Highlights from January 19-23, 2026
CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE ON A HUMAN INTELLIGENCE SHIFT
More than a conference, AI House Davos is a space for visionary collaboration.
We are not here to react to AI's future; we are here to shape it.
AI House Davos 2026:
Panel overview
The Next Wave of Deep Tech and Future Use
Speakers:
Adrian Locher (Merantix Capital)
Andrey Khusid (Miro)
Deepak Pathak (Skild AI)
Nal Kalchbrenner (Project Prometheus)
Jamie Heller (Business Insider)
What is a Job? NextGen Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Scale
Speakers:
May Habib (WRITER)
Alessandro de Luca (Merck)
Judith Wiese (Siemens)
Ashish Madan (KPMG)
From Early Adoption to AI-Native Societies: The Next Era of Intelligence
Speakers:
Chris Lehane (OpenAI)
Kay Firth Butterfield (Good Tech Advisory)
William Fedus (Periodic Labs)
Andrew Jackson (G42)
Baroness Joanna Shields (Responsible AI Future Foundation)
Protecting What’s Human: Creativity and Identity in the Age of Deepfakes
Speakers:
Mat Honan (MIT Technology Review)
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland (SAG-AFTRA)
Emi Kusano (Fictionera)
Nicholas Thompson (The Atlantic)
Unlocking AI’s Potential to Serve Humanity
Speakers:
Bolor-Erdene Battsengel (AI Academy Asia)
Doreen Bogdan-Martin (ITU)
Tshilidzi Marwala (United Nations University)
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A Matter of Life and Death: AI in Military Decision-Making
Speakers:
Alain Berset (Council of Europe)
Gilles Carbonnier (ICRC)
Isabel Ebert (UN Human Rights)
Kenneth Cukier (The Economist)
Laurent Gisel (ICRC)
Jean-Marc Rickli (GCSP)
Designing for Collaboration, Participation and Futures Inspired by Art
Speakers:
Teruo Fujii (University of Tokyo)
Miles Pennington (University of Tokyo)
Primavera De Filippi (CNRS)
Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation)
Ai Hisano (University of Tokyo)
Open-Source AI: Advancing a Human-Centered Intelligence Frontier
Speakers:
Marcel Salathé (EPFL)
Rod Beckstrom
Yejin Choi (Stanford HAI)
Daniel Dobos (AI for Good)
From Gold Rush to Growth: Investing in AI’s Real Value
Speakers:
David Siegel (Two Sigma)
Rasmus Rothe (Merantix Capital)
Rob Heyvaert (Motive Partners)
Spriha Srivastava (CNBC International)
Large Scale AI as a Public Infrastructure
Speakers:
Peter Sarlin (AMD Silo AI)
Andreas Krause (ETH Zürich)
Petri Myllymäki (CSC)
Audrey Herblin Stoop (Mistral AI)
Sunnie J. Groeneveld (Inspire 925)
Reimagining Drug Discovery with Frontier AI: From Molecules to Medicine
Speakers:
Aldo Faisal (Imperial College London)
Colin Hill (Aitia)
Noubar Afeyan (Flagship Pioneering)
Fiona Marshall (Novartis)
Nikita Popov (Novartis)
What Drives the Deal? AI and the New Logic of M&A
Speakers:
Eva Scherer (Daimler Truck)
Alexander Mayer (J.P. Morgan)
Dagmar Mundani (Siemens)
Holger Kneisel (KPMG)
AI We Can Trust: Collective Systems for Global Safety
Speakers:
Agata Ferretti (IBM Research)
Andreas Krause (ETH Zürich)
Kirk Bresniker (HPE Labs)
Silvio Dulinsky (ISO)
Ayisha Piotti (RegHorizon)
Reimagine Public Service: AI for Real-Time, Predictive, Citizen-Centric Impact
Speakers:
Carolin Wittmann (European Institute for Future Generations)
H.E. Mohamed Bin Taliah (UAE Government)
Joelle Pineau (Cohere)
Thomas Pramotedham (Presight)
Lubna Bouza (Sky News Arabia TV)
The Great Rewiring: AI, Industry, and the Architecture of Global Resilience
Speakers:
Mallik Rao (Telefonica Germany)
Pravina Ladva (Swiss Re)
Nicole Büttner (Merantix Momentum)
AI Generation: Rethinking Primary and Secondary Education
Speakers:
Masami Hagiya (Institute for AI and Beyond)
Don Passey (Lancaster University)
Mary Webb (King's College London)
Toshinori Saito (Seisa University)
Embodied AI: Systems that See, Hear, and Act in the World Alongside Humans
Speakers:
Yann LeCun (Advanced Machine Intelligence)
Marc Pollefeys (ETH Zürich)
From Orbit to Insight: AI’s Role in Shaping a Smarter Planet
Speakers:
Samantha Cristoforetti (European Space Agency)
Bernhard von Weyhe (European Space Agency)
Philip Johnston (Starcloud, Co-Founder and CEO)
Mark Mozena (Planet)
The Leap to Longevity: Forever Healthy
Speakers:
Evelyne Yehudit Bischof (Harvard Medical School)
Nikita Popov (Novartis)
Olivier Oullier (Mohammed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Dimitris Moulavasilis (M42)
AGI Night
Speakers:
Gary Marcus (NYU)
Max Tegmark (MIT & Future of Life Institute)
Richard Socher (you.com)
Jack Symes (Durham University)
Quantum Computing as the Next Frontier in AI Capability
Speakers:
Grégoire Ribordy (IonQ)
Marina Marinkovic (ETH Zurich)
Nathan Baker (Microsoft)
Steve Suarez (HorizonX)
Anu Unnikrishnan (ETH Zurich)
The Next Wave of Deep Tech and Future Use
Speakers:
Adrian Locher (Merantix Capital)
Andrey Khusid (Miro)
Deepak Pathak (Skild AI)
Nal Kalchbrenner (Project Prometheus)
Jamie Heller (Business Insider)
What is a Job? NextGen Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Scale
Speakers:
May Habib (WRITER)
Alessandro de Luca (Merck)
Judith Wiese (Siemens)
Ashish Madan (KPMG)
Inclusive Intelligence: Empowering Societies to Shape AI
Speakers:
Baroness Joanna Shields (Responsible AI Future Foundation)
Basma AlBuhairan (C4IR Saudi Arabia)
Joël Mesot (ETH Zürich)
Thomas Hofmann (Technical University of Munich)
Spriha Srivastava (CNBC)
Shadow AI: The Hidden Layer of Intelligence
Speakers:
Menna El-Assady (ETH Zurich)
Navrina Singh (Credo AI)
Petar Tsankov (LatticeFlow AI)
Akhilesh Tuteja (KPMG)
Sovereignty vs. Collaboration: Who Owns the Future of Intelligence?
Speakers:
Denise Wong (IMDA)
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza (Tune Insight)
Talal Al Kaissi (G42 & Core42)
Thierry Pienaar (HPE)
Irena Bednarich (HPE)
Sustainable AI: From Climate Science to Efficient Computing
Speakers:
Eric Enselme
Varun Sivaram (Emerald AI)
Himanshu Gupta (ClimateAi)
Ghjulia Sialelli (ETH AI Center)
The Fabric of Society: AI in Critical Infrastructure
Speakers:
Francesco Sciortino (Proxima Fusion)
Frederic Werner (ITU)
Rafael Mariano Grossi (IAEA)
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran (The Economist)
Unprecedented Scale – Building Startups in the Age of AI
Speakers:
Alex Ilic (ETH AI Center)
Andrew Ng (DeepLearning.AI)
Andy Hock (Cerebras Systems)
Laura Modiano (OpenAI)
Nicole Büttner (Merantix Momentum)
From Co-Pilots to Agentic Autonomous Economies
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