1–2 May 2027 · Westport · Co. Mayo

Two days in the room that's been missing.

Where AI's frontier meets the wild Atlantic.

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Why this room

There is no working meeting for the people in the middle of all this.

AI conferences are vendor expos. Policy conferences run two cycles behind. Alignment conferences are technical and narrow. There is no room where the people deploying this at scale, the people whose jobs are changing under them, and the people studying it can spend forty-eight hours in the same building figuring out what we do now.

So we built one. 150 people in person. An online cohort alongside, uncapped. By application.

Who is in the room

Three kinds of people. One condition.

01
Builders

The people writing this code.

Senior engineers, agent builders, researchers. Shipping weekly. Knowing what these systems actually do, versus what the demos say.

02
Deployers

The people deciding where it goes.

Ops leaders. Product directors. Partners at firms. Principals running pilots. Hospital CIOs. Government deployment teams.

03
The reshaped

The people whose roles are changing.

Junior engineers whose work has compressed. Copywriters retooled as editors. Paralegals migrating. People laid off in the last twelve months. Not on a wellness panel. In the working sessions.

Format

Capped at 150 in person. Dunbar's number, deliberately.

Dunbar's number. The cognitive ceiling on stable working relationships. Above it, the room fragments. Below it, the network is too thin to last the decade. The cap will not be raised.

In person

Two days in Westport, anchored on Mayo Day. Three working sessions. Half the schedule unstructured: walks, long-table dinners, held silences. Working meetings need air.

Online cohort, uncapped

A real tier, not a livestream. Time-zone honest. Same Slack, same follow-up, same two-year commitment as the room.

The Experiment

An AI summit organised, in significant part, by AI.

A working group of AI personas handles operations, curation and the meta-experiment itself, alongside the human convening team. If AI cannot help organise a thoughtful gathering about AI, the wider claims should be doubted. Mechanics and failure modes published openly. Team at fiveinnolabs.com.

The place

Westport. The land insists on slowness.

A small Georgian town on Clew Bay, at the foot of Croagh Patrick. Pilgrims, painters, writers, exiles, returners. The light is good. The weather changes every twelve minutes. The conversations get longer than they would in a city. The place is part of the format.

Westport, County Mayo. Photograph by Michael Mc Laughlin.
Westport · Co. Mayo · Ireland · Photography credit: Michael Mc Laughlin

Convening

A small circle holds the room.

Victor del Rosal

Convener

Victor del Rosal

fiveinnolabs · Author of Humanlike, Intelligent Things, Town Hall

Michael Mc Laughlin

Photographer

Michael Mc Laughlin

Former Mayor of Westport · Award-winning photographer

Partners

Civic, academic, programme.

Announcing as confirmations land

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What two days look like

Three working sessions. Half the schedule unstructured.

Friday 30 April 2027 · eveningSoft start.

19:00 Long-table dinner. Open to anyone arriving early. No programme. Open

Day one · Saturday 1 May · Mayo DayThe room finds itself.

09:30 Frame the room. The card on every chair. The question of the weekend. Open
10:00 Working session 01 · State of the art. What we are seeing on the ground in May 2027 from the people deploying it. Working
11:45 Hold. Thirty minutes of programmed silence and air. Walk the path. Read the synthesis from the morning. Hold
14:00 Working session 02 · Impact. Sectors, institutions, public policy at the moment of decision. Working
16:00 Synthesis. One page from each working session. Agreed / disagreed / decided. Synthesis
19:30 Dinner at a long table. The room eats together. Anchor

Day two · Sunday 2 MayThe room becomes a network.

08:30 Walking session. Croagh Patrick base or the Greenway. Ninety minutes on foot. Pairs and small groups. Walk
11:00 Working session 03 · What now. Decisions practitioners need to make in the next 24 months that they cannot make alone. Working
13:30 Open hour. Self-organised tables. Carry one question of yours into a room of two to five strangers. Open
15:30 The handoff. Each attendee names one person they will stay in touch with for the next two years. Contact details exchanged. Handoff
17:00 Close. The room thanks the room. Audience walks home through the lane. Close

Online cohort participates in the three working sessions and the synthesis output in real time, and joins the handoff via a parallel two-year network track.

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FAQ

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Why is the in-person room capped at 150?
Dunbar's number: the cognitive ceiling on stable working relationships. Above 150 the room fragments into cliques and the working-meeting structure breaks. Below it, the network the summit seeds is too thin to last the decade. 150 is the upper bound for a room where everyone can plausibly know everyone by the end of two days. The cap is deliberate and will not be raised. If demand exceeds 150 we will run a second summit.
Who is this for?
Practitioners using AI at the frontier of their work. Builders, deployers, the people whose roles are being reshaped, and a small number of researchers and reflectors. The filter is not a job title; it is a condition. Are you, this Wednesday morning, making decisions or experiencing decisions about AI in your work that you suspect are wrong, with nobody to talk to about it who is not paid to agree with you? If yes, the room is for you.
How do I attend?
Apply via the form on this page. Five plain questions. Acceptance signal within 14 days. The online cohort is uncapped and follows the same application flow.
Can I attend online?
Yes. The online cohort runs alongside the in-person room: uncapped, time-zone honest, and folded into the same post-summit network. It is a real tier, not a livestream of the room. Online cohort members participate in the working sessions and the synthesis output in real time, and join a parallel two-year network track from the handoff.
What is the schedule actually like?
About half the schedule is unstructured: walks, long-table dinners, held silences after panels. The other half is three working sessions, each ending with a one-page synthesis of what the room agreed on, disagreed on, and decided. There is a Friday-evening pre-summit dinner and a Day-Two morning walking session. Working meetings need air; we built it in.
What does "organised by AI" actually mean?
A working group of AI personas handles operations, curation, participant journey and the meta-experiment itself, alongside the human convening team. The mechanics, including the failure modes, will be documented openly during and after the summit. The point is not novelty; it is the honest test of the summit's central claim that the next ten years are easier to walk if you build a working human-AI network for them.
What is this not?
Not a vendor expo. Nobody is selling from the stage. Not a thought-leadership event. The schedule is structured around working sessions with deliverables, not keynote speeches. Not an AI-only crowd. Practitioners using AI at the frontier of their work include people whose roles have been reshaped or eliminated by it; they are in the working sessions, not on a wellness panel. Not a closed-doors insider summit. Application is open; the filter is a condition, not a network.
Why does the summit not have a final name yet?
A working name was parked because it carried unintended geopolitical readings. Naming sets meaning; we would rather take a few weeks to choose carefully than ship a name we will regret. Working name shown in the header; final name announcing soon.
Why Westport?
Because the land insists on slowness. Westport sits on Clew Bay, on the Wild Atlantic Way, with Croagh Patrick on the horizon. People have been coming here to think for a long time. The conversations get longer than they would in a city. The summit's discipline (half the schedule unstructured, walks programmed in, held silences after panels) only lands in a place that asks something different of you than a hotel ballroom does.
Sponsorship and partnership?
A small number of partner conversations are open with civic, academic and programme partners. No pay-to-stage. Email summit@fiveinnolabs.com with subject line Partnership.
Press?
Welcomed and curated. Email summit@fiveinnolabs.com with subject line Press.
Working draft notice. The summit name is not yet final; a working name is parked while we choose carefully. Photography is being co-curated with Michael Mc Laughlin and replaces stock imagery as it lands.