Where is the moat?
How can businesses protect themselves from AI-powered competitors? What is a long-term advantage in the AI era? Where to build and where to invest?
Threshold 2026: Are Humans Still in the Loop?
November 9th Lisbon — an opening Web Summit side event
Threshold 2026: Are Humans Still in the Loop? is our flagship gathering, bringing together leading decision-makers, from VCs and founders of frontier AI companies to Vatican and regulatory officials, to explore how we should structure the emerging AI-centered economy.
The question is no longer simply, “What can AI do?” It is now, “What remains uniquely human?”
As AI reshapes the way we live, how should we redesign our economy and society, and rethink what it means to be human, so that this transformation benefits society rather than destabilizes it?
Three tracks
How to stay human in AI age?
Questions of layoffs, the resettlement of workers losing their jobs, and the ethics of AI prevail in the narrative more than in previous technological shifts.
Who is in charge?
How will the agentic internet run? How shall we deal with autonomous and more intelligent systems? Are we still in charge, or is self-building AI unstoppable?
Threshold 2026 agenda
VC-founders breakfast
An intimate morning for the people shaping the future of AI and venture.
Conference: Are Humans Still in the Loop?
Keynotes, panels and debates on agency, ethics and the economy ahead.
Growth stage demo day
Frontier companies share what they are building and why it matters.
Evening VC-Founders reception
Conversations that continue long after the last talk.
