Kiss the Future AI Summit Sarajevo 2026

About Kiss the Future AI Summit Sarajevo 2026

Bloomteq organizes Kiss the Future AI Summit Sarajevo 2026 across three venues in Sarajevo: the National Theatre (Obala Kulina bana 9), the Bosnian Cultural Center (Branilaca 24) and the Youth Theatre (Kulovića 8). It runs in person on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16, 2026.

Tracks cover C-Suite, Engineering, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Energy & Manufacturing, Create & Grow with AI, and Research. The official site lists 41 speakers and 39 sessions. Speakers include Agnes Bade, VP Head Group AI & Digital Law at The Adecco Group, Detlef Krause, Chief Revenue Officer at DeepL, and Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Deloitte, Monri and Ptrade Lavazza are listed as sponsors.

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Location

Obala Kulina bana 9; Branilaca 24; Kulovića 8, Sarajevo, 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Venue: National Theatre Sarajevo; Bosnian Cultural Center; Youth Theatre Sarajevo

Agenda

Thursday, October 15

• 10:00 · C-Suite, strategy and the future of AI — Agnes Bade
• 10:00 · Build. Ship. Scale. — Orhan Rokša
• 10:00 · Trust, regulation and responsible innovation. — Giorgio Metta
• 10:00 · Intelligence for an industrial future. — Timo Deiner
• 10:00–10:30 · Opening of the Kiss the Future AI Summit 2026 — Hatidža Hadžimuhamedović
• 10:30–10:55 · Future Enterprises Need a Kiss. From Artificial Autonomy to Human Agency — Giovanni Notarnicola
• 10:55–11:20 · Goodbye Clicks, Welcome Autonomous — Timo Deiner
• 11:20–11:45 · AI-Native Competitors and the End of the Middle Manager — Orhan Rokša
• 11:45–12:10 · What Humanoid Robots Teach Us About Intelligence — Giorgio Metta
• 12:10–12:35 · Lost in Translation? Building Europe's AI Champions — From Language to Agents — Detlef Krause
• 12:35–13:00 · From FOMO to FOBO: The Fear of Becoming Obsolete — Agnes Bade
• 13:00–14:00 · Networking break powered by Ptrade Lavazza
• 14:00–14:30 · Decoding the Human: AI, Genomics and the Future of Personalized Medicine — Prof. Dragan Primorac
• 14:30–15:15 · Who Signs It Off? Building AI-Powered Teams in Regulated Functions — Gana Forić Mehić
• 15:15–15:45 · Governance as an accelerator, not a brake — Thibault Geoui
• 15:45–16:15 · What comes after AGI? The Post-Biology Era — Sumon Sadhu
• 16:15–16:30 · Closing remarks
• 10:00–10:20 · Stage Opening
• 10:20–10:50 · What Remains When Code Writes Itself? — Grazia Frontoso
• 10:50–11:20 · Overloaded: The Human Brain, New Jobs and the Real Cost of AI — Agur Jogi
• 11:20–11:50 · AI in Enterprise — Elvir Dolić
• 11:50–13:00 · What the Model Forgot to Learn — Maximilian Werk
• 14:00–14:30 · From Sarajevo to Zagreb — How Regional Tech Is Powering the AI Telco — Alen Muslić
• 14:30–15:10 · Builders and Operators — What It Takes to Scale AI in the Enterprise — Džefris Dizdarević
• 15:10–15:45 · Ship It This Weekend: Build a Full-Stack AI App with Supabase — Pedro Rodrigues
• 15:45–16:20 · Physical AI, Open to All: Building with Hugging Face LeRobot — Nikodem Bartnik
• 16:20–16:30 · Closing remarks

Friday, October 16

• 10:00–10:10 · Opening of the Engineering Stage Day 2
• 10:10–10:40 · Made in Europe, Built for the World: The DeepL Story — Detlef Krause
• 10:40–11:25 · MCP Doesn't Have a Context Problem. It Has a Context Engineering Problem. — Sam Morrow
• 11:25–12:10 · Beginner-Friendly Introduction to Speculative Decoding: From Zero to Hero — Eldar Kurtić
• 12:10–12:35 · Where AI Gets Hard: Scaling in the Enterprise and the Role That Makes It Work — Džefris Dizdarević
• 12:35–13:00 · Inside the VC Mind: How Funding Works and What We're Betting On — Matej Micek
• 13:00–14:00 · Networking break powered by Ptrade Lavazza
• 14:00–14:20 · The First AI Question Isn't About AI — Why Implementation Starts with People, Processes and Problems — Mersed Čamdžić
• 14:20–15:00 · Faster Than Review: Trust, Speed and Builds in AI-Assisted Engineering — Nedim Muhamedagić
• 15:00–15:45 · Give Your AI a Voice: Building Conversational Agents with ElevenLabs — Adis Banda
• 15:45–17:00 · Building AI Software Factory — Nick Miller
• 17:00–17:00 · Closing remarks

Tracks & topics

• C-Suite
• Engineering
• Finance, Legal & Compliance
• Energy & Manufacturing
• Create & Grow with AI
• Research

Speakers

• Agnes Bade
  VP Head Group AI & Digital Law, The Adecco Group
• Orhan Rokša
  Audi AG
• Giorgio Metta
  Scientific Director, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
• Timo Deiner
  Head of Innovation & Technology, MEE Region, SAP
• Dragan Primorac
  Professor, M.D., Ph.D.
• Giovanni Notarnicola
  Strategic Transformation Leader & Partner, Porsche Consulting
• Detlef Krause
  Chief Revenue Officer, DeepL
• Nermin Hadžić
  Chief Executive Officer, Bloomteq
• Thibault Géoui, PhD
  Director, Zühlke Group
• Prof. Dragan Primorac
  Speaker, St. Catherine Hospital, Croatia; University of Pittsburgh and University Penn State, University, U.S.; Minister of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia (2003-2009)
• Isabel Neto
  Speaker, The World Bank Group
• Robert Fitoš
  Speaker, Hrvatski Telekom
• Gana Forić Mehić
  Moderator, TV Journalist
• Thibault Geoui
  Speaker, Zühlke
• Sumon Sadhu
  Speaker, NativeLink
• Grazia Frontoso
  Speaker, Databricks
• Agur Jogi
  Speaker, Pipedrive
• Elvir Dolić
  Speaker, Palfinger
• Maximilian Werk
  Speaker, Elastic
• Alen Muslić
  Speaker, ZIRA
• Hani Zahirović
  Speaker, Bloomteq
• Shayan Aziz
  Speaker, Xplor
• Pedro Rodrigues
  Speaker, Supabase
• Nikodem Bartnik
  Speaker, Hugging Face

Sponsors

• Deloitte
• Monri
• Ptrade Lavazza

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