AI Forum Europe 2026
AI Forum Europe 2026
Event Details
Monday, 22 June 2026 - 09:00 to 20:00
Station F
(5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris, France)
Tuesday 23 June 2026 - 09:00 to 20:00
(INSEAD, Fontainebleau)
In collaboration with The Wharton School. Celebrating 25 years of the Wharton-INSEAD Alliance.
Programme - Monday 22 June 2026
In Day 1 of our AI Forum Europe, INSEAD and Wharton Faculty lead conversations with investors, technologists, and policy makers to explore societal topics related to AI, such as changes in the labor market, organisations, and business practices, AI’s relationship with creativity, capital markets, and governance. Collectively the conversations explore the impact of AI as a force of creative destruction. Featuring keynote by Philippe Aghion, The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth at INSEAD, a professor at Collège de France, winner of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and by Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman, AMI Labs, and the 2018 winner of the Turing Award.
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Registration & Welcome Coffee | |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome Address Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation, UBS Chair in Investment Banking, INSEAD | |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Keynote 1: Making AI Intrinsic Nicolai Tangen, Chief Executive Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management | |
| 9:30 - 10:15 | AI & Financial Markets Joao Gomes, Senior Vice Dean of Research, Centers, and Academic Initiatives, Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance, and Professor of Economics, The Wharton School Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, and Co-Director, Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School Nicolai Tangen, Chief Executive Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management Moderator: Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation, and UBS Chair in Investment Banking, INSEAD | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | AI & Organisations: The View from the C-Suite Theos Evgeniou, Professor of Technology and Business, INSEAD Hyunjin Kim, Assistant Professor of Strategy, INSEAD Matthew Bidwell, Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor Professor of Management, Wharton Moderator: Phanish Puranam, Professor of Strategy and the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design, INSEAD | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Keynote address: AI as a Force for Creative Destruction: Tech-Driven Economic Growth Philippe Aghion, The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth, INSEAD, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Technology Frontier: World Models, a Dialogue with Yann LeCun Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman, AMI Labs, and Turing Award winner (2018) Alexandra Roulet, Associate Professor of Economics, INSEAD; Mathieu Guillemin MBA'97J Fellowship in Business and Society | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | AI & Creative Arts and Industries Gonzague De Pirey, Chief Omnichannel and Data Officer, LVMH Gerard Assayag, Head, Music Representation Team, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), co-founder, French Society for Computer Music (AFIM) and the International learned Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music (SMCM) Axel Unger, CEO, Kaiser X Labs (Allianz Group, Former IDEO Partner & Mach49 Venture Builder Moderator Spencer Harrison, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Building Competitiveness: Learnings from Europe and Asia Sebastian Reyn, Head of Geopolitics and Global Advocacy, ASML Dino Tan, Head of Region (Europe), Singapore Economic Development Board Moderator: Ville Satopaa, Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | AI & Marketing Thomas Robertson, Joshua J. Harris Professor and Professor Marketing, The Wharton School Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing and INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science, INSEAD Patti Williams, Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean, Wharton Executive Education | |
| 16:50 - 17:40 | Governance in the Age of AI Stanislav Shekshnia, Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, INSEAD Valery Yakubovich, Executive Director of Mack Institute for Innovation Management and Adjunct Professor, The Wharton School Moderator: Diana Robertson, Samuel A. Blank Professor in Legal Studies, Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Bozza Family Penn First Plus Faculty Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | Deans' Panel: The Future of Business Education Erika James, Dean of The Wharton School Francisco Veloso, Dean of INSEAD Thomas Robertson, Executive Director of The Wharton-INSEAD Alliance Phanish Puranam, Academic Director of The Wharton-INSEAD Alliance | |
| 18:20 - 18:30 | Closing Remarks Erika James, Dean of The Wharton School Francisco Veloso, Dean of INSEAD | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Networking Reception | |
| Note: The programme is subject to change. An official photographer will be on-site and attendees may be photographed. | ||
About the Speakers for Day 1
Professor of Economics
Ircam Research Director; Head of IRCAM Music Representation Team
Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor Professor of Management
Chief Omnichannel and Data Officer, LVMH
Professor of Technology and Business
Professor of Finance
Senior Vice Dean of Research, Centers, and Academic Initiatives, Howard Butcher III Professor of Finance; Professor of Economics, The Wharton School
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Erika H. James
Dean, The Wharton School / Professor of Management
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Executive Chairman, AMI Labs
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Co-Director, Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School
Professor of Strategy
Associate Professor of Economics and Political Science
Samuel A. Blank Professor in Legal Studies, Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics, Bozza Family Penn First Plus Faculty Co-Director, University of Pennsylvania
Thomas S. Robertson
Executive Director, The Wharton-INSEAD Alliance / Professor of Marketing
Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Head of Region for Europe, Singapore Economic Development Board
Chief Executive Officer, Norges Bank Investment Management
Professor of Strategy
Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean, Wharton Executive Education
Valery Yakubovich
Executive Director of Mack Institute for Innovation Management
Programme - Tuesday 23 June 2026
Day 2 of our AI Forum Europe features leading academic work by faculty from INSEAD, Wharton, Harvard, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole des Mines de Paris and Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. With 9 research talks including 4 scientific keynotes, we explore human-centric issues such as the political economy of talent movement, AI and well-being, AI guardrails, and the scientific frontier such as AI cognition, AI for health, and the physical aspects of new hardware implementation of AI.
Private bus transportation for out-of-town visitors will be provided from Paris to Fontainebleau, departing from near Sorbonne. Details will be shared soon. We expect to depart Paris at 08:30 and reach Fontainebleau at 10:00.
| 9:30 - 10:15 | Registration & Welcome Coffee | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Welcome Address Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation, UBS Chair in Investment Banking, INSEAD | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Plenary: Geopolitics and the Movements of Talent and Invention Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Plenary: Beyond LLMs - The Physics of AI Emerging Hardware Implementation of AI Embodying AGI: From Digital to Physical General Intelligence | ||
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Plenary: AI and the Frontier of Scientific Discovery AI and Health AI and Materials Sciences Panel discussion: Beneficial use of AI in Science | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Parallel Sessions | ||
Track A: AI Applications Botipedia: A Truth Machine Digital Twins | Track B: The Human Mind AI and Human Cognition Data Science for Neurological Disorders | ||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Parallel Sessions | ||
Track A: AI Governance and Transparency AI Guardrails Open the Black Box: Interpretation, Governance and Alignment | Track B: AI and Human Flourishing AI and Human Entrepreneurship: INSEAD AI Venture Lab AI & Well-Being | ||
| 17:30 - 20:00 | Closing remarks and cocktail reception (speaker dinner) | ||
| Note: The programme is subject to change. An official photographer will be on-site and attendees may be photographed. | |||
About the Speakers for Day 2
Visiting Assistant Professor, INSEAD and Ram and Vijay Shriram HAI Faculty Fellow, Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychology
Professor of Finance
Director of CEMEF - Full Professor at Mines Paris PSL - ERC CoG CURE - ERC PoC VRAI
MPhil cantab, FIOP, FAPS, FIEEE Institute of Physics Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Co-Director, Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School
Research Scientist, Paris Brain Institute
Professor of Marketing
Director of the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (Sorbonne University/CNRS)
CNRS Director of Research, Deputy Manager of LSP, Head of Audition team at Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
Director of CSAIL at MIT
Liem Sioe Liong First Pacific Company Professor; Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics; Chairperson, Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Distinguished Professor (Practice) at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Professor of Operations Management
Practical Information
Getting to INSEAD
INSEAD Europe campus is just 65km south of Paris. The Fontainebleau/Avon train station is located 3km from INSEAD. You may refer to the campus map here.
Taxi reservations
Should you wish to make a taxi booking, please contact the ResaTaxiPro transfer company using their website (Tel: +33 6 78 78 17 81). Please note that facemasks are mandatory in the vehicle.
Dress code
The dress code is business casual for on-campus events.
Photos and videos
Please take note that we have engaged an official photographer who will take photos of the sessions during the course of the two-day Summit and group photo will be taken on Wednesday, 24 June. The sessions will be recorded for internal reference.
