AI capabilities are advancing faster than many organizations can put them to work. While experimentation is widespread, a gap remains between access to powerful models and delivering meaningful impact at scale.

Join Emmanuel Marill of OpenAI for a conversation with Isabelle Sonnenfeld, Strategic Advisor at Explicit Protocol, about how enterprises can close that gap - and what changes as AI moves from tools that support individual tasks to agents that can carry work forward across systems and workflows.

Drawing on their experience scaling technology and adoption across international markets, Emmanuel and Isabelle will explore where agentic AI can create practical value, what separates experimentation from successful deployment, and what organizations need across strategy, technology, talent and trust to move from pilots into production.

The conversation will be followed by audience Q&A and networking.

Speakers

🎤 Isabelle Sonnenfeld — Strategic Advisor, Explicit Protocol. Former Head of Google News Lab, EMEA.

Isabelle Sonnenfeld is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Twitter’s first employee in Germany, she went on to lead Google News Lab across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and later served as Director of the EU AI Champions Initiative at General Catalyst. Her expertise spans market development, European technology policy and strategic partnerships with public sector institutions and enterprises. She currently runs her own advisory firm focused on AI adoption and organisational design. She is the founder of RoleModels, Germany's first podcast championing women in leadership.

🎤 Emmanuel Marill — Managing Director, EMEA & Middle East and Africa, OpenAI

Emmanuel Marill is a French business executive with over 20 years experience scaling businesses and leading international teams at global technology companies.Emmanuel joins OpenAI from Airbnb, where he spent a decade overseeing international operations and expansion in key markets. He began as a Country Manager for France and Belgium, before taking on regional responsibilities as the Managing Director for EMEA and APAC.Prior to Airbnb, he was an executive for Groupon and Meta, and a consultant with Roland Berger. Emmanuel began his career at LVMH.Emmanuel holds a Masters Degree in Business from Emlyon Business School.

Agenda​

14:00 Arrival

14:30 Kickoff

15:30 Networking

16:30 Wrap-up

⚠️ Doors close at 13:45. Arrive before then.

​About your hosts

Merantix AI Campus: In the heart of Berlin, the Campus is home to 80+ AI teams and hosts 300+ events a year. Part of Merantix, driving Europe’s AI future since 2016, the Campus is where the brightest and most ambitious founders, operators, engineers, industry leaders, and investors come together to shape next-generation AI infrastructure and applications across industries.

OpenAI: OpenAI builds the models and tools behind ChatGPT, and its research spans language, reasoning, and agentic systems. It's one of the most widely deployed AI companies globally, used by individual developers up through the largest enterprises, and the work coming out of it is currently setting the pace for how fast the rest of the industry moves: including how quickly agentic capability is reaching consumers before most enterprises have caught up.