{"id":170011,"date":"2026-06-24T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=170011"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T15:10:54","slug":"germany-takes-centre-stage-in-power-packed-conference-agenda-at-gitex-ai-europe-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2026\/06\/24\/germany-takes-centre-stage-in-power-packed-conference-agenda-at-gitex-ai-europe-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany takes centre stage in power-packed conference agenda at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Federal minister, DeepL and OpenAI leadership and Germany\u2019s quantum frontrunners spearhead multinational speaker programme at Messe Berlin.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany is spearheading a power-packed speaker delegation at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026, as government, big tech and scale-up leaders, quantum frontrunners and investors take centre-stage when Europe\u2019s most global tech and start-up event opens next week in Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

German leaders comprise 60 percent of the event\u2019s 150-plus expert speakers, drawn from a line-up spanning 33 countries across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. That\u2019s in addition to a powerhouse exhibition, featuring 950-plus enterprises and start-ups and 600-plus investors from more than 80 nations to accelerate investment across a European tech market forecast to surpass \u20ac1.5 trillion in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GITEX AI EUROPE takes place from June 30 – July 1, 2026, with the conference programme running across three stages and five themes: DeepTech & Critical Supply Chains, on securing Europe\u2019s industrial backbone; Compute & AI Stack, on the route from foundation models to enterprise deployment; Secure Infra & Cyber Power, on AI-era defence and quantum resilience; Capital & Scale-Up Engine, on Europe\u2019s new funding playbook; and Policy to Production, on turning EU AI Act regulation into competitive advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirteen German speakers anchor the headline sessions, mapping on to the five-theme structure: from policy and infrastructure questions opening the show, through enterprise deployment and quantum resilience, to the capital deciding what gets built next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeepTech & Critical Supply Chains and Policy to Production<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Dr Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Dr Karsten Wildberger, Federal Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, opens with a Main Stage fireside, \u2018The Gigawatt Guarantee: Engineering Europe\u2019s Industrial AI Supremacy,\u2019 at 11.00\u201311.30am, on the industrial capacity question underpinning the DeepTech & Critical Supply Chains theme. Klaus M\u00fcller, President of the Bundesnetzagentur and leading German implementation of the EU AI Act, follows with a 10.00\u201310.30am Intelligence Stage panel on 1 July, \u2018Who Controls Computing When AI Outgrows Europe\u2019s Grids and Networks?\u2019 with a direct read on the Policy to Production theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enterprise and AI leadership: Compute & AI Stack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Dr Robert Mayr, CEO and Chairman of the Board at DATEV eG, speaks on the Main Stage on 30 June from 12:30-12:50pm in \u2018Transformation in Practice: How Technology Creates Real Value Through Application,\u2019 arguing AI can sharpen efficiency and decision-making for SMEs under cost and structural pressure, provided regulation doesn\u2019t choke off innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Klaus M\u00fcller, President of the Bundesnetzagentur<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Mayr said: \u201cEurope has excellent prerequisites, with highly qualified professionals and a large common economic area. The crucial point is that we don\u2019t stifle innovation in Europe through overregulation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Jarek Kutylowski, CEO of DeepL, used by more than 200,000 clients and one of Europe\u2019s biggest AI unicorns, follows with a Main Stage fireside, \u2018Europe\u2019s AI Advantage: Building Intelligence Infrastructure That Competes Globally,\u2019 at 1.10\u20131.30pm on 30 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niklas Harzheim, GTM lead for OpenAI in the DACH region, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Vocetka, CTO of travel platform Omio and Daniel Khachab, Co-founder and CEO of Choco then sit on a 3.20\u20134.00pm panel the same day, \u2018Language Models as Europe\u2019s New Economic Infrastructure,\u2019 on how foundation models move from pilot to enterprise-wide deployment, delving into Compute & AI Stack theme\u2019s central question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harzheim said: \u201cWorking with digital-native companies in Germany and across Europe, I am thrilled to see AI moving from experimentation into the core of how businesses build products, serve customers and operate. The opportunity now is to turn those strengths into deployment at scale and pilot projects into real business impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocetka, addressing Europe\u2019s regulatory and operational fragmentation, said: \u201cEurope has a long history of building businesses in complex environments… AI is well suited to those environments. In its own way, Europe\u2019s fragmentation is now its competitive advantage in the AI era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rickard Damm, SVP, Consumer AI \u2013 Product Marketing at Deutsche Telekom, joins a 2.30\u20133.00pm Main Stage panel on 30 June, \u2018AI at the Network Layer,\u2019 exploring how Europe\u2019s leading network operators are embedding AI at infrastructure level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quantum and cybersecurity: Secure Infra & Cyber Power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three German quantum leaders converge on sovereign infrastructure, the throughline of the Secure Infra & Cyber Power theme. Dr Markus Pflitsch, CEO of the $3.25 billion Nasdaq-bound Terra Quantum and a former CERN physicist, opens with a 10.20\u201310.40am fireside on day two (1 July), \u2018Which Quantum Infrastructure Should Europe Truly Own.\u2019 Dr Katrin Kobe, CEO of Bosch Quantum Sensing, developing Europe\u2019s flagship diamond-based quantum sensor platform and Dr Alexander Gl\u00e4tzle, CEO of planqc, a Max Planck Institute spinout building Germany\u2019s first commercial neutral-atom quantum computers, then join a 2.25\u20133.05pm panel on 1 July, \u2018Quantum Is the Bet European Leaders Should Not Delay,\u2019 arguing quantum-resilient infrastructure can\u2019t wait for the technology to mature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capital: Capital & Scale-Up Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan B. Wintels, CEO of KfW, Germany\u2019s largest development bank, managing a \u20ac1 billion growth fund, opens this theme with an 11.20 – 11.40am fireside on 1 July, \u2018Germany\u2019s Capital Engine as a World Example,\u2019 positioning German state-backed financing as a template for the continent. Florian Heinemann of Project A, Europe\u2019s largest operational VC with \u20ac1.2 billion AUM and 130+ portfolio companies, follows with a 3.35\u20134.10pm panel the same day, \u2018Can Europe Lead in Deeptech Research and Still Win at Series B?\u2019, confronting the growth-stage funding gap the Capital & Scale-Up Engine theme is built to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, the thirteen sessions trace a single arc: from the regulatory and infrastructure foundations of European AI, through enterprise deployment, to the capital deciding what gets built next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GITEX AI EUROPE is organised by inD, the joint venture between Dubai World Trade Centre and Informa and the global organiser of GITEX, the world’s largest tech and AI event network. The annual two-day event is supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises and Berlin Partner for Business and Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information is available at www.gitexeurope.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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