When Audi announced the relocation of the full production from its Brussels’ factory to Mexico 1 year ago, the Belgian Exco had to engage an extremely delicate exercise to demonstrate a blend of legal compliance, strategic planning, and, most importantly, empathy by communicating transparently to all staff and Unions, and supporting the transition until the closure.
What have been the major milestones? And what are the key learnings on how collective layoffs – partial or complete – can be handled with strategic clarity, legal rigor and human responsibility while maintaining trust, protecting brand reputation, and ensuring long-term productivity and performance? This session is privately held and accessible on personal invitation only.

• Understanding the real transformational business value of AI
• Key transition milestones from AI experimentation to large-scale deployment
• Looking beyond automation to drive operational excellence, innovation and value creation
• Measuring risks, opportunities and key business foundations before becoming an agentic enterprise

• Geopolitics, cyber-hacking, supply chain breakdown…: assessing and mitigating new business risks
• How to effectively protect critical processes & infrastructures
• Sole technology reliance: which risks and which resilience measures in a tech-driven world?
• Agility, adaptation, business control…: what does operational resiience really mean today?
• Redefining the new rules of risk mitigation and governance