The Iprova AI-Assisted Invention Summit 2026 at IMD Business School convened senior leaders from Microsoft, IBM, Sony AI, Dassault Systèmes, STMicroelectronics, Capgemini Invent, Nestlé, OECD and other global organisations for a day of discussion and insight into the future of AI-assisted invention.

Through keynote presentations, expert panels and industry discussions, participants explored how AI-enabled knowledge discovery, scientific discovery and simulation are reshaping the way breakthrough products and technologies are conceived, developed and commercialised.

A major highlight of the summit was an exclusive preview of Invention Voyager, a new AI-assisted invention product presented by Microsoft and Iprova ahead of its public launch.

Across the day, five themes emerged consistently:

• Human agency is becoming more important, not less

• The role of inventors is moving “up the stack”, with AI agents supporting research, discovery and hypothesis generation

• AI is enabling not just more inventions, but inventions with greater strategic and commercial value

• Frontier firms invent not by chance, but by design

• As invention cycles compress, speed is becoming a critical competitive differentiator

The summit marked Iprova’s largest AI-Assisted Invention Summit to date, reflecting growing global interest in how AI is transforming the future of invention.For more information or to continue a conversation from the day, contact hello@iprova.com.