About this event
Talent Arena 2026 in Barcelona brings AI, ethics and future-ready skills to the stage March 3–5 with talks, hands-on sessions and a data challenge.
Why attend
- Get a clear view of where we stand on the AI curve, including talks like Road to AGI: A Road with Curves and The future of Software Development in the age of AI
- Learn practical approaches to deploying agentic AI systems, tool adoption, and responsible engineering, with sessions from Google, Huawei, Ocado, Bayer and more
- Participate in hands-on workshops and immersive demos that connect theory to real-world practice, including browser-based and web platform workshops
- See concrete business value stories: AI implementations that align people, processes and ownership models (DSO) and real data challenges from luxury brands and global teams
What to expect
- A multi-track conference agenda packed with keynote-style talks, technical deep-dives and strategic case studies
- Sessions covering agentic systems, small language models, in-context learning, and safe deployment of autonomous AI
- Panels and live demonstrations illustrating how AI is shaping software development, supply chain, finance and IT security
- Interactive experiences such as data challenges (e.g., Decoding Luxury: The LVMH Data Challenge x Albert School) and hands-on web/tech workshops
Sample sessions and topics (as featured on the agenda)
- AI Communicator on YouTube: emerging narratives and public understanding of AI progress
- Road to AGI: A Road with Curves: where we are on the AI progress curve and what breakthroughs remain
- The future of Software Development in the age of AI: smarter tools, platform engineering, and agentic solutions
- Transforming S2P through AI and Emerging Technologies: Bayer case studies on people, processes and ownership models (DSO)
- Efficient Intelligence: Agentic Systems Without Heavy GPUs or Custom Training: practical orchestration of Small Language Models and In-Context Learning
- Choosing the tools is just the First Step: AI adoption at Ocado: tool selection, enablement, and impact measurement
- Decoding Luxury: The LVMH Data Challenge x Albert School: real datasets, real decisions, real speed
- Life in a Tab: The Browser Ate the Desktop: a hands-on workshop on the Web as a Platform in 2026
- Demystifying Intelligence in AI Agents: foundations, transformers, model internals, and building responsible agents in Python
- When 3rd-Parties Invade Your Domain: defending your domain amid evolving AI mo
