AI Execution Summit Vol. I · No. 1

AI Execution Summit.

Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · Stockholm

A working edition for AI, product, and operations leads inside established companies — case studies from peers who have actually shipped it.

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The Lead · An invitation Limited to 400 seats

The knowledge of the people
who have actually shipped it.

400 seats · single track · one day

This one is built for the AI, product, and operations leads inside established companies who have heard about AI everywhere and want to figure out where it actually fits. Every session on stage is a case study from a peer company you can see yourself in — honest trade-offs, real costs, patterns you can take back to your team.

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The Speakers 8 confirmed · more to come

The peers you’ve been trying to hire from.

The programme is weighted toward people whose job description includes production pagers and quarterly targets — not only stage time. Expect candor about cost discipline, evaluation culture, regulated deployments, and the parts of AI work that don’t fit on a slide.

  1. 01
    Speaker 01
    Director of Applied AI · A Nordic bank
    Shipping regulated AI inside a 200-year-old institution
  2. 02
    Speaker 02
    Staff ML Engineer · A European logistics firm
    Retrieval systems that actually survive production traffic
  3. 03
    Speaker 03
    VP Product, AI · A Series C SaaS company
    How we priced AI features without burning margin
  4. 04
    Speaker 04
    Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer
    The EU AI Act, pragmatically — what actually changes on Monday
  5. 05
    Speaker 05
    CTO · An industrial AI startup
    Field-deploying models where the network isn't
  6. 06
    Speaker 06
    Research Engineer · A frontier AI lab
    Evaluation harnesses that catch regressions before your users do
  7. 07
    Speaker 07
    Principal Engineer · A European telco
    Cost discipline: serving 40M inferences a day on a flat budget
  8. 08
    Speaker 08
    Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy
    Closing keynote — the practitioner's view of the next 18 months
  9. 09
    Speaker 09
    VP, Customer Experience ·
    What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna
  10. 10
    Jan Andries Oldenkamp
    SVP & CIO ·
    Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up

Final confirmations — and five more names — land before the programme closes at the end of September.

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Editorial stance What’s not in the programme

No sponsored keynotes. No product pitches. No logo slides.

0 vendor keynotes · 12 case studies · 1 evening reception

Partners help make this event possible, and we’re grateful — but they don’t buy stage time. The measure of a good session here is whether you walk back to your desk on Wednesday and change how you work. Everything else is noise.

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cat programme.md Two days, read end to end

The programme.

Two days in Stockholm. Tuesday afternoon opens with three parallel pre-event workshops; Wednesday runs the single-track main day, 08:00 to 19:30. Nothing on stage is recorded — off camera, off audio, off the record. All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2); abstracts are indicative, the programme locks at the end of September.

Tuesday 13 October

Pre-event workshops — three, parallel

13:00 – 16:00 · 25–30 seats each · €395 add-on

  1. 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.
    Workshop A
    €395
  2. 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.
    Workshop B
    €395
  3. 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.
    Workshop C
    €395
The afternoon in full
  • 12:00 → 13:00 Check-in, light food.
  • 13:00 → 14:15 Workshop block 1 — three rooms in parallel.
  • 14:15 → 14:30 Coffee break.
  • 14:30 → 16:00 Workshop blocks 2 & 3.
  • 16:00 → 17:00 Workshop alumni drinks — an easy social landing before dinner.
Wednesday 14 October

Main programme — one room, end to end

08:00 – 19:30 · single track · 400 seats

  1. 08:00
    → 09:00
    Registration, coffee, and light breakfast
    Break

    Buffer for late arrivals; early networking.

  2. 09:00
    → 09:15
    Welcome
    Talk

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

  3. 09:15
    → 10:00
    Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up
    • Jan Andries Oldenkamp
      SVP & CIO · Scania
    Keynote
    Signature

    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.

  4. 10:00
    → 10:30
    Morning coffee & networking
    Break
  5. 10:30
    → 11:30
    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
    Talk
    Signature block

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

    Short reset. No coffee.

  7. 11:45
    → 12:30
    Past the pilot graveyard
    • Speaker 03
      VP Product, AI · A Series C SaaS company
    • Speaker 04
      Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer
    Panel
    Strategy

    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.

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

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

  9. 13:45
    → 14:30
    What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna
    • Speaker 09
      VP, Customer Experience · Klarna
    Keynote
    Production AI

    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.

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

    Conversational format — lower cognitive load than a straight talk.

  11. 14:55
    → 15:25
    Afternoon coffee & networking
    Break
  12. 15:25
    → 15:55
    Breakouts — three rooms, three formats
    • Deep Dive AI in regulated industries
    • Roundtable Building the AI org
    • Campfire Vendor landscape
    Talk
    Parallel · 3 rooms

    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.

    • Deep Dive AI in regulated industries. One speaker, 20 min + 10 min Q&A. Auditorium seating; for compliance, legal, senior product and engineering in regulated sectors.
    • Roundtable Building the AI org. Four participants + moderator, ~30 attendees in a semicircle. For CIOs, COOs, Chief AI Officers, and HR leaders.
    • Campfire Vendor landscape deep-dive. No speaker, chairs in a circle, Chatham House — nothing quoted, nothing attributed. For buyers and evaluators of AI products.
  13. 15:55
    → 16:40
    Closing keynote
    • Speaker 08
      Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy
    Keynote
    Signature

    Brings everyone back into the main room.

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

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

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

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

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Essay · The Venue

A room worth the trip.

Stockholm, Sweden · 25 min from Arlanda · step-free access

A former industrial hall on the edge of the city centre — 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. The venue was chosen for a single reason: it makes conversations easy to have.

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Track · Governance & Risk EU AI Act — pragmatically

The regulator is in the room now. Build the muscle.

Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer · 45 minutes + Q&A

What actually changes on Monday — inventories, logging, conformity assessments, and how to stop treating compliance as a quarterly fire drill. A working lawyer and a working engineer on stage together, walking through the decisions that hit your backlog first.

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The reception Included with every seat

The evening is where the week’s work actually happens.

18:00 – 21:00 · seated & standing · venue lower floor

Drinks, food, and the conversations that actually move things forward. A seated programme for the first hour; open floor after. Attendees are encouraged to stay — many of the follow-ups we’ve watched come out of this day started here, not on the main stage.

Keep the evening free
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The work behind the work Partners

Made possible by the teams executing AI at scale.

2 headline partners · 6 partners · 4 community partners

We work with a small number of partners whose products we genuinely believe help teams ship AI. They fund the day and the meals — but not the programme. If that describes your company, we’d like to hear from you.

Become a partner
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Before you ask FAQ

No recording. Yes, an academic rate.

Full refund to 60 days out · free transfers any time · code of conduct published

Every talk, panel, fireside chat, and breakout is off camera and off audio — nothing is recorded. A limited number of reduced-rate passes are held for full-time students and academic researchers. Seats transfer freely between colleagues. The full FAQ and code of conduct are on the main site.

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The Rates 14 October 2026 · Stockholm · Founding rate

Built for those
making it work.

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.

Main pass

Main Pass

Full-day access. Every session, every room.

€745 Founding rate

Rate rises to Early Bird on 1 July.

  • Founding €745
  • Early Bird €845
  • Standard €995
  • Final Week €1,095
~70% of seats Reserve
Limited allocation · 40 seats Executive

Executive Pass

For those who want to be in the room where real conversations happen.

€1,395 Founding rate

Rate rises to Early Bird on 1 July.

  • Founding €1,395
  • Early Bird €1,595
  • Standard €1,795
  • Final Week €1,895
Includes
  • 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
~17% of seats Reserve
Discount tiers · Limited allocation

Eligibility is collected at checkout and verified after purchase.

Startup Rate

For early-stage companies building with AI.

€395 Founding
  • Founding €395
  • Early Bird €445
  • Standard €495
  • Final Week €545

Eligibility. <25 staff · <$3M raised · <3 yrs old

~8% of seats

Academic Rate

For researchers and students.

€295 Founding
  • Founding €295
  • Early Bird €345
  • Standard €395
  • Final Week €445

Eligibility. Valid .edu or university-issued email

~4% of seats

Public Sector Rate

For government and public-sector staff.

€295 Founding
  • Founding €295
  • Early Bird €345
  • Standard €395
  • Final Week €445

Eligibility. .gov.se or equivalent public-sector email

~4% of seats

Add-ons · 13 October

Available alongside any pass, subject to the notes below.

Speaker Dinner

€395

Private dinner the evening of 13 October with selected speakers and senior attendees.

Included with Executive Pass. ~10 seats available to other pass holders.

Pre-event Workshop

€395

Half-day workshop the afternoon of 13 October. Topic announced closer to the event.

Any pass holder. Small group.

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.
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Register
14.10
— the date. Then the room is closed.

Be in the room.

Inaugural edition
Stockholm · Wednesday, 14 October 2026 · 400 seats total

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

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