From Infrastructure to Execution: Building Germany's Role in the Agentic Economy

How do autonomous agents create business value? Who authorises their actions? And what does it take to move from experimentation to useful, reliable workflows?

Join founders, enterprise practitioners, builders and investors at the Agentic Economy Forum to explore these questions through practical examples, keynotes, panels and hands-on workshops.

The day combines three sequential Main Stage tracks with Build Arena workshops running alongside them. Choose between business and governance discussions on stage and practical sessions where you can build knowledge systems and workflows for your own work.

Who the Forum is for

We’re bringing together approximately 150 curated participants across four perspectives:

  • Build: founders, CTOs, engineers and product leaders developing agentic products and workflows.

  • Buy: executives and enterprise practitioners evaluating, purchasing or deploying agentic systems.

  • Fund: investors assessing the businesses, infrastructure and economics behind the agentic economy.

  • Govern: legal, policy and public-sector practitioners working on authority, accountability, compliance and AI sovereignty.

Already approved attendees include founders, executives, engineers and professionals working across product and operations, with affiliations including Siemens, BVG, TeamViewer, Seven Senders, Eventim and Xapo Bank.

These are attendee affiliations, alongside the organisations represented on stage.

Main Stage programme

Track I — Agentic Commerce

How agents create value, transact and connect to real business operations.

  • 10:10 — The Agentic Opportunity for Knowledge WorkJohannes Bittel, Senior Expert Agentic AI, DB Systel.

  • 10:50 — Agentic ERP: From Records to ActionsProf. Dr. Robin Gubela, HTW Berlin.

  • 11:30 — Agentic Commerce in ProductionPanel with Julius Danek (Stripe), Raul Firu (idealo), Dr. Maik Hesse (Strategy& / PwC) and Florian Hübner (Uberall). Moderated by Mahsa Doorfard (Coinix Capital).

  • 12:30 — Fireside ChatPeter Großkopf, CTO/COO at AllUnity, with Klaus Madzia, AI & Robotics Expert at Börsenmedien AG.

13:00–14:15 — Lunch break

Track II — Regulation, Compliance & AI Sovereignty

Who can give an agent a mandate, who carries responsibility, and how organisations retain control.

  • 14:20 — Who Gave the Agent Authority to Act?Olga Johanna Tröger, Rayol AI Solutions.

  • 14:40 — Building Germany’s Sovereign AI StackPanel with Dr. Martin Genzel (Merantix Momentum), Rafael Schultz (BCP Partners) and Prof. Dr. Max Senges (IEB / Rulemapping), including Merantix Momentum’s work on SOOFI. Moderated by Paula Feike, Tech Delivery Lead at Merantix Momentum.

  • 15:20 — Regulating AI Agents: Where the Brussels Debate StandsAnn-Kathrin Zierau, KI Bundesverband, joining remotely.

Track III — Autonomous Business Models

Where agents change revenue, costs and the way businesses operate.

  • 16:00 — KeynoteThomas Treml, CTO Cloud Public Sector, Microsoft.

  • 16:30 — Where Agents Change the P&LPanel with Arikia Millikan, Founder/CEO at CTRL+X; Jan Heimes, Co-Founder & CEO at Needle; and Hendryk Hosemann, HTGF. Moderated by Katharina Waterkamp, Frau Wenk.

18:10–20:00 — Evening networking

Build Arena

Build Arena runs alongside the Main Stage. Workshops are free for confirmed Agentic Economy Forum attendees. No Builder Pass is required.

  • 11:00–13:00 · Makers SpaceBuild a second brain for practical AI workJohannes Bittel and Joris Demnard.

  • 14:00–15:30 · Makers SpaceBuild your own outbound agent in 90 minutesJan Heimes / Needle.

  • 16:30–17:30 · Makers SpaceBuilding a Multi-Agent AI Tabletop Game Master with TypeScriptMuhammed Salih Guler / AWS.

  • 16:30–18:30 · Project RoomLLM Wiki From First PrinciplesJohannes Bittel and Yevgen Schweden.

  • 17:30–18:30 · Makers SpaceWhy Most Second Brains Fail, and How Agents Fix ItRidvan Sibic / Invent16 and Co-Learning Club.

Confirmed Forum guests receive the private workshop registration links. Register separately for each workshop using the same email as your Forum registration. Seats are limited; your workshop place is confirmed when Luma shows that registration as Going.

Check your chosen session’s preparation requirements. Paid tools or subscriptions are separate from admission where required. Choose between overlapping sessions.

The programme runs in English.

What you’ll take away

  • Practical examples of where agents create value in commerce, knowledge work and enterprise operations.

  • A clearer understanding of authority, governance and the European regulatory debate.

  • Business and investment perspectives on autonomous business models.

  • Hands-on experience and connections with people building, deploying and funding agentic systems.

Join the Forum

Free Forum Pass — by application

Select “Forum Pass Application” on this page and tell us what you’re building, deploying, buying, funding or governing.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis against the Forum’s audience focus. Your place is confirmed once your registration is approved.

AIB Builder Pass — €99 for Season 2026

Get your AIB Builder Pass, then select “AIB Builder Pass holders” on this event page to complete your Forum registration. Places are limited per event, so register early.

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Partners and sponsors — position your organisation at the centre of the agentic economy in Germany. Apply here.

About AI Agents Berlin

Berlin's community for the agentic economy: builder sessions, hackathons, and the Agentic Economy Forum. A proven event series for leaders exploring how agentic AI moves from discussion to real-world deployment.

For the Forum we bring together corporates, institutions, scale-ups and policymakers across Germany to exchange ideas, share best practices and accelerate adoption.

Venue

Merantix AI Campus — Max-Urich-Straße 3, 13355 Berlin

Berlin's AI campus: 6,000 m², 80+ AI teams, 300+ events a year. A venue whose entire identity is AI, hosting the room on Germany's role in the agentic economy.