ORTHO.I® SPRINT LANDING IN EUROPE. Barcelona, October 2026.
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Invisible AI, Appliance-Agnostic Operational System, Human-AI Teaming Frameworks, In-office AI Clinical Monitoring. Your Reconstruction as an Orthodontist. Ortho.i® Sprint Europe, taking place in Barcelona this October 22- 24th, 2026
This program is deliberately not framed as another AI course. Plenty of webinars and certifications already promise to teach the newest tool or prompt technique, but tools have a short shelf life. Our Sprint is built around a more durable skill: learning to think differently about the practice itself, so that as individual technologies rise and fall, the orthodontist's judgment and leadership remain the constant.
A meaningful distinction runs through the whole experience, the difference between a practice that simply uses AI and one that is genuinely AI-first. Bolting automated imaging or an AI chatbot onto a decade-old workflow doesn't change much; it just adds new technology to an old operating model. An AI-first practice starts from a different premise, essentially rebuilding itself as if it were being designed today, with full awareness of what AI, digital tools, and modern patient expectations now make possible.
Central to this rebuild is the idea of Human-AI Teaming. Rather than framing AI as competition for the clinician, Ortho.i® treats it as a collaborator with complementary strengths. AI is well suited to processing large volumes of data, spotting patterns, and automating repetitive work, while judgment, empathy, ethics, and trust remain distinctly human contributions. The goal isn't to settle who is "better," but to design a practice where each does what it does best.
That philosophy extends to the patient experience through a principle Ortho.i® calls invisible AI, human-centered care. As practices become more technologically sophisticated behind the scenes, the experience patients actually feel should become simpler and more human appointments instead avoid them, shorter waits, clearer communication, more attentive time with the doctor. The intelligence becomes infrastructure; the relationship stays personal.
There's another mindset shift that sits alongside invisible AI, appliance-agnostic operational systems, and Human-AI Teaming frameworks, and it may be the one that will most impact on daily practice: In-office AI clinical monitoring, not necessarily remote. When monitoring works seamlessly within a broader Human-AI framework, it doesn't just add convenience, it starts to redefine the relationship between the professional and the patient itself, offering a genuinely different perspective from how most practices operate today. We devotes a dedicated session to exploring what this looks like. It's a distinction that matters most for orthodontists who want to become fluent in AI as a way of thinking, rather than simply using AI tools in the current digital workflow.
The program itself unfolds across five interconnected dimensions. A mindset shift from orthodontist to clinical decision architect; clinical intelligence, focused on extracting better decisions from the data practices already generate; patient intelligence, aimed at scalable yet genuinely personal communication; operational intelligence, which looks at the practice as a connected system rather than a collection of disconnected tools; and Human-AI Teaming, which works through the practical question of what should be delegated and what should never leave human hands.
Ortho.i® Sprint benefits from an innovative learning methodology developed by Prof Dr Adriano Araujo, PhD. Intentionally small and collaborative rather than a large lecture-style congress, participants work through unbiased real scenarios together rather than absorbing information passively.
Barcelona was chosen deliberately as the setting, a city where design, history, and technology sit comfortably alongside one another, offering the kind of environment that makes it easier to step back and reconsider a profession from the outside.
Targeted at orthodontists who sense the profession changing and want to respond with more than another software purchase, and for clinicians thinking about how your role, your team, your purpose, and your patient experience will need to evolve over the next several years, not just the next clinical case.
Ortho.i® Sprint Europe. Barcelona, 2026.
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