World Summit AI opens in Amsterdam with 10,000 delegates

World Summit AI 2026 opens on Wednesday at the Taets Art and Event Park in Amsterdam, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 100 exhibitors across two days. The tenth-anniversary edition runs October 7-8 with ten content tracks spanning ideas, technology, business and policy. Headline speakers include Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of insitro and Coursera co-founder, who will also lead a masterclass. Zico Kolter, head of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon and chief scientist at Gray Swan AI, will address AI safety as agentic systems face growing scrutiny. Taiwan's Cyber Ambassador Audrey Tang and former MEP Marietje Schaake will speak on governance and democratic resilience. On the technology side, LangChain CEO Harrison Chase, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster and Nvidia's Simon See will cover agent engineering, compute and infrastructure. Doors open at 8 am, with the opening session at 9 am. The summit anchors World AI Week, running October 5-9 across the city.
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