H2H™ 2.0: How AI's biggest threat isn't what you think | By Kuma Partners
by Vincent Azé, Sven Mulfinger, Bryan Kramer
About this event
🚀 A Web Summit side-event with the people who decide where AI goes next. Investors, executives and founders.
🎯 No Web Summit ticket required, only registration here.
🚀 Evening social event here: https://luma.com/tjed8ali
📋 What’s on the agenda?
We've been told for years that the future belongs to whoever adopts AI the fastest. Move quick. Automate everything. Scale before your competitors do. But what we've been told is wrong.
The companies moving fastest are burning out their people. The leaders performing the most confidence are trusted the least. And the AI tools promising efficiency are actually making workers slower, not faster.
So why are some leaders becoming more valuable in the age of AI while others are becoming indistinguishable from the machines they use?
Because AI didn't create a new problem. It exposed the one that was already there: we've been performing leadership instead of practicing it.
🎁 What you leave with
This keynote reveals three shifts that separate the leaders AI will replace from the leaders AI will make irreplaceable. And it will change how you think about every tool you adopt, every meeting you walk into, and every decision you make from this point forward.
You'll hear about the company that mandated AI tools and watched employees work longer, not smarter. The hospitals that disclosed their own mistakes and saw lawsuits drop by half. A Dutch town that removed every traffic signal from its busiest intersection and watched accidents disappear. And the airline captain who had 208 seconds to make a decision every computer told him was wrong.
It's not about rejecting AI, slowing down your business, or going backward. It's about understanding that the most advanced technology era in human history is about to drive a renaissance in something ancient: real human connection. The result? The leaders who develop judgment, depth, and presence will own the next decade. Everyone else will be competing with software.
Are you ready to become the one th
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