A one-day enterprise AI conference on 16 November 2026 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, themed "Agents at Work", now in its fifth edition and organised by 100mentors.
The 5th GenAI Summit is an annual, in-person, single-day conference in Athens on generative AI agents in enterprise production. The 2026 theme is "Agents at Work": the organiser says the awareness and experimentation phases are largely over and companies now need clarity on deployment, ROI and governance, with production-ready AI systems as the aim. It describes itself as the largest GenAI event in Southeast Europe and as built by practitioners who ship AI products (organiser claims).
Monday 16 November 2026, from 9:00 AM. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), Leoforos Andrea Siggrou 364, 176 74 Kallithea, Athens, Greece. The program runs from morning to evening across four stages.
The official FAQ says the summit is organised by 100mentors, an Athens-based company, and gives info@genaisummitseeurope.com as contact. The About page presents an organising team of 23 researchers, founders and technologists, including Elena Chatziathanasiadou (UC Berkeley, People at OpenAI), Elena Pittarokoili (OpenAI), Emmanouil Koukoumidis (CEO, Oumi) and Yiorgos Nikoletakis (CEO, 100mentors). The earlier fiche called the organiser a volunteer collective with no legal entity; the FAQ now names one.
The organiser claims 5,000+ attendees, 1,200+ companies and 200+ speakers for the edition, and says 1,000+ of the attendees are C-suite participants from across EMEA (organiser figures, unaudited). It describes enterprise leaders, practitioners, engineering leaders and AI strategists from 20+ countries, within what it calls a 12-nation corridor that can reach Athens in under two hours. The venue capacity of 6,000 in the research record is unconfirmed (unverifiable information).
The theme moves to agents in production. Eleven verticals are being curated, with Agentic Commerce marked new for 2026. Two C-suite discussions, "Agents at Work: The Decision" and "Agents at Work: The Organisation", are announced. A Career Fair titled "Women Back to Work" and a podcast with a second season run alongside. The speaker line-up still shows "Stay tuned for more speakers announcements". Ticket tiers are published and the summit will not be livestreamed.
Keynotes, practitioner sessions, panels and networking across four stages in one day, with themes of generative AI, AI agents, enterprise AI deployment, AI governance and production-ready AI systems. The organiser's key issues are from pilot to payroll, the new division of labour, trust as infrastructure (evaluation, observability, permissioning), agents talking to agents, and the economics of cost per task. Eleven verticals: Agentic Commerce; Cybersecurity and Digital Trust; Manufacturing and Industrial Operations; Shipping and Logistics; Financial Services and Fintech; People, Talent and the Future of Work; Marketing, Creative and Customer Experience; Health, Pharma and Life Sciences; Energy and Utilities; Public Sector, Legal and Governance; Tourism and Hospitality. A session-by-session timetable is not published on the pages read.
Published roster on the official home page as of 16 October 2026 (32 names; more to be announced):
Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI), Valerie Focke (OpenAI) and Konstantina Christakopoulou (Google DeepMind), held in the research record as 2026 speakers, appear on the official site under "GenAI Summit 4 speakers" and are therefore not part of the 2026 roster.
Keynotes, practitioner sessions and panels on four stages in one day, two C-suite discussions, networking, hands-on demos in earlier editions (not confirmed for 2026), a Career Fair and a podcast. The organiser describes the day as "a working session", not a stage.
The Career Fair, "Women Back to Work", is a hiring event connecting companies with women re-entering the workforce, trained in generative AI through the organiser's programme; the organiser quotes 87% overall value rated by participating companies, 4 interviews per candidate, 4.5/5 participant rating and 71% hiring intent (organiser figures from earlier cycles). The GenAI Summit Podcast runs a second season. A 36-hour hackathon on 14 and 15 November 2026 with finals on 16 November and an 8,500 EUR prize pool is described in a third-party organiser post (unverifiable information).
Prices in euros per ticket on the official registration page on 16 October 2026, each plus a 2.50 EUR fee. Super Early Bird 165 EUR, registration closed (it ran 22 June to 31 August 2026 at 50% off). Early Bird 247.50 EUR, registration closed (1 September to 16 October 2026 at 25% off; the home page banner still advertised it on 16 October). Standard Ticket 330 EUR, open. Tickets are sold through the Eventora registration site. The event database had recorded pricing as undisclosed.
There is no open call. The organiser says the speaker program is curated by its organising team, focusing on practitioners with real, deployable AI experience. Interested people send a request through the Get Involved form with a brief description of their role and the work they would like to present. For a team-level route, an "AI-First Teams" offer invites teams to present their programme impact on the Summit stage.
Sponsorship tiers are offered through the Get Involved form: the site shows Diamond, Platinum and Gold tiers, a Principal Partner and AI agent partners. Tier prices are not published. The organiser says sponsors reach 5,000+ attendees including 1,000+ C-suite participants from across EMEA (organiser figures). No exhibition floor is described for 2026 in the pages read.
The official home page shows sponsor logos under Diamond, Platinum and Gold, but the logo images carry no readable names, so a tier by tier list cannot be established. Legible items: the Principal Partner logo file reads Piraeus, and a podcast episode is a conversation with Piraeus and Accenture (unverifiable information as sponsor status). Event partners by logo label: Eventora (ticketing and registration), Wave Event Production (event architect), Relevance Digital (growth partner). The research record lists Google, OpenAI, Mistral AI, Lenovo and EPAM Systems as sponsors; none of these is confirmed for 2026 on the official page, though EPAM speakers do appear on the 2026 roster.
The organiser claims 1,200+ companies without a breakdown by sector; the database tags it for technology, AI and machine learning, enterprise software, government, tourism, legal, finance and manufacturing. The 2026 roster mixes global AI and cloud vendors (OpenAI, Databricks, ElevenLabs, Kyndryl, EPAM), Greek and regional corporates (Viohalco, AUSTRIACARD, Piraeus as principal partner), professional services and law firms (Deloitte, KBVL, Bernitsas) and startups and investors. The previous fiche's reference to tourism, government and manufacturing matches the verticals now listed.
Press accreditation is handled separately from ticketing: write to info@genaisummitseeurope.com with your outlet name, role and a brief note on intended coverage, and the team follows up.
None independent verified for the 2026 edition. The organiser publishes its own podcast, a "Rewind" highlights video for the 4th and 3rd editions and speaker videos on its YouTube channel. A Greek university department news item describes an academic partnership with the 4th edition.
Mostly organiser-originated. The podcast, rewinds and videos are produced by the organiser, and the 5,000+, 1,200+ and 200+ figures on the site are self-reported. No official media partner is on record in the event database.
Attendees wanting a multi-day deep-dive workshop programme: it is one day. Anyone needing a livestream: the organiser says it will not be livestreamed, though most speaker videos are published afterwards. Buyers who want a vendor exhibition floor: none is described. Researchers wanting academic papers: speakers are curated for deployable practitioner experience. Anyone needing a refund: tickets are non-refundable.
It is a November event in Athens positioned for enterprise AI adoption in Southeast Europe and the surrounding region. The organiser's own claim is that it is the largest GenAI event in Southeast Europe. No sourced comparison with other European AI conferences is available.
None listed. The summit is annual and Athens-based: the official site has rewind pages for the 3rd and 4th editions and a ticketing page for the 5th, all at the same site. Editions elsewhere are not mentioned.
English. The official FAQ says the summit is conducted entirely in English. The research record's mention of Greek is not supported by the FAQ.
No livestream: the official FAQ says the 2026 summit will not be livestreamed. The majority of speaker videos are to be published afterwards on the summit's YouTube channel, as the 2025 presentations were.
Tickets are non-refundable. A ticket can be transferred to another person at no extra cost if the transfer is requested at least 14 days before the event, which is by 2 November 2026, by writing to info@genaisummitseeurope.com with the order details and the transferee's name and email. No refunds are given for cancellations, no-shows or circumstances outside the organiser's control, including travel disruption.
Not publicly disclosed. The official FAQ and the venue and event rules cover admission, security and conduct but no accessibility measures; accessibility information for the venue is published by the venue itself at snfcc.org, which was not checked.
The centre is at Syngrou Avenue 364, Kallithea, reachable by metro with a dedicated shuttle bus from Syggrou Fix metro station, by taxi or by car. Parking is on site but fills quickly on the day. Full directions are on the venue's website, snfcc.org. Coffee, water and refreshments are free all day and a light finger food buffet lunch is provided.
Because it brings one regional audience, a head of government, global model and cloud vendors, and local corporates such as Viohalco and AUSTRIACARD, into one day on a single question: how agents get from pilot to the critical path. The roster of 32 named speakers and eleven curated verticals gives a buyer in the region more to act on than a general AI showcase would.
The 5,000+ attendees, 1,200+ companies and 200+ speakers are the organiser's own claims, only 32 speakers are named so far, and the research record mixed in names from the 2025 edition. The ticket structure is easier to check: three published prices, 165, 247.50 and 330 EUR, with the cheapest two already closed.
Official site: https://www.genaisummitseeurope.com/, which responds and matches the venue, dates and organiser website in the database. Registration: register.genaisummitseeurope.com. FAQ: genaisummitseeurope.com/faqs. Contact: info@genaisummitseeurope.com. Social accounts: LinkedIn showcase page gr.linkedin.com/showcase/genai-summit, YouTube channel youtube.com/@GenAISummit and Instagram @genaisummit. The event database also lists the organiser as GenAI Summit SE Europe, which is the brand of the site, not a legal entity.