Human×AI Europe
A one-day forum on how Europe can turn AI into a foundation for competitiveness, sovereignty and deployment. It brought founders, investors, industry and public institutions into the same conversation — the alignment layer in practice.
- Date
- Venue
- Hofstallungen MUMOK
- Address
- Museumsplatz 1, Vienna, Austria
The day in numbers.
- 200+
- Attendees
- 29
- Speakers & panellists
- 30+
- Countries represented
About the event
Human×AI Europe brought founders, investors, industry and public institutions into the same conversation for a single day in Vienna, as part of ViennaUP 2026 — the city’s startup festival.
The question the programme was built around was deliberately narrow: not whether Europe should adopt AI, but what has to be true for AI to change how European industry and institutions actually operate. That framing is the same one the Pontis model runs on. Intelligence establishes what is changing; a gathering turns that into shared language between people who would not otherwise be in the same room.
What the day produced
More than 200 people from over 30 countries took part, and 29 speakers and panellists took the stage.
What comes next
Stay tuned. We’ll share the details here and on the event site as soon as they are announced.
Who should be in the room.
A Pontis gathering is built around these groups and what each of them needs from the others. This describes who the format is designed for — it is not a record of who attended this particular event.
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Problem owners
Faster innovation capacity, qualified partners and solutions that pass assurance and procurement.
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Problem solvers
Access to real demand, integration channels into large accounts, credibility and a path to paid pilots.
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Capital providers
Macro-patterns, geopolitical context, domain-specific problem maps and qualified deal flow.
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Market standard-setters
Market feedback on what is deployable, what fails in practice and where rules create friction or resilience.
Partners of Human×AI Europe
- Visibilio
- SEG
- Xactway
- Verto Digital
- Cloud Office
- Appolica
- City Ideas Institute
- Sistemma
- GrowDACH+
- Black Peak Capital
- Eleven Ventures
- Capital
- The Recursive
- FourPlus Studio
- Cambio Caffè
- Eventhinkplay
Turn a strategic gap into a working ecosystem.
Bring us a concrete use case, a market failure or a capability gap. We will help define the context, the stakeholders and the format needed to move it towards a decision.
For problem owners, problem solvers, capital providers and market standard-setters.