AI Week Frankfurt Agenda
The agenda of AI Week Frankfurt follows the same pattern every year: an opening night on Monday, cross-industry days on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Banking & Finance day on Thursday and the AI Week Hack on Friday. For the 2026 edition, October 26 to 30 at The Squaire, AI Hub Frankfurt has published the opening night and marks the rest of the agenda as under construction. Finance Loop held an official side event of the 2025 edition.
Monday, October 26: opening night
Doors open at 5 PM in the AI Arena. At 6 PM Amy Curlee of FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH and Marcel Isbert of AI Hub Frankfurt open the week, followed by Sebastian Heinz, founder of AI Hub Frankfurt, and an opening speech by Mayor Mike Josef. Daniel Abbou of the KI Bundesverband reports on the state of AI in Germany, and the panel "State of AI" brings Maximilian Freier of the European Central Bank and Prof. Dr. Fritzi Koehler-Geib of the Deutsche Bundesbank on stage. Brian Heath of the U.S. Consulate General opens the networking at 7:30 PM.
Tuesday and Wednesday: cross-industry days
Tuesday, October 27 covers mobility, aviation and manufacturing; Wednesday, October 28 covers retail, energy, telecoms and the public sector. Both days run on three stages: the AI Arena with more than 800 seats for keynotes, panels and fireside chats, the AI Studio for industry deep dives, case studies and product demos, and the AI Tech Stage for technical talks and live coding. Workshops run in separate rooms.
Thursday, October 29: Banking & Finance day
The finance day is the day for banks, insurers and asset managers. The organizer expects more than 2,000 finance professionals. Sessions for 2026 are not published yet. In 2024 the day opened with a fireside chat between Sebastian Heinz and Vahe Andonians of Cognaize on the status quo of AI in banking, and in 2023 the Institute of International Finance was knowledge partner of the AI in Finance Day with Commerzbank, with sessions on the EU AI Act and AI governance. Graphwise holds a sponsored workshop for the financial industry on October 29, 2026.
The subjects a finance team meets on this day are covered on this site: the EU AI Act in finance, AI in finance in Frankfurt and AI in finance in Germany.
Friday, October 30: AI Week Hack
The Builders Day has an open build floor on the AI Tech Stage and an application-only enterprise hackathon with OpenAI Codex. Teams apply through the hack page of the conference site.
Side events in the agenda
Partners run official side events at their own venues during the week. In 2025, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences held satellite talks, and Finance Loop held an evening on AI and blockchain in institutional finance at Sopra Financial Technology, three minutes by car from The Squaire. Side events of the 2026 edition appear in the calendar below once they are announced.
Upcoming AI and finance events in Frankfurt
Where is the full AI Week Frankfurt agenda?
On the program page of the conference site, with filters per day and stage. The organizer notes that schedule and sessions are subject to change.
Who speaks at AI Week Frankfurt 2026?
Announced so far are Agnes Heftberger (Microsoft), Nils Reimers (Cohere), Walid Mehanna (Merck), Christiane Vorspel (Commerzbank), Dr. Sabine Mauderer and Prof. Dr. Fritzi Koehler-Geib (Deutsche Bundesbank), Jonas Messner (Neura Robotics) and Philipp Klöckner, among others.
Which day of AI Week Frankfurt is about finance?
Thursday. In 2026 that is October 29, in 2025 it was October 30, and in 2024 it was October 24.
Is the agenda in German or English?
The conference site and the session titles are in English; event directories list German and English as the languages.
AI Week Frankfurt agenda and Finance Loop
Finance Loop held an official side event of AI Week Frankfurt 2025 with AI Hub Frankfurt, one of its event and network partners, on the evening of the Banking & Finance day. Finance Loop brings the people who apply AI in banks, insurers and asset managers together in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the adoption of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, digital payments, cloud and blockchain solutions. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.