The Long-Term Strategy Conference 2026 (LTSP26) runs September 15 to 17, 2026, entirely virtually. Each day is built around a half-day block of programming, designed to be attended live where possible, with selected content available for replay. The schedule is structured to accommodate senior executives across multiple time zones without requiring a full-day commitment on any single date.
The two attendance tiers
LTSP26 offers two ways to participate.
The Visitor Pass is available on a pay-what-you-want basis, including at no cost. It provides access to a curated selection of sessions across the three days, along with immediate access to at least one live AI persona interaction upon registration — a first encounter with what process-driven AI assistance in strategy work actually looks like in practice. Interview Inez, one of the conference’s featured personas, is available to Visitor Pass holders from the moment of registration, before the conference opens in September.
The Full Ticket provides complete access to all sessions, all persona interactions, all practitioner-led content, and the full interactive layer of the conference experience. It is the appropriate choice for attendees who intend to engage with the conference as a working resource rather than a sampling experience.
Both tiers grant access to the conference platform from the date of registration.
What the programming covers
Every session at LTSP26 connects to the same central argument: AI cannot improve a strategy process that has not first been clearly understood. The programming is organized around that premise in three directions.
The first is diagnostic. Sessions in this track examine what Trendslop actually looks like inside a live strategy process — where it enters, which stages are most vulnerable, and why the hybrid trap (doing both, committing to neither) is the most common and least visible form it takes.
The second is structural. These sessions work through the stages of a rigorous strategy creation process, identifying where AI intervention adds genuine value and where it introduces noise. This is practitioner-led content drawn from real engagements, not hypothetical frameworks.
The third is applied. Attendees encounter working AI personas — each built for a specific subprocess within strategy creation, not for strategy as a whole. These are not demonstrations. They are usable instruments, and the sessions around them are designed to help attendees understand how to build or adapt equivalent personas for their own process context.
What it is not
LTSP26 is not a skills training event. Attendees will not leave with a certification, a completed prompt library, or a step-by-step implementation checklist. What the conference delivers is something that precedes all of that: a clear-eyed understanding of where process clarity ends and AI application can legitimately begin.
That distinction is the whole point.