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Theme: Now What?
Post-bubble reality: From AI Exuberance to AI consequence
When: November 2-3, 2026
Where: The Ritz-Carlton hotel, Potsdamer Platz 3, Berlin, Germany

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.

State of the Art sessions

AI systems are evolving faster than our ability to trust them. Models hallucinate, behave inconsistently across demographics, and fail in ways that carry real liability, financial, and regulatory exposure. Yet most organizations still lack a structured way to answer a simple question: how confident are we in this system?

This session introduces a risk-based quality engineering methodology purpose-built for AI-infused applications. Starting from 64 defined risks across six quality dimensions, we show how to classify what matters most to your business, translate risks into measurable requirements with defensible thresholds, and design tests that challenge the system where it is most likely to fail.

You will see how planning, specification, test design, execution, and a final quality verdict come together into a repeatable framework that turns ambiguity into evidence, giving teams, stakeholders, and regulators a shared language for AI confidence.

As organizations increasingly rely on cloud platforms, questions of sovereignty, compliance and portability are becoming critical. This session explores how to balance the flexibility of the cloud with the demands of sovereignty ensuring data protection, regulatory alignment and strategic independence. We will share practical approaches to assessing your exposure to sovereignty requirements, evaluating the readiness of your current environment and redefining your cloud landscape. You will learn how to build architectures and applications that remain portable across environments while meeting evolving compliance needs empowering teams to innovate without losing control.

Software has been a core business differentiator and growth engine. Now, more than ever, it is fundamentally reimagining the traditional “make or buy” dilemma. At the heart of this shift are agents. Domain and application experts are teaming with agents to not just change how software is engineered, but to redefine how it evolves re-centering product on the experience, reshaping application design and unlocking a new rhythm of continuous delivery. Step behind the scenes of this transformation and see what an agentic software squad truly looks like: humans and agents collaborating to amplify impact, delivering features at speed without compromising security or quality.

AI is no longer an augmentation layer, it’s becoming the operating model. Organizations that adopt an AI-first mindset are rethinking how decisions are made, how processes are executed, and how value is created across the enterprise. At the centre of this transformation is agentic orchestration: a paradigm where autonomous, goal-driven agents collaborate across systems, data, and workflows to execute complex business functions. With next-generation automation, this approach moves beyond static pipelines and rule-based processes into adaptive, context-aware operations that continuously learn and optimize.

In this session, we explore how to transition from fragmented automation initiatives to a cohesive, AI-first architecture. We will outline practical strategies to design agent-driven workflows, and integrate orchestration layers that unify people, agents, and systems. You will gain insight into how leading organizations are establishing governance for autonomous systems, and balancing speed with control in highly dynamic environments. The session also highlights the data readiness needed to unlock new levels of efficiency, resilience, and competitive advantage.

Speakers

Andreas Sjostrom

Andreas Sjostrom, VP and Head of Capgemini’s flagship innovation hub. A visionary and recognized expert in technology innovation, he leads the Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco and blends Silicon Valley’s most brilliant minds with pragmatic solutions, boosting business performance for top-tier companies.
His journey as Global Head of Digital at Sogeti, CTO of Capgemini Scandinavia, and now spearheading Capgemini’s Silicon Valley hub showcases his ability to drive business acceleration using bold new ideas and emerging technologies. He specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Web3, and Space Tech. His focus on Generative AI and AI Agents for business productivity has facilitated several global innovation programs.
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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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Pascal Matzke

Forrester Research
In his role as research director, Pascal Matzke leads Forrester’s global CIO research team that focuses on the digital transformation opportunities for businesses around customer experience as well as connected products and services. His research team advises CIOs on best practices for digital transformation and innovation and helps clients become empowered business partners throughout their transformational journeys. Pascal’s personal area of expertise and thought leadership spans across the domains of business technologies such as mobile, social, cloud and the Internet of Things, as well as the related transformational business issues. He is also a deep domain expert in tech services and outsourcing trends as well as the underlying market dynamics.
Acting as a trusted advisor to technology leaders and business executives across Europe, Asia, and North America, Pascal has helped frame successful transformation strategies for many large corporate clients as well as several leading technology vendors. Pascal is a frequent public speaker and is regularly quoted by leading business newspapers and IT magazines, such as The Economist, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Handelsblatt, CIO Magazine, Computing, and InformationWeek.
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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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