Past event Part of ViennaUP 2026

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
Official event site
On the record

The figures the organisers published.

Reported by humanxai.events . These are attendance and programme figures published by the event itself — not commercial results, which are not ours to claim on anyone's behalf.

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

The published figures below are the event’s own, as reported on the official Human×AI Europe site after the conference. They are attendance and programme results — not commercial outcomes, which are not ours to claim on anyone’s behalf.

The 2027 edition

The organisers have confirmed that planning for a 2027 edition is under way. The date, theme and speakers have not been announced. When they are, they will appear here and on the event site.

The room

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.

  1. Problem owners

    Faster innovation capacity, qualified partners and solutions that pass assurance and procurement.

  2. Problem solvers

    Access to real demand, integration channels into large accounts, credibility and a path to paid pilots.

  3. Capital providers

    Macro-patterns, geopolitical context, domain-specific problem maps and qualified deal flow.

  4. Market standard-setters

    Market feedback on what is deployable, what fails in practice and where rules create friction or resilience.

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Partners of Human×AI Europe, as listed by the event organisers

Names as published, in the order published. No logos and no roles are shown here, and listing an organisation records its involvement in the event — it does not describe a relationship with Pontis. Source: humanxai.events .

  • 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
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