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The executive management of Sogeti is pleased to invite you to the 2026 edition of Sogeti’s annual Executive Summit. Together – a group of senior leaders – we will explore how to navigate the strategic consequences of AI at a moment when markets, geopolitics, and technology are converging and sometimes colliding.

Leading voices in technology and finance are unusually aligned: we are experiencing an AI bubble. Market exuberance is running into physical limits, capital discipline, regulation, and geopolitics. Central banks are issuing warnings. Governments are reasserting control over critical technologies. Supply chains, chips, data, energy, and talent are no longer neutral assets – they are instruments of power.
When bubbles burst, capital resets. But so do priorities. What follows is not a return to neutrality, but a reordering of power, dependency, and resilience. Technology choices increasingly double as geopolitical choices. Vendor strategies define long-term exposure. Infrastructure decisions lock in cost structures, control, and strategic optionality for years to come. The post-bubble phase is where new structures emerge: durable platforms, institutional arrangements, new winners, and new dependencies.

We are living in what the German philosopher Walter Benjamin called Jetztzeit – the Now-Time: a compressed moment in which familiar assumptions lose authority, yet the future is still open. For executives, this is the phase in which waiting for clarity is itself a decision, and short-term optimization can quietly undermine long-term sovereignty and resilience.

At the 2026 Executive Summit, CxOs, thinkers, and practitioners will explore which AI investments remain defensible once capital discipline returns; where sovereignty and control truly matter; how organizations can balance innovation with resilience and regulation; and what a credible “tiger leap” into the next phase of AI might look like – beyond hype, grounded in strategic intent.
This much is clear: talking about technology in isolation doesn’t make sense anymore. Therefor this summit is about power, resilience, and long-term advantage in a world where intelligence – human and artificial – has become a geopolitical resource.

Now What?
For now, the answer is simple: secure your seat and join peers facing the same irreversible decisions – before today’s choices harden into tomorrow’s dependencies.

Speakers

Joseph Pine

Joseph Pine is internationally recognized as one of the most original thinkers on how economic value evolves when societies move beyond goods and services toward experiences, transformation, and personal change. As author, advisor, and keynote speaker, he has influenced how business leaders understand the next stages of economic development and the shifting expectations of customers, citizens, and employees.
 
Joseph Pine became globally known through his seminal work The Experience Economy, in which he argued – well before it became mainstream – that organizations would increasingly compete not only by delivering products or services, but by staging memorable experiences that create differentiation and loyalty. That framework has shaped thinking across industries ranging from retail and hospitality to healthcare, financial services, and digital platforms.
 
His latest work, The Transformation Economy, takes that argument one decisive step further. Pine argues that the highest form of economic value is no longer found in what organizations deliver, but in the lasting change they enable in the lives of individuals, customers, and organizations themselves. In a world where digital capabilities increasingly automate transactions and commoditize knowledge, the strategic question becomes: how do organizations remain meaningful by helping people or institutions become something different than they were before.
 
As co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, he advises global organizations on business innovation, customer value, and the design of economic propositions that move beyond efficiency alone.
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Louisa Munch

Louisa Munch, Teacher Critical theory at Warwick University
Bubbles are stories and ideologies we cling to. Critical thinking is often nowhere to be found. Louisa Munch investigates the power structures behind these ideologies and offers sharp critiques of what we call “modernity”. She is a 26‑year‑old TikTok phenomenon (with 67,000 followers) who recently completed her PhD on the theme of Nostalgia. She teaches critical theory at the University of Warwick.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s concept of “Now Time,” she explores whether the bursting of a bubble can lead to a clear moment of critical reflection and set a systemic transition in motion. This crash course in critical thinking may help spark that shift.
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Julia Janssen

Julia Janssen, is a highly awarded artist, researcher, and advocate for digital and human rights.
Will OpenAI start making deals and then push answers driven by a particular agenda? Will ChatGPT begin responding with sponsored messages? AI‑generated content is flooding the internet, and GenAI bots occupy every pixel of the digital space. They solve tasks, rewrite texts, select entertainment, purchase products, summarize news, and synchronize information. It all feels effortless, easy, and comfortable. But at what cost? Friction lessness comes hand in hand with obedience.
In ‘Chadding’, Julia Janssen challenges ChatGPT to reveal how AI influences reality and how OpenAI plans to control it. She sketches a future in which it becomes impossible to distinguish between a generated answer and a sponsored one, pushing back against the “inevitable” development of generative AI.
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Margo Langeweg

Executive Event Planner, Sogeti

Phone: +31622546440