Digital Trust Summit

Global Data Innovation is co-organising, in partnership with Newframes and ACTE, the first European edition of the Digital Trust Summit in Brussels. After the success of the US edition, the summit comes to the heart of the European capital — where the AI governance conversation that will define the decade is taking place.

The Digital Trust Summit comes to Brussels for its first European edition, bringing the same high-level, outcomes-driven format that has defined the US edition — now at the centre of European policy, transatlantic cooperation and the AI governance conversation that will define the decade.

The programme is designed for working outcomes, not traditional panel discussions. It includes closed-door strategic dialogue, mixed tables of policymakers and executives, and Policy Scenario Labs — structured simulations to stress-test governance frameworks in real time. Without cameras. Without prepared remarks.

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DIGITAL TRUST SUMMIT BRUSSELS 2026 TheMerode · 24 June ·

8:30 AM — Registration, Executive Breakfast & Networking

ACT I — THE STAKES

9:00 AM — The State of Digital Trust Dominique Shelton Leipzig, CEO Global Data

Innovation Remarks: Aline Muylaert, VP ACTE

9:15 AM — RSL Media Standard — Global Launch Cate Blanchett, actress, producer & RSL Media co-founder

9:20 AM — Fireside: Media, Storytelling & Trust in the AI Era Cate Blanchett · Nikki Hexum (RSL Media) Moderated by Dominique Shelton Leipzig

9:45 AM — Readout From Parliament MEP Eva Maydell

9:55 AM — Europe & the Future of AI Governance Erika Staël von Holstein (Re-Imagine Europa) Christopher Weissberg (French National Assembly) Moderated by Amaia Echevarria (Euronews)

10:15 AM — Morning Networking Break

ACT II — THE FORCES

10:45 AM — When the Policy and the Breach Happen at the Same Time, Kavitha Mariappan, Chief Transformation Officer, Rubrik

11:10 AM — Fireside: Cyber & Agentic AI

Despina Spanou, DDG DG CNECT, European Commission

Kavitha Mariappan, Rubrik

Moderated by Gian Volpicelli, Bloomberg

11:25 AM — Geopolitical Strategy & AI Damien Bruckard, former Head of Global Engagement, ICC

11:40 AM — Trust: A CEO Blueprint Stijn Christiaens, co-founder, Collibra

12:00 PM — Executive Leader Remarks Christine Durinx, Managing Director, VIB

ACT III — THE PEOPLE

12:15 PM — How Teams Can Rapidly & Effectively Adopt AI

Guylaine Saint Juste (CEO NABA)

Rand Morimoto (Convergent Computing)

David Timis (AI & Future of Work)

Moderated by Raksha Muthukumar

12:45 PM — Executive Lunch

ACT IV — THE SOLUTIONS

1:40 PM — Fragomen: Fireside Chat :Proving You Are Real: Verified Identity in the Age of Deepfakes
Jo Antoons, Senior Counsel
Amit Sharma, Head of Global and Digital Strategy & Ecosystem Growth, Idemia

Vladimir Jankovic, Managing Director Fragomen

2:00 PM — Diligent AI Board Member — Innovation Demonstration

Dottie Schindlinger, Executive Director, Diligent Institute

Kira Ciccarelli, Head of Research, Diligent Institute

Katarina Wallin Bureau, General Manager, Strategic Relations European Government Affairs

Siddika Demir, Corporate director,

2:20 PM — Crisis of Trust Simulation: The Agentic Age Cal Al-Dhubaib, Principal Technologist, Rubrik

3:05 PM — Afternoon Networking Break

ACT V — THE FUTURE CONTRACT

3:35 PM — The EU Omnibus: How to facilitate EU Act and digital laws Implementation and Innovation for business

MEP Brando Benifei
MEP Sergey Lagodinsky

Renate Nikolay, DDG DG CNECT, European Commission

Moderated by Gian Volpicelli, Bloomberg

4:00 PM — Digital Rights, Child Protection & AI Safety MEP Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová

4:10 PM Storytelling, Power & Trust in the Digital Age

Darren Aronofsky, filmmaker

Moderated by Adam Leipzig

4:45 PM — Read out of the day

Doug Leeds, co-founder of RSL Standard, RSL Collective, and RSL Media

Dominique Shelton Leipzig

5:00 PM — Closing Reflections Dominique Shelton Leipzig

5:15 PM — Cocktails