RAISE Summit 2026 is one of Europe’s most influential and fastest-growing AI events, bringing together CEOs, senior leaders, innovators, developers, investors, corporates, and policymakers from around the world. The two-day summit attracts more than 9,000 attendees, with over 80% at C-level, founder, or senior decision-maker level, and features 350 speakers, making it a uniquely high-level forum for shaping the future of AI.
What sets RAISE apart from many other AI conferences is its strategic focus on B2B enterprise adoption and high-value networking, prioritising measurable deal-making over general discussion. The 2026 agenda reflects this directly, with sessions spanning AI infrastructure and compute economics, sovereign AI strategy, enterprise ROI, agentic AI deployment, and frontier research. Including panels such as Infrastructure as Destiny: The Compute-Capital-Cloud Trinity, Cracking the ROI Code: Is Intelligence Meeting the Income Statement?, and Sovereign AI: Piece by Piece.
The 2026 speaker lineup brings together some of the most consequential voices in global AI:
- Yann LeCun — AMI Chairman, former Meta Chief AI Scientist
- Mark Cuban — Entrepreneur & Dallas Mavericks Owner
- Amin Vahdat — Chief Technologist & SVP, AI & Infrastructure, Google
- Pat Gelsinger — Playground Global, formerly Intel CEO
- Charlie Kawwas — President, Broadcom
- Lin Qiao — Co-founder & CEO, Fireworks AI
- Marco Argenti — CIO, Goldman Sachs
- Mark Papermaster — CTO & EVP, AMD
- Nelson Griggs — President, Nasdaq
- Olivier Pomel — CEO & Co-Founder, Datadog
- Scott Wu — CEO & Co-Founder, Cognition AI
…alongside representatives from OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Oracle, BlackRock, McKinsey, and many more (see the full agenda here).
A standout feature is the invitation-only CxO Summit, an annual programme designed for Fortune 1000 executives and senior leaders to benchmark AI strategies, address complex policy and governance challenges, and forge high-value partnerships. Sessions include From Chatbots to Co-Workers: Deploying Agentic AI at Scale and Engineering ROI into Enterprise AI, featuring executives from Mercedes, Capgemini, AXA, Adecco, and Sodexo. This curated experience provides an intimate forum for key decision-makers to share firsthand insights and discuss frontier issues in international AI within a private setting.
RAISE also hosts the world's largest AI-focused hackathon, where thousands of the global top 1% of AI development talent collaborate on practical solutions to real industry challenges, alongside the world's largest AI startup competition, featuring a €10M+ prize pool and 1,500 applicants. The summit experience is further elevated by premium gatherings across the city as part of RAISE Week: a series of AI-centric events spanning all industry verticals. These include an AI Gala held at the Chateau de Versailles in the evening prior to the main event, as well as MACHINA Summit, Europe's leading Physical AI and robotics event.
MACHINA Summit is focused on artificial intelligence that operates in the real world, through humanoid robots, industrial automation systems, and advanced human–machine interfaces. Debuting its first edition in Paris on July 7, 2026, the event brings together founders, engineers, industrial leaders, investors, researchers, and policymakers building and deploying intelligent physical systems. Sessions span humanoid robotics, industrial automation, robot training through simulation and real-world data, and the AI architectures powering next-generation machine intelligence, with headline speakers including Carolina Parada (Head of Robotics, Google DeepMind), Bernt Børnich (Founder & CEO, 1X), and Jonathan Hurst (Co-founder, Agility Robotics). For anyone operating in the Physical AI space, MACHINA is an unmissable addition to the week, and the perfect primer before RAISE Summit takes center stage.
Recognised globally for its scale and momentum, RAISE was described at its 2025 edition by Eric Schmidt, former CEO & Chairman of Google, as "the fastest-growing AI tech conference in Europe, and maybe in history. " Ultimately, RAISE Summit has become a mandatory governance and tangible growth milestone for anyone operating seriously in the AI ecosystem.
To learn more about RAISE Summit 2026 and view the full agenda, please visit the official website.
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