Europe’s AI era is upon us

Following a sold-out debut in 2025, AI Day returns to redefine the boundaries of innovation.

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With Europe at the epicenter of the new AI narrative, TechWolf and Wintercircus gather the brightest minds at the heart of the action. 500+ researchers, founders, builders, policy makers, journalists and investors will meet to shape the future of Europe’s AI opportunity. Join us!

Indicate your early interest

Date & time

Mon, May 4, 2026

14:00 – 23:00

Location

Ghent

, Belgium

The 2026 program

Specialized Track + Main Stage

Start in the afternoon. Choose one of the following tracks.

The TechWolf Track

14:00-17:00

A look “under the hood” at our founding story, proprietary AI models, customers cases and engineering culture.

The Ecosystem Track

14:30-17:00

Inspiring talks and fireside chats with top AI founders and global tech pioneers.

Skills Strategy Summit

An exclusive two-day program for +25 CHROs to master workforce transformation through AI. By invitation only.

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Main Stage Only

Join us from 19:30 onwards.

As the sun sets, the focus shifts to the Main Stage for four power talks by renowned speakers.

Discover the speakers

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Speakers

More names to be announced soon.

Benedict Evans

Benedict Evans has spent 25 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. He is now an independent analyst.

Yasamin Karimi

Yasamin Karimi is the Chief Product Officer at TechWolf, where she leads both Product and Engineering in building the leading AI and data platform for workforce transformation.

Jeroen Van Hautte

As CTO and co-founder of TechWolf, Jeroen leads product and engineering and helped pioneer one of the industry’s first scalable AI skills inference engines.

Talfan Evans

Talfan Evans is the co-founder of Cursive AI, a lab building infrastructure and models for generative software. He was previously a Research Scientist at DeepMind and founded Clay, a Sequoia-backed angel syndicate.

William Verstraete

William worked on Tesla’s Optimus team in California, training state-of-the-art AI algorithms for humanoid robots. Now at UMA in Paris, he continues his work on next-generation robot autonomy.

How registration works

Last year’s edition sold out fast. We want the right people in the room, so secure your spot now. AI is free - a treat for the tech community by TechWolf and Wintercircus.

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Fill out the registration form

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We review every submission due to limited capacity

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If approved, you’ll receive a confirmation with all event details

About the venue

Wintercircus is a beautifully restored historic landmark in Ghent, now a vibrant hub for innovation and creativity - perfectly suited to host the conversations shaping the future of AI.

Practical info

Questions?

Reach out to us at events@techwolf.ai

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

A new stage for the brightest minds in AI

AI Day 2025 brings together leading researchers, engineers, founders, and investors for an invite-only gathering in Ghent to explore the breakthroughs shaping the future of technology, business, and work.

A gathering of the brightest minds in AI

AI is at a pivotal moment. The next breakthroughs will shape not only technology, but also business, society, and how we work. To facilitate the conversations that truly matter, we’re launching AI Day 2025—a new stage for the world’s leading AI voices.

This event, hosted by TechWolf at the iconic Wintercircus venue in Ghent, brings together the most influential AI researchers, engineers, founders, students, and business leaders for a day of high-impact exchange.

Afternoon & evening

Full agenda

We’ve curated two impactful tracks designed for deep learning, connection, and inspiration. Explore what’s in store.

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Full day passes are sold out.
You can only register for the evening track.

Afternoon | TechWolf AI Track
[SOLD OUT]

Venue: Auditorium (120 people – invite-only)

Join our TechWolf AI track, witness an exclusive guest appearance by Mehdi Ghissassi, and take a deep dive in all things AI that surround our company - what our AI vision looks like, how we build our product with AI at the heart, how to build an exciting career in AI, how AI helps us to increase velocity and quality. This track has limited seating availability and is explicitly meant for senior tech people who are curious to go deep and learn from each other. Register your interest below, we assess every registration and will let you know whether your seat is reserved on May 27th.

14:00 – 14:30

Opening drinks

Host: Reinhard De Milt

14:30 – 15:00

How it started vs. how it’s going

Jeroen Van Hautte, Co-founder & CTO at TechWolf

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From the early TechWolf days over today’s breakthroughs to the future vision. Co-founder and CTO Jeroen shares the TechWolf story and merges it with his views on the AI revolution. How AI was at the heart of the company from the start and how it’s shaping our mission. Get ready for a personal story with a touch of AI.

15:00 – 15:20

The AI era and why it’s so exciting

Mehdi Ghissassi, CPO at AI71, former Head of Product at Google Deepmind

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"Hey Mehdi, what are the key things that should be on every AI professional’s mind, mid 2025?” Discover the mind-opening answers of Mehdi Ghissassi, in an engaging talk by someone who’s been knee-deep into the world’s most fascinating AI innovations.

15:20 – 15:40

Thanks for everything, AI

Marijn De Kerpel (AI Manager)

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A unique behind-the-scenes look on how we use AI internally to shape the way we work. How does AI enable us to increase velocity, and improve quality? Take a look under the TechWolf hood and learn how we’re leveraging AI to build a unique place to grow, build and innovate.

15:40 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 16:20

The best way to build a dream career in AI

Panel talk with Dewi Van De Vijver, Jens-Joris De Corte & Karel D'Oosterlinck

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We’ve invited Karel D’Oosterlinck, Jens-Joris Decorte, and Dewi Van De Vyver for a sharp, unfiltered and high-energy panel talk on what it’s like to build a career in AI. How can you grow fast, how bold or ambitious do you need to be, what are pitfalls? Expect sharp insights, edgy perspectives and food for thought. This panel won’t hold back. And you’ll be able to steer the conversation if you want.

16:20 - 16:45

How to build an AI product that lasts

Yasamin Karimi (Chief Product Officer at TechWolf ) &Jens-Joris Decorte (AI founder associate at TechWolf )

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AI is front and center in the product we’re building here at TechWolf. What’s that like from the inside? How to lead the way with ever-quicker innovation waves without jumping on every shiny new AI thing? And what are key differences with building a traditional product? Listen to this insightful talk on agents, language models, open source models, AI inference and - probably, let’s see - more buzzwords by Yas & Jens-Joris, two of TechWolf’s brightest AI minds.

17:00 – 17:30

Start evening track

Location: Arena Foyer (500 people)

Evening | AI DAY 2025
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Venue: Wintercircus Arena (500-600 capacity)

Host: Andreas De Neve (TechWolf) & Dorien Van Steenberge (Wintercircus)

Join the evening track of AI Day 2025, at the heart of the Wintercircus Arena, and get ready to be blown away by some of the smartest voices in AI today. This track has limited seating availability. Register your interest below, we assess every registration and will let you know whether your seat is reserved on May 27th

17:00

Doors & Welcome drinks

17:30

Intro by dorien & andreas

17:40

Hinssen unhinged - the lay of the land in AI

Peter Hinssen

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You might know Peter, but not like this. Unfiltered and brutally honest, Peter will dissect the lay of the land in AI worldwide. In his brand-new keynote, he will touch upon trends you haven’t noticed yet or taboos you will not be able to unsee after May 27th. He’ll do all of this in his energetic style that might blow you away.

18:25

Deepfakes, Scams, and Synthetic Media

Guillaume Bouchard, co-founder & CEO Checkstep

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What happens when the founder who exited to Facebook after the Bloomsbury AI acquisition turns that same cutting-edge tech on the deepfake crime-wave that drained $25 million from a single Hong Kong firm and is now blitzing boardrooms worldwide?In this fast-paced keynote, Guillaume Bouchard reveals how synthetic media is scaling faster than truth—hurtling toward a $1.9 billion market of deception by 2030—and demos the AI agents and real-time detectors already zapping impostor video, voice and text in the wild.Leave with a battle-plan for the post-AGI public square where platforms self-audit and citizens verify, drawn from the front lines of responsible-AI research and a vision of “truth at machine speed” that can outpace tomorrow’s generators.

18:45

Closing Part 1

19:00

Break & food

20:00

The AI first playbook

Jeroen Van Hautte, co-founder and CTO of TechWolf

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Together with Andreas & Mikaël, Jeroen founded TechWolf in 2018 at university. With AI at the core of the product since day 1, Jeroen saw HR fundamentally change throughout the years. In his talk, we will share how AI is completely reshaping the HR function, and is transforming the way we look at work. A look into the future of work, live from the Wintercircus Arena.

20:35

AI Agents in the Wild

Emma Burrows, co-founder Portia AI

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2025 is purportedly the "Year of the Agents" — autonomous systems able to achieve greater than human level intelligence and productivity. In this talk, Emma Burrows will explore where we really are on the hype compared to the expectation scale, explain the art of the possible and discuss why many agents never make it from prototype to production.

21:00

Scaling to $30M ARR with 3 founders and AI agents

Amos Bar Joseph, co-founder & CEO Swan AI

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What if you could scale to $30M without hiring a team?Go behind the curtain at Swan, where founders replaced departments with AI agents — and kept growing. This is the story of an autonomous business, where scale comes from intelligence, not headcount.

21:20

Closing Part 2

Dorien & Andreas

21:30

Networking

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About the venue

Wintercircus is a beautifully restored historic landmark in Ghent, now a vibrant hub for innovation and creativity—perfectly suited to host the conversations shaping the future of AI.

Practical info

Questions?

Reach out to us at events@techwolf.ai

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