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November 18, 2022

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CES

Jan 5-8 – USA
CES is one of the most influential Tech events in the world — the proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators. This is where the world’s biggest brands do business and meet new partners, and the sharpest innovators hit the stage.

METAVSUMMIT

Jan 11-12 – UAE
METAVSUMMIT attracts investors from across Dubai and the Middle East. Investors attend to find investment opportunities in Metaverse and Web 3.0 companies & startups with the goal to find the next “Unicorn” company.

Digital Geospatial Intelligence

Feb 27-Mar 1 – UK
Network with your senior geospatial intelligence counterparts during our highly interactive sessions and over coffee, lunch, and drinks in our extended networking breaks. Join 50 solution-focused sessions led by national geospatial intelligence leaders and gain practical insights that address your biggest priorities and help you future-proof your national geospatial intelligence strategy.

MWC Barcelona

Feb 27-Mar 2 – Spain
MWC Barcelona is where leading companies and trailblazers share the latest topics relevant to the future. And the best place for networking opportunities with mobile and tech industry influencers.

Hello Tomorrow Global Summit

Mar 9-10 – France
Hello Tomorrow’s Global Summit in Paris is where some of the best startups, investors and key players in the scientific and technological ecosystems come together to exchange and compare their visions of innovations, to question their impact, and debate the ethical considerations, regulations and policies surrounding them.

TechChill Riga

Apr 24-26 – Latvia
Having grown from a small grassroots movement of like-minded tech enthusiasts, TechChill celebrates the best of the Baltic startup community by annually bringing together 2,000+ attendees, including the fastest-growing startups, most innovative corporations, investors active in the region, and talented tech enthusiasts.

JEC World

Apr 25-27 – France
Taking place in Paris, JEC World is one of the industry’s leading annual events, hosting all the major players in a spirit of innovation, business, and networking. Featuring hundreds of product launches, awards ceremonies, competitions, conferences, live demonstrations, and networking opportunities.

Energy Tech Summit

Apr 26-27 – Poland
This exclusive event is bringing the latest developments in energy and mobility convergence theme, debated by global industry leaders across 9 conference tracks. Energy Tech Summit focuses on quality content, context, and in-depth discussion accompanied by vast opportunities to network with a group of peers.

Tech.eu Summit

May 24 – Belgium
The Tech.eu Summit is bringing together 1,800 thinkers and doers to help shape the best possible future for the European innovation ecosystems. The key focus will be on sustainable growth.

Latitude59

May 24-26 – Estonia
Latitude59 is one of the flagship startup & Tech events of the world’s first digital society. But behind the long and flashy tagline, participants will be glad to find an intimate event with quality at its core. It’s the beloved highlight of the year for the whole Estonian tight-knit startup community.

ChangeNOW

May 25-27 – France
The ChangeNOW summit is one of the best accelerator events for a better world. Over 3 days, the summit puts the spotlight on the most concrete and innovative solutions to face the world’s biggest challenges.

Dublin Tech Summit

May 31 – June 1- Ireland
One of Europe’s fastest-growing Tech conferences, DTS sits at the heart of the international tech scene with Dublin now the EMEA base for some of the biggest global tech companies.

Viva Technology

Jun 14-17 – France
Acting as a global catalyst for digital transformation and startup growth, VivaTech attracts some of the best innovation actors to ignite positive change in business and society.

5G Expo Europe

Sep 26-27 – Netherlands
TechEx Europe will explore the latest innovations within AI & Big Data, Blockchain, 5G, Cyber Security, and IoT ecosystems. As well as covering the impact those technologies have on many industries including manufacturing, transport, supply chain, government, legal sectors, financial services, energy, utilities, insurance, healthcare, and retail.

Nordic DeepTech Business Summit

Oct 11-12 – Finland
Nordic Deep Tech Business Summit is a meeting spot for startups, research teams, investors, corporations, universities and research institutions, accelerators and incubators, talent, public organizations, and other key stakeholders. Startups and research teams connect with the funding, piloting opportunities, clients, business development experts and advisors, talent, and co-founders they need to propel their business.

Past Events

Codiax

Nov 10-11 – Romania
Codiax brings you the latest in deep tech, inviting technology pioneers from all around the world. The convergence of Frontier Hardware, AI, Blockchain, IoT, and VR & AR can multiply their potential and reach the next step in discovering deep technology.

PUZZLE X 2022

Nov 15-17 – Spain
From the bleeding edge of physics, food, 5G, genomics to fashion, energy, mobility, brain interfaces, IoT, infrastructure, and more, PUZZLE X brings the world’s biggest visionaries, industry leaders, innovators, forward-looking governments, and civil societies from all different domains to showcase, discuss and chart the future of citizens, cities, industries, and societies enabled by Frontier Tech.

Slush 2022

Nov 17-18 – Finland
Slush 2022 is all about connecting founders with what and whom they need while building a new, inclusive, and more purposeful culture of entrepreneurship.

Nordics AI Summit

Nov 29-30 – Sweden
Bridging the gap between the latest technological advancements and real-world applications in business and society. Hear from Expert Speakers on recent, relevant developments and applications of deep learning & machine learning across various industries, and ask them your questions in live Q&A.

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All four have spent the past decade at the frontier of reinforcement learning research, the discipline behind some of the most consequential demonstrations of machine learning over the past ten years. The company describes its objective as building a “superlearner” — an AI system capable of acquiring knowledge directly from its own experience rather than from human-generated text or imagery. “Our mission is to make first contact with superintelligence,” Silver said in a statement accompanying the launch. “We are creating a superlearner that discovers all knowledge from its own experience, from elementary motor skills through to profound intellectual breakthroughs.” The framing is a deliberate departure from the dominant industry trajectory. Most leading AI laboratories, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind itself, have built large language models trained primarily on the corpus of the internet, then refined that training with human feedback. Ineffable’s wager is that the marginal returns on scaling text-based pretraining are diminishing and that the next leap in capability will come from agents that learn endlessly from the consequences of their own actions, in much the same way AlphaZero learnt the game of Go without studying any human matches. Why $1.1 billion at seed The size of the round is unusual even by the inflated standards of the 2026 AI capital cycle. Two factors appear to explain it. First, frontier reinforcement learning at the scale Ineffable describes is computationally extraordinarily expensive: the company will need to operate vast simulation environments and train very large models against them, an undertaking that consumes capital at a rate closer to physical R&D than to traditional software. Second, the round signals a strategic move by Europe’s investor and policy ecosystems to retain the most ambitious AI researchers on the continent. The presence of the UK Sovereign AI Fund alongside Sequoia, Lightspeed and Nvidia is the clearest expression of that intent. The British government has publicly framed the investment as a bet on breakthrough AI that “can discover new knowledge”, positioning the country as a willing co-investor in domestic frontier laboratories. For Ineffable, the implication is access not only to capital but to compute, regulatory engagement and the still-resilient academic talent base around UCL, Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial. Founder pledge of historic scale Alongside the funding announcement, Silver disclosed that he is committing 100 per cent of any personal proceeds from his Ineffable equity to charity via the Founders Pledge network — described by the organisation as the largest pledge in its history. At the round’s $5.1 billion valuation, that commitment could ultimately exceed several billion dollars if the company succeeds. It is a meaningful gesture in a sector where the reputational stakes around concentrated AI wealth are escalating, and one likely to be referenced in subsequent founder-led commitments. Implications for the European AI landscape Ineffable’s emergence reshapes the European AI map in three concrete ways. It establishes London as the home of the continent’s largest-ever seed-stage company, complicating Paris’s recent narrative of frontier-AI primacy after Mistral’s earlier rounds. It validates a thesis — that reinforcement learning, not transformer scaling, is the next frontier — that has lately been losing capital share to language-model incumbents. And it confirms that the UK government is now willing to act as a balance-sheet co-investor in domestic AI laboratories, a posture much closer to the French model than to the predominantly grant-based regimes elsewhere in Europe. The execution risk is non-trivial. 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