IDC AI Leadership Summit Spain

10 Jun 2027 Madrid, Spain
IDC AI Leadership Summit Spain

IDC AI Leadership Summit Spain

Beyond AI Transformation

Reimagining Leadership, Innovation, and Value Creation in the Enterprise

10 Jun 2027 Madrid, Spain

The AI Leadership Summit 2027 is IDC’s premier event for the senior Spanish executives shaping AI-fueled enterprise strategy across Spain. This full-day event delivers high-impact insights and actionable strategies focused on the leadership decisions that determine AI value in Spain: scaling AI responsibly under the EU AI Act, governing agentic systems aligned with GDPR, navigating digital sovereignty and regulation, and translating AI investment into measurable business outcomes

What You'll Learn

Spanish leaders need a clear framework to govern AI, close the adoption gap and turn Spain’s first-mover regulatory advantage into competitive edge.

The AI Leadership Summit Spain is built for the executives at the centre of that work. What you will take away:

  • How to build a governance model that turns EU AI Act and GDPR compliance into competitive advantage.​
  • How to scale AI across business functions with use cases that have moved beyond the pilot trap into measurable impact.​
  • How to place the right bets on agentic and sovereign AI: where to invest in Europe, and where to hold.​
  • How to measure your AI maturity against clear global benchmarks.

IDC Analysts

Key Themes

Board-Led AI Strategies

Communicating AI’s potential and securing the resources to deliver it.

Innovation & Productivity

Balancing new revenue creation with substantial revenue-per-employee gains

Organizational Transformation in the AI Era

Redesigning European workforce models as AI agents reshape the Europe organizations’ work strategies.

The Agentic Enterprise

Advancing from AI-assisted to increasingly autonomous operations while meeting data privacy and auditability standards.

Enterprise Architecture for the AI Era

Rebuilding the tech stack around AI with business architecture as the blueprint.

AI-Enabled Operating Models

Redesigning enterprise workflows for AI-enabled execution under composite AI and agentic models.

Trustworthy AI Building

Building scalable governance, oversight and transparency into enterprise AI systems.

Measuring AI ROI at Enterprise Scale

Reshaping how productivity is measured across every business function.

By 2028

Every Global 100 firm will spend at least $2 million annually on unified AI governance, making governance a permanent and material line item on the enterprise P&L.

AI Adoption in Spain

Which of the following are the most important factors driving AI adoption in your organization?

In Spain, data growth is the dominant driver of AI adoption (56%), well ahead of technology availability (36%) and competitive pressure (34%).

Executive mandates rank lowest at 18%, suggesting AI investment in Spanish organizations is being pulled by operational necessity rather than top-down directive.

 

IDC Survey: AI Platforms & Governance, Spain, N=50

Speakers

Venue

Hotel Mandarín Oriental Ritz Madrid

Plaza de la Lealtad, 5, 28014, Madrid

Luxury Belle Époque palace in the city’s famed Golden Triangle of Art. With over a century of history, it epitomises style and elegance.

Why Attend

Set the AI Strategy

Frame AI as a board-level capability, not an IT side project.

Govern with Discipline

Operationalize compliance, ethics and cost control as AI scales.

Quantify the Value

Translate AI investment into measurable revenue-per-employee gains.

Lead the Change

Build the talent, culture and operating model for an AI-Fueled Enterprise.

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