Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers senior enterprise technology leaders from across Europe around a single theme: execution.
Structurally, TechEx is eight co-located events under one pass, spanning AI and Big Data, Cyber Security and Cloud, Digital Transformation, Intelligent Automation, IoT Tech, Edge Computing, Data Centres, and a new Physical AI Expo.
The Physical AI track is the notable addition this year, reflecting the move of machine learning off the screen and into robotics, autonomous systems, and sensor-driven environments. One ticket covers all eight, which fits how tightly these areas overlap in practice: an AI deployment is also a data problem, a security problem, and eventually a question of where the compute sits.
The agenda leans on people who have shipped something, with practitioner-led sessions, technical case studies, and architecture discussions from teams running real deployments. Organisers expect more than 8,000 professionals and over 200 speakers from companies including Coca-Cola, Citi, Google, Unilever, IKEA, Booking.com, Nestlé, Lloyds Banking Group, ING, Santander, Michelin, and Heineken.
