The European AI Conference 2026

The European AI Conference 2026 is a highly curated event, gathering 300 pre-approved leaders of Europe's AI Ecosystem for a full day of discussion, learning & networking. A Highly Curated Audience To ensure the highest quality of discussion, attendance will be strictly limited to: 80 AI Builders & Tech Leaders 80 Product Management Leaders 60 Enterprise AI Strategy Leaders 30 European Startup Hub Leaders 50 VCs & Irish AI Startups (chosen from 500 applications; to be approved one month before the event) Agenda (Link) Confirmed Panellists: Brian McGeough, Chief Information Officer, Creditsafe Manuela Locarno Ajayi, SVP and Board Member, TomTom Philipp Nieland, Co-Founder, Nikulipe; Co-Founder, PPRO Dave Fleming, Founder, Stealth Product Track Roundtable Moderators: Alan Clarke, Chief of Product and Trading, Flutter Dervilla Mullan, VP of Product, Sprout Social Fionn Delahunty, Head of Product, Synthflow AI Kevin Stembridge, Head of Strategy, Körber Pharma Gus Iwanaga, VP of Product - Commerce, commercetools Jeferson Zanim, Chief Product Officer, Mater Private Network Somnath Biswas, Head of AI Products, The AA Ryan Jude Soosayraj, VP, Mindset AI; Ex-Product Leader at Cognizant, Indeed & Workshare Florence Jumpp, Chief Product Officer, Bite Mark Brophy, AI Product Leader; Ex-Product Leader at Genesys, TripAdvisor and Ding Haidee McMahon, CPO | Head of Labs, EIDA Solutions John Martin, Chief Product Officer, Flagstone Startup Track Roundtable Moderators: Mary Rodgers, CEO, Portershed Martina Fitzgerald, CEO, Scale Ireland Frank Brennan, CEO, Republic of Work Niamh Sterling, All-Island Director, HBAN Barry Brennan, Venture Partner, Elkstone Faye Walsh Drouillard, Founder & Managing Partner, WakeUp Capital Eric Risser, CTO & Co-Founder, Shepherd Werner Schmidt, CEO & Co-Founder, Lative Amy Neale, General Partner, Delta Partners VC Eamon Curtin, Director Start-Ups & Entrepreneurship / IGNITE Programme Director, University College Cork AI Builder Track Roundtable Moderators: Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing, Dublin City University Siddhant Mohapatra, Head of Global Data & Analytics - AI, Trust & Safety, Ads, Vendor Management, Legal, Ops, Pinterest Emanuele Sparvoli, Senior Director of IT, Fin Nitin Sinha, Director, Principal AI Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering - Applied AI, Service Now Barry Duffy, VP Digital & Data, FINEOS Shay Weiss, Director of Engineering & AI Transformation, Walgreens Boots Alliance Tiago Nascimento, Head of IT Delivery, HCLTech Kevin Collins, Founder, echofold Andrea Farber, VP, Software & Data Engineering | Financial Crime Solutions, Mastercard Clive Foley, Director of AI engineering, Marsh McLennan Agency Enterprise AI Strategy Track Roundtable Moderators: Grainne Maycock, Chief Revenue Officer, Acolad Group Denis Vukosav, VP of Technology - AI Strategy & Transformation, State Street Mina Henein, Ph. D., VP of Artificial Intelligence at The Citco Group Stanislava Trajlov, Head of Data, Vhi Niall Byrne, VP Autonomous Networks, Amdocs Manuela Locarno Ajayi, SVP and Board Member, TomTom Satyanarayana Vuppala, Head of Gen AI Security, Dun & Bradstreet European Startup Hub Track Roundtable Moderators: Liam Cronin, Director of Innovation, University College Dublin Jean Arnaud, Director of AI Programmes, ESMT Berlin Niamh Collins, Centre Director, The Guinness Enterprise Centre Eoghan Powell, Innovation Centre Director, WorkIQ Ronan Cunningham, Director, DCU:Innovate Greg De Temmerman, PhD., Managing Director, Deeptech & Ecosystem, Techleap Karsten Deppert, Co-Founder, E-commerce Park of Scandinavia Gil Azevedo, Executive Director,  Unicorn Factory Lisboa Roundtable Discussion Topics To ensure conversations tackle the most pressing, real-time challenges in the industry, our roundtables are uniquely community-driven. Upon registering, attendees have the exclusive opportunity to propose and moderate a discussion topic within their specific peer group. Expect dynamic, peer-matched deep dives across our five core tracks: AI Builders & Tech Leaders: Technical discussions on implementation, coding, infrastructure & deployment, alongside strategic sessions on architecture, team building & scaling. Enterprise AI Strategy Leaders: High-level discussions on enterprise ROI, compliance, risk & internal AI transformation. Product Management: Focused conversations on AI product strategy, roadmapping & defining success metrics. Irish AI Startups: Dedicated sessions on the local fundraising landscape, strategic partnerships & building defensible moats. European Startup Hubs: Conversations on how accelerators, incubators, and other ecosystem organisations must adapt to the AI age. About Startup Network Europe Startup Network Europe is an Irish Company that has hosted over 300 Corporate, Mid-Market & Startup Conferences across 50 European Cities since 2019. Our most notable events include: The Dublin AI Conference 2026 (evening event) The European Chief Product Officer Conference 2026 (full-day event) The London AI Startup Conference 2025 (full-day event at Google’s London HQ) The European AI Conference 2024 (full-day event at Google’s EMEA HQ) The London Chief Product Officer Conference 2023 (evening event) The European Startup Conference 2022 (speakers included Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak) Previous Speakers at Startup Network Europe events Corporate Leaders Steve Wozniak, Co-Founder, Apple Benjamin Faes, CEO, RWS Group Jörg Koletzki, Chief Information Officer, AerCap Nathalie Roos, CEO, Lipton Teas and Infusions Brian McGeough, Chief Information Officer, Creditsafe Dr. Ingo Stürmer, CTO, Volvo Autonomous Solutions Peter Wanda, CDAO Shared Services, Zurich Insurance Katarzyna Stoltmann, Head of Data Science & AI, AstraZeneca Louise Dennehy, Chief Information Officer, Central Bank of Ireland Susie O'Donoghue, Global Head of Data & AI, William Grant & Sons Political & Ecosystem Leaders Minister Emer Higgins T.D. Roxanne Varza, Director, STATION F Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor