considerations needed to ensure longevity gains are inclusive and globally distributed. From frontier science to system-level transformation, this session maps what it takes to leap into a future where “forever healthy” is not a privilege, but a possibility.

Embodied AI refers to AI integrated into physical systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world through sensors and actuators, like robots and autonomous vehicles. This fireside conversation will explore how advances in AI like in vision–language–action models are redefining what machines can understand and do especially as we move from navigation to mobile manipulation, while addressing the critical challenges of safety, interpretability, and alignment that arise when AI operates alongside humans. The speakers will also discuss how quickly today’s rapid progress in AI might transfer to robotics and embodied systems and in what ways, and how soon, we can expect to see these technologies making a tangible impact on our daily lives.

AI is redefining how organizations create, coordinate, and capture value. As enterprises become AI-native, traditional organizational models are being dismantled and the boundaries of what a ‘job’ is are being reshaped entirely. Collaboration between humans and AI agents is transforming organizations from rigid structures into dynamic systems of intelligence. Acting as co-workers and autonomous economic actors, they reshape work, markets, and accountability. Business models shift toward Intelligence-as-a-Service, capability marketplaces, and algorithmic organizations. While AI boosts agility and scalability, it raises governance, transparency, and ethical challenges. This panel focuses on how human–agent organizations are transforming industries and redefining business models and what this means for strategy, leadership, and the future of work.

AI is accelerating drug discovery, enabling personalized medicine, and reshaping healthcare economics. Scaling its impact requires more than technology, it demands new collaboration across pharma, regulators, payers, and tech providers. This session explores how AI can transform pipelines, infrastructure, and partnerships to build resilient, equitable, and intelligent health systems.

As the foundational model landscape evolves, the focus continues to be on Agentic AI models. This roundtable explores the strategic value of agile, specialized AI models - particularly for nations and organizations prioritizing sovereignty and efficiency. From supporting languages to enabling fine-tuned control in regulated environments, these models offer an alternative pathway to AI deployment. The discussion will gather technologists, policymakers, and researchers to explore how these purpose-built systems can democratize innovation while lowering environmental and economic costs.

As generative and agentic AI move from early adoption into true mainstream use, a new set of frontiers is rapidly coming into view. So what’s next? In this session, we’ll explore the next wave of AI innovation beyond today’s paradigms, examining where the technology is heading, which breakthroughs still stand between us and the next leap forward, and how these advances could reshape entire industries throughout the 2030s. From multimodal intelligence and autonomous experimentation to large-scale simulation and the emergence of new human-machine interfaces, we’ll map out the trajectories that could redefine how AI is built, deployed, and experienced. This panel will also get practical: What opportunities are genuinely venture-backable? How should founders and investors navigate the evolving deep-tech landscape? And what new funding models, ecosystem support, and policy shifts are required to accelerate high-impact AI applications while removing unnecessary barriers?

Space exploration isn’t just about reaching new frontiers - it’s about unlocking breakthroughs that transform life on Earth. This panel explores how AI in space is accelerating innovation and driving real-world impact across smart cities, precision agriculture, disaster response, climate modeling, and global sustainability. From the analysis of satellite imagery to the training of AI models aboard the International Space Station, and even the future creation of orbital data centers, space-powered intelligence is turning global challenges into opportunities for a smarter and more resilient world.

AI is reshaping every profession, and the next generation of talent must be equipped for a world where human–AI collaboration is the norm. This roundtable brings together leaders from industry and academia to define what “AI readiness” should look like for today’s university students. Participants will explore the technical foundations, ethical competencies, and critical-thinking skills needed to thrive in an AI-driven workplace, while examining how educational institutions can adapt their curricula, culture, and teaching methods to prepare students for meaningful, resilient careers in a rapidly evolving landscape.

As AI increasingly generates, edits, and amplifies content, the meaning of information itself is shifting. This roundtable brings together journalists, independent content creators, and influential voices across digital platforms to examine what information becomes when authorship moves from human to machine, where the most critical errors and distortions arise, and how trust can be sustained in fast, algorithm-driven ecosystems. Participants will explore how reporting, storytelling, and influence are evolving, from long-form journalism to short-form and real-time formats. What will define good content in an era shaped by speed, scale, and synthetic media? The session invites creators and journalists alike not just to observe these changes, but to actively shape the future of public understanding in the age of AI.

Quantum computing is emerging as the next frontier in AI, promising new forms of capability far beyond today’s systems. This panel explores what breakthroughs might become possible when quantum techniques are applied to machine learning, and how close we truly are to achieving useful quantum advantage for AI. The discussion also looks at the broader implications for security, accelerating human discovery and global governance as quantum power grows. Panelists will examine how this new paradigm could reshape the future of intelligence and trust in the digital world.

AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape. While bad actors are already leveraging AI to launch sophisticated attacks, automate exploitation, and amplify disinformation campaigns, AI also offers defenders unprecedented capabilities to predict, prevent, and respond to threats. This roundtable explores how AI is empowering cyber defenders to achieve secure outcomes and help enhance resilience, close the skills gap, and establish global standards for responsible innovation.

In recent years, the use of AI, including generative AI, has been expanding in primary and secondary education. This panel will discuss the use of AI in primary and secondary education from a wide range of perspectives, including educational benefits and concerns, impacts on children’s development, challenges in implementation and operation, national and local policies, and global trends.

AI investment is surging, yet most enterprises still struggle to turn it into measurable results. A new pan-European AI Capability Initiative brings together selected corporate leaders to close this gap, focusing on high-impact use cases, faster adoption, and real productivity gains. The initiative launches with an AI House roundtable and continues through curated follow-ups in the coming months across Europe to drive AI impact to the bottom line.

How can we ensure that the next generation of AI systems reflects the world’s linguistic and cultural diversity rather than narrowing it? This interactive evening session explores how shared AI infrastructures, from open data to equitable compute access, can empower linguistic diversity. Through short expert inputs and open networking, participants will exchange ideas on inclusive AI innovation for the common good.

An evening to rethink what AGI truly means. Rather than seeing intelligence as stored knowledge or fixed patterns, we explore it as a dynamic, evolving process, one that has shaped human cognition across millions of years. How close are we to creating machines that don’t just perform tasks but continuously reshape their own models of the world? What risks and possibilities arise when intelligence becomes augmented, accelerated, or even decoupled from biology as we know it now? We will examine the promises and perils of transformative AI, and widen the discussion into cultural, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions. What does it mean for humanity when a new kind of mind emerges alongside us? And how might this shift redefine creativity, purpose, and the future of human evolution?

A closed roundtable for senior ministerial sherpas to be briefed on the latest AI developments, and discuss concrete ways to improve collective global governance on AI.

Faster response times drive higher user satisfaction, engagement, and productivity for AI-powered applications such as search, voice, coding, and agents. As models increasingly reason, plan, and act across many steps, latency becomes an even more critical constraint. Just as broadband replaced dial-up internet, high-speed inference is now going mainstream, enabled by custom chip architectures that don’t have the bottlenecks of GPU-based systems. This roundtable will explore how faster inference is reshaping the AI landscape, and how leaders should prepare for this paradigm shift.

This panel explores “Shadow AI” models, tools, and autonomous agents operating outside formal oversight. As AI proliferates beyond institutional control, risks around security, governance, and accountability intensify. The discussion examines how organizations and policymakers can detect, audit, and manage hidden AI systems, and how to balance open innovation with the systemic risks posed by unmonitored or unauthorized intelligent agents.

AI agents are automating investment research and execution, cutting costs and speeding up price discovery. Yet, this shared toolkit risks algorithmic herding, overfitting, and systemic fragility. We debate the future of asset management: How do we ensure human governance and accountability when algorithms drive capital allocation?

AI is reshaping critical infrastructure, from data centers and power grids to satellite and communication networks. Rising compute demand, tighter reliability requirements, and deeper automation are forcing rapid changes in how these systems are designed and managed. With atomic energy remaining a vital source of stable baseload power, its role grows even more important as AI-driven systems increase overall electricity demand and dependence on reliable generation. This panel examines how AI can improve efficiency and operational resilience, while also creating new vulnerabilities, cyber risks, and capacity challenges. It explores what must be rethought to keep essential infrastructure secure, stable, and future-ready in the AI era.

For much of the Global South, AI presents a rare opportunity to build AI-native economies from the ground up. This roundtable will examine how emerging markets can harness AI to accelerate development across healthcare, education, energy, and public services, while retaining control over data, values, and long-term economic outcomes. Participants will discuss how localized innovation, sovereign infrastructure, and inclusive design can turn AI into a catalyst for shared prosperity rather than deepening inequality. The discussion will aim to surface actionable models for enabling countries to move faster, smarter, and more sustainably in an increasingly intelligence-driven world.

In a world where data is currency and AI drives progress, sovereignty is no longer just a buzzword; it’s a battleground. Who truly controls the future of intelligence: nations, corporations, or the networks that span them? This session challenges the assumption that independence and global collaboration are mutually exclusive. Is the quest for sovereign AI a path to resilience, or a recipe for isolation and stagnation? We’ll confront the hard questions: Can secure, compliant, air-gapped data coexist with the open exchange that fuels innovation? Does sovereignty demand walls, or can it thrive on bridges? And, are we ready to redefine control, not as exclusion, but as empowered participation in a global ecosystem? Join us to debate whether sovereignty is a shield or a cell and to explore how bold, pragmatic strategies can reconcile autonomy with the undeniable benefits of global collaboration.

AI sovereignty is becoming a defining factor for competitiveness and security worldwide as AI increasingly underpins critical infrastructure, industrial innovation, and economic growth. At the same time, enterprises operate in global value chains and rely on cross-border AI capabilities, cloud ecosystems, and international standards. This roundtable explores how global organizations, tech giants, and emerging AI innovation ecosystems can balance sovereignty requirements with global AI operating realities. It aims to identify where independence is essential, where collaboration remains strategically smart, and how to avoid new lock-ins while building resilient, multi-provider AI platforms. Ultimately, the discussion will examine pragmatic, sovereign-yet-global strategies and strategic partnerships across the AI stack to secure long-term competitive advantage, while still enabling global-scale innovation and enterprise value creation.

AI is reshaping the startup playbook, with vibe coding and instant access to powerful models lowering the barrier to build. This panel brings founders, investors, and tech leaders together to explore how speed, data, and automation now drive advantage for AI-native companies and how unicorn-style growth is transforming markets. The discussion examines shifting economic dynamics across industries, venture, government, and ecosystem partners, how investors identify real potential, and what it takes to stand out when anyone can ship fast. Panelists will share strategies for scaling responsibly, competing globally, and building impactful, sustainable AI-first organizations in this new era of company creation.

Across industries, AI is becoming the backbone of operational and strategic decision-making. Yet embedding AI into the enterprise is not a technology rollout, it’s an organizational redesign. As leaders scale AI beyond pilots, they face fundamental shifts in how work is structured, how decisions are made and how accountability is defined. This session convenes transformation leaders from industry, finance, and services to explore what it takes to build truly AI-native enterprises by 2030, where technology, culture and governance evolve together.

As climate pressures intensify, AI is emerging as a critical tool for understanding risks, strengthening adaptation, and guiding smarter decisions. This session explores how new frugal AI models are improving climate efficiency, how advanced optimization tools can enhance energy systems and industrial processes, and how next-generation forecasting is reshaping resilience planning. The discussion highlights where AI delivers real environmental impact today and what breakthroughs are needed to scale sustainable solutions for tomorrow.

The emergence of agent economies is inevitable. The rapid rise of autonomous AI agents is leading to a new economic layer of agent–agent interactions beyond human pace. These agents are beginning to act not just as tools, but as autonomous participants, transacting, negotiating, and coordinating in digital environments at scale. This shift brings immense potential for efficiency and innovation, but also serious risks and questions around fairness, control, and societal impact. This panel convenes AI researchers, economic game designers, policymakers, and ethicists to explore how we can proactively shape these emerging economies. What incentive mechanisms could ensure equitable access and value alignment? What new forms of digital currency or programmable credits might be required for agent-to-agent commerce? And how do we build the critical infrastructure, identity, oversight that will foster trust and coordination in these high-speed ecosystems? This discussion is not about prediction, it’s about design. If agent economies are coming, how do we make sure they’re fair, accountable, and built to serve broad human goals?

Join us for an exclusive evening of conversation and cocktails as we explore one of the most compelling questions in technology today: Will quantum computing replace AI, or will AI make quantum unnecessary? In this fireside chat, the speakers, will unpack the evolving relationship between AI and quantum computing. Together, they’ll examine how these transformative technologies can complement rather than compete, and how collaborative innovation is shaping a future where AI and quantum work in synergy to unlock unprecedented possibilities.

Join us for an exclusive cocktail evening showcasing AI artists exploring the intersection of AI, humanity, and the natural world. As AI video generation rapidly approaches true photorealism, it increasingly blurs the line between fabricated and lived human experience. These artists use visual art and AI-generated video to examine how technology reshapes emotion, identity, and authorship. How does AI transform the stories we tell about ourselves, how do digital systems interpret emotional experience, and what new forms of creativity emerge when artists and algorithms share the canvas? Discover it firsthand and decide what it means to you.

After a week of conversation at the AI House under the theme A Human Intelligence Shift, Friday turns our attention to The Long Horizon. The Swiss Morning sets the stage for looking beyond immediate breakthroughs to ask how intelligence may evolve, whether it will converge across cultures, fragment into competing systems, or diversify in new and surprising ways. Building on Switzerland’s neutrality and strong innovation heritage, the day connects global debates to local realities, exploring how a small, future-focused nation can translate worldwide conversations into meaningful action at home while offering a steady voice to the international community. From startup ingenuity to long-term visions, discussions highlight how Switzerland meets global momentum with clarity, curiosity, and collaboration, an environment designed for reflection, connection, and imagining the world we want to build together. Key elements of the morning includes the panel: GenAI is more than LLMs: Swiss Innovators Shaping AI Frontiers And the fireside chat: From the Alps to the World: Embodied AI and the Strategic Moment