RAID 2026 agenda

Finance and Tech Policy

This roundtable workshop will focus on how financial services organisations can implement rapidly evolving AI and digital regulation while continuing to innovate across increasingly cross-border markets. The discussion will explore practical questions including:

• How are financial institutions and payment providers approaching the AI Act and wider digital regulatory requirements, including the emerging Digital Omnibus?
• How will AI, including agentic AI, change financial services, and what does this mean for accountability, authentication, authorisation and liability?
• How can organisations enable responsible data sharing and innovation, including through open finance and emerging European financial data frameworks, while maintaining privacy, security and consumer trust?
• How can regulators and industry address the practical challenges of cross-border implementation while maintaining operational resilience and effective oversight?

The workshop will provide an opportunity for a practical, cross-sector discussion between those developing financial and digital regulation and those responsible for implementing it, with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities created by the rapid adoption of AI and data-driven technologies.

Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.

DSA Article 21

Registration, coffee & networking

Panel 5: EU–US – Navigating regulatory differences in the digital economy

• How can the EU and US manage regulatory differences in AI and digital policy while maintaining open markets and interoperable digital ecosystems?
• Where do DSA, DMA, US state rules, and sector-specific frameworks create friction in practice for platforms and industrial users?
• How can cooperation on standards, safety and innovation support trusted, secure and efficient cross-border data flows?

Panel 6: TRUSTED AI – Policy, innovation and implementation

• How can policymakers and industry create the conditions for trustworthy AI that is innovative, secure, and worthy of public confidence?
• How can the AI Act and the wider EU digital regulatory framework provide legal certainty while enabling innovation, investment, and the responsible deployment of AI across sectors
• What practical steps are needed from policymakers, regulators and industry to ensure effective implementation of the AI Act and consistent application across use cases and sectors?
• How can interoperability, international cooperation, and converging regulatory approaches support trusted AI and strengthen public confidence in global digital markets?

Refreshments & Networking

VIP Interview: THE FUTURE OF AI

• Is the AI bubble bursting, and what does the shift from hype to adoption mean for policy and industry internationally?
• How can policy support sustainable AI adoption across regions and industries?
• How can regulatory and investment conditions, including privacy and cross-border data considerations, support sustainable AI ecosystems?

Panel 7: THE PLATFORM ECONOMY – Innovation, Growth, Accountability and Rights

• How should we assess the platform economy’s impact on economic opportunity, innovation and fundamental rights alongside systemic risks and harms?
• How have DSA obligations and platform investments in transparency, safety and content governance shaped user experience, democratic discourse and economic activity, and how does this interact with GDPR frameworks in practice?
• How do platforms enable EU SMEs, creators and startups to scale cross-border, and how should simplification initiatives such as the Omnibuses and Digital Fairness Check take this into account in practice?
• What governance models — including codes of conduct, multi-stakeholder initiatives and regulatory sandboxes — can best combine accountability, legal certainty and innovation at scale?

Lunch & Networking

VIP Keynote Address: Europe’s New Age of Innovation – moving beyond false choices

Henna Virkkunen

This keynote will explore the tensions at the heart of Europe’s digital debate: between regulation and innovation, competitiveness and responsibility, and European sovereignty and global openness. It will consider how Europe can create the conditions for investment, innovation and growth while maintaining trust, protecting fundamental rights and ensuring the digital economy delivers broad benefits.

Speaker: Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

Panel 8: FS – Finance as digital infrastructure: open finance, payments and the data economy

• How can financial regulators and data protection authorities work together to improve mutual understanding and effective oversight for banks, fintechs and crypto firms operating across jurisdictions?
• How can open finance and FIDA enable competition, innovation and secure
  data-sharing across European financial services?
• How should digital wallets, crypto-assets and the digital euro fit into trusted, cross-border payments systems — and what does this mean for data governance and supervision?

Refreshments & Networking

Panel 9: COMPLIANCE – Risk, responsibility and liability in AI and digital systems

• How can liability frameworks support responsible AI use in healthcare, financial services, and mobility?
• How do new EU frameworks, including the Cyber Resilience Act, reshape security, risk and accountability across digital products and systems — and how can companies implement them at scale?
• How can regulators clarify responsibilities in complex, cross-border systems, including safety-critical uses?

Panel 10: CONSUMERS & DATA – Interoperability, data flows and user protection

• How should platform data governance evolve to support interoperability, innovation and competition while maintaining high standards of privacy, security and user protection?
• How can cross-border data flows and regulatory cooperation be made more predictable for platforms operating across multiple jurisdictions?
• What mechanisms can improve consistency of supervision and enforcement for global platforms without fragmenting digital services?
• How are concerns around addictive design, protection of minors and platform responsibility shaping the next phase of digital regulation?
• Are EU-US data adequacy agreements at risk, and what’s the fallback for businesses?

Strengthening Europe's Cloud and AI Infrastructure

This roundtable workshop will explore how Europe and its Member States can strengthen cloud and AI infrastructure to support competitiveness, innovation and technological resilience. Discussions will focus on the policy priorities underpinning the European Commission’s Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), including investment, digital infrastructure, resilience, permitting, energy and the practical conditions needed to scale AI capacity across Europe.

The workshop will bring together policymakers and industry leaders to exchange practical perspectives on enabling the development and deployment of AI infrastructure and services across Member States, while maintaining openness, security and trust. It will also examine how public and private sector collaboration can accelerate the delivery of scalable, resilient and sustainable AI capacity.

Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.

Digital Compliance

This invitation-only roundtable workshop will take a practical, cross-sector look at how organisations can build a coherent approach to regulatory compliance when they are simultaneously subject to multiple, overlapping regimes governing AI, data, digital services, platforms and cybersecurity.

The discussion will consider the European framework in an international context, recognising that companies operating in Europe are often subject simultaneously to EU, UK, US and other national or regional regulatory requirements, while regulators themselves increasingly need to cooperate across borders.

The discussion will focus on the practical challenges of implementing these rules, including how organisations allocate responsibility, manage regulatory overlap and fragmentation, and translate evolving requirements into workable governance arrangements across different markets.

Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.

Healthcare Tech Policy

This roundtable workshop will explore how healthcare organisations and technology providers can harness AI, data and digital technologies while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Discussions will consider the practical implications of the AI Act, GDPR, European Health Data Space (EHDS), Data Act and wider digital regulation for healthcare innovation, deployment and cross-border data use.

The workshop will bring together policymakers, regulators and healthcare and technology leaders to exchange practical perspectives on issues including responsible AI adoption, health data access and sharing, interoperability, regulatory overlap, patient trust and the conditions needed to scale digital health innovation across Europe.

The discussion will also consider how policymakers can balance innovation, patient safety, privacy and security, and how regulation can support rather than inhibit the development and deployment of new healthcare technologies.

Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.