Elena Poughia

Europe’s fragmented transport market is often treated as a structural weakness. For Omio CTO Tomáš Vocetka, however, that complexity may become an advantage as AI systems increasingly depend on accurate data, interoperability, and reliable infrastructure. Omio connects thousands of transport providers across dozens of markets, bringing rail, bus, ferry, and air travel into a single booking experience.

The AI market still has extraordinary valuations, but the investor conversation is changing. The next test is not whether startups can tell a big story. It is whether they can turn experiments into enterprise deployment. The AI market is still hot, but the questions are changing Infrastructure spending is rising AI investment has not slowed into caution. If anything, the market is still moving at extraordinary speed.

Europe’s AI opportunity is becoming clearer at the enterprise layer, where adoption depends less on abstract model power and more on solving the practical problems that decide whether AI can actually be used. Enterprise AI is moving into the hard parts The easy version of enterprise AI is a demo. The hard version is everything that happens after the demo works.