AI Execution Summit Stockholm.

Wednesday, 14 October 2026 Single track, off the record

Where your peers share how they turn AI into real outcomes inside their companies.

Every session is a case study from a peer company you can see yourself in — not a startup showcase, not an investor day.

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A note from the organisers

Most Nordic AI events lean toward startups and capital — founder pitches, investor panels, deal flow. This one is the opposite. Every session on stage is a case study from a peer company with AI running in production.

We built this to share how your peers have made AI work inside their companies — concrete examples so it's easier to do the same in yours. A day of what works, told by the people making it work.

A full day of case studies, honest trade-offs, and patterns you can take back to your team. The measure of a good session here is whether you walk back to your desk on the next day with something concrete to apply.

Nothing is recorded — no cameras, no audio, no livestream. It is the only way the people on stage can be honest about what broke, what it cost, and what they would not do again.

Speakers 10 confirmed · more to come

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Programme Wed 14 Oct · single track

  1. 09:30 –10:00 30m Registration, coffee, and light breakfast

    Buffer for late arrivals; early networking.

  2. 10:00 –10:15 15m Welcome

    The execution-not-hype tone-setting from the host.

  3. 10:15 –11:00 45m Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up
    • Jan Andries Oldenkamp SVP & CIO · Scania

    Scania — heavy industry, a global workforce, 130+ years old — began rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise a year ago and chose decentralisation over a central AI programme: licences pushed out by the team, training structured around whole teams instead of individuals, and adoption measured by where the tool ended up embedded in real processes. The opening keynote walks through what they built, what worked, what they walked back, and what AI adoption actually looks like inside an established industrial company once you stop calling it a pilot.

    Track · Signature

  4. 11:00 –12:00 1h Shipped in production — three case talks, back to back
    • Speaker 02 Staff ML Engineer · A European logistics firm
    • Speaker 05 CTO · An industrial AI startup
    • Speaker 07 Principal Engineer · A European telco

    Three 18-minute case talks with 2-minute transitions. The conference's architectural signature: concrete AI deployments that went all the way to production. Acceptance filter: no pilots, no POCs, no 'we're planning to' — only shipped systems with real scale, real cost, and real business impact.

    Track · Signature block

  5. 12:00 –13:15 1h 15m Lunch — seated

    Seated lunch.

  6. 13:15 –14:00 45m Past the pilot graveyard
    • Speaker 03 VP Product, AI · A Series C SaaS company
    • Speaker 04 Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer

    Moderated panel with up to four panellists on what separates the AI projects that survive their pilot from the ones that die on the shelf.

    Track · Strategy

  7. 14:00 –14:45 45m What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna
    • Speaker 09 VP, Customer Experience · Klarna

    In February 2024 Klarna announced an OpenAI-powered assistant handling 2.3 million customer conversations in 35 languages, the equivalent of 700 full-time agents, with average resolution dropping from eleven minutes to under two. In 2025 the company publicly said they had leaned too hard on automation and were rehiring for complex cases. This session walks the full arc — the architecture that scaled, the quality signal that told them they had overshot, and the hybrid pattern they landed on.

    Track · Production AI

  8. 14:45 –15:10 25m Fireside chat
    • Speaker 04 Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer

    Conversational format — lower cognitive load than a straight talk.

    Track · Governance & risk

  9. 15:10 –15:40 30m Afternoon coffee & networking
  10. 15:40 –16:25 45m Closing keynote
    • Speaker 08 Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy

    Brings everyone back into the main room.

    Track · Signature

  11. 16:25 –16:45 20m Closing remarks
  12. 16:45 –18:45 2h Evening reception

    Drinks, food, and the conversations that actually move things forward.

Pre-event workshops Tue 13 Oct · 13:00–16:00

Hands-on workshops return on the afternoon of Tuesday 13 October, an optional add-on to any pass. We're finalising the topics now — and shaping them around what attendees most want to work through in a small-group setting. Three sessions run in parallel, 15–20 seats each.

Have a session you'd find valuable?

Tell us what you'd want to dig into — a topic, a format, or a problem your team is working through — and we'll weigh it as we set the line-up.

Suggest a workshop

Venue

The main stage mid-session — a speaker at the lectern, the room in attention.

A former industrial hall on the edge of Stockholm's city centre — high ceilings, daylight from three sides, step-free access, and the kind of acoustic that makes a 400-person room feel like forty.

Airport
25 min from Arlanda (ARN)
Metro
T-Centralen · 4 min walk
Access
Step-free · induction loop in the main hall
Language
English

Final venue name confirms in August 2026.

Tickets Current rate · Founding · Rate rises to Early Bird on 1 July.

Tier Founding through 30 Jun Early Bird 1 Jul – 31 Aug Standard 1 Sep – 7 Oct Final Week 8 – 14 Oct
Main Pass
~84% of seats
€745 €845 €995 €1,095
Startup Rate
~8% of seats
€395 €445 €495 €545
Academic Rate
~4% of seats
€295 €345 €395 €445
Public Sector Rate
~4% of seats
€295 €345 €395 €445

Every pass includes

  • Full-day programme Wednesday 14 October
  • All keynotes, talks, panel, closing
  • Morning coffee and afternoon fika
  • Seated lunch
  • Evening reception, 16:45–18:45
  • Printed programme on the day
  • Off-the-record attendance — no recordings

All prices in EUR, excluding Swedish VAT (25%) where applicable. Single-ticket prices lock through their window. Seats transfer freely between colleagues. Full refund up to 60 days before the event. Team discount: Order three or more passes together for 20% off; five or more for 25% off. Applies to the Main Pass, Early Bird through Final Week. Does not stack with the Founding rate or apply to discount tiers and add-ons.

Add-ons · 13 October

  • Pre-event Workshop €395 Half-day workshop the afternoon of 13 October. Topic announced closer to the event.

Partners

A small group of partners funds the day and the meals — not the programme.

Headline
  • Headline Partner 01
  • Headline Partner 02
Partners
Community
  • Community Partner 01
  • Community Partner 02
  • Community Partner 03
  • Community Partner 04

Interested in partnering? hello@aiexecutionsummit.eu

FAQ — Before you ask

  1. Who is this for?

    AI, product, and operations leads inside established companies — businesses with real customers, real constraints, and a concrete need to figure out where AI actually fits. Every case study on stage is from a peer company you can see yourself in, so you leave with patterns you can apply. It is not a startup showcase or an investor day.

  2. What makes this different from other Nordic AI events?

    The stage is reserved for practitioners at established companies who have actually shipped AI — sharing what worked, what it cost, and what broke. Every session is a concrete case study. The room is for people with a team, a budget, and a real problem to solve, who want patterns they can apply back at their own company.

  3. Will talks be recorded?

    No. Every talk, panel, and fireside chat is off camera and off audio — nothing is recorded, nothing is livestreamed. This is a deliberate choice. It strengthens candor on stage, keeps the room genuinely off the record, and reinforces the premium 'be in the room' positioning. If post-event recordings are a requirement for you, other AI conferences will serve you better.

  4. Is there a student or academic rate?

    A limited number of reduced-rate passes are held for full-time students and academic researchers. Apply via the registration page; we respond within five business days.

  5. What is the refund policy?

    Full refund up to 60 days before the event, 50% refund up to 30 days before, and transferable after that. Transfers to a colleague are free at any point.

  6. What is the code of conduct?

    AI Execution Summit follows a zero-tolerance policy on harassment or discrimination, on-site and online. The full code of conduct and reporting channel are published on the registration page.

  7. How do I sponsor or partner?

    We work with a small number of partners whose products we genuinely believe help teams ship AI. Write to hello@aiexecutionsummit.eu and we will reply with the current options.

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