For your early birds we brings together a curated morning session bringing together the Freelance Mornings, SIME, and Epicenter communities to explore the shift from traditional employment to flexible, execution-driven ways of working.

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Over breakfast and coffee, a short panel digs into what the Employ → Deploy shift means in practice — how companies are rethinking teams, engaging freelancers and operators, and integrating AI alongside new operating models.

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Award-winning magician Charlie Caper opens SIME 2026 with highlights from his show The Future — blending magic, technology, and imagination to set the tone for a day exploring how AI and humanity can build the future together.

SIME founder Ola Ahlvarsson kicks off the conference with his signature mix of provocation, vision, and humour — unexpected insights and wild guesses about where AI and humanity are headed together.

James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Innovation, Hybrid & Cyber at NATO, delivers a geopolitical security check — assessing how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping the global security landscape and what it means for business leaders.

Power Talk on the latest trends & developments in GenAI

Farzan - TV Host Persia Got Talent, and active voice for a free and democratic Iran.

Lack of payoff from Al expenditures reveals a systemic leadership and execution gap. By fostering harmony between innovation and humanity, Ethical AI Governance Group aim to shape a future where every person is equipped not just to adapt, but to flourish.

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Understanding people's needs has always been at the heart of great leadership. Tom Rourke explores how the disciplines of design and storytelling help leaders cut through complexity in an AI-transformed workplace — and why unlearning old habits may matter as much as acquiring new skills.

Participants disperse into SIME's specialised breakout tracks and Summit sessions

Key takeaways and reflections from each breakout session.

Max Benedetti founding management team Yoox Net-a-Porter and digital entrepreneur, explore what has changed — and what has not — about building companies to scale in the AI era. Capital, culture, and the new rules of exponential growth.

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The Nordics are coming together as one exciting opportunity for both European champions and ambitious local stars. wanting to go pan-Nordic and beyond. Here is the fast-track. Adrian McDonald Group CEO, Epicenter, and friends

Kyndryl Vital Labs opens its doors at SIME 2026 — a live showcase of what happens when design thinking, emerging technology, and human ambition collide. An open invitation for founders, executives, and curious minds to step in, experience the lab, and explore what building for the future looks like in practice.

A second round of SIME's specialised breakout tracks and Summit sessions — participants continue their deep dives into new subjects with expert hosts and engaged peer groups.

Key takeaways and reflections from each breakout session.

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Hanna Linderstål, founder and CEO of Earhart Business Protection Agency and Sweden's Security Profile of the Year 2024, delivers a straight-talking cyber security check — covering hybrid warfare, disinformation, darknet threats, and what organisations must do to protect themselves in an AI-accelerated threat environment.

What does it mean to lead when work moves through screens — and when AI becomes part of how we sense, decide, and connect? Ebba Heselius introduces the concept of digitally embodied leadership: the intuitive, deeply human side of leadership that changes as AI enters our organisations. Her core message: the future is not AI replacing humans, but a new kind of hybrid intelligence where the human is the anchor.

You can make any talk or presentation more impactful and more memorable by using the same storytelling techniques used by movie screenwriters, novelists and expert speakers. In this ten-minute talk speaking expert Andrew Hennigan will share some practical methods that anyone can start applying from today. He will explain how you can find true stories that are unknown to your audience and also reveal why AI can sometimes be a great help, but when the human touch is the best way to unlock the full power of storytelling.

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Charlie Caper returns to the stage for another performance — weaving technology, illusion, and human connection in a way that only he can.

Ola Ahlvarsson closes SIME 2026 with the launch of his new book Happy Business — about happy companies, why a happy you performs better, and why that is a skill you can learn. A fitting close to a day that has explored how AI and humanity can build the future together.