A first-edition Czech AI conference on enterprise adoption: seven full-day workshops on day one, three parallel stages on day two.
AI Horizons Prague is a two-day business and technology conference on artificial intelligence adoption, held at Cubex Centre Prague and organised by the Czech enterprise software company Seyfor. The 2026 edition, the last one held, took place on 23 and 24 September 2026 and was the inaugural edition: no earlier edition was documented by the organiser or the venue. As of 26 October 2026 the organiser had not announced a next edition. Day one, branded Tech Precons, ran seven parallel full-day workshops. Day two, branded Business Day, split into three stages named Business, Tech and Public. The programme was delivered primarily in Czech, with Slovak and English sessions, and was aimed at organisations deciding how to put AI into production rather than at a research audience.
Day one was not a lecture track. Seven workshops ran in parallel from 09:00 to 17:00, each capped at roughly 50 participants, which put a hard ceiling of about 350 people on the first day. Registration for day one was bundled: the workshops were reachable only through the two-day ticket, so day one could not be bought on its own.
The seven sessions published by the organiser were:
The spread is deliberate: two sessions are vendor-tool training (Gemini, Copilot), two are agent-centric, one is governance and operations, and one is a simulation exercise for enterprise teams. A practitioner picked one and stayed with it all day.
The Business Day divided into three parallel stages. The Business stage covered investment decisions and measurable return on AI programmes. The Tech stage covered architecture, operations and the engineering of putting models into service. The Public stage covered public-sector adoption, regulation and risk, which in a Czech and wider Central European context meant EU AI Act obligations arriving at the same time as first production deployments.
That third stage is the structural choice that separates this event from a general developer conference. Putting public administration on equal footing with business and engineering, rather than treating policy as a single compliance panel, reflects an audience where procurement officers and government technologists sit in the same room as architects. The conference positions itself around implementation, investment and regulation instead of general inspiration content.
The organiser markets the event as having more than 30 speakers. The published speaker page listed 67 names as of 2 September 2026, across Business Day sessions, precons and moderator roles, so the marketing figure understated the programme as published.
Microsoft is the most heavily represented vendor, with Dalibor Kačmář (National Technology Officer), Tomáš Kubica (Principal Cloud Advocate), Harald Wentein (EMEA Director for Low Code AI and Agents), Sara Lagerquist and Amanda Sterner. Google Cloud is represented by Michal Minařík and by Vladimír Hruban as a moderator, and AWS by Jiří Svenšvěrák from its public sector team. On the buyer side, Michal Kraus of Česká spořitelna was listed to speak on customer-facing AI, and Lukáš Kačena was listed as the Czech Government AI Commissioner. The rest of the roster was drawn from Czech and Slovak AI firms, consultancies and named end-user organisations in healthcare, telecoms, automotive and legal services.
The event is run by Seyfor, a. s., registered in Brno at Drobného 49 under company number 01572377 and filed as B 7072 at the Regional Court in Brno. Seyfor is one of the larger Czech enterprise software groups, selling business systems to mid-market and large companies across Central Europe, and the conference gives it a direct channel to that buyer base. The organiser FAQ also names DataBrothers alongside Seyfor on the organisational and expert side, while positioning the event itself as open and cross-industry rather than a single-vendor user conference.
That framing matters when reading the programme. A conference owned by a software vendor and staffed heavily with Microsoft, Google and AWS speakers carries an obvious commercial pull, and the counterweight here is the named end-user and public-sector participation rather than any formal editorial independence. Buyers should read the Tech stage in particular as partly a shop window.
No coverage of AI Horizons Prague 2026 from a named independent news outlet was found as of this verification. Searches across Czech business and technology media, including Hospodářské noviny, Lupa.cz, CzechCrunch, E15, SystemOnline and Computerworld, returned coverage of other Czech AI conferences but nothing attributable to this event. The organiser does not publish press accreditation figures or an accredited-journalist count, and none is stated here.
Two non-press mentions do exist and should not be mistaken for coverage. The first is the venue's own listing and its 2026 conference round-up on cubexcentrum.cz, which is host marketing for an event booked into the building. The second is a post on joelcomm.com framing Prague as a rising AI venue and referencing the conference; that site is the personal and promotional platform of speaker and speaking-services marketer Joel Comm, and the piece carries a booking call to action, so it is branded content rather than journalism. Beyond those, the event appears only on aggregator listings such as ainave.com and aiakce.cz.
An absent press record is unremarkable for a first edition. Czech business media do cover this category, with Hospodářské noviny running its own Planeta AI conference, so the test of press interest for AI Horizons would be a later edition, if the organiser announces one.
Yes. The 2026 event, held on 23 and 24 September 2026, was the inaugural edition. Neither the organiser nor Cubex Centre Prague documents an earlier edition, and the venue describes it as a newly established two-day international event. Any claim that it is a long-running annual fixture is unsupported.
The stated audience was people accountable for AI decisions rather than observers: enterprise architects, CTOs and AI programme leads, alongside business decision-makers weighing investment, and public administration staff dealing with regulation and procurement. The three-stage split on day two mapped directly onto those three groups, and the day-one workshops skewed towards hands-on practitioners.
The organiser stated that the 2026 programme ran primarily in Czech, with selected sessions and international speakers presenting in English. Day-one workshops carried per-session language labels covering Czech, Slovak and English: of the seven, one was delivered in English, one in Slovak, one in Czech and Slovak, and four in Czech. A non-Czech speaker would have needed to check labels session by session before buying.
AI Horizons Prague 2026 was a first-edition event, and the honest read is that it was a well-assembled programme with no track record behind it. What it has going for it is specificity: seven capped, full-day workshops instead of a corridor of 40-minute talks, and a Public stage that treats regulation as a discipline rather than a compliance footnote. That combination is genuinely scarce in Central Europe, where AI Act obligations are landing on organisations at the same moment as their first production systems.
The reservations are equally clear. The event is owned by a software vendor selling into the same audience it convenes, the speaker roster leans hard on hyperscaler staff, and the programme is mostly in Czech, which caps its international reach whatever the marketing says about global perspectives. Attendance has never been disclosed and there is no prior edition to infer it from, so a buyer is committing on the strength of the line-up alone. For a Czech or Slovak practitioner, the day-one workshops were the defensible reason to go and the pricing was reasonable against that. For anyone travelling from outside the language zone, the better basis for a decision would be a later edition, if the organiser announces one, and a published attendance figure.
Tickets for the 2026 edition were sold through the official conference website. The prices below are those of the last edition, quoted excluding VAT; no prices for a later edition had been published as of 26 October 2026. The lower figures were early-bird rates, still displayed as of 2 September 2026 with no published expiry date.
| Ticket | Standard | Early bird |
|---|---|---|
| 2-day: Tech Precons and Business Day | 12,900 CZK | 9,900 CZK |
| 1-day: Business Day only (24 September) | 4,900 CZK | 3,900 CZK |
| Team, 5 tickets | 64,500 CZK | 49,900 CZK |
| Company, 10 tickets | 129,000 CZK | 87,900 CZK |
Tickets were transferable to another person within the same organisation if the original registrant could not attend. Because day-one workshop places were capped at about 50 per session, the two-day ticket was the constrained inventory rather than the Business Day pass.
The venue is Cubex Centre Prague, Na Strži 2097/63, 140 00 Prague 4 – Nusle, in the Pankrác business district south of the city centre. The venue states that Václav Havel Airport is about 30 minutes away and describes the site as having good transport connections, but it does not publish detailed public transport directions, so attendees should confirm the route with the venue or a journey planner rather than relying on a stated metro time.
Pankrác is a dense office district rather than a tourist quarter, which makes hotel supply business-oriented and generally easier to book at short notice than in the historic centre. For a 09:00 workshop start on day one, staying in the district rather than in Prague 1 removes a morning commute across the river.
No workshop-only ticket was offered. The organiser sold a two-day ticket covering Tech Precons and Business Day, and a one-day ticket covering Business Day only. There was no route to day one on its own.
No. No streaming or virtual option was announced by the organiser, and the FAQ did not mention one. The 2026 event was in-person only.
The organiser allowed a ticket to be transferred to another person within the registrant's organisation. No refund policy was published on the ticket or FAQ pages, so the purchase was effectively non-refundable, with transfer as the fallback.
For the wider developer and applied AI circuit, see the developer and AI vertical. Three fixtures in the same September 2026 window, listed here for comparison: Agent Conf 2026 in Warsaw on 17 and 18 September, which is the closest agent-engineering equivalent in Central Europe; Shift+Enter Summit 2026 in Budapest, covering adjacent regional ground; and AI Industrial Summit 2026 in Sofia for the industrial rather than enterprise-software angle. The full dated list is on the upcoming events index.
| Official website | https://aihorizonsprague.cz/en |
| Tickets and pricing | https://aihorizonsprague.cz/en/tickets |
| Speakers | https://aihorizonsprague.cz/speakers |
| Organiser FAQ | https://aihorizonsprague.cz/en/faqs |
| Venue listing | https://www.cubexcentrum.cz/en/event/ai-horizons-prague-2026/ |