The Missing Foundation for Physical AI: Building the Social Brain for Robots

Sharon (Xue) Yang

Chief Technology Officer · IntBot Inc.

As AI moves from screens into the physical world, the next frontier is not intelligence alone, but interaction.

How Long Can Your AI Work Without You?

Felix Wong

CTO · FRL

Most of us use AI as an advisor—but the bigger opportunity may be turning it into an operator. Felix explores what needs to change before AI agents can safely work independently for hours or even days, and how their autonomy horizon can expand from minutes to 24 hours and beyond.

Brain fitness - combining high performance and wellbeing

Merja Ranta-aho

COO, Head of Organisational Performance · Mental Race Oy

Building high performance in brain work can enhance your wellbeing. Rest and recovery is the base. Humans can carry very high work load - if periods of load and recovery alter. Regulating vigilance and attention to suit the task assists top performance. Agency is key to fight stress.

How to build an AI Factory within a Large Corporation

Aitor Chinchetru

Founder & Managing Partner · FUSUMA

How do you turn AI from isolated experiments into a true corporate capability? Aitor shares the experience of building an AI Factory inside a large global technology company—from identifying opportunities and deploying AI agents to creating the governance, teams and skills needed to scale. More than a collection of use cases, the model shows how AI can become an engine for broader business transformation.

Fondazione Telethon and its model: How to nurture the dream of a society where no one is left behind.

Ilaria Villa

CEO · Fondazione Telethon

What happens when a charity takes on a role traditionally reserved for pharmaceutical companies? Ilaria shares the Fondazione Telethon model and its work bringing therapies for ultra-rare conditions toward regulatory approval, exploring how a nonprofit approach can help address diseases that might otherwise be left behind—and advance the vision of a society where no one is forgotten.

Where AI Meets the Physical World: Responsible AI in Travel

Liz Ortiguera

MD / Board Director and Head of the Technology Committee · Bridge XP Advisory / Travalyst

Travel is AI's biggest, broadest experiment in the physical world — designing and shaping the infrastructure of the future, and increasingly built into systems that cannot afford to…

Two SEPers in the Family - Building in China for 20+ Years

Rachel Wu

Co-Founder · ANDAMAN PARTENERS

A Chinese and South African partnership built cross-border businesses in China over 20+ years.

Implementing large scale technologies to improve human's lives

Kairat Akhmetov

CEO at Freedom Telecom, co-Founder at Sergek · Freedom Telecom, Sergek

Water Roads

Jeff Dusting

Founder

A Sydney-based operator of zero-emission electric hydrofoil ferries that opens new urban transit corridors on waterways cities already own, which means a route can be…

All G

Jan Pacas

Founder

First company in the world recreating human breast milk through biotechnology

Flametree.ai

Oleg Baranov

Founder

Customer AI without traditional software development

LIME

Meizi Yan

Founder

Helping game studios make AI remember who a character or asset is inside their existing pipelines.

PartyStation

Dmitry Kibkalo

Founder

PartyStation brings interactive party games to streaming platforms, turning entertainment into a shared social experience. Since its first presentation at SEP Reunion 2022, the platform has reached five million players and powered gaming sections for four of Russia's largest streaming services.

superangels Growth Fund

Martin Giese

Founder · General Partner, superangels Growth Fund

De-Risking Venture Capital

superangels is rethinking venture capital by bringing together experienced business angels with proven investment track records. Through diversified early-stage investments and a dedicated growth fund, its approach combines expert selection, portfolio diversification and follow-on capital to identify and support tomorrow's most promising startups.

Reinforce — AI-Native Wealth for Digital Dollars

Maxim Ermilov

Founder · Reinforce.fi

Reinforce is building an AI-native wealth platform for people and businesses holding digital dollars. Its early-access product USDRL turns idle USDT into an onchain yield-bearing position using transparent, market-neutral strategies optimized through reinforcement learning. Its next layer, Your Wealth Copilot, will enable AI-assisted portfolio design and management.

Maxim is the founder of Reinforce and Overnight Finance, and creator of USD+. An INSEAD MBA and former BCG Partner and Managing Director, he also led Strategy& at PwC and built ventures with Mach49 and Reaction.

Chinese Investment and Equities Major Market Cycles

Andy Mantel

Founder & CEO · Ten Events Ventures LLC

As a China investor for the past 35+ year, from the beginning of the Chinese stock markets in the early 1990s, I have been on the ground in China investing in the markets and have experienced first hand investing there through all the major market cycles.

Migration of consciousness to digital substrate

Ama Abdulkerimov

Founder & Executive Chairman at Paysend Group

How to Successfully Transition from C-Level into a Board Role

Markus Sieger

Executive and entrepreneur · Former CEO, Polpharma Group

How to prepare and structure a successful transition from executive leadership to attractive board roles.