Europe's AI economy and its energy transition have converged into a single strategic imperative. The EU is developing a Strategic Roadmap for Digitalisation and AI in the Energy Sector, with grid optimisation, industrial demand flexibility, and real-time system intelligence identified as the most urgent priorities. Hyperscalers committed more than $400 billion in capital expenditure in 2025 — and every megawatt of that compute must be powered. For Europe's energy-intensive industries, AI-driven energy optimisation is now a condition of market competitiveness under CBAM, not a future option. The question is who leads that transformation, over which infrastructure, and whether Europe builds a sovereign position or cedes it.

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AI & Energy Transition Europe 2027 (#AIETE2027) is where Europe's integrated energy system for the AI era gets designed. Scheduled for 13–14 April 2027 at WTC Rotterdam, 600+ senior leaders from energy majors, grid operators, AI hyperscalers, industrial consumers, infrastructure investors, and policymakers convene around a single agenda: designing the integrated energy systems that Europe's AI economy requires and its industrial base depends on. The summit advances four conversations simultaneously — AI-energy sovereignty; enterprise AI transformation at scale; multi-energy infrastructure anchored in Rotterdam's industrial port cluster; and the capital, innovation, and talent conditions Europe needs to reach competitive industrial reality by 2035.

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Co-located with Carbon Capture Europe Summit 2027 and SAF Europe Summit 2027, AIETE2027 anchors Rotterdam Energy Transition Week 2027 — the continent's most concentrated gathering of energy transition, industrial decarbonisation, and climate infrastructure leadership.