Digitalk Conference

🔷 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘂𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Three years of headlines said the cycle was over. From the inside it looked different. SumUp scaled past 4 million merchants, with its main payments engineering hub anchored in Sofia. Payhawk became Bulgaria's first unicorn in 2022 and is now raising at a $2B valuation. Wise still ranks among Europe's most important financial infrastructure businesses, originally out of Tallinn. The category was never dead. It just stopped being interesting to write about.

The next chapter is starting now regional, operator-led, capital-backed.

At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, the investor and the founder behind one of the year's most-watched fintech bets sit down on stage together.

Alex Stroud, Partner at Concentric, the London fund that has been backing European fintech since 2013, with a portfolio of nearly 90 companies and a record of getting in early on operator-led teams.

Stoil Vasilev, CEO and co-founder of Paypercut, the Sofia-based BNPL aggregator that closed a €2M pre-seed in July 2025

For anyone building, investing or operating in this space - this is the conversation that maps what comes next.

🗓 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿
🎟 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

Антон Александров, INSAIT: Всеки може да използва локалния модел на BgGPT Разликата между отворените и затворените модели намалява, казва докторантът в българския AI институт

🟡 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱. 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗻. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁.

Two hundred years ago, only one in eight adults could read. Today, almost nine in ten can. The brains in between were quietly rebuilt. Reading rewired the brain. Maps rewired our sense of space.

𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸? 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘁?

AI is, no doubt, a force multiplier unlike anything in living memory, compressing drug discovery into seconds, giving small teams the leverage of large companies, opening categories of business that did not exist three years ago.

And yet, studies from MIT to the Lancet keep landing on one paradox: AI is already reshaping the people who use it - sharper outputs, weaker minds; more confidence, less judgment.

Because used as a starting point for thinking, AI multiplies the best minds in the room. But used as a substitute for it, it quietly erodes the capabilities that made them valuable in the first place.

Digitalk Conference + AI 2026 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 - 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁.

🗓 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿
🎟 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

Digitalk Conference + AI 2026 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆! ⏳

May is here, and the window to secure your spot at the year’s most anticipated AI event is closing fast. On June 9, join 800+ leaders at Sofia Event Center as we move beyond the hype to explore how AI creates actual business value today.

Now is the perfect time to secure your place and maximize your event experience. The Full Access ticket gives you the best of both worlds: join us live for in-person networking and workshops, or watch from anywhere via our high-quality stream. Plus, you’ll get full access to all session recordings and materials after the event.

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Be there in person, or join us online. Just don’t be left behind.

🎫 Book now: digitalkconference.com

Digithon: 8 часа, за да превърнете своята идея в компания Официалният хакатон на Digitalk събира разработчици и AI ентусиасти на 7 юни в WorkBetter за интензивен спринт по създаване на реални компании

🛡️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁. 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀.

Jailbreaks. Data leakage. Mass personal profiling at a scale no human team could ever execute. Dual-use models that are useful and dangerous in the same breath. Attacks on infrastructure that used to require nation-state budgets and now require a laptop. The dashboards everyone watches measure capability - but the harder question is what happens once that capability is loose in the world, and whether the systems we're racing to deploy are safe enough to trust with robotics, with cars, with critical infrastructure.

Maria Drencheva works on exactly this question.

A mathematician by training, gold at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad with a perfect score, long-time member of Bulgaria's national math teams, she became the first undergraduate from a Bulgarian university to publish at ICLR, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world. She did it as part of EXPLORER, Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology's bachelor's program in AI and Deep Tech, and spent her internship at Man Group.

At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, we're sitting down with her for a Q&A on what's actually emerging on the safety and security frontier - what INSAIT is building, where the real threats are, and what it looks like to do this work from Sofia, at the level the rest of the field is operating at.

𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗔𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲

Join us at Digitalk Conference 2026.

🗓️ 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 + 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🎫 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

💡 For three years, the AI conversation has lived inside a text box.

Prompt in, answer out. Reason, summarize, generate. Brilliant, but bodiless.
Meanwhile, in labs most people never see, a different kind of model is being trained - one that has to deal with gravity, friction, a cup that's slightly heavier than expected, a door that doesn't open the way the simulation said it would. Robotics foundation models. Intelligence that has to survive contact with the real world.

This is the frontier Nikolay Nikolov works on at Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology.

At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, he'll walk us through where Physical AI actually stands right now - what these models can do, where they break, and why the next decade of AI may be decided not by who writes the best chatbot, but by who teaches machines to move.

Look out for his keynote, "𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀".

Join us at Digitalk Conference 2026.

🗓️ 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 + 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🎫 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

👁️‍🗨️ 𝗪𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀.

What can be measured.
What fits into a dashboard.
What is easy to track.

But that is only part of the picture.

In practice, the most important signals often sit outside the visible layer: suppressed demand, rare risks, shifting behaviour, edge cases, uncertainty, intent. The things that shape outcomes, but rarely appear cleanly in the data.

AI changes how we approach this.

It expands what can be detected, inferred, and modelled. It allows organisations to move closer to the underlying reality of how systems behave, not only the part that is already structured and measurable.

At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, Daniel Dimanov, Principal Data Scientist at CountingLab, will explore this shift in his keynote and demo:

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲: 𝗔𝗜, 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆

A session about looking past the visible layer of data — and building systems that account for what is missing, uncertain, or not yet fully understood.

Join us at Digitalk Conference 2026.

🗓️ 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 + 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🎫 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. 🚀
At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, this will be part of the programme, not only a topic of discussion.

Boris Rangelov and Ivaylo Sekoulitchki, Lovable Ambassadors and Build Sprint facilitators, will lead a hands-on workshop focused on how AI can support faster thinking, clearer product structure, and practical prototyping.

The session is designed for people who want to understand AI through use: founders, product teams, marketers, business leaders, and everyone who works with ideas that need to become real.

This is where the practical side of Digitalk comes in. Alongside keynotes and conversations, the programme will include formats that help the audience test tools, explore workflows, and see how AI can support actual work.

🗓️ 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 + 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🎫 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com

Защо Digitalk 2026 изглежда различно от всички досега 15-ото издание на технологичната конференция на "Капитал" се завръща на 9 юни в Sofia Event Center

𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲. 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 💡

AI is changing the rhythm of the creative industry. Ideas multiply faster. Visual directions can be explored in minutes. Stories can be adapted, tested, and reshaped across formats before the first meeting ends.

That speed is powerful.
And it is demanding something new.

Because when ex*****on becomes easier, taste becomes more important. When variation becomes infinite, direction becomes the real craft. And when every brand can produce more, the real question is who can still produce meaning.

That meaning will come from the human layer: instinct, tension, memory, culture, humour, emotion- the things AI can imitate, but only people can truly understand.

At Digitalk Conference + AI 2026, Pavel Pavlov, Co-Founder and Design Director at Four Plus, Andreas Wegner, Co-Founder at futur2studio, and Martin Bonov, Founder at KICKFLIP, will lead the conversation:
𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻, 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴

A session on how brands remain recognisable, relevant, and intentional when everything can be instantly generated.

🗓️ 𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 · 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 + 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
🐦 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄 ➠ digitalkconference.com