AI Execution Summit  ·  Stockholm  ·  14 October 2026

AI Execution Summit.

Where your peers share how they turn AI into real outcomes inside their companies — not a startup showcase, not an investor day.

14 October 2026 — Stockholm
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The Event

Made for people making it work.

AI Execution Summit is a one-day conference for AI, product, and operations leads inside established companies — businesses with real customers, real constraints, and a concrete need to figure out where AI fits in their organisation.

Every talk on stage is a case study from a practitioner who has shipped AI into production. Not a founder pitching a product. Not a researcher presenting a paper. A peer who faced the same budget pressure, compliance question, or integration headache you are facing right now — and will tell you exactly what happened.

Three speakers per "Shipped in production" block. Acceptance filter: no pilots, no POCs, no "we're planning to." Only shipped systems with real scale, real cost, and real business impact. Stockholm, 14 October 2026. 150–250 attendees.

"Most conferences celebrate demos. This one is about what happens after."
Speakers

Who's on stage.

Speaker 01

Director of Applied AI

A Nordic bank

"Shipping regulated AI inside a 200-year-old institution"

Speaker 02

Staff ML Engineer

A European logistics firm

"Retrieval systems that actually survive production traffic"

Speaker 03

VP Product, AI

A Series C SaaS company

"How we priced AI features without burning margin"

Speaker 04

Head of AI Governance

A Nordic insurer

"The EU AI Act, pragmatically — what actually changes on Monday"

Speaker 05

CTO

An industrial AI startup

"Field-deploying models where the network isn't"

Speaker 06

Research Engineer

A frontier AI lab

"Evaluation harnesses that catch regressions before your users do"

Speaker 07

Principal Engineer

A European telco

"Cost discipline: serving 40M inferences a day on a flat budget"

Speaker 08

Founder & CEO

An applied-AI consultancy

"Closing keynote — the practitioner's view of the next 18 months"

Speaker 09

VP, Customer Experience

Klarna

"What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna"

Jan Andries Oldenkamp

SVP & CIO

Scania

"Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up"

Programme

The day. Wednesday.

Wednesday 14 October 2026 · Single track · Nothing recorded.

  1. 08:00 Registration, coffee, and light breakfast
  2. 09:00

    Welcome

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

  3. 09:15

    Scania's ChatGPT rollout — decentralisation, team-based adoption, and what held up

    Scania — heavy industry, a global workforce, 130+ years old — began rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise a year ago and cho…

  4. 10:00 Morning coffee & networking
  5. 10:30

    Shipped in production — three case talks, back to back

    Three 18-minute case talks with 2-minute transitions. The conference's architectural signature: concrete AI deploymen…

  6. 11:30 Stretch break
  7. 11:45

    Past the pilot graveyard

    Moderated panel with up to four panellists on what separates the AI projects that survive their pilot from the ones t…

  8. 12:30 Lunch — seated
  9. 13:45

    What we shipped, what we walked back — a year of AI customer service at Klarna

    In February 2024 Klarna announced an OpenAI-powered assistant handling 2.3 million customer conversations in 35 langu…

  10. 14:30

    Fireside chat

    Conversational format — lower cognitive load than a straight talk.

  11. 14:55 Afternoon coffee & networking
  12. 15:25

    Breakouts — three rooms, three formats

    Three parallel rooms, each a different format: a Deep Dive on AI in regulated industries, a Roundtable on building th…

  13. 15:55

    Closing keynote

    Brings everyone back into the main room.

  14. 16:40

    Closing remarks — and what's next for 2027

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

  15. 17:00

    Evening reception

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

Pre-event

The day before.

Tuesday 13 October · Three parallel half-day workshops · Stockholm venue.

Building the AI operating model

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

CIOs · CTOs · COOs · VPs of Strategy · Chief AI Officers

Three hours. Framework introduction, peer discussion in small groups, and a hands-on exercise whe…

Agentic AI in production

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

CTOs · VPs of Engineering · CISOs · Heads of AI · senior product leaders evaluating or already rolling out agents

Three hours in three blocks plus Q&A. (1) Agent architecture in the wild. (2) Security and govern…

EU AI Act in practice

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

Legal · Compliance · senior PMs · DPOs · AI leads

Three hours. Case walkthroughs across risk classifications, compliance checklists, and Q&A with a…

Workshop alumni drinks 16:00–17:00 · Executive Pass dinner 19:00

Tickets

Your seat.

Current window: Founding (through 30 Jun) — Early Bird opens after 2026-06-30

Main Pass

Full-day access. Every session, every room.

€745

Open to all

~70% of seats

Reserve →
Limited allocation · 40 seats

Executive Pass

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

€1,395

Open to all

  • 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
Reserve →

Add-ons

Speaker Dinner

€395

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

Included with the Executive Pass. Around ten seats held for other pass holders.

Pre-event Workshop

€395

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

Small group; topic-dependent.

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.
FAQ

Questions.

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.