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On-site meeting in Vienna English speaking

Digital Leadership Forum 2026

16 November 2026, 9.00 am – 7.00 pm
House of Engineers, Vienna, Austria
Anna Juen
AI Product Owner | Marketing Technology, Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Antonina Shelepova
Global Communications manager Global Supply Chain, Europe, Schneider Electriс
Bartosz Filipczak
Product Owner Digital Workplace, The HEINEKEN Company
Corina Hummel
Manager Global Communications, Leadec
Elisabeth Schwab
Head of Data & Analytics, PALFINGER AG
Erik Hartman
Moderator, Advatera

Digital Leadership Forum Vienna 2026 is an international conference for anyone looking for practical answers on digital leadership, AI, organizational transformation, digital marketing, digital transformation, corporate culture and the future of work. On 16–17 November 2026 in Vienna, Austria, leaders and practitioners from marketing, digital and communications come together to share real-world case studies, proven tools, and actionable frameworks for leading digital and hybrid organizations, focused on implementation, not hype.

Talks include
  • Afternoon Opening Thoughts with our Partners
  • AI-Transformation in Marketing Communication & Processes
  • Break & Networking
  • Break & Networking
  • Everyone Has AI. Now What?

    How Leaders Stand Out When Creation is Effortless.

  • From launch to lifespan: Keeping a Corporate Influencer Program alive

    Starting a corporate influencer program is easy; keeping it alive is the real challenge. Less guidelines, more freedom: Leadec's approach is to think of LinkedIn as a system, not a channel. With a bigger internal impact than you might expect.

  • Get-together, Networking, Wine and Good Food
  • Good Morning & Check-In
  • Innovation/digitalisation in times of "budget-cuts" or "budget-sensitive" times
  • Intranet demo
  • Keynote: AI with Purpose: How Leaders Turn Change into Progress Leading

    What’s Next: AI, Trust, and Transformation

  • Keynote: The Courage to Be Clear: Leadership Communication in the Age of AI and Uncertainty
  • Leading AI adoption in your organization
  • Lunch & Learn
  • Machine-Readable or Invisible – How AI Agents Are Hijacking the Customer Journey
  • Moderated Roundtable Discussions
  • Opening thoughts: Align & Lead
  • Registration and Welcome
  • Selling Your Updated Brand to Your People First: How to Survive Love, Hate & Everything In Between
  • The power of accessibility

    Discover how to transform the digital workplace from a locked-down environment into an empowered ecosystem by providing users with intuitive self-service interfaces for creating and managing collaboration spaces. We will explore how to replace restrictive, "one-size-fits-all" templates with AI-enhanced flexibility, ensuring that digital tools are both highly accessible and perfectly tailored to the evolving needs of modern workforce.

  • Townhall - Summarizing the Conference
  • Turning Data into Business Impact at Palfinger
  • Viennese encounters: A cultural experience
  • Walk to our cultural activity
  • Welcome by Volker Grünauer, conference chair
  • Workshop: AI in the Digital Workplace

Sign-up for this in-person meeting

Participation for Advatera members is of course at no extra charge. Guests are welcome on a one-time basis to get to know the group, only if space is available. Please sign-up and we will let you know. Sales free meeting, no registrations from agencies, consultants, sales people and vendors please. This is an on-site meeting at House of Engineers in Vienna.