AI agents and the future of work
Agents and copilots that augment people, explainable to the people who use them and accountable for what they decide.
Three days and a residency
Three days of labs, circles, deals and training, then a Residency Programme in the host city.
Vision and alignment
The host city opens the summit and the venue becomes a living lab.
Times to be announced
Host city welcome and charter announcement
Opening conversation: from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0, with people, AI and the planet as co-workers
No-slides provocations and moderated debate
Breakout circles across the six tracks
Living-lab tours and a digital twin sprint
Reverse pitches: cities and companies state their needs
Evening reception
Build, scale and commit
Proofs, deals and public commitments.
Times to be announced
Lightning talks: build, test, scale
Deep-dive labs and bootcamps in parallel
Impact deal room with pre-booked 1:1 meetings
Capital and grants forum
i5Awards finals
CEOs and mayors roundtable: measurable actions for the next 12 months
Host city charter signing and partner agreements
Training and site visits
Separate registrationTimes to be announced
Micro-credential training and i5Certification exams.
Guided visits to the host city’s green transition (energy and buildings, port and logistics, circular food, transition planning).
Residency Programme in the Host City
Companies and researchers stay on to turn agreements into local research and development.
Explore the Residency Programme →Technology partnership talks with local companies and institutions
Joint R&D and pilot projects with the host city
Matchmaking with local SMEs, universities and investors
Progress reviewed at the next edition
One main forum, six tracks
Human-centric industry in the age of AI
Robotics and physical AI
Collaborative, humanoid and autonomous robots working safely alongside people in factories, ports and cities.
Energy, climate tech and the circular economy
Clean energy, efficient production and circular materials, with impact measured and verified.
Digital twins, data and resilient supply chains
Twins, data spaces and secure infrastructure that keep value chains running through disruption.
Industry focuses across all tracks
- Advanced manufacturing
- Energy and buildings
- Ports, logistics and mobility
- Food, agriculture and bioeconomy
- Health and life sciences
- Finance, tokenisation and capital markets
- AI infrastructure: data centres, compute and edge
- One-person companies (OPCs) and AI-native businesses
- Forward-deployed engineering (FDE) and AI integration
- Public services and govtech
- Creative and cultural industries
- Skills and education
Programme frameworkDraft
A draft framework for the first edition. Session topics and speakers will be shaped through i5Dialogues 2027 and confirmed with the host city. The programme will be refined in 2027 with the host city’s preferences.
Arrival
Afternoon and evening
Registration opens; expo and start-up area preview
Welcome reception hosted by the host city
Vision and alignment
Setting the agenda for the first edition
Registration; networking breakfast
Opening plenary: host city welcome, convenor’s address “Scale what matters”, opening keynote, and launch of the Forum’s position insights on the five i5Benchmark dimensions
Break
Track sessions, round 1 (six parallel rooms)
Lunch (every meal shows its estimated carbon and water footprint)
Track sessions, round 2
In parallel: Research sessions (accepted papers)
Break
City and Region Leaders’ Roundtable
In parallel: Impact deal room opens
In parallel: Start-up and SME showcase
Day 1 wrap-up: three things we learned
Forum dinner with the host city’s cultural programme
Build, scale and commit
From proof to public commitments
Networking breakfast
Plenary: Human-centric industry in the age of AI (keynote and cross-track panel)
Break
Track sessions, round 3: cross-track sessions by industry focus
Lunch
i5Awards finalists present live, with the independent jury
In parallel: Impact deal room, second block
In parallel: Research sessions, second block
Break
Commitments session: cities and companies announce trackable commitments on the five dimensions, reviewed at the next edition
Closing plenary: i5Awards ceremony, Residency Programme launch, announcement of the next host city, closing address
Farewell reception
Training and site visits
Learning from the host city
Training, two streams: Industry 5.0 for cities and regions · Industry 5.0 for companies
Lunch
Host city site visits: factories, logistics, research labs, public services and urban pilots
Residency kick-off briefing
Residency Programme
The weeks after the Forum
Companies and researchers stay on in the host city for co-development with local partners, tailored to the host city’s capacity. Outcomes are reported at the next i5Dialogues and the next Forum edition.
Explore the Residency Programme →Afternoon and evening
Registration opens; expo and start-up area preview
Welcome reception hosted by the host city
Setting the agenda for the first edition
Registration; networking breakfast
Opening plenary: host city welcome, convenor’s address “Scale what matters”, opening keynote, and launch of the Forum’s position insights on the five i5Benchmark dimensions
Break
Track sessions, round 1 (six parallel rooms)
Lunch (every meal shows its estimated carbon and water footprint)
Track sessions, round 2
In parallel: Research sessions (accepted papers)
Break
City and Region Leaders’ Roundtable
In parallel: Impact deal room opens
In parallel: Start-up and SME showcase
Day 1 wrap-up: three things we learned
Forum dinner with the host city’s cultural programme
From proof to public commitments
Networking breakfast
Plenary: Human-centric industry in the age of AI (keynote and cross-track panel)
Break
Track sessions, round 3: cross-track sessions by industry focus
Lunch
i5Awards finalists present live, with the independent jury
In parallel: Impact deal room, second block
In parallel: Research sessions, second block
Break
Commitments session: cities and companies announce trackable commitments on the five dimensions, reviewed at the next edition
Closing plenary: i5Awards ceremony, Residency Programme launch, announcement of the next host city, closing address
Farewell reception
Learning from the host city
Training, two streams: Industry 5.0 for cities and regions · Industry 5.0 for companies
Lunch
Host city site visits: factories, logistics, research labs, public services and urban pilots
Residency kick-off briefing
The weeks after the Forum
Companies and researchers stay on in the host city for co-development with local partners, tailored to the host city’s capacity. Outcomes are reported at the next i5Dialogues and the next Forum edition.
Explore the Residency Programme →Running throughout
- Expo and start-up area, Day 0 to Day 2
- Real-time footprint dashboard; minimising food waste; surplus food donated locally
- Press and media programme
Labs, sandboxes and bootcamps
Hands-on formats where participants build, test and decide, instead of only listening.
- Impact deal room
- Digital twin sandbox
- Tokenisation bootcamp
- Energy transition lab
- Resilience war-game
- Interoperability plugfest
- Food Futures Lab
- Reverse pitches
- Audit in a day
- Student challenge
- Nature credits simulation
- Edge AI bootcamp
- AI agent sandbox
- Robot safety cell
- FDE sprint
Be there from the start.
Programme news, host city updates and the call for contributions, a few times a year.