FULL AGENDA
4 Days · 6 Tracks
4 Simultaneous Venues
Six stages running in parallel. Choose your track. Each column is a different world.
● C-Level Forum● AI&TECH● SMEs● Industry● Impact● International
Six stages running in parallel. Choose your track. Each column is a different world.
Attendee check-in in the gardens of the Palacio de la Magdalena. Coffee with views of the Cantabrian Sea. The first visual impact only Santander can deliver.
Institutional opening ceremony of FoundAItion 2027. Words from the Government of Cantabria, the Mayor of Santander, the Rector of the UC and the Founder of AIRES.
The harness —tools, memory, the loop, verification and guardrails around the model— now matters as much as the model itself. A good harness makes a mid-tier model production-ready; a bad one makes even a frontier model unreliable. From prompts to harnesses in four years.
The frontier born in 2026: an orchestration layer above the harness. The system starts itself on a timer, spawns assistants when needed and supplies work to itself, keeping many agents running continuously. Prompt → Context → Harness → Loop.
80.9% of teams already deploy agents, but only 31% do so in hardened, governed environments. The five attack vectors —prompt injection, tool over-permissioning, data exfiltration, identity spoofing and data poisoning— and how to defend: Zero Trust, runtime guardrails and human-in-the-loop circuit breakers.
China hits its inflection point in Q2 2026: GLM-5 (Zhipu), Qwen3-Max (Alibaba), Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot) and DeepSeek V4 hold four of the top five open-weight spots. Kimi K2.6 was the first open-weight model to beat GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro; Qwen3-Max leads Arena-Hard (90.5) with 262K context. What it means for your stack and your sovereignty.
73% of companies overshoot their AI cost projections. FinOps adoption climbs from 31% to 63% toward 98%. CDOs managing $83B in annual cloud spend share how they regain control.
From provisional political agreement to deferred timelines: Article 5 prohibitions, the 7%-of-turnover penalty ceiling and the real state of enforcement across member states.
Three SME CEOs and CEOE-CEPYME representatives share real cases. Budgets between 10K and 100K. What works, what does not and how to measure it.
The real state of AI in Spanish manufacturing. Where it is deployed, what ROI it generates and what barriers slow adoption in the industrial sector.
Academics and NGOs challenge the narrative of frictionless progress and demand transparency on the social consequences of enterprise AI.
Agentic tasks consume 5–30x more tokens than chatbots, pushing inference from 55% to 65% of AI spend. James Hartley on what autonomous agents really cost and how to budget for them.
The opening keynote of FoundAItion 2027. The AI Act as catalyst or brake on European innovation. Digital sovereignty and competitive advantage in the new regulatory framework.
A DeepMind researcher presents the real state of the art: what the frontier labs know that companies will take 2 years to understand.
Lunch for all attendees. Informal networking between sessions. The Startup Fair open.
The CDOs of Santander, BBVA and Telefónica share their production AI architectures. What scales and what does not.
Enterprise API pricing fell 67% year-over-year, from $18.40 to $6.07 per million tokens. What unit-cost deflation means for your architecture, roadmap and AI budget.
Mercadona in predictive logistics, Mapfre in automated underwriting, CaixaBank in AI customer service. Real cases with a tight budget.
The major energy companies present their AI cases. Predictive maintenance, digital twins and power grid optimization at real scale.
The most uncomfortable track of the summit. Academics and regulators question the social impact of AI and demand transparency on its consequences.
Ramp's Series F valuation and metrics, cost-efficiency gaps from tiered model routing and the 38% open-source/open-weight adoption share. Real frameworks for AI ROI in 2027.
Private session on the real AI talent market. Real salaries, retention strategies and how European companies compete with Silicon Valley.
Hands-on red-teaming workshop for production AI systems. Techniques used by Google's safety teams. Live demos.
Live demo of the most powerful no-code tools: Zapier AI, Make, n8n and Microsoft Copilot compared. Deployments in under a week.
Three infrastructure companies share how they deployed digital twins on real timelines. Architectures, costs and measurable results.
The University of Cantabria, UIMP and representatives from the Ministry of Education debate the future of education with AI. Personalization, equity and pedagogical sovereignty.
OVHcloud financials and restructuring, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud isolation model and Microsoft France testimony on data-access guarantees. Real alternatives to US hyperscalers. In English.
The first grand evening of FoundAItion 2027. Signature northern cuisine. DJ set. Terrace overlooking the bay. Speakers and VIPs.
Register now and choose your track. Early Bird active until January 2027.