HVG AI Talks 2026 will take place on November 18 at the Bálna event venue in Budapest, bringing together international practitioners to discuss AI agents, enterprise data foundations and product development. The one-day conference aims to present, without unnecessary theory, the strategies, tools and workflows that the most effective organizations use today.
Neal Mann (NOAN): a single, shared data source for humans and agents
Neal Mann, co-founder and CEO of NOAN, will discuss building an API-accessible, unified and trusted data layer that can be used by both people and AI agents. Mann has more than twenty years of leadership experience and has worked with senior executives at Fortune 500 companies and global brands across finance, technology, commerce and media. Before founding NOAN he built and led the consulting arm of Anomaly in New York, supporting clients such as Microsoft, Google and Expedia.
Nadim Cheaib (Google DeepMind): AI agents for legal workflows
Nadim Cheaib began his career as a software engineer and moved into business strategy and product leadership roles. He currently leads development of AI agents for legal applications at Google DeepMind. Over the past more than five years at DeepMind, he has worked on Google’s major generative AI products, including Gemini, Search, YouTube and Workspace.
Theo Tortorici (Dot): building enterprise data platforms from zero
Theo Tortorici, founder and head of data, will share his experience building corporate data domains and infrastructures from scratch. According to the source text, the Berlin startup Spryker Systems — which has raised about $200 million in funding — employed him as its first data scientist, where he created the company’s data infrastructure and grew an eight-person team. In 2021 he participated in the Y Combinator program with a data-governance platform used by AXA and Virgin. He is now co-founder and CEO of Dot, which builds AI-powered data analysis agents for more than 100 companies, including Duolingo, Babbel, Flixbus, BlaBlaCar and Airbyte.
Simon Pierro: where digital magic meets technology
Simon Pierro is an internationally known digital magician who turns modern technology into spectacular illusions. For more than a decade his iPad-based performances have blurred the line between digital and physical reality, illustrating how technology can be integrated into creative live experiences.
Why attend?
Organizers say the program will provide practical, case-study driven insights into AI-agent solutions and the data infrastructures that enable them. Tickets for the conference — which features several dozen speakers — are available on the event website, and can be purchased at a substantial discount through Thursday end of day.
HVG AI Talks 2026 focuses on business applications of artificial intelligence, emphasizing practical examples and the infrastructures required to operate reliable AI agents.
