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
(Venue TBC)
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, the role of the 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.
| 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, UBS Chair in Investment Banking, INSEAD | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | AI & Organisations: The View from the C-Suite Phanish Puranam, Professor of Strategy and the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Strategy and Organisation Design, INSEAD Theos Evgeniou, Professor of Technology and Business, INSEAD Matthew Bidwell, Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor Professor of Management, Wharton | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | AI & Economic Growth Philippe Aghion, The Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor in Innovation and Growth, INSEAD, and Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Alexandra Roulet, Associate Professor of Economics, INSEAD | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | 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 | |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | AI & Creative Arts and Industries Spencer Harrison, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD (moderator) | |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Building Competitiveness: Learnings from Europe and Asia Sebastian Reyn, Head of Geopolitics and Global Advocacy, ASML Naomin Tan, Regional Director (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 - 18:30 | Keynote Address | |
| 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. | ||
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.
| 8:45 - 9:20 | Registration & Welcome Coffee | |
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Welcome Address Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation, UBS Chair in Investment Banking, INSEAD | |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Keynote 1: The Political Economy of Talent Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School | |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Botipedia: A Truth Machine Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing, INSEAD Chaired Professor of Management Science, INSEAD | |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:10 - 11:50 | Keynote 2: AI Guardrails Kevin Werbach, Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor, Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Open the Black Box: Interpretation, Governance, and Alignment Asher Lawson, Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD | |
| 12:30 - 13:50 | Lunch | |
| 13:50 - 14:30 | Keynote 3: Emerging Hardware Implementations of AI Mathias Klaui, Professor of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Digital Twins Enver Yucesan, The Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professor in International Management, Professor of Technology & Operations Management, INSEAD | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 | AI & Well-Being Johannes Eichstaedt, Visiting Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD, Ram and Vijay Shriram Faculty Fellow, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford | |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | AI Cognition Daniel Pressnitzer, Professor of Cognitive Studies, and Director of École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | Keynote 4: AI for Health Elie Hachem, Director of Center for Material Forming, Professor, Mines Paris-PSL | |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Dinner Reception | |
| Note: The programme is subject to change. An official photographer will be on-site and attendees may be photographed. | ||
About the Speakers
Professor of Economics
Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor Professor of Management
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
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Co-Director, Private Capital Project, Harvard Business School
Professor of Marketing
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
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
