Name: Autonomous Organisations: Starting Small - Floris Fok, Prosus
Start: 2026-09-18T16:20:00+0200
End: 2026-09-18T16:45:00+0200

17-18 September | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Autonomous Organisations: Starting Small - Floris Fok, Prosus

Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST

G104 + G105 (Level 1)

What does it take to let AI agents run a real business? Before handing over an entire restaurant, our team started with something much smaller: a network of vending machines.

In this session, we'll share what we've learned by giving AI agents responsibility for real world operational decisions, including pricing, inventory management, and marketing. The vending machine serves as a practical testbed for exploring how autonomous organizations behave under real customer demand, where mistakes have real consequences but the risks remain manageable.

We'll discuss how this work evolved from simulated restaurant environments into live deployments, what worked, what failed, and why small scale experiments are the fastest path toward larger autonomous operations. We'll also look ahead to the next phase, including autonomous restaurants and the role robotics may play.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for experimenting with autonomous organizations, along with lessons learned from taking AI agents out of the lab and into the real world.

Speakers

Floris Fok

Staff AI Engineer, Prosus

Big hacker leading JetSki at Prosus here. JetSkis are smaller, more disruptive initiatives. Heavy AI/NLP backgrounds. Have coauthored Climate GPT: a Foundational Model. Have an engineering background and started with training LLMs the moment they were released many years ago.

Friday September 18, 2026 16:20 - 16:45 CEST
G104 + G105 (Level 1)

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