South Summit Madrid 2026
HumAIn Futures: A First-Person Dispatch from the Tech Frontier
Generative AI is everywhere. Agentic AI is accelerating. Physical AI, world models, and neurosymbolic systems are no longer theoretical. They're arriving.
A new hardware era is on the frontier as the smartphone era is ending. What replaces it will be more spatial, more embodied, more intelligent and will change human to human communications and human-computer interaction in new and unforeseen ways. Gaming is becoming infrastructure, and AI-native networks are being built up to meet a new era of connectivity.
Intelligence is leaving the screen and entering the world. Machines now understand space, place, and context. Physical and digital reality are converging faster than most leaders are ready for. Some of the most important questions for us to answer stop being what can AI do and become how this tech convergence is changing who we are as humans, how we interact with tech and how we define our purpose.
Globally recognized tech futurist and gaming executive, Cathy Hackl doesn't study the future from a safe distance. She's been building inside it for over a decade. This keynote is a first-person dispatch from the frontier - clear-eyed, human-centered, and grounded in where we actually are.
What's converging. What's arriving faster than anyone expected. What it demands of every leader in the room.
The future doesn’t just happen to you. It's something you can actively be a part of and can be a builder in. After this keynote, no one leaves without a sense of direction.
Jun 3, 2026 — 04:50 pm - 5:10 PMArena Stage
