AI at Scale: How Europe's Leading Software Companies and Private Equity Firms Are Deploying AI

Date: Tuesday, 3 November 2026
Time: 18:30 - 22:00 (CET)
Venue: Restaurant Käfer-Schänke, Munich, Germany

Speakers:
Rahul Chillar - CPO & Head of AI, Nemetschek
Mikkel Bardram - CEO, EG

Sponsors: Francisco Partners

AI has become a defining competitive advantage for technology businesses. The conversation has shifted from whether to adopt AI to a far more difficult question: how to deploy it at scale in a way that creates real commercial value?

The organisations pulling ahead aren't necessarily those with the most advanced technology, but those using AI to create more efficient organisations, build better products, empower their people and unlock new opportunities for growth.

As AI becomes a strategic priority, private equity firms are also playing an increasingly important role in enabling transformation, providing portfolio companies with investment, expertise and opportunities to share knowledge and accelerate successful AI initiatives.

Yet despite the pace of change, there are still relatively few opportunities for leaders to have open, honest conversations with peers about what is genuinely delivering results, where the biggest challenges remain and what it really takes to move from experimentation to meaningful deployment.

This intimate dinner brings together senior technology CEOs, investors and industry leaders for a candid discussion featuring two complementary perspectives on AI transformation. Rahul Chillar, CPO & Head of AI at Nemetschek, brings the perspective of embedding AI across an established global technology business, while Mikkel Bardram, CEO of EG, offers insight into leading AI transformation within a large, private equity-backed software company.

Together, they will explore how organisations are moving beyond pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, the lessons they have learned along the way and where they are seeing genuine commercial impact.

Key discussion themes

• How leading technology companies are embedding AI across their organisations
• Moving from experimentation to enterprise-wide AI deployment
• The practical lessons from implementing AI at scale - what’s working, what isn’t and why
• How private equity can support and accelerate AI transformation across portfolio companies
• Turning AI investment into measurable business outcomes
• Where ambitious CEOs should focus over the next 12-24 months to stay ahead

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