CEIBS Zurich Campus AI Executive Series #2
Signals of Uncertain Futures, Superintelligence for the Present
Superintelligence is on the horizon, and it wants to talk with you. AI is not only changing what organisations can do — it is beginning to change how organisations sense, decide and act.
Register NowExperience an AI-mediated future — not just hear about it
Prof. Dr. Joseph Press, design futurist and Vice Dean of Academics at the SUES School of Design, will open our session by forecasting life in the agentic era, drawing on the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies' Future of Tech 2.0.
Working from his forthcoming book, Agentic Creative Intelligence (Routledge, December 2026), Joseph will engage with an agent as it navigates business challenges.
But this will not be another session simply talking about AI. Participants will experience an AI-mediated future in action: collectively sensing the signals that matter, watching a working AI agent operate inside a simulated business, and using AI to synthesise the perspectives emerging from the room.
Through interactive sensing and reflection, the session will help senior leaders separate structural signals from noise and translate foresight into decisions they can act on now.
Six lenses on the AI-mediated world
Signal vs. Noise
Which shifts in the emerging AI-mediated world are structural, and which are simply noise?
The Three Horizons
How can leaders think across improve, reorganise and re-imagine?
AI as an Accelerator
Experience rather than simply hear about agentic organisations, generative commerce and AI moving into the physical world.
Futures-Driven Innovation
What should leaders and organisations decide today, working backwards from the future?
Collective Intelligence
Contribute to a shared picture of the leadership and organisational needs emerging over the next 2–3 years.
AI-Mediated Sensemaking
Experience how AI can augment the collective intelligence of a room in real time.
YOU · YOUR ORGANISATION · YOUR STRATEGY – translate foresight into concrete decisions across three levels.
Evening programme
Arrival & Welcome
Doors open at CEIBS Zurich Campus. Meet fellow participants and get settled before the session begins.
WHAT FUTURES — Signal vs. Noise
Drawing on CIFS Future of Tech 2.0, Joseph opens with a rapid scan of the emerging AI-mediated world: which shifts are structural, and which are noise? A live audience sensing exercise brings the room into the conversation from the start.
WHAT NEXT — AI as Accelerator
See AI in action through a live agent demonstration inside a simulated company, bringing emerging shifts such as agentic organisations, generative commerce and physical AI to life.
WHAT NOW — Futures-Driven Innovation
Turn foresight into action using the three-horizons lens — improve, reorganise, re-imagine — and consider what today's shifts mean for YOU, YOUR ORGANISATION and YOUR STRATEGY.
Collective Sensing
The room becomes the content. Through live audience input, participants identify the capabilities and decisions they believe organisations need to protect and grow over the next 2–3 years.
Q&A & AI-Powered Collective Intelligence
An open audience Q&A, followed by a live AI synthesis of the room's input into a shared future snapshot — experiencing AI-mediated collective sensemaking first-hand.
Lakeside Apéro & Networking
Continue the conversation over drinks and canapés overlooking Lake Zurich. An optional AI agent station will remain available for participants to explore the simulated company and interact with the agent directly.
Prof. Dr. Joseph Press
Prof. Dr. Joseph Press
Prof. Dr. Joseph Press is Vice Dean of Academics at the SUES School of Design, where he leads the integration of AI agents into the school's innovation initiatives and its educational transformation.
A design futurist with a PhD from MIT, he is an Associated Partner at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and an affiliate of the Institute for the Future.
He is the author of Agentic Creative Intelligence (Routledge, December 2026), which makes the case for AI built to develop human capability rather than replace it.
Because understanding that AI will transform business is no longer enough
The more difficult leadership challenge is determining which signals matter, what capabilities to protect and grow, and what decisions to make today.
See What's Coming
Explore CIFS's latest foresight on the AI-mediated world and distinguish structural signals from short-term noise.
Experience AI, Don't Just Hear About It
Watch a working AI agent navigate business challenges and experience AI-mediated collective sensemaking live in the room.
Turn Foresight into Decisions
Apply the three-horizons lens across YOU, YOUR ORGANISATION and YOUR STRATEGY — moving from future possibilities towards decisions you can act on now.
Learn from the Room
Contribute to a shared 2–3 year picture of emerging leadership and organisational needs, and compare your priorities with those of fellow senior leaders.
High-Quality Networking
Continue the conversation with Joseph, fellow executives and the CEIBS community over a relaxed two-hour lakeside apéro — with the opportunity to interact directly with the AI agent.
Participants will leave having:
- Separated structural signals from noise across the CIFS AI-mediated forecast.
- Worked with the three-horizons lens — improve, reorganise, re-imagine — as a leadership habit.
- Seen AI as an accelerator of other shifts, demonstrated live rather than simply described.
- Translated foresight into concrete decisions across YOU, YOUR ORGANISATION and YOUR STRATEGY.
- Contributed to a shared 2–3 year picture of leadership and organisational needs emerging in the room.
- Experienced AI-mediated collective sensemaking first-hand.
- Developed a clearer view of the coming AI-mediated world and what it may mean for you and your organisation.
Participants will also receive a one-page takeaway structured around YOU, YOUR ORGANISATION and YOUR STRATEGY — beginning with the signal that matters most and ending with one decision to start within 30 days.
