WORLD SUMMIT AI 2025

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

Main Stage

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2025 Programme

HEADLINER - Empire of AI: How Silicon Valley is reshaping the world

Karen Hao, NYT Bestselling Author and Journalist

HEADLINER - AI at scale: Unlocking the next era of intelligence and innovation

John Abel, Managing Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud

HEADLINER - Unlocking an AI mindset

Rahul Pathak, VP, Data & AI GTM, AWS

KEYNOTE - From AI consumer to AI creator: Because renting intelligence is not a strategy

Cihangir Kocak, Principal Business and AI Strategist, HP

KEYNOTE - Robots vs. Robots: The new reality of cybersecurity

Yaki Faitelson, CEO, Varonis

KEYNOTE - The rise of the agentic enterprise: From pilots to profits

Jesper Schleimann, AI Officer – EMEA, SAP

HEADLINER - The Power of AI: Unleashing 150+ years of science-based innovation at Kimberly-Clark

Zack Hicks, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, Kimberly-Clark Craig Stephen Slavtcheff, Chief R&D Officer, Kimberly-Clark

KEYNOTE - AI in the city: How Amsterdam uses AI for urban well-being

Swaan Dekkers, AI Innovation Lead, City of Amsterdam

HEADLINER - Delivering Sovereign AI

Christopher Stephens, Field CTO, Groq

HEADLINER - Why the Best AI Models Will Pay Royalties

John Pisciotta, Chief Operating Officer, Monarrch, The AI Royalty Company Jeremy Davis, Founding Member of Paramore

HEADLINER - AI for Good: Delivering impact with data, value and trust

Joe Depa, Global Chief Innovation Officer, EY

HEADLINER

Helia Mohammadi, Chief Research Technology Officer, City of Hope National Medical Center

KEYNOTE - The rise of the AI workforce

Peter Guagenti, CEO, EverWorker

HEADLINER - Digital deception: How AI is rewriting reality

Robert Petrosino, Strategic Engagement Advisor: AI, FBI

FIRESIDE CHAT

Moderator: Natalia Rodriguez Martin, Partner, Global Artificial Intelligence Clients and Markets Leader, EY Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga, Vice President, SandboxAQ

KEYNOTE - Building the AI workforce: How autonomous AI Agents will transform the workplace

Euro Beinat, EVP and Global Head for AI and Data Science, Prosus Group

HEADLINER - HEADLINER : How AI supports creativity at H&M Group

Ellen Svanström, CDIO, H&M Group

KEYNOTE - Empathy at scale: How AI is enabling organizations to feel

Yohan Liyanage, Founder, Sentiva; CEO, Altrium

TRACK 1

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HEADLINER - Overcoming the AI memory wall: Why intelligent agents need a new foundation

Val Bercovici, Chief AI Officer, WEKA

KEYNOTE - Physical AI: A great opportunity for Europe to be back in the AI race

Emanuela Girardi, President, ADRA (AI, Data and Robotics Association)

KEYNOTE - Powering Europe's AI future: Public funding for strategic AI projects and gigafactories

Marc Isabelle, Founder & Director, european economics

KEYNOTE - Augmented humanity: AI & human evolution

Prof Dr. Thorsten O. Zander, Founder, Chief Scientist, Zander Labs

USE CASE - Lies, damn lies and GenAI

Jon McLoone, Director of Technical Communication and Strategy, Wolfram Research

KEYNOTE - Scaling geo-temporal ML: How Pokémon Go optimizes global gameplay

Yunpeng Liu, Director, Machine Learning, Niantic

TRACK 2

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KEYNOTE - AI beyond the lab: Ocado’s real-world applications

James Humphreys, VP Engineering, Logistics and Supply Chain, Ocado Technology

FIRESIDE CHAT - Consume, configure or build? How to truly scale AI adoption

Neil Sholay, Vice President of AI Business Value, Oracle Melissa Lawton, Chief Content Officer, SailGP

KEYNOTE - ROI 2.0: How KBC bank unlocks enterprise value with DeepL’s language AI

Christiaan Philipsen, Head of Language Centre, KBC Banking & Insurance Steve Rotter, Chief Marketing Officer, DeepL

USE CASE - Transforming telco with Gen AI: How VodafoneThree is reimagining digital at scale

Alex Pott, Director of Digital, VodafoneThree Steven Carvalho, Gen AI Customer Lead, Accenture Song UK

USE CASE - Intelligent automation at ING: A journey through the years

Jeroen van Genuchten, Global Lead of Intelligent Automation, ING

USE CASE - From scripted experiences to carefully controlled improv: Harnessing generative AI in customer service without regrets

Hans-Joachim Belz, Conversational AI Expert, E.ON

FIRESIDE CHAT - The GATE assessment: A framework for AI success and ROI

Carlos Carrero, Principal AI Specialist, Field CTO Office, EMEA, Snowflake Cameron Wall, Global Consulting AI & Data Competency Leader, EY

HEADLINER - Accelerating R&D with GenAI: From ideation to impact

Carolina Pinart, Group Head of R&D Information Technology, Nestlé

USE CASE - From coordination to cognition: Agentic AI for personalized automotive systems

Dogukan Sönmez, AI Tech Lead, BMW AG

KEYNOTE - The new rules of data intelligence in the age of AI

Sushant Rai, VP of Product, AI & Data Strategy, Reltio

TRACK 3

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HEADLINER - The future of learning and work: Creating a skilled workforce for a changing world s

Nikolaz Foucaud, Managing Director for Enterprise, EMEA Coursera

KEYNOTE - Grammar is the architecture of understanding. Without it, AI misreads the world.

Dr. Sharon Sochil Washington, Anthropologist; EdTech Developer; Founder, MASi

KEYNOTE - From supercomputers to classrooms: How AI factories will power education & research language AI

Lucia Loyo, General Counsel, ETS EMEA

HEADLINER - AI and defence: The new frontier of modern warfare

Sofie Berns, Head of Data & AI Technology Accelerator, Dutch Ministry of Defence

KEYNOTE - From ethics to engineering: Designing AI systems you can trust

Robbie Jerrom, Senior Principal Technologist AI, Red Hat

KEYNOTE - Building golden datasets with the Global Southrolled improv: Harnessing generative AI in customer service without regrets

Prof Payal Arora, Award Winning Author/Next Billion Champion, Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures, Utrecht University

USE CASE - AI and stablecoins for future finance

Peter Hung, Vice President, Data Scientist and Agile Analytics, Deutsche Bank

USE CASE - A case study of financial crime prevention through GenAI

Chandrakant Maheshwari, FVP, Lead Model Validator, Flagstar Bank

TRACK 4

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HEADLINER - AI agents: Beyond the prototype

Victor van den Broek, Senior Solutions Architect, Databricks

FIRESIDE CHAT - "Back to the Future” of Work: Why agentic AI is rewriting the rules of time and talent

Erik de Muinck Keizer, VP EMEA North, Glean Debora Gallo, VP of Talent Development, Mews

KEYNOTE - Enterprise-grade agentic RAG: From data unification to trustworthy insights

Victor Botev, CTO and Co-Founder, Iris.ai

USE CASE - Latency, liability & LLMs: Engineering Delphyr’s bedside‑ready workflow assistant

Michel Abdel Malek, Founder & CEO, Delphyr

STARTUP SHOWCASE

Juliet MacDowell, Founder, Mission AI

STARTUP SHOWCASE

Kuhu Singh, Founder, Amber

STARTUP SHOWCASE

Antigoni Kourou, Founder & CEO, NEKOD

STARTUP SHOWCASE

Sébastien Willems, Co-founder & CEO, Antfarm

STARTUP SHOWCASE

Mahder Mulusew Getaneh, CEO and Founder, Vista Technologies

TRACK 5

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USE CASE - Beyond English: Decolonising LLMs for global justice

Hannah Claus, Gates Cambridge PhD Student, University of Cambridge

USE CASE - AI for good and bad: Transforming humanitarian aid

Rupert Douglas-Bate, Founder, Global MapAid

KEYNOTE - AI’s dirty secret: addressing the hidden environmental cost of AI hardware manufacturingworthy insights

Alex de Vries-Gao, PhD candidate, VU Amsterdam; Founder, Digiconomist

USE CASE - Levelling the playing field: AI as a social-mobility engine for the next generation

Uchenna Victor Moses, Digital Project Manager

TRACK 6

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WORKSHOP - Practical AI Masterclass in the biggest European OpenStack Sovereign Cloud with LLM and ML

Ferenc Kukucska, Senior Architect, Open Telekom Cloud Héctor López Romero, Senior Product Manager BigData & AI, Open Telekom Cloud

WORKSHOP - Build, deploy, vibe: Your own vibe coding platform on Cloudflare

Melody Huang, Senior Solutions Architect, Cloudflare

BREAKOUT SESSION - Accelerating agentic ROI through AI-ready data

Jessica Dunn, Global Technology Officer – Applied Innovation, EY Hannes Heylen, Director Data & AI, Belfius Insurance Milos Stanic, Senior Solution Architect, NVIDIA Anna van den Breemer, AI & Digital Transformation Leader, EY Netherlands