Name
AI, Energy & the Fusion Infrastructure Race
Date & Time
Thursday, September 24, 2026, 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Speakers
• Hans-Henrich Altfeld, Managing Director - Novo Artifact Consulting for Enable Fusion Inc.
• Cyd Cowley, Fusion Principal - digiLab
• Alex Higginbottom, Co-Founder & CEO - Zenithon AI
• Federico Felici, Co-founder & CEO - Fusionality
• Cyd Cowley, Fusion Principal - digiLab
• Alex Higginbottom, Co-Founder & CEO - Zenithon AI
• Federico Felici, Co-founder & CEO - Fusionality
Description
As AI accelerates electricity demand, energy availability, grid capacity, cooling, and industrial resilience are becoming strategic bottlenecks. Fusion is emerging not only as a future power source, but as a critical infrastructure layer for the AI era - driving advances in superconductors, advanced magnets, cryogenics, and high- density energy systems.
- Is energy becoming the main bottleneck to scaling AI?
- Which fusion-enabling technologies could commercialize before fusion power itself?
- How could superconductors and advanced energy systems reshape AI infrastructure and data centers?
- Where do fusion, AI, defence, and industrial sovereignty intersect?
- How should Europe position itself in the global race for AI and fusion infrastructure?