AI SUMMIT 2026
COMING
AGAIN
2026
Following a landmark inaugural year, the North's premier gathering for AI visionaries and decision-makers returns.
AI SUMMIT / 2026
Every seat was taken, every conversation counted.
AI Summit is back: 16 November 2026, Turku
The event that brings together the people shaping AI in Europe.
AI SUMMIT 2025
AI SUMMIT 2025 HAS COME TO A CLOSE. WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE GRATITUDE TO OUR PANELISTS, PARTNERS, AND THE GLOBAL AUDIENCE.
This year also marked an important milestone: the launch of the ELLIS Institute Finland. Our congratulations to the entire ELLIS team on an achievement that will strengthen research, talent and collaboration across Europe for years to come.
The 2025 Speakers
Samuel Kaski
Founding director & Professor at ELLIS Institute Finland
Serge Belongie
President of ELLIS Society, University of Copenhagen
Bernhard Schölkopf
Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Petteri Orpo
Prime Minister of Finland
Peter Sarlin
Co-Founder & CEO at AMD Silo AI
Jaakko Lehtinen
Professor at Aalto University and Research Scientist at NVIDIA
Kyunghyun Cho
Professor at New York University
Negar Kiyavash
Professor at EPFL
Amy Loutfi
Program Director at WASP and Professor at Örebro University
Alexandra Gylfe
Founding Partner at Nordic Science Investments
Nina Laaksonen
Chief Product Officer at WithSecure
Kristo Ovaska
Founder & CEO at Taito.ai
Ilkka Paananen
CEO and Co-founder of Supercell
Björn Wahlroos
Chairman of Wahlroos Capital
Henna Virkkunen
EVP & Commissioner at European Commission
Bengt Holmström
Nobel laureate & Emeritus Professor at MIT
Janne Jaakkola
Chief of Defense of Finnish Defense Forces
Elina Valtonen
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland
Jussi Westergren
University of Oxford and ex-DeepMind
Neil Lawrence
DeepMind Professor at University of Cambridge
Max Welling
Co-Founder & CTO of Cusp AI
Laurent Sifre
Co-founder & CTO at H Company
Laura Ruotsalainen
Vice Chair of ELLIS Institute Finland
Meredith Whittaker
President & Board Director of Signal Foundation
Anton Osika
Co-founder & CEO of Lovable
Max Junestrand
Co-founder & CEO of Legora
Jacomo Corbo
Co-founder & CEO of PhysicsX
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder & CSO at Hugging Face