IQ DIGITAL Summit

All systems standing by…

An introduction to the IQ Digital Summit concept: a multimedia knowledge show about our AI-powered future.

The Borg had it half right. Something is arriving whether we like it or not, and no organization holds it back by wishing. Resistance really is futile.

What is still entirely open is the terms.

Reading the next decade through three forces: demographics, who is actually here and who is not; attitudes, what people now expect from work, from institutions and from each other; and technology, which is moving faster than any of us have a feel for. Two of those are quiet, slow and almost never on the agenda. All three arrive together.

The hard part is not the technology. It is leading humans, at human speed, through a change none of them asked for.

How Romania can turn AI, energy and the new geopolitical order into a competitive advantage. Romania in its global and European context: an intersection, not an edge.

After two remarkable talks, the speakers debate the key ideas and take questions from the host and the audience. How do you turn an apparent disadvantage into an asset, in a world undergoing a full economic, technological and geopolitical reshuffle?

One of the world’s most listened-to thinkers on artificial intelligence comes to Romania for the first time with a constructive wake-up call: how do we prepare, as people, as leaders, as a society, for an intelligence that will surpass our own? The keynote is followed by an interview.

An iconic tech entrepreneur who has lived through every stage of Romania’s startup ecosystem shares the recipe for a truly global mindset, alongside success stories and remarkable case studies.

A protest against self-imposed mental limits that reach far beyond any physical border. An anti-fatalism ballad.

The official launch of Go Global > South, the acceleration program created by Upgrade 100 together with Impactum Group for South-East European startups looking to expand into South-East Asia. What the opportunities look like in one of the world’s most dynamic regions, told by a Romanian entrepreneur who has successfully walked exactly that path.

The starship makes a stopover to refuel on optimism in the world of creativity. A short conversation before a memorable show: what can (and can’t) AI do in art and comedy?

Who tells better jokes: Human or Machine? Or maybe Human + Machine? Three members of Romania’s legendary comedy troupe Divertis will try to answer live, and through their own AI avatars.

A show about technology, but above all about people and the complicated, unpredictable and still largely uncharted relationship they have with AI.

We bring the starship back down to earth: a practical reality check on what is hype and what actually works in the AI industry today.

The job market is being rewritten before our eyes: four perspectives on how we prepare as businesses, but also as human beings, mentally and emotionally. Short keynotes, then a debate and conclusions, refereed by a futurist.

One of Europe’s most influential voices on AI and Customer Experience brings to Romania, for the first time, a thesis that rewrites the rules of the game: your next customer won’t be a human, but an AI agent. Transactions will no longer be closed between you and your customer, but between two algorithms: the seller’s and the buyer’s. What will the business of the future look like?

For the first time at a business and technology event in Romania, professionals with informed, well-argued and strongly held views on the AI revolution go head to head under clear rules, alongside debaters trained in the Oxbridge format.

The audience votes before and after the debate. We will find out whether a heated but constructive clash can actually change minds.

The motion: “Accelerating the development of Artificial Intelligence will lead us to an era of abundance, not to the collapse of humanity”