Leadership Roundtables

A curated series of invite-only, closed-door, high-intensity leadership dialogues where Europe’s ministers, CEOs, tech leaders, innovators, investors and regulators stress-test the continent’s competitiveness, capital stack and security in a fragmenting world.

Participation is strictly limited to 30 participants per session to ensure depth, discretion and high-value exchange. Each session is led by a leader and co-leader and runs for 60–90 minutes. Topics may evolve in the lead-up to the event based on market feedback.

Sovereign Competitiveness Playbook: The Draghi Agenda

Turn Draghi’s €800-billion-a-year blueprint into a short list of reforms and investments that governments and boards can actually deliver by 2030, instead of another report on the shelf.

Who Should Attend:

Heads of government and chancellery policy units, finance and economy ministers, central-bank leaders, group CEOs, board chairs, senior partners from strategy firms.

Capital Union: Unleashing Europe’s Investment Firepower

Rewire Europe’s capital markets so household savings, pensions and insurers can finance late-stage AI, deeptech and climate infrastructure inside Europe, rather than pushing scale-ups to sell or list abroad.

Who Should Attend

Finance ministries, regulators, sovereign and pension funds, banks, exchanges, growth and infrastructure investors.

NIS2 Cyber Boardroom: Securing Critical Europe

Use NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act to build one board-owned cyber-sovereignty programme across 18 critical sectors, instead of fragmented compliance efforts that still leave gaps.

Who Should Attend

Interior, digital, energy and finance ministries; national regulators; CEOs of critical infrastructure, health and financial firms; CISOs; chief risk and resilience officers; cyber-consulting leaders.

Deeptech Scale Engine: Chips, Quantum and Climate

Close Europe’s deeptech scale-up gap by tying EIC/EIB funding, industrial and defence procurement, and corporate pilots into a predictable pipeline for chips, quantum, space and climate-tech champions.

Who Should Attend

Deeptech founders and scale-ups, sovereign funds, corporate innovation leaders, deeptech VCs and growth investors.

Euro-Stack Strategy: Cloud, Compute and AI at Home

Decide how far to go on sovereign and hybrid cloud when non-EU hyperscalers dominate the market, and what that means for AI infrastructure, data spaces and Europe’s strategic positioning.

Who Should Attend

Digital and economy ministries, telecom and cloud providers, software CEOs, CTOs and CDOs in regulated and data-intensive sectors, data centre leaders, cloud and AI strategy partners.

Industrial Power Reset: Energy for Fabs and AI

Build a credible plan for affordable, low-carbon baseload and modern grids so chip fabs, green steel, chemicals and AI data centres choose to expand in Europe rather than relocating for cheaper power.

Who Should Attend

Energy and climate ministries, regulators, utilities and grid operators, industrial and data centre CEOs, infrastructure and energy investors.

Core Systems Breakout: Europe’s Hidden Sovereignty Risk

Explore pathways to retire fragile legacy IT across banks, factories and public services, and finance the core-system upgrades that sovereign AI, data spaces and cyber resilience depend on.

Who Should Attend

CIOs, CTOs and COOs in large enterprises and public bodies, regulators overseeing core systems, enterprise software leaders, systems integrators, infrastructure and private equity funds, digital transformation partners.

AI Act to Advantage: Enterprise Playbook for Europe

Use the AI Act as a design brief for trustworthy, high-value AI products and workflows, turning compliance into competitive advantage across finance, healthcare, industry and the public sector.

Who Should Attend

Digital and sectoral regulators, CEOs and business unit leaders, chief data and AI officers, CIOs, general counsels, risk and compliance leaders, AI and automation advisory teams.

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LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLES

(BY INVITATION ONLY)

A curated series of closed-door, high-intensity leadership dialogues where Europe’s ministers, CEOs, tech leaders, innovators, investors and regulators stress-test the continent’s competitiveness, capital stack and security in a fragmenting world. Restricted to 30 participants per session. Each session will be led by a leader and a co-leader and will last for 60-90 minutes. Session topics might slightly change in the lead up to the show, based on market feedback and requirements.

Which enterprise and government systems must go quantum‑safe first?

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

12:00 – 13:30

Every EU member state must begin its post‑quantum transition by end of 2026, yet most have not started. Stress‑test which systems move first, how much harvest‑now‑decrypt‑later exposure already sits in their logs, and what real crypto‑agility demands across critical sectors.

For: CISOs; Heads of cyber security, governance and risk; critical infrastructure operators; NIS2 compliance leads.

Session Chair:

Damir Bogdan
Founder,
QuantumBasel
Switzerland

How fair are Europe’s AI vision models and datasets?

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

13:45 – 15:15

Decide how to keep deploying biometrics, healthcare, mobility and media vision systems when scraped datasets no longer pass GDPR and AI‑Act scrutiny. FHIBE, Sony AI’s consent‑driven dataset, exposes bias and evidences fairness regulators and buyers can accept.

For: CAIOs, CDOs, AI governance leads, vision scientists, MLOps heads, regulators in banking, mobility, healthcare, media, security.

Session Chair:

Michael Spranger
COO, Sony Research & President,
Sony AI
Japan

Turning cyber incidents into shared European intelligence

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

15:30 – 16:30

NIS2 and DORA force thousands of operators to report incidents, while AI‑driven ransomware and fraud still outpace cross‑border response. Cybercrime chiefs and CISOs must decide which data, legal tools and joint playbooks turn each major breach into usable intelligence for Europe instead of a private disaster.

For: CISOs and cyber‑risk heads in banks, platforms and critical infrastructure, SOC and threat‑intel leaders, national and CSIRTs and cyber‑authorities, and DORA / NIS2 Heads.

Session Chair:

Seng Tark Gan
Asst. Director - Cyber Threat Intelligence team,
INTERPOL
Singapore

Core systems breakout and industrial power reset

Wednesday, 01 July 2026

10:30 – 11:45

Europe’s core digital and industrial systems were not built for AI‑scale demand, power‑hungry compute, or latency‑sensitive data‑flows across borders. Explore how governments and enterprises can upgrade legacy cores, grids, data centres and cross‑border connectivity together to keep growth, resilience and sovereignty in balance.

For: CIOs, CAIOs, CISOs, CTOs, grid, energy and industrial leaders, governance and risk teams, and critical infrastructure operators

Quantum decisions leaders cannot postpone without inviting bigger risks

Wednesday, 01 July 2026

12:00 – 13:15

Across governments, banks, and industrial giants, quantum is now a board‑level risk and advantage question. Explore the key decisions senior government and business leaders must lock in before 2027.

For: National and corporate leaders in governments, banks, critical infrastructure, and large industrial enterprises, including CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, and heads of risk and security

Session Chair:

André M. König
CEO
Global Quantum Intelligence
USA

Capital union and Europe’s missing late‑stage cheques

Wednesday, 01 July 2026

13:30 – 14:45

Across AI, quantum and deeptech, Europe’s best founders still fly to California when later-stage cheques beyond Series B and IPO pathways look uncertain at home. Senior investors and policymakers now have a narrow window to align capital rules, listing regimes and sovereign LP money so Europe’s own funds can lead, not just follow, the continents breakout rounds.

For: Sovereign and pension funds, VCs, PE funds, banks, exchanges, growth and infrastructure investors.

Session Chair:

Daniel Keiper-Knorr
General Partner
SpeedInvest
Germany

Euro-Stack Strategy: The sovereign competitiveness playbook

Wednesday, 01 July 2026

15:00 – 16:15

As European enterprises move from pilots to platform-level AI, most still rely on non-EU models, clouds and compute layers they do not control. Gain insights into how far Europe must build sovereign capacity in cloud, AI and capital to stay competitive at scale.

For: Digital, Finance and Economy Ministers and policymakers, CIOs, CAIOs, CDOs, heads of enterprise and cloud architecture, digital and financial regulators, sovereign and institutional investors, and board‑level risk and strategy chairs.