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Yuma AI Summit
New Roads for Success in the Age of AI Transformation
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 | Elisabeth Center Antwerp
The rules have changed. Has your organization?
AI is transforming every industry. As powerful AI becomes accessible to everyone, technology alone is no longer a competitive advantage. The real advantage lies in what your organization does with it: how you make decisions, organize work, combine human and machine intelligence, create value and shape what comes next.
This exclusive full-day executive AI summit is designed for leaders ready to turn AI into a true organizational capability.
Throughout the day, you’ll discover practical frameworks, real-world insights and concrete approaches for rethinking how your organization operates in the Age of AI.
You’ll explore how to:
- Move from isolated AI pilots to lasting organizational change
- Identify where AI can create meaningful value
- Design effective collaboration between people and AI
- Build an organization capable of learning and adapting as AI evolves
Whether you’re defining your AI strategy, scaling successful initiatives or deciding what should follow your first wave of AI investments, you’ll leave with a sharper view of the decisions ahead and where to focus next.
What makes this summit different is the people you’ll learn from. Leaders and practitioners with first-hand experience of AI Transformation will open up the decisions, frameworks, successes and failures behind their work, sharing what they’ve learned along the way.
Because the organizations that will lead in the Age of AI won’t simply be the ones that use the most AI. They’ll be the ones that learn faster, decide better, adapt continuously, and turn technology into lasting advantage.
» Date
14 October 2026
09h00 - 17h00
» Location
A Room with a ZOO - Darwin Hall
Koningin Astridplein 20-26
2018 Antwerp
» Admission fee
Free
Agenda
Morning
- 08h30 - 09h00: Registration & Coffee
- 09h00 - 09h20: Welcome
- 09h20 - 10h20: Part I: Why the Rules Have Changed
- 10h20 - 10h40: Coffee Break
- 10h40 - 12h00: Part II: How Leaders Define Direction
- 12h00 - 13h00: Lunch
Afternoon
- 13h00 - 14h00: Part III: Designing AI That Designs Us
- 14h00 - 15h00: Part IV: Making AI Transformation Work
- 15h00 - 15h20: Coffee Break
- 15h20 - 16h20: Part V: Building the Organization of Tomorrow
- 16h20 - 17h00: Closing Keynote 'AI Transformation Needs Vision'
The summit brings Dive into the Deep to life. Each part of the program follows a chapter of the book, exploring its key ideas and frameworks through real-world experience and discussion.
Every session includes time for Q&A, giving you the opportunity to exchange ideas with peers and learn directly from leaders putting AI Transformation into practice.
From AI initiatives
to organizational capability
Who should attend?
- Senior executives, business leaders and decision-makers responsible for shaping their organization's AI strategy
- CIOs, CTOs, Chief Digital Officers and Chief Innovation Officers driving digital and AI Transformation
- Business and technology leaders looking to move beyond AI experimentation and create measurable business value
- Enterprise architects, transformation leaders and AI strategists designing the future of their organizations
- Executives responsible for leading organizational change, innovation and business transformation
Are you responsible for strategy, innovation, technology or transformation? This summit is for you.
Please note: this is an executive event focused on leadership, strategy and organizational transformation. It is not a technical conference about coding, prompt engineering or AI development.
Business value starts with better decisions
Meet the speakers
Michel Herquet
Michel Herquet is Managing Partner AI Transformation at Yuma and co-author of Dive into the Deep – New Roads for Success in the Age of AI Transformation. With extensive experience helping organizations navigate complex digital and AI transformations, he advises executive teams on turning AI into sustainable business value.
Michel is a recognized thought leader on organizational transformation, helping leaders move beyond technology adoption to build future-ready organizations where humans and AI work together effectively.
Mihailo Backović
Mihailo Backović is Managing Partner AI at Yuma and co-author of Dive into the Deep – New Roads for Success in the Age of AI Transformation. Passionate about the intersection of technology, business and human potential, he helps organizations harness AI to drive innovation and long-term transformation.
Combining deep expertise in AI strategy with a pragmatic approach to implementation, Mihailo works with executive teams to turn emerging technologies into real business impact while preparing organizations for the future of Human + AI collaboration.
Vincent Boucher
Vincent Boucher is Managing Partner at Yuma, where he helps organizations turn Artificial Intelligence into practical business value. With a background in physics and a PhD in cosmology, he combines deep scientific expertise with extensive experience in AI strategy, enterprise AI architecture and sovereign AI.
Vincent advises executive teams on designing AI solutions that are innovative, pragmatic and secure, enabling organizations to accelerate transformation while maintaining control over their most critical assets.
About the book
Dive into the Deep - New Roads for Success in the Age of AI transformation
It won't come as a surprise to you: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world at an unprecedented pace. While most organizations are eager to adopt AI, many are struggling to translate that ambition into meaningful business value.
In Dive into the Deep (New Roads for Success in the Age of AI Transformation), Michel Herquet and Mihailo Backović offer a bold vision for the Age of AI. AI Transformation forces organizations to rethink strategy, governance, leadership, design, and the relationship between human and machine intelligence.
Expect thought-provoking ideas, practical frameworks, real-world examples, and refreshing insights to help you answer some of the most important questions organizations face in the Age of AI:
- Why should we embrace AI in the first place?
- How can we create lasting value beyond isolated pilots and proofs of concept?
- What does effective human-AI collaboration look like?
- How can organizations remain resilient, relevant, and competitive in a world where intelligence itself is becoming a commodity?
From Transformation Compasses and AI Playgrounds to collaborative intelligence, agentic systems, and new governance models, this book offers a fresh lens on AI Transformation. Through novel concepts and perspectives, it challenges conventional thinking and invites leaders to reconsider how intelligence creates value.
The future doesn't belong to organizations that use AI. It belongs to those courageous enough to transform with it. Are you in?
Register for the Yuma AI Summit
Please complete the registration form below by 1 October 2026 to confirm your attendance. We reserve the right to cancel registrations from attendees who do not match the intended profile for the event.