AI Execution Summit Stockholm · 14.10.2026
14 October 2026 · Stockholm, Sweden
01 · The event, in numbers

One day for AI, product, and operations leads inside established companies.

Eight practitioners. A single track. Zero recordings. This is a knowledge-sharing event for the people making AI work — not a startup showcase, not an investor day.

400
seats
full day, single track
9
hours of programme
08:00 → 19:30 on Wednesday
3
workshops
Tuesday afternoon, parallel
15
sessions
across the main day
3
breakout rooms
one slot, three formats
2
days in Stockholm
13 – 14 October 2026
Founding rate live Rate rises to Early Bird on 1 July.
02 · 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 an established company that has actually shipped something.

We built this to share the knowledge of the people who have actually made AI work inside real companies. The audience is the AI, product, and operations leads at established companies — people with real customers, real constraints, and a concrete need to figure out where AI fits. You have heard about AI everywhere by now. This day is about 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 Wednesday with something concrete to apply.

Execution is the hard part. So that’s what we talk about.
— The programme committee
03 · Constellation of speakers

Eight practitioners, mapped by shared sessions.

Lines connect speakers who share an agenda slot on Wednesday. The dense cluster in the middle is the Shipped in production block; the second cluster is the afternoon panel.

Speakers and their shared sessions A grid of eight speaker nodes, with lines drawn between any two speakers who appear in the same agenda slot on Wednesday 14 October. 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
Nodes labelled 01 – 08 · edges = shared agenda slot
  1. 01 Speaker 01 Director of Applied AI · A Nordic bank
  2. 02 Speaker 02 Staff ML Engineer · A European logistics firm
  3. 03 Speaker 03 VP Product, AI · A Series C SaaS company
  4. 04 Speaker 04 Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer
  5. 05 Speaker 05 CTO · An industrial AI startup
  6. 06 Speaker 06 Research Engineer · A frontier AI lab
  7. 07 Speaker 07 Principal Engineer · A European telco
  8. 08 Speaker 08 Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy
  9. 09 Speaker 09 VP, Customer Experience · Klarna
  10. 10 Jan Andries Oldenkamp SVP & CIO · Scania
04 · Tuesday 13 October · three parallel workshops

Three rails, one afternoon. Then drinks.

The afternoon runs as three parallel workshops from 13:00. Each rail below is one room. Check-in, two teaching blocks with a coffee in the middle, and an alumni social landing before dinner.

A
Building the AI operating model CIOs · CTOs · COOs · VPs of Strategy · Chief AI Officers
B
Agentic AI in production CTOs · VPs of Engineering · CISOs · Heads of AI · senior product leaders evaluating or already rolling out agents
C
EU AI Act in practice Legal · Compliance · senior PMs · DPOs · AI leads
A

Building the AI operating model

How to organise teams, governance, budget, and decision paths for AI.

For
CIOs · CTOs · COOs · VPs of Strategy · Chief AI Officers
Format
Three hours. Framework introduction, peer discussion in small groups, and a hands-on exercise where participants design their own operating model on the room.
Seats
30
Price
€395
B

Agentic AI in production

Reliability, security, and the deployment patterns that actually work.

For
CTOs · VPs of Engineering · CISOs · Heads of AI · senior product leaders evaluating or already rolling out agents
Format
Three hours in three blocks plus Q&A. (1) Agent architecture in the wild. (2) Security and governance for privileged agents — credential handling, shell-execution risk, what a CISO needs to require before agents roll broadly. (3) Deployment patterns that actually work — hybrid deterministic and agentic architectures, reliability scaffolding, cost control. Facilitated by a practitioner who has run this in production.
Seats
30
Price
€395
C

EU AI Act in practice

What the Act means operationally — not legally — for your organisation.

For
Legal · Compliance · senior PMs · DPOs · AI leads
Format
Three hours. Case walkthroughs across risk classifications, compliance checklists, and Q&A with a practising AI lawyer or DPO.
Seats
30
Price
€395
05 · Program · Wed 14 Oct

One day, one room. From 08:00 to 19:30.

Each segment is a session, sized by its duration. Colour by kind. Nothing on stage is recorded — off camera, off audio, off the record.

Morning
Registration, coffee, and light breakfast 08:00 → 09:00 Break Registration, coffee, and light breakfast
Welcome 09:00 → 09:15 Talk Welcome
Scania's ChatGPT rollout 09:15 → 10:00 Keynote Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up
Morning coffee & networking 10:00 → 10:30 Break Morning coffee & networking
Shipped in production 10:30 → 11:30 Talk Shipped in production — three case talks, back to back
Stretch break 11:30 → 11:45 Break Stretch break
Past the pilot graveyard 11:45 → 12:30 Panel Past the pilot graveyard
Lunch 12:30 → 13:45 Lunch Lunch — seated
Afternoon & evening
What we shipped, what we walked back 13:45 → 14:30 Keynote What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna
Fireside chat 14:30 → 14:55 Talk Fireside chat
Afternoon coffee & networking 14:55 → 15:25 Break Afternoon coffee & networking
Breakouts 15:25 → 15:55 Talk Breakouts — three rooms, three formats
Closing keynote 15:55 → 16:40 Keynote Closing keynote
Closing remarks 16:40 → 17:00 Talk Closing remarks — and what's next for 2027
Evening reception 17:00 → 19:30 Reception Evening reception
Two rows, each 5 h 45 min. Horizontal axis: time of day. Width of each block: duration of session.
The programme as a list
  1. 08:00 → 09:00 Break Registration, coffee, and light breakfast

    Buffer for late arrivals; early networking.

  2. 09:00 → 09:15 Talk Welcome

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

  3. 09:15 → 10:00 Keynote 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. 10:00 → 10:30 Break Morning coffee & networking
  5. 10:30 → 11:30 Talk 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.

    “No pilots. No POCs. No ‘we’re planning to.’ Only shipped systems, with real scale, real cost, real business impact.”

    Track Signature block

  6. 11:30 → 11:45 Break Stretch break

    Short reset. No coffee.

  7. 11:45 → 12:30 Panel 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

  8. 12:30 → 13:45 Lunch Lunch — seated

    Premium seated lunch. An Executive-only networking room is open 13:00–13:45 in an adjacent space.

  9. 13:45 → 14:30 Keynote 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

  10. 14:30 → 14:55 Talk Fireside chat
    • Speaker 04
      Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer

    Conversational format — lower cognitive load than a straight talk.

    Track Governance & risk

  11. 14:55 → 15:25 Break Afternoon coffee & networking
  12. 15:25 → 15:55 Talk Breakouts — three rooms, three formats
    • Deep Dive AI in regulated industries
    • Roundtable Building the AI org
    • Campfire Vendor landscape

    Three parallel rooms, each a different format: a Deep Dive on AI in regulated industries, a Roundtable on building the AI org, and a Campfire peer discussion on the vendor landscape. The only slot of the day where attendees choose their own path.

    1. Room 1 Deep Dive

      AI in regulated industries

      One speaker with deep sector expertise — a bank, regional healthcare, or a public-sector agency — walks through a specific AI deployment under Finansinspektionen, patient-data laws, or EU AI Act risk classifications. Structured delivery, auditorium seating, named regulations on slides.

      Shape
      1 speaker · 20 min content + 10 min Q&A
      For
      Compliance, legal, senior product and engineering leaders in regulated sectors
      Why this format
      Regulatory content needs structured presentation, not spontaneous discussion.
    2. Room 2 Roundtable

      Building the AI org

      Four participants around a visible table — a Chief AI Officer, an HR leader, a CFO, and an operating executive — with a moderator keeping tempo. Roughly thirty attendees in a semicircle, able to chime in. No slides. The question on the table: how do you structure AI responsibility organisationally? Centralised team vs. distributed, budget model, governance committee, reporting lines.

      Shape
      4 participants + moderator · ~30 attendees in a semicircle
      For
      Executives making AI organisational decisions — CIOs, COOs, Chief AI Officers, HR leaders
      Why this format
      The question has no single right answer; hearing four roles disagree is the point.
    3. Room 3 Campfire

      Vendor landscape deep-dive

      No speaker. Chairs in a circle, roughly twenty-five attendees, a moderator who opens with a single question — something like "Which AI tool have you tried that didn't deliver against the demo?" — and lets the room share. Chatham House rule applies: nothing quoted, nothing attributed, nothing recorded. The whole session depends on the no-recording policy.

      Shape
      No speaker · chairs in a circle · Chatham House rule
      For
      Buyers and evaluators of AI products — VPs of engineering, procurement, senior product leaders, CTOs
      Why this format
      No one will say this from a stage — but every buyer has a story.

    Track Parallel · 3 rooms

  13. 15:55 → 16:40 Keynote Closing keynote
    • Speaker 08
      Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy

    Brings everyone back into the main room.

    Track Signature

  14. 16:40 → 17:00 Talk Closing remarks — and what's next for 2027

    The host's signature close and a short preview of the 2027 edition.

  15. 17:00 → 19:30 Reception Evening reception

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

06 · House rule

Nothing on stage is recorded.

No camera
No audio
No record

Off camera, off audio, off the record. A deliberate choice — it strengthens candor on stage and protects the Campfire breakout.

07 · The Venue

A former industrial hall on the edge of the city centre.

Placeholder illustration — real venue photography will land closer to the event.

High ceilings, daylight from three sides, and the kind of acoustic that makes a 400-person room feel like forty. Paired dining and lounge spaces on the lower floor host the reception.

Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Airport
25 min from Arlanda (ARN)
Metro
T-Centralen · 4 min walk
Access
Step-free · induction loop in main hall
Language
English
Capacity
400 seats · single track
08 · Partners

Made possible by a small set of partners.

Partners fund the day and the meals — not the programme.

Headline
  • Headline Partner 01
  • Headline Partner 02
Partners
  • Partner 01
  • Partner 02
  • Partner 03
  • Partner 04
  • Partner 05
  • Partner 06
Community
  • Community Partner 01
  • Community Partner 02
  • Community Partner 03
  • Community Partner 04
09 · Before you ask

Frequently answered.

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.
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.
Will talks be recorded?
No. Every talk, panel, fireside chat, and breakout is off camera and off audio — nothing is recorded, nothing is livestreamed. This is a deliberate choice. It strengthens candor on stage, protects the off-the-record Campfire breakout, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
10 · Tickets

Five tiers, four windows.

Built for those responsible for making AI actually work inside companies. No theory. Only real implementations.

Current window: 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 Full-day access. Every session, every room. ~70% of seats
€745
€845
€995
€1,095
Executive Pass For those who want to be in the room where real conversations happen. ~17% of seats
€1,395
€1,595
€1,795
€1,895
Startup Rate For early-stage companies building with AI. ~8% of seats
€395
€445
€495
€545
Academic Rate For researchers and students. ~4% of seats
€295
€345
€395
€445
Public Sector Rate For government and public-sector staff. ~4% of seats
€295
€345
€395
€445

Every pass includes

  • Full-day programme on Wednesday 14 October
  • All keynotes, talks, panel, breakouts, and the closing
  • Morning coffee and afternoon fika
  • Premium seated lunch
  • Evening reception (drinks & food, 17:00–19:30)
  • On-site printed programme
  • Off-the-record attendance — no recordings, ever

Transfers between colleagues are free up to 48 hours before the event. Full refund up to 60 days before; 50% up to 30 days.

+ Executive Pass adds

Executive Pass

Limited allocation · 40 seats

  • Private dinner with selected speakers and senior attendees (13 October evening)
  • Executive-only networking session during the event
  • Front-row reserved seating
  • Fast-track check-in

Intended for senior decision-makers who get more out of the day through introductions than through extra stage time.

Seat allocation by tier (approximate)
  • Main 70%
  • Executive 17%
  • Startup 8%
  • Academic 2.5%
  • Public Sector 2.5%
Add-ons · 13 October
  • Speaker Dinner €395 Private dinner the evening of 13 October with selected speakers and senior attendees.
  • Pre-event Workshop €395 Half-day workshop the afternoon of 13 October. Topic announced closer to the event.
Team discount

Order three or more passes together for 20% off; five or more for 25% off. Applies to the Main Pass and the Executive Pass, Early Bird through Final Week. Does not stack with the Founding rate or apply to discount tiers and add-ons.

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.

11 · Reserve a seat

Be in the room.

A full day, a single track. Passes include all materials, meals, and the evening reception. Transfer to a colleague any time. Full refund up to sixty days out.

Date 14 October 2026
City Stockholm, Sweden
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