IIA Davos 2026

Hosted by Imagination In Action (John Werner / MIT)

A side event around World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Time: 09:00–18:00

Venue: Imagination In Action @ Davos, Davos

Imagination In Action (IIA) — a flagship AI summit during WEF Davos convening leading AI researchers, founders and executives (John Werner / MIT / Forbes). Speakers incl. Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Andrew Ng, Daniela Rus.

Access: invite only

Speakers & agenda

Adena Friedman, Chair & CEO (Nasdaq)

Andrew Ng, Founder (DeepLearning.AI)

Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO (Glean)

Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL (MIT)

David Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman (Carlyle Group)

Eric Schmidt, Former CEO & Chairman of Google; Chair & CEO of Relativity Space (Relativity Space)

Eric Xing, President (Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI)

Joe Ucuzoglu, Global CEO (Deloitte)

Joël Mesot, President (ETH Zürich)

Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist & Corporate VP (Microsoft)

May Habib, CEO & Co-Founder (Writer)

Megan Smith, CEO / Former US CTO (shift7)

Nomzamo Mbatha, Goodwill Ambassador (UNHCR)

Randall Lane, Chief Content Officer (Forbes)

Sally Kornbluth, President (MIT)

Steve Pagliuca, Senior Advisor (Bain Capital)

Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman, Advanced Machine Intelligence (Advanced Machine Intelligence)

Yejin Choi, Professor of Computer Science / Senior Fellow (Stanford HAI)

Yoshua Bengio, Full Professor / Founder (Université de Montréal / Mila)

will.i.am, Founder & CEO (FYI.AI)