HumanX 2026: Europe’s AI Moment Moves From Hype to Execution

Europe’s artificial intelligence landscape is entering a new phase, with the conversation shifting from AI experimentation and hype toward practical deployment, regulation and measurable business impact. Against this backdrop, HumanX will bring more than 2,500 AI leaders to Amsterdam from September 22–24, 2026, at RAI Amsterdam.

The event comes as new provisions of the EU AI Act take effect, adding transparency requirements around interactions with AI systems and certain AI-generated content. For European startups and enterprises, this creates a growing need to understand not only what AI can do, but how it can be built, deployed and scaled within evolving regulatory and commercial environments.

HumanX was founded in 2024 by Stefan Weitz and Jonathan Weiner, the team behind major industry conferences including Money20/20, Shoptalk and HLTH. HumanX takes a different approach to traditional technology conferences, focusing its programming on practical AI implementation, executive discussions and curated connections rather than vendor-led presentations.

Stefan Weitz, HumanX’s co-founder and CEO, says the goal is to bring together the people building AI, the enterprise leaders deploying it and the investors deciding where the next opportunities will emerge. The Amsterdam event is designed around that intersection between technology development and real-world implementation.

The 2026 speaker lineup includes Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks; Marjan Rintel, CEO of KLM; May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer; Fabian Hedin, co-founder and CTO of Lovable; Jan Oberhauser, founder and CEO of n8n; Joelle Pineau, Chief AI Officer at Cohere; Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve; and Susan Jones, CDO at Diageo. Investors and technology leaders including Nick Clegg of Hiro Capital and representatives from Amazon Web Services, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Benchmark are also part of the programme.

Rather than selling speaking slots, HumanX says its sessions are editorially curated around issues facing companies implementing AI. The programme also includes structured opportunities for one-to-one meetings, allowing founders, investors, enterprise executives and other participants to connect beyond traditional exhibition-floor networking.

HumanX Amsterdam 2026 will take place at RAI Amsterdam from September 22–24, bringing European and international AI leaders together around a central theme: moving from discussing AI’s potential to understanding how organisations can actually implement it at scale.