# Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work

> Session, Thursday 12 November, 11:55 to 12:15, Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FIL. Part of the official Web Summit programme.

*Source: <https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/events/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work/index.html> · site v0.1.12 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.*

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| **When** | Thursday 12 November, 11:55 to 12:15 (Lisbon time) |
| **Where** | [Stage 13](../../places/stage-13/index.md), [MEO Arena and FIL](../../places/meo-arena-and-fil/index.md), [Parque das Nações](../../places/parque-das-nacoes/index.md), [Lisbon](../../places/lisbon/index.md), [Portugal](../../places/portugal/index.md) |
| **As the source puts it** | Stage 13 (AI Summit), MEO Arena and FIL |
| **Kind** | Session |
| **Organiser** | [Web Summit](../../organisations/web-summit/index.md) (the official programme) |
| **Part of** | [Web Summit Lisbon 2026](../web-summit-lisbon-2026/index.md) |
| **Track** | AI Summit |
| **Our pick** | Yes: the team chose to follow it |

## Speakers {#speakers}

As the event's page lists them: name, role, organisation.

- [Jacob Lauritzen](../../people/jacob-lauritzen/index.md), CTO, [Legora](../../companies/legora/index.md)
- [Niall Firth](../../people/niall-firth/index.md), News Editor, [MIT Technology Review](../../organisations/mit-technology-review/index.md)

## Companies and organisations {#companies}

- [Legora](../../companies/legora/index.md): named by the session page; a speaker is listed under it.

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [websummit.com/sessions/lis26/fad36198-b0af-4295-bec3-b7671b62e786/beyo](https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/fad36198-b0af-4295-bec3-b7671b62e786/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work/), read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky. Via the team's data/events.json, re-checked at the source.

Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change: check the source before you go.

The same, as data: [events/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work.json](../../api/v1/events/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work.json) and its graph, [graph/events/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work.json](../../api/v1/graph/events/beyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)).

[All events](../index.md)

[Open Beyond the model: Scaling AI agents for professional work in the graph](https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/graph/?focus=event%3Abeyond-the-model-scaling-ai-agents-for-professional-work)

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