# ai-execution-summit-2026

## Overview

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## Table of contents

• 01 Overview
• 02 What this is
• 03 Speakers
• 04 Pre-event workshops
• 05 Programme
• 06 Venue
• 07 Partners
• 08 Pricing
• 09 FAQ
• 10 Register

## What this is

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 event for the 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. You have heard about AI everywhere by now. This day is about seeing it at work in companies you can see yourself in.

tl;dr — a full day of shared knowledge from practitioners who have actually shipped it. Case studies, honest trade-offs, patterns you can take home and apply.

## Speakers (10 confirmed)

The programme is weighted toward people whose job description includes production pagers and quarterly targets — not only stage time. Final roster locks end of September 2026.

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    "role": "Director of Applied AI",
    "company": "A Nordic bank",
    "session": "Shipping regulated AI inside a 200-year-old institution",
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  {
    "id": "s02",
    "name": "Speaker 02",
    "role": "Staff ML Engineer",
    "company": "A European logistics firm",
    "session": "Retrieval systems that actually survive production traffic",
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  {
    "id": "s03",
    "name": "Speaker 03",
    "role": "VP Product, AI",
    "company": "A Series C SaaS company",
    "session": "How we priced AI features without burning margin",
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  {
    "id": "s04",
    "name": "Speaker 04",
    "role": "Head of AI Governance",
    "company": "A Nordic insurer",
    "session": "The EU AI Act, pragmatically — what actually changes on Monday",
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    "id": "s05",
    "name": "Speaker 05",
    "role": "CTO",
    "company": "An industrial AI startup",
    "session": "Field-deploying models where the network isn't",
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  {
    "id": "s06",
    "name": "Speaker 06",
    "role": "Research Engineer",
    "company": "A frontier AI lab",
    "session": "Evaluation harnesses that catch regressions before your users do",
    "avatar": "/speakers/s06.svg"
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  {
    "id": "s07",
    "name": "Speaker 07",
    "role": "Principal Engineer",
    "company": "A European telco",
    "session": "Cost discipline: serving 40M inferences a day on a flat budget",
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  {
    "id": "s08",
    "name": "Speaker 08",
    "role": "Founder & CEO",
    "company": "An applied-AI consultancy",
    "session": "Closing keynote — the practitioner's view of the next 18 months",
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  },
  {
    "id": "s09",
    "name": "Speaker 09",
    "role": "VP, Customer Experience",
    "company": "Klarna",
    "session": "What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna",
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  {
    "id": "s10",
    "name": "Jan Andries Oldenkamp",
    "role": "SVP & CIO",
    "company": "Scania",
    "session": "Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up",
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Speaker nominations → hello@aiexecutionsummit.eu. We’re looking for practitioners who’ve shipped something worth an hour of this room’s attention.

## Pre-event workshops (Tue 13 Oct · three, parallel · €395 each)

Three small-group workshops on the afternoon of Tuesday 13 October, before the main day. Optional add-on to any pass. Seats are capped at thirty per workshop.

### The afternoon in full

## Programme (Wed 14 Oct · 15 slots · single track)

All times Europe/Stockholm (UTC+2). Abstracts are indicative; the final programme locks at the end of September.

Off the record. Nothing on stage is recorded — off camera, off audio. This is a deliberate choice: it strengthens candor on stage and protects the Campfire breakout format.

1. 08:00 → 09:00 break Registration, coffee, and light breakfast Read more

   Buffer for late arrivals; early networking.

2. 09:00 → 09:15 talk Welcome Read more

   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 Read more

   • 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.

4. 10:00 → 10:30 break Morning coffee & networking
5. 10:30 → 11:30 talk Shipped in production — three case talks, back to back Read more

   • 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.

6. 11:30 → 11:45 break Stretch break Read more

   Short reset. No coffee.

7. 11:45 → 12:30 panel Past the pilot graveyard Read more

   • 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.

8. 12:30 → 13:45 lunch Lunch — seated Read more

   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 Read more

   • 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.

10. 14:30 → 14:55 talk Fireside chat Read more

    • Speaker 04

      Head of AI Governance · A Nordic insurer

    Conversational format — lower cognitive load than a straight talk.

11. 14:55 → 15:25 break Afternoon coffee & networking
12. 15:25 → 15:55 talk Breakouts — three rooms, three formats Read more

    • 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.

    room	format	topic	for
    1	Deep Dive	AI in regulated industries 1 speaker · 20 min + 10 min Q&A · auditorium	Compliance, legal, senior product/engineering leaders in regulated sectors
    2	Roundtable	Building the AI org 4 participants + moderator · ~30 attendees in a semicircle	CIOs, COOs, Chief AI Officers, HR leaders
    3	Campfire	Vendor landscape deep-dive No speaker · chairs in a circle · Chatham House rule	Buyers and evaluators of AI products — VPs of engineering, procurement, CTOs

13. 15:55 → 16:40 keynote Closing keynote Read more

    • Speaker 08

      Founder & CEO · An applied-AI consultancy

    Brings everyone back into the main room.

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

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

15. 17:00 → 19:30 reception Evening reception Read more

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

## Venue

A former industrial hall on the edge of Stockholm’s 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.

• location — Stockholm, Sweden
• airport — 25 min from Arlanda (ARN) by express train
• metro — T-Centralen · 4 min walk
• accessibility — step-free; induction loop in the main hall
• parking — limited, transit recommended

## Partners

We work with a small number of partners whose products we genuinely believe help teams ship AI.

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    "Partner 04",
    "Partner 05",
    "Partner 06"
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  "community": [
    "Community Partner 01",
    "Community Partner 02",
    "Community Partner 03",
    "Community Partner 04"
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Partnership inquiries → hello@aiexecutionsummit.eu

## Pricing (EUR · Founding rate · 14 October 2026 · Stockholm)

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.

### Primary passes

### Discount tiers (limited allocation)

Eligibility is collected at checkout and verified after purchase.

### Add-ons (13 October, any pass)

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.

## FAQ

## Register

Passes include the full day, materials, meals, and the evening reception. Seats transfer freely between colleagues. Full refund up to 60 days out.

$ open https://aiex2026.example/register

Reserve your seat →

## Colophon

Organised independently. Not affiliated with any vendor. Set in Inter and JetBrains Mono for this edition of the README; the rest of the site uses Fraunces for display.

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