Future of Work Summit

Web Summit Lisbon ・ November 9-12, 2026

What "work" will look like in an AI world

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Meet the industry leaders who joined us

Brad Smith

President & VC
Microsoft

Bet Taylor

Co-CEO
Salesforce

Sarah Franklin

CEO
Lattice

Scott Farquhar

Co-founder & CEO
Atlassian

Melissa Selcher

CMO
Linkedin

Arvind Jain

CEO
Glean

Eric Mosley

Founder & CEO
Workhuman

Joleen Liang

Co-founder & CEO
Squirrel Ai Learning

Daniel Yanisse

Co-founder & CEO
Checkr

Maria Black

CEO & President
ADP

Headlined by industry-leading organisations

The companies driving innovation across global industries.

The evolution of work, talent, and corporate culture

Will it be radical abundance, or a total system shock? Predictions about the future of work are plentiful, but an LLM is not a crystal ball. Here we bring together world-class experts and industry firebrands to separate the signal from the noise, and discern what the workplace of tomorrow will actually look like.

Agents of change

Redefining the currency of labour

Managing the mercenary economy

The architecture of adaptation: remaking the social fabric.

Exploring the economic collision between humans and agents.
When technical execution costs zero, what makes human effort irreplaceable?

Agents of change

Redefining the currency of labour

Managing the mercenary economy

The architecture of adaptation: remaking the social fabric.

Traditional workplace models no longer address our always-on world.
How do we demonstrate, capture, and reward the immense but changing value that people are bringing to the modern workplace?

Agents of change

Redefining the currency of labour

Managing the mercenary economy

The architecture of adaptation: remaking the social fabric.

As institutional loyalty gives way to decentralised, fractional networks and elite “mercenary" talent, enterprise operations must fundamentally adapt.
This track investigates the new infrastructure of the neo-workplace.

Agents of change

Redefining the currency of labour

Managing the mercenary economy

The architecture of adaptation: remaking the social fabric.

As we redefine "work", how will society manage the social and financial impacts? This track confronts our shifting economic landscape, exploring how communities, societies, and governments must adapt.

Highlights from our events

Insights from the leaders, innovators, and experts transforming global industries.

AI agents, your new co-workers

As AI evolved from a tool to a teammate, a new kind of digital workforce emerged - intelligent agents that could analyse, communicate, and even collaborate. In this session, the CEOs of Glean, Lattice, and DeepL explored how AI agents were transforming the way we work - from knowledge sharing and productivity to communication and management.

AI agents

Digital workforce

Superpowered, not superseded: the human rhythm of AI

As an early AI pioneer, Grammarly reinvented itself by rebranding as Superhuman and expanding into a full productivity suite. In this session, Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra shared an inside look at the company’s evolution and discussed how to build AI that fits naturally into everyday workflows.

Rebranding

The new productivity

Work is being reshaped at an unprecedented pace. This session examined how AI is accelerating workforce transformation, expanding the boundaries of productivity and creativity while redefining roles, workflows, and trust.

AI workforce

Creativity

Smarter beauty: the Future of data & AI for Luxury brands

At LVMH Beauty, over 10 prestigious perfume, cosmetics, and skincare Maisons are harnessing the power of data and AI to transform their businesses. This session offered an exclusive look at their journey, revealing concrete examples of how emerging technologies are being implemented across the company.

Data & machine learning

Future of Work Summit

What "work" will look like in an AI world

Meet the industry leaders who joined us

Headlined by industry-leading organisations

The evolution of work, talent, and corporate culture

Agents of change

Redefining the currency of labour

Managing the mercenary economy

Highlights from our events

AI agents, your new co-workers

Superpowered, not superseded: the human rhythm of AI

The new productivity

Smarter beauty: the Future of data & AI for Luxury brands

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