Name: Permission to Innovate — The EU AI Act for Decision-Makers
Start: Thu Sep 17 2026 10:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
End: Thu Sep 17 2026 13:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Location: ITL Group Kft.

AI IS ALREADY INSIDE YOUR COMPANY. THE ADVANTAGE GOES TO WHOEVER TAKES CONTROL OF IT FIRST.

Your people are already using AI. Your suppliers are building it into the tools you buy. Your clients are starting to ask what you do with it — whether or not anyone in your company has formally decided anything.

And the European AI Act is now being enforced. The transparency rules and the penalty regime are live. The obligation to make your staff AI-literate has applied since February 2025 — to every company using AI, at every level of risk. Including yours.

Most companies will treat this as a problem to survive. A smaller number will read it correctly: the rules are finally clear, and clear rules are what let a serious company move fast.

The advantage will not go to the businesses waiting for more certainty. It goes to the ones building while everyone else is still reading. In your industry, someone is deciding this right now.

THIS IS NOT A COMPLIANCE SEMINAR

Most events about the AI Act are built to make you worried. This one is built to make you decide.

We spend the morning on one question: how does your company turn AI into a real advantage, starting Monday?

You will not sit through three hours of slides. Every topic is followed by a live interaction on your phone: you answer, the room's answer appears on screen, and we work from your real situation instead of a hypothetical one. By one o'clock you will have made five decisions you have probably been postponing.

WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH

Your risk classification. Which tier your company sits in, and whether you count as a provider or a deployer. Most companies get this wrong in both directions.

Your AI inventory, started. The AI tools already running inside your company — including the ones nobody approved. Almost always longer than management expects.

A named owner. The single role accountable for AI in your company. Nothing moves until this is decided, and most companies never have.

Your 90-day plan. Written during the workshop from your own answers, and in your inbox before you leave.

Twelve questions to ask your AI vendors. A printed card you can use the same week. Most AI risk arrives through contracts nobody read closely.

THE MORNING

10:00 — Opening. Alessandro Farina, Managing Director, ITL Group. Why an advisory firm, not a technology company, appointed a Chief AI Officer.

10:10 — Part One: The Permission Slip. What the AI Act actually allows you to do — including the changes made in July 2026 that most companies have not yet read. The four risk levels in business language, the one distinction that determines your entire obligation list, and the honest calendar of what applies when. You will classify your own company before the break.

10:55 — Part Two: The Quantum Leap. How the regulation becomes a commercial advantage. Why AI governance is becoming a procurement requirement, and where the real gains sit: not in employees using chatbots, but in AI built into your processes — analysed live, using the ones participants bring.

11:55 — Part Three: Build Your Plan. Five decisions, forty minutes, made in the room: who owns AI, what you are already running, what you tell your people, what your vendors have committed to, and what you build in the window. Facilitated, not taught.

12:35 — Roundtable: Off the Record. Open discussion under Chatham House rule, with anonymous questions submitted throughout the morning.

13:00 — Networking and refreshments.

WHO IT IS FOR

Company owners, managing directors, board members and senior managers — the people who allocate budget, sign contracts and carry the responsibility.

It is right for you if your company already uses AI somewhere, and if you would rather spend three hours deciding than three months reading.

Not for you if you want technical or engineering guidance, or a legal opinion on a specific case.

Please come yourself rather than sending a delegate — the plan is only useful to someone with the authority to act on it.

SPEAKER

Luigino Bottega, Chief AI Officer, ITL Group — advising companies on adopting AI in a way that is both commercially useful and defensible under European regulation.

PRACTICAL DETAILS

Thursday 17 September 2026, 10:00–13:00 (registration from 09:45) 
ITL Group, Dózsa György út 84 B, 1068 Budapest 
Language: English 

Included: coffee on arrival, break refreshments, all workshop materials, your personalised 90-day plan, certificate of attendance, and networking after 13:00.

This is a strategic management workshop, not legal advice.

The rules are now set. Who uses them best is still open — and that is being decided this year.

https://itlgroup.hu/ai-act/

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Permission to Innovate — The EU AI Act for Decision-Makers

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