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14 October 2026 · Merantix AI Campus, Berlin

Agentic Economy Forum 2026.

On 14 October 2026, 110+ founders, builders and enterprise leaders from 80+ organisations spent a day at Merantix AI Campus in Berlin on one question: Germany's role in the agentic economy. Three Main Stage tracks, six hands-on Build Arena workshops and 30+ speakers, co-hosted by AI Agents Berlin and Merantix Momentum.

160+Registered
110+In the room
80+Organisations in the room
49%Founders or C-level

// Registered: approved Luma registrations, de-duplicated, 15 Oct 2026. In the room: Luma check-ins, completed from the team's speaker records; about two in three of those registered, against roughly one in three at AIB's open-registration flagships (AIS26, ClawCamp Berlin). Composition: self-reported at registration by 85% of the room.

Opening words on the Townhall stage at the Agentic Economy Forum, Merantix AI Campus
AGENTIC ECONOMY FORUM · MERANTIX AI CAMPUS · 14 OCTOBER 2026 · PHOTO: JACOB YANAI, MERANTIX MOMENTUM
The day

One question, three tracks.

From the rails that move money, to the rules that govern autonomous action, to the business models built on top: the Main Stage ran the three tracks in sequence in the Townhall, so the whole room followed one argument through the day.

10:00

Opening words

Merantix Momentum and AI Agents Berlin opened the day; Shruthi Balachandran took over as MC.

Track I · Agentic commerce
10:10

The Agentic Opportunity for Knowledge Work

Opening talk · Johannes Bittel, Senior Expert Agentic AI

10:50

Agentic ERP: From Records to Actions

Talk · Prof. Dr. Robin Gubela, HTW Berlin

11:30

Panel: agentic commerce in production

Julius Danek (Stripe), Raul Firu (idealo), Dr. Maik Hesse (Strategy&, PwC) and Florian Hübner (Uberall), moderated by Mahsa Doorfard (coinIX Capital)

12:30

Fireside: money, payments and trust

Peter Großkopf (AllUnity) and Klaus Madzia (Börsenmedien AG)

13:00

Lunch

Track II · Regulation, compliance & AI sovereignty
14:20

Who Gave the Agent Authority to Act?

Talk · Olga Troeger, Rayol AI Solutions

14:40

Panel: building Germany's sovereign AI stack

Martin Genzel (SOOFI · Merantix Momentum), Prof. Dr. Max Senges (Rulemapping), Rafael Schultz (BCP Partners), Arun Balakrishnan (Nool) and Tom Röhr (BHT · SOOFI), moderated by Paula Feike (Merantix Momentum)

15:20

Regulating AI Agents: Where the Brussels Debate Stands

Remote talk · Ann-Kathrin Zierau, KI Bundesverband

Track III · Autonomous business models
16:00

Keynote

Thomas Treml, CTO Cloud Public Sector, Microsoft Germany

16:30

Panel: where agents change the P&L

Arikia Millikan (CTRL+X), Jan Heimes (Needle), Hendryk Hosemann (HTGF) and Sebastian Schröder (Black Forest Labs), moderated by Katharina Waterkamp (Frau Wenk)

17:25

Case study: an agent-run startup, behind the scenes

Nils Engeln, Kobo

17:40

Outlook on the agentic economy, with Q&A

Merantix Momentum: Hasna Najmi and Timofey Molchanov, moderated by Corinna Kröger

18:10

Evening networking

Until 20:00.

// Run of show from the deck as presented on the day and the speakers' check-ins. MC throughout: Shruthi Balachandran.

Build Arena · alongside the Main Stage

Six workshops, laptops open.

While the Main Stage argued about the agentic economy, two rooms built for it: hands-on sessions of around 20 seats each, free for confirmed Forum guests.

Makers Space

  • 11:00Build a second brain for practical AI work · Johannes Bittel & Joris Demnard
  • 14:00Build your own outbound agent in 90 minutes · Jan Heimes, Needle
  • 15:30Applied AI agents workflow: from product development to e-commerce · Anna Franziska Michel & Luize Ferreira, yoona.ai
  • 16:30A multi-agent AI tabletop game master in TypeScript · Muhammed Salih Guler, AWS
  • 17:30Why most second brains fail, and how agents fix it · Ridvan Sibic, Invent16

Project Room

  • 16:30LLM Wiki from first principles · Johannes Bittel & Yevgen Schweden
Speakers & hosts

Who took the stage.

Main Stage
Johannes Bittel

Johannes Bittel

Consulting

10:10 · Keynote
Julius Danek

Julius Danek

Head of Global Expansion
Stripe

11:30 · Panel
Mahsa Doorfard

Mahsa Doorfard

Sales and Marketing Manager
Coinix Capital

11:30 · Moderator
Paula Feike

Paula Feike

AI Product Engineering Lead
Merantix Momentum

14:40 · Moderator
Raul Firu

Raul Firu

CPTO
idealo

11:30 · Panel
Martin Genzel

Martin Genzel

Staff Machine Learning Researcher
Merantix Momentum

14:40 · Panel
Peter Großkopf

Peter Großkopf

CTO/COO
AllUnity

12:30 · Fireside
Prof. Dr. Robin Gubela

Prof. Dr. Robin Gubela

Professor of Information Systems
HTW Berlin

10:50 · Keynote
Jan Heimes

Jan Heimes

Co-Founder & CEO
Needle

16:30 · Panel
Dr. Maik Hesse

Dr. Maik Hesse

Director
Strategy& (PwC)

11:30 · Panel
Hendryk Hosemann

Hendryk Hosemann

Senior Investment Manager
HTGF

16:30 · Panel
Florian Hübner

Florian Hübner

Founder & President
Uberall

11:30 · Panel
Klaus Madzia

Klaus Madzia

AI & Robotics Expert
Börsenmedien AG

12:30 · Fireside
Arikia Millikan

Arikia Millikan

Founder/CEO
CTRL+X

16:30 · Panel
Sebastian Schröder

Sebastian Schröder

GTM
Black Forest Labs

16:30 · Panel
Rafael Schultz

Rafael Schultz

Entrepreneur in Digital Assets & Tokenization
BCP Partners

14:40 · Panel
Prof. Dr. Max Senges

Prof. Dr. Max Senges

Director Law as Code
Rulemapping

14:40 · Panel
Thomas Treml

Thomas Treml

CTO Cloud Public Sector
Microsoft

16:00 · Keynote
Olga Troeger

Olga Troeger

CEO
Rayol AI Solutions

14:20 · Talk
Katharina Waterkamp

Katharina Waterkamp

Senior Communications Strategist
Frau Wenk

16:30 · Moderator
Ann-Kathrin Zierau

Ann-Kathrin Zierau

EU Policy Manager
KI Bundesverband

15:20 · Talk · remote

Arun Balakrishnan

CEO
Nool

14:40 · Panel

Tom Röhr

BHT · SOOFI

14:40 · Panel

Nils Engeln

Co-Founder
Kobo

17:25 · Case study

Corinna Kröger

Merantix Momentum

17:40 · Moderator

Hasna Najmi

Value Engineering Lead
Merantix Momentum

17:40 · Closing

Timofey Molchanov

AI Engineering Lead
Merantix Momentum

17:40 · Closing
Build Arena hosts
Johannes Bittel

Johannes Bittel

Consulting

11:00 + 16:30 · Workshops
Joris Demnard

Joris Demnard

CEO

11:00 · Workshop
Salih Guler

Muhammed Salih Guler

Senior Developer Advocate
AWS

16:30 · Workshop
Jan Heimes

Jan Heimes

Co-Founder & CEO
Needle

14:00 · Workshop
Yevgen Schweden

Yevgen Schweden

AI Solutions Architect

16:30 · Workshop
Ridvan Sibic

Ridvan Sibic

Founder
Invent16 · Co-Learning Club

17:30 · Workshop

Anna Franziska Michel

Co-Founder & CEO
yoona.ai

15:30 · Workshop

Luize Ferreira

Head of Sales & Operations
yoona.ai

15:30 · Workshop
Microsoft AWS Strategy& (PwC) Stripe idealo AllUnity Börsenmedien AG Merantix Momentum CTRL+X
The room

Half founders or C-level. Nine in ten from Berlin.

Of those who answered at registration, 49% were founders or C-level, 16% engineers and AI builders, 13% in product and operations, and the rest researchers, investors and policy people. 91% were based in Berlin. Asked which track mattered most, 44% said all three; agentic commerce led the single choices at 25%.

Among the 80+ organisations in the room:

Microsoft · Stripe · AWS · Siemens · BASF · DB Systel · idealo · Workday · TeamViewer · Tektronix · primion · Börsenmedien AG · Strategy& (PwC) · Exxeta · Black Forest Labs · Contentful · Uberall · Seven Senders · Fintoc · AllUnity · HTGF · coinIX Capital · TU Berlin · HTW Berlin · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · YPOG · BVG — and nearly 40 startups building with agents.

The Townhall audience during the morning sessions Johannes Bittel opens Track I on the Main Stage A Track I talk on agentic ERP The panel on agentic commerce in production Shruthi Balachandran, MC, on stage A Build Arena workshop in the Makers Space

// Photos: Jacob Yanai, Merantix Momentum. Want a photo of you removed? Email rapha@ai-agents-summit.com with the image and we take it down the same day.

Hosts

The Forum was made possible by:

Merantix Momentum

Merantix Momentum co-hosted the Forum and brought it to Merantix AI Campus, Berlin's AI campus in Wedding, opening the Townhall for the Main Stage and the Makers Space and Project Room for the Build Arena. AI Agents Berlin curated the programme and the room. Thank you to every speaker, moderator and workshop host, and to Shruthi Balachandran for carrying the day as MC.

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Links from the day.