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AUTOPILOT: Yes/No

Protect us from what we want

Venue: Hilton Hotel, Apollolaan 138, 1077 BG, Amsterdam

Date & time:

Thursday, October 2Friday, October 3
10:00-12:00 State of the Art sessions08:15-13:00 Start of day 2 program
12:00-13:00 Lunch13:00 Lunch
13:00-18:00 Start of day 1 program
19:30 Drinks and Dinner

Overview

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to influence every aspect of our lives, its transformative power offers promise and complexity. AI complements human ingenuity, enabling new opportunities in scientific discovery, content creation, product design, personalization, and software development. Yet, the rise of Agentic AI raises critical questions:

– How much agency should we entrust to algorithms?
– When do we engage autopilot, and when do we take back control?
– How do we balance efficiency and authenticity, automation and accountability?

We are living in an age of hyper-automation, where decisions once made by humans are increasingly delegated to intelligent systems. AI is no longer a futuristic buzzword, it’s becoming a cornerstone of modern business. As organizations adopt AI-driven tools, we must examine its impact on trust, control, and the essence of decision-making.

Why This Matters Now

Agentic AI introduces profound challenges. While it accelerates operational processes and enhances decision-making, it also presents ethical dilemmas:

– Are some decisions too important to leave to machines?
– How do we balance machine reasoning with human judgment?
– What does an Agentic Augmented Organization look like?

The rise of AI mirrors historic transformations during industrialization, reshaping power dynamics between individuals, organizations, and communities. Today, we face similar stakes as AI systems grow smarter, faster, and more pervasive. This isn’t just about technology—it’s about preserving humanity and maintaining meaningful human connections in a world increasingly dominated by automation.

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The Discussion Ahead

At the Sogeti Executive Summit, we will delve into the pressing questions that define our AI-driven future:

1. Trust vs. Control: How can we ensure algorithms serve us and not the other way around?
2. Legal Agency of AI: Could intelligent systems gain legal personhood, and what would that mean?
3. Balancing Efficiency and Authenticity: How can organizations sustain human connections in a hyper-automated world?

Why You Should Attend

This is your opportunity to reflect on the profound choices shaping our AI-age. Decisions made today will ripple far into the future, impacting businesses, consumers, and society at large. By participating in this dialogue, you will gain insights to guide your organizations through the paradoxes and possibilities of automation, algorithmic agency, and accountability. 

AUTOPILOT: Yes or No?
The choice is yours. Let’s explore the consequences together.

State of the Art sessions

Bot scripts still click buttons, but agentic AI weighs options, argues constructively, and fixes ugly edge cases RPA can’t handle. In this rapid-fire showdown we map where old-school RPA still shines and where autonomous agents crush it on cost, speed, and resilience. Watch an agent swarm run through a real-world scenario—policy checks, exception handling, ethics rules—with minimal human intervention. Leave with a simple decision matrix and guardrails for swapping brittle bots with self-directed doers when it really matters.

Code reviews at 2 a.m.? Your AI teammate already handled them—and filed the Jira tickets. Step into an agentic squad where product owners, engineers, and autonomous agents plan, code, test, and deploy side-by-side. We’ll demo how bots mine backlogs for hidden dependencies, refactor legacy services to cloud-native, and guardrail every merge with self-tuning quality gates. Expect battle-tested patterns for spinning up AI-augmented feature teams, measuring uplift, and keeping human creativity in the driver’s seat while the agents grind through the grunt work.

Why write brittle test cases when agents generate near-perfect ones—faster, cheaper, and with sharper intent? In this session, we show how QA teams are shifting from static scripts to agentic workflows, using Gen AI not as a tool, but as a teammate. Requirements, test cases, and defects flow through chains of smart agents—boosting clarity, coverage, and delivery speed. Then comes the twist: once AI is building your software, how do you test? We share how “tester-agents” detect drift, surface confabulations, flag prompt hacks, and trigger synthetic user flows—scoring outputs with probabilistic oracles and real-time risk meters. All wired into your CI/CD, all happening in motion. Walk away with a playbook—patterns, guardrails, and metrics—to turn stochastic chaos into board-level confidence.

Executive Insights

Inside the Summit

Discover how Marc van Erven, CEO of ARAG Nederland, leveraged insights from the Sogeti Executive Summit to drive innovation and strategic growth. In this exclusive video, he shares key takeaways and the tangible benefits his organization has experienced as a result of participating in the summit.

Speakers

Andrew Keen

Autopilot yes/no

Andrew Keen is one of the world’s best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. His nickname: the Antichrist of Silicon Valley. He is the author of many books on the digital culture. Many of the predictions he made in his books have come true. Andrew runs a popular podcast called ‘Keen on America’ and he will share his view on the latest technological events.
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James McQuivey

James tracks and predicts behavior change, whether among consumers or employees. In his tenure at Forrester, he successfully forecast the rise of online shopping in 1998 and more recently predicted the arrival of Amazon’s Echo platform before it existed. His models succeed because he focuses on an understanding of core human needs and motivations, using that foundation to predict why, when, and how people will try new things.
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Marco Schmid

AI Jesus

The initiator is theologian Marco Schmid, who builds a bridge between the church as an institution and the local community with his many art projects in the St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne.

Philipp Haslbauer

AI Jesus

Philipp Haslbauer is a data scientist and researcher at the Immersive Realities Lab of the University of Lucerne. He will talk about the art project – Deus in Machina – in which Jesus as an AI avatar heard confessions for two months. He will share the conclusions from the data of the conversations with us.
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Sander Duivestein

Senior Analyst

Sander Duivestein is a highly acclaimed and top-rated researcher and trend watcher, an influential author and keynote speaker. His main focus is the impact of new technologies on people, businesses, and society. He is specialized in internet culture and is fascinated by the way how technology is used to shape GenZ business models and how conspiracies can take over rational thought. Sander is co-author of management best seller ‘Real Fake: playing with reality in times of AI’ and is seen regularly on Dutch television responding on the latest trends. Recent reports Sander has been working are ‘The Intelligent Interface’, ‘The Great AI Experiment’ and ‘The Rise of the Experience Ecology’.
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Thijs Pepping

Tech-Philosopher

Thijs Pepping is a techno-philosopher @ Research Institute SogetiLabs. He focuses on the relationship among people, the planet, and technology. His special interest lies in the art of living and the experiences of nature, time, and reality. He co-authored the book Real Fake (2021) on generative AI and is now working on the follow up Real Smart.
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Dr Franziska Kohlt

AI Lessons from the history of Automata

Franziska Kohlt, researcher at the Universities of Leeds and Los Angeles reflects on ancient ‘Automata’ as a mirror for artificial intelligence. Automata are mechanically moving devices and images of people that had a magical effect on citizens in society.
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John Dalton

AI as your teacher

John Dalton, Principal at the David Game College on AI as a teacher. A remarkable story about the David Game College that has set up a learning program in which AI is the teacher and mentor. John Dalton talks about their experiences and his vision for the future of education.
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Moran Cerf

Professor of neuroscience and business (Columbia University) and the Alfred P. Sloan professor of screenwriting (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
In his recent work, he helps leaders (namely, the U.S. government) implement key lessons from decision science and neuroscience in critical choices (i.e., the nuclear launch protocols).
 
Prior, Prof. Cerf’s main work involved studying patients implanted with neural devices during brain surgery to decode decisions and dreams. His work gave rise to some contemporary advances in neuroscience and applications (i.e., advances in brain-machine interfaces).
 
Cerf spent a decade working in the Israeli cybersecurity space as a hacker and had an extensive career in the tech industry.
 
Cerf published papers in academic journals such as Nature and Science, as well as popular science journals such as Scientific American Mind, Wired, New Scientist, and more. He has published several books, including the recent: “Brain Imaging: An Illustrated Guide to the Future of Neuroscience”, and his research has been portrayed in numerous media and cultural outlets (BBC, Bloomberg, NPR, Time, CNN, Fox, Netflix Explained, NY Times, and dozens of others). He has been featured in venues such as the Venice Art Biennial and China’s Art, Science and Technology Association, and has contributed to magazines such as Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc, and others. He has made much of his research accessible to the public via his public talks at PopTech, TED, TEDx (“most TEDx talks”, with 13 TED/TEDx talks), Google Zeitgeist, DLD, etc., gathering millions of views and large following.
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Ray Wang

Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc.
R “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org.  Ray is an expert on AI, Web3, and software. His ground-breaking best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray’s recent best selling book Everybody Wants to Rule The World was released in 2021.  Wang is frequently quoted and interviewed by media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, BBC, Fox Business, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and Bloomberg.
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Sandra Matz

Sandra Matz is the author of ‘Mindmasters’ and Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. As a computational social scientist with a background in psychology and computer science, Dr. Matz studies human behavior by uncovering the hidden relationships between our digital footprints and our inner mental lives. Her goal is to make data relatable and help individuals, businesses and policy makers use data in more effective and ethical ways. Her work has frequently been covered by many major news outlets, including the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Business Insider. Dr. Matz has won numerous awards for her research and teaching, including ’Best 40-Under-40 MBA professors, Top 30 Thinkers Under 30; and DataIQ’s 100 Most Influential People in Data.
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