Liz Carolan is a Tech Policy Press fellow.Taoiseach Micheal Martin and European Commission President Ursula von der speaking during a press conference in the Main Quadrangle at University College Cork, as Ireland begins its presidency of the EU Council. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire IRISH (Press Association via AP Images)As Europe enters the final stages of negotiating the Digital Omnibus, Ireland is preparing to welcome the world’s top technology executives to an exclusive AI summit in Dublin next week. Ireland is currently chairing the final stages of negotiations over the package of measures designed to “simplify” Europe’s rulebook.The one-day International AI Summit will take place at the Royal Dublin Society, a cavernous, historic venue a few hundred meters from the US Embassy. It will be attended by at least three European Commissioners, four Irish Ministers, and an undisclosed number of European officials. Prominent speaking slots at the event will feature US AI firms Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, with Meta, IBM, Intel, Nvidia, Amazon, Anthropic and AMD also represented on panels, alongside major European-founded firms like Stripe, SAP and Mistral.The summit has been positioned as a centerpiece of Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the six-month rotating chairmanship of the body that represents member-state governments. It comes as the European Union is modifying its regulations to increase global competitiveness, a process it calls…

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