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Chief AI Officer Summit London 2026

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he Chief AI Officer Summit London is an exclusive, invite-only event convening over 125 AI, Data, and Technology executives in Europe. The summit brings together newly-appointed Chief AI Officers and experienced senior technology leaders to discuss production AI, strategy optimization, competitive positioning, technical innovation, and building valuable net…

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38Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
24On the bill · sessions
37Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Chief, in alphabetical order.
Alberto Almeida
Chief Technology Officer · dLocal
Amit Jain
Co-Founder & CEO · Luma AI
Andi 曹 McAleer
Head of Data & AI Governance · Financial Times
Anna Cachadiña Abelló
Investor · Crane Ventures
Ben Burtenshaw
Machine Learning Engineer · Hugging Face
Bhavana Sajja
Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Expedia Group
Dael Williamson
Chief Technology Officer, EMEA · Databricks
Deepak Paramanand
VP, Head of AI, Artificial Intelligence · Opus2
Eden James
Technical Director · Meta
Elahe Arani
Director, Artificial Intelligence · Wayve
Fergal Reid
Chief AI Officer · Intercom
Gayathri Venkat
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture · Cigna Healthcare
Jennifer Harkness
Chief Information Officer · AVEVA
Jon Howard
Head of Generative AI Hub · BBC
Louise Fellows
VP, Sales NEUR · GitLab
Mahmoud Fahmy
Lead AI Engineer · Mastercard
Matt Wursta
Founder & CEO, Wursta · Wursta
Natalia Konstantinova
Lead Enterprise Architect in AI · Natwest Group
Neil McRae
Chief Network Strategist · Juniper Networks
Nikhil Pinnaparaju
Machine Learning Engineer · Stability AI
Nikolai Liubimov
Co-Founder & CTO · HumanSignal
Prasanna Palanikumar
Senior Product Lead, Generative AI · ADP

— and 16 more, by name unsung —

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The Programme

Selected from 24 sessions on the bill.
  • 08:55

    Chairperson opening remarks

    Headliners Stage
  • 08:55

    Welcome to Generative AI Summit Austin

    Main Stage
  • 09:00

    Beyond proof of concept: Designing genAI platforms that scale, adapt, and endure

    Main Stage
  • 09:00

    Shipping AI at scale: A look back, current patterns and what’s next

    Headliners Stage
  • 09:30

    Amplifying human potential: The future of AI-augmented teams

    Headliners Stage
  • 09:30

    Moving beyond pretraining: When and how to fine-tune language models

    Main Stage
  • 10:00

    Building a $4 billion UK titan redefining enterprise & video

    Headliners Stage
  • 10:00

    Human-in-the-loop for generative AI: Building reliable systems

    Main Stage
  • 11:00

    AI wins when collaboration leads

    Chief AI Officer Summit
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 37 companies, parsed from the program.

“37 companies in attendance.”

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

№ 01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
37Companies Speakingspeaker only
№ 02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

63% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1129%
  • VP-level513%
  • Director / Head of821%
  • Manager / Lead513%
  • Product25%
  • Engineer · IC513%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Advisor / Investor13%

Of 38 on the bill · classified by free-text title

№ 03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Meta2V
  2. 02ADP1V
  3. 03AVEVA1V
  4. 04BBC1V
  5. 05Bosch1V
  6. 06Cigna Healthcare1V
  7. 07Citi1V
  8. 08Crane Ventures1V
  9. 09Databricks1V
  10. 10Decathlon1V
  11. 11dLocal1V
  12. 12Expedia Group1V
  13. 13Financial Times1V
  14. 14Gannett/USA TODAY Network1V
№ 04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.

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