This track includes three core sessions, followed by a final session designed to bring the key themes and learnings together.

11:10 - 11:35  |  Thought Starter. When Employees Become AI Innovators: The Future of Knowledge Work 

Innovation often begins with lead users who encounter emerging needs early and develop their own solutions. Open-ended AI agents accelerate this through rapid experimentation, custom tools, and new ways of working.

This presentation examines how AI-augmented lead users can reveal the future of knowledge work while creating challenges around cost, quality, verification, scalability, and human overload. It argues that organizations should support safe experimentation, identify and scale effective solutions, and protect the human capacity behind innovation.

11:35 - 12:00 |  Thought Starter. Future-Proof AI Governance: Where To, Where From, and How?

This presentation explores how organizations can maximize AI value while managing risk through clear strategy, understanding their current capabilities, and effective governance.

It focuses on three questions: "Where to?" - defining AI ambitions; "Where from?" - assessing the current state and closing capability gaps; and "How together?" - building governance that aligns AI with evolving data privacy, cybersecurity, sustainability, and regulatory requirements.

12:00 - 12:30 | Thought Starter.  AI Sovereignty and Strategic Resilience

AI is transforming cybersecurity, but who controls the AI you depend on?

This keynote explores the five layers of AI sovereignty, from training data to applications, revealing the strategic dependencies at each level and what it truly means to own or rely on the intelligence behind your systems.