World Summit AI is the world’s leading AI summit, bringing together the people shaping how AI is researched, governed and deployed globally. Since launching in Amsterdam in 2017, the summit has become a critical meeting point for enterprise leaders, big tech, start-ups, researchers, policymakers, investors and ethical experts from across the global AI ecosystem.

Now entering its 10th anniversary edition, World Summit AI continues to set the global AI agenda, spotlighting real-world applications, emerging technologies, and the risks, benefits and opportunities of artificial intelligence. The summit is renowned for hosting the world’s most influential voices in AI and for fostering meaningful collaboration across industries and sectors.

World Summit AI sits as the anchor of World AI Week, the world’s leading gathering of the global AI community. A high-energy series of 100+ cutting-edge events across business, science, technology and networking.

Guardians of tomorrow: Shaping the new AI paradigm

The 2026 World Summit AI theme, “Guardians of Tomorrow: Shaping the New AI Paradigm,” captures a defining moment in the global dialogue on artificial intelligence. At the heart of the 10th edition of WSAI lies a powerful idea: the new paradigm of AI is not shaped by technology alone, but by human intention.

As AI continues to gain understanding and reasoning, it is imperative that we as a community, become active stewards, putting the necessary safeguards in place and to ensure AI remains a catalyst for good.

Reflecting on a decade of transformation, WSAI has had a front row seat to the AI paradigm shift over the past 10 years, from analytical, to agentic and now to reasoning.

But what comes next?

At WSAI we believe the next evolution of what it means for AI to “think” and act will be forged by our global community. The next horizon will engage business leaders, technologists, policymakers, and ethicists to collectively design.

Become a guardian of tomorrow and join us next year to shape the economic, technological and ethical dialogues driving the new paradigm of AI.

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