Hypergrowth Playbook: Closing the AI Capability Gap

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