Most large organizations already have AI budgets approved and transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually makes it to production. That gap between strategy and execution is the organizational idea behind TechEx Europe 2026Taking place on October 19 and 20 at the RAI Amsterdam, it brings together enterprise technology leaders from across Europe around a single theme: execution.
Structurally, TechEx consists of eight events shared in one step, covering AI and Big Data, cybersecurity and cloud, digital transformation, intelligent automation, IoT technology, edge computing, data centers and a new physical AI exhibition.
The physical AI track is this year’s notable addition, reflecting the movement of machine learning away from the screen and into robotics, autonomous systems, and sensor-controlled environments. One ticket covers all eight, which fits with how closely these areas overlap in practice: an AI implementation is also a data problem, a security problem, and eventually a question of where the computing is located.
The agenda is supported by people who have submitted something, with professional-led sessions, technical case studies, and architecture discussions from teams running real deployments. The organizers expect more than 8,000 professionals and more than 200 speakers from companies such as Coca-Cola, Citi, Google, Unilever, IKEA, Booking.com, Nestlé, Lloyds Banking Group, ING, Santander, Michelin and Heineken.
The audience is aimed at people who own results: CIO, CTO, CISO, chief data officers, enterprise architects, engineering heads, and transformation and artificial intelligence leaders. For them, the value is hearing how their peers solved the same problems, from modernizing a data platform to scaling automation across sites, with the details that vendor pitches tend to leave out.
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More than 200 solution providers will exhibit during the conference, including NTT DATA, Langley Holdings, Henkel Adhesive Technologies and Overhaul, giving attendees the opportunity to test platforms and implementation partners in their own environments.
The moment fits the moment. European businesses are navigating AI adoption, stricter cybersecurity requirements, the economics of where data and computing reside, and regulation that treats all of this as a governance issue rather than internal IT management.
Putting data, security and infrastructure leaders in the same building reflects how connected those issues have become. The strategies are mostly resolved; The hard part, as always, is getting them to work, and that’s the case TechEx is introducing for October.
- Dates: October 19-20, 2026
- Event: RAI Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Scale: Eight shared events, 8,000+ attendees, 200+ speakers, 200+ exhibitors
- For CIO, CTO, CISO, Chief Data Officers, Enterprise Architects, and Transformation and AI Leaders
- Record: Secure your pass today
