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Intelligence Explosion
How AI Breaks Out of the Screen and Opens the Path to Superintelligence
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Artificial intelligence already feels omnipresent—but what we are experiencing today is only the beginning. In this keynote, Pieter Van Leugenhagen takes business leaders on a clear, visual, and at times confronting journey into the next phase of technology: the transition from AI to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and super intelligence.
We are living through a moment in which AI is spreading faster than any technology before it. Yet at the same time, Large Language Models (LLMs) are beginning to show their limitations. The real breakthrough will not come from systems that can merely talk and generate, but from AI that can see, hear, sense, and act in the physical world.
Using a simple but powerful framework—the four waves of AI (Perception, Generative, Agentic, and Physical AI)—Pieter explains how intelligence evolves, why Big Tech is investing heavily in AGI, and why hardware, wearables, and so-called large world models are the missing link.
What happens when intelligence breaks out of the screen and starts operating among people? What does this mean for work, organizations, leadership, relationships, and human meaning? And perhaps most importantly: is this a future we actually want?
This keynote deliberately balances between utopia and dystopia. It is neither a doomsday narrative nor a techno-evangelical pitch, but an invitation to think, to position, and to choose. Designed for leaders who understand that technology is no longer an IT issue, but a strategic and deeply human challenge.
No hype. No science-fiction futurism.
Just a clear framework to understand the next ten years—and to anticipate them more intelligently, starting today.
Target Audience
Executive leadership & C-level
Innovation, strategy, and transformation teams
HR & people leaders
Marketing & product teams
Policymakers and education leaders
Key Takeaways
A clear understanding of where AI truly stands today (and where it doesn’t)
Insight into the four phases on the road to AGI
Why LLMs fall short without physical and contextual grounding
The impact of AGI on organizations and human work
An ethical and strategic framework for making informed choices
Pieter Van Leugenhagen is the co-founder and Managing Partner of yondr, helping ambitious brands worldwide create AI-native, immersive, interactive, and spatial experiences and applications.
A pioneer in VR and AR, Pieter and his team have become a long-established authority in high-end 3D, interactive, and immersive content—spanning online platforms, trade show booths, experience centers, and brand activations. Yondr masters AI tooling and builds custom AI solutions that help organizations sell complex products and streamline services. This includes ‘spaces', a platform called Spaces, which allows marketing and sales teams to create visuals in minutes, at scale, and at the cost of a single 3D render per month. Teams work directly from CAD or 3D models to configure products, capture every variation from any angle in a digital studio, and place those visuals into brand aligned AI environments. This enables technically accurate, scalable visuals without relying on photoshoots or manual rendering.
Under his leadership, yondr continues to push digital experience design forward, developing real-time 3D environments, configurators and AI-native productions that redefine how brands connect across physical and digital worlds.
He is the author of Welkom in de Metaverse and Intelligence Explosion, released in March 2026, exploring the convergence of AI, wearables and the road toward AGI.
Pioneer in immersive tech and AI, helping organizations navigate the shift from digital experiences to AI-native worlds.
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