# Open vs closed: The debate defining the AI era

> Session, Wednesday 11 November, 11:55 to 12:25, Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FIL. Part of the official Web Summit programme.

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| **When** | Wednesday 11 November, 11:55 to 12:25 (Lisbon time) |
| **Where** | [Stage 11](../../places/stage-11/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 11 (Policy 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** | Policy Summit |
| **Our pick** | Yes: the team chose to follow it |

## Speakers {#speakers}

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

- [Chon Tang](../../people/chon-tang/index.md), Founding Partner, [SkyDeck Ventures](../../organisations/skydeck-ventures/index.md)
- [Alvin W. Graylin](../../people/alvin-w-graylin/index.md), Prof. AI Policy at UW / Digital Fellow, [Stanford HAI](../../organisations/stanford-hai/index.md)
- [Carmem Domingues](../../people/carmem-domingues/index.md), Former White House Senior AI Advisor, AI Techno-Realist, [Future Government Institute](../../organisations/future-government-institute/index.md)
- [Neil Lawrence](../../people/neil-lawrence/index.md), Co-founder & Chief Scientist, [Trent AI](../../companies/trent-ai/index.md)
- [Amit Katwala](../../people/amit-katwala/index.md), Features Editor, [Wired](../../organisations/wired/index.md)

## Companies and organisations {#companies}

- [Trent AI](../../companies/trent-ai/index.md): a speaker is listed under it.

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0a834d30-6d0c-49ed-986c-6e2eed88f8ab/open](https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/0a834d30-6d0c-49ed-986c-6e2eed88f8ab/open-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era/), 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/open-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era.json](../../api/v1/events/open-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era.json) and its graph, [graph/events/open-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era.json](../../api/v1/graph/events/open-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)).

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

[Open Open vs closed: The debate defining the AI era in the graph](https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/graph/?focus=event%3Aopen-vs-closed-the-debate-defining-the-ai-era)

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