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In Person | Dublin, Ireland

MIT CISR European Int'l Exec. Forum 2026

March 4 & 5, 2026

During our upcoming European Executive Forum in Dublin, MIT CISR team members Stephanie Woerner, Nick van der Meulen, Ina Sebastian and additional guest speakers will share recent research project findings. With a focus on the local, they will share examples and case studies from European firms. 

Throughout the event, we will ask especially accomplished business executives to share key insights from their experiences into how they have realized significant value from digital. We have designed the Forum to give participants many opportunities to engage with and learn from MIT CISR researchers and with other participants. The complete agenda is below.

Who should attend?

Senior technical and business leaders, especially MIT CISR member organization CIOs and C-suite executives with a technology interest, will find value in attending this event. (See the current list of MIT CISR consortium members below.) Key liaisons at our member organizations manage registration. Please contact Chris Foglia if you have any questions about this program or need contact information for your organization's key liaison.

More details...

This event is for MIT CISR consortium members and a small number of invited guests. You must be logged-in to the website to register for the event.

Please contact Chris Foglia if you have questions.

Our Agenda

March 4, 2026

8:00 AM–6:30 PM (GMT)

8:00 AMCheck-in and Welcome Coffee/Tea
8:30 AMWelcome and Introduction
Nick van der Meulen
8:45 AMBusiness Models in the Agentic Era
Stephanie Woerner
In 2018 MIT CISR published a book entitled “What's your digital business model?” based on several years of survey and case study research. This year we will present a provocative business model framework on how we anticipate firms will make money in the agentic AI era. Given the pace of technological change, this research is more speculative and is based on conversations amongst MIT CISR researchers and our community of experts. Stephanie will present the framework and then facilitate a lively discussion amongst the attendees about what the future will bring.  
10:15 AMBreak
10:45 AMFrom Disruption to Design: Addressing Human-AI Collaboration in Practice
Nick van der Meulen
As AI is increasingly integrated into knowledge work, organizations face a tension: the short-term efficiency gains AI delivers can complicate the longer-term challenge of building their talent pipeline. In addition, the skills that matter most for the future are precisely those that can't be taught using traditional training approaches. In this session, we'll explore both the technical and durable skills organizations need—and why developing them requires us to rethink our assumptions about work, workers, and the workforce.
12:00 PMLunch
1:00 PMDriving Digital Innovation to Realize More Impact and Waste Fewer Resources
Nils Fonstad
In the face of increasing volatility and resource scarcity, many organizations continue to invest in digital yet aren’t sure what to do next to translate those investments into measurable bottom-line impact. But a few exceptional organizations have succeeded in doing the opposite: they turn uncertainty into growth by doubling down on digital innovation with a disciplined, holistic, test-and-learn approach. This approach consists of three interdependent parts that generate strategic value systematically while not wasting resources. In this session, Nils will describe and discuss this approach and lead a discussion about the next steps your enterprise can take.
2:30 PMBreak
3:00 PMTransforming Business Processes with AI: Where Should AI Make Decisions?
Ina Sebastian
High-performing companies are redefining process excellence and business models in the age of AI. Leaders need to decide where (agentic) AI should take a direct role in decision-making, acceptable autonomy, and KPIs to track value. In this interactive session, we will present an AI Decision Rights Matrix (decision impact × decision structure) and apply it to leading-edge AI use cases from Sparkassen Finance Group Germany, the telco One New Zealand, and participant organizations.
3:45 PMScaling Enterprise AI Maturity for Bottom-Line Impact
Stephanie Woerner
MIT CISR introduced a four-stage enterprise AI Maturity framework in 2024 to help enterprise leaders make sense of the AI landscape and identify how to create value from the technology. Our latest survey results show that enterprises are making significant progress in their AI Maturity with positive financial impacts associated with progressing from stage 2 to stage 3. In this session, Stephanie will share the new results and show what it takes to mature from stage 2 to stage 3.
5:00 PMWrap Up and Feedback
Nick van der Meulen
5:15 PMNetworking Reception

March 5, 2026

8:30 AM–4:15 PM, GMT

8:30 AMWelcome Coffee/Tea
9:00 AMManaging Digital Colleagues
Stephanie Woerner
As AI is becoming more embedded in enterprises, we are asking the questions “What is a digital colleague?” and "How should they be managed?" There are already companies with digital colleagues joining human teams, managing other digital colleagues, and sometimes managing human colleagues. At MIT CISR we have collected data from 125 global technology leaders of large companies to understand how they are managing digital colleagues and their aspirations and implemented organizational changes so far. As part of this session, Stephanie will share results and facilitate a conversation of how the group is using digital colleagues.  
10:15 AMBreak
10:45 AMMonetizing External Developer Platforms
Martin Mocker
Martin will discuss different approaches to getting value from opening up your company’s digital platform externally. First, we’ll discuss a mini case study (back to business school!) of Schneider Electric’s journey of opening up their EcoStruxure digital platform. Then, we will interview the CEO of networking company Belden on why opening up their platform to partners is so essential to their strategy—moving from a company known for manufacturing cables to becoming a provider of solutions—and what that takes.
12:00 PMLunch
1:00 PMHands-on with AI Governance: Designing Adaptive Guardrailsa
Nick van der Meulen
As organizations become more AI-fueled and pursue complex digital business opportunities, they must have a new system of guardrails that enable them to innovate quickly yet safely. Leaders must also prove that every data byte and model run is acceptable under tightening regulations and stakeholder scrutiny. How do you steer confidently when the road itself keeps shifting? In this hands-on session, teams of participants will engage in a case teaching experience to explore emergent governance dynamics and solutions. Along the way, Nick will share results from this year’s ‘acceptable data use’ and ‘governing agentic AI’ research projects. (30-minute break included.)
4:00 PMWrap Up and Feedback
Stephanie Woerner

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