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Selected Events: Summer 2023

Suzanne Newman Suzanne Newman
July 3, 2023

NFesT

July 4-6 – Spain
NFEST is an innovative and diverse festival with a fringe-style approach, occurring in various spots within the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain from July 4th to July 6th. Over the course of three days, attendees can expect an engaging program consisting of interactive panel discussions and workshops exploring various subjects related to web3, new technologies, and AI. The festival will also feature captivating live music performances, opportunities for yoga, meditation, and wellness activities, a dynamic exhibition showcasing live artistic displays, as well as dedicated sessions for networking and connecting with like-minded individuals

WALLIFORNIA

July 4-6 – Belgium
WALLIFORNIA, situated in the sunny city of Liège, Belgium, serves as an innovative Entertainment+Tech hub where startups, professionals, and investors collaborate to shape the future of their respective industries. With a primary focus on Music, Sports, Esports, and Gaming, WALLIFORNIA provides an ecosystem conducive to development and progress. It will bring together global professionals in the Music and Tech sectors. This summit is renowned for delivering inspiring talks on innovation, specifically tailored to startups, music professionals, and investors. Renowned speakers from diverse backgrounds, such as experienced professionals, successful entrepreneurs, visionary artists, and industry experts, generously share their valuable experiences and insights.

TOA Festival

July 5-6 – Germany
Join a vibrant community of over 5,000 curious minds in the heart of Berlin! Immerse yourself in a unique learning experience where you can gain invaluable insights from renowned founders, investors, operators, scientists, and creatives. An impressive lineup of speakers includes industry trailblazers such as Tao Tao, Sheel Mohnot, and Pia Mancini. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to expand your knowledge and network with the best in the field.

ETHBarcelona

July 5-9 – Spain
ETHBarcelona is a remarkable community-led passion project dedicated to the Ethereum blockchain, cryptocurrency, and decentralization. This vibrant initiative celebrates the values and spirit of the community while focusing on education, innovation, art, and creating positive social impact. At ETHBarcelona, our goal is to empower individuals by equipping them with the necessary tools to deepen their knowledge in blockchain technology. We believe in providing resources and opportunities for people to learn how to build impactful projects that can contribute to positive change in society.

Big Time Summit

July 7 – Cyprus
Embark on a journey into the future of web3, fintech, and AI, where groundbreaking innovations are shaping the world. Connect with visionary thought leaders, trailblazing entrepreneurs, and industry disruptors at our event. Get ready to gain invaluable insights and expand your network among the best in the field. Our distinguished speakers include Petr Kozyakov, Arthur Firstov, and Valeria Minaeva, who will share their expertise and vision for these transformative technologies. Don’t miss out on this extraordinary opportunity to be at the forefront of the next technological revolution. Reserve your place now!

Blockdown Festival

July 10-12 – Portugal
BlockDown Festival, the ultimate convergence of Web3 innovation and culture! Immerse yourself in an extraordinary experience where you’ll connect with industry pioneers, thought leaders, and visionary entrepreneurs. But that’s not all – alongside the insightful discussions, you’ll also get to indulge in a variety of captivating talent displays, captivating fashion shows, engaging gamification, and unforgettable epic parties. At BlockDown, they bring together the brightest minds and creative spirits to explore the frontiers of the digital world. Their esteemed speakers, including Robby Yung, Pär Helgosson, and Ida Kymmer, will share their expertise and groundbreaking insights, providing you with unparalleled knowledge and inspiration.

NFT Show Europe

July 14-15 – Spain
Immerse yourself in the European destination for web3, digital art, blockchain, and metaverse experts. Prepare to be enchanted by a multisensory experience that will leave attendees captivated. This unique event brings together visionaries and pioneers from various fields to explore the intersections of technology and creativity. Indulge in an array of interactive and experimental art installations that push the boundaries of imagination. Engage with thought-provoking discussions, workshops, and showcases that highlight the latest advancements in web3, digital art, blockchain, and the metaverse.

Stable Summit

July 15-16 – France
Paris is set to host a groundbreaking event where leaders from across the stablecoin ecosystem will gather for the first time. This unique occasion offers a platform for collaboration, networking, and sharing insights on building the future of finance. Join us as we bring together industry pioneers and visionaries who are shaping the stablecoin landscape. Immerse yourself in thought-provoking discussions and gain valuable insights from esteemed speakers such as Sam Macpherson, Robert Lauko, and Taylor Brent.

WebX Asia

July 25-26 – Japan
Explore the forefront of innovation in Web3, business, and investment. Gain valuable insights into the latest Web3 news, AI business information, crypto and financial assets, and participate in engaging business workshops led by Web3 industry leaders. Join us to hear from renowned speakers such as Fumio Kishida, Masaaki Taira, and Teana Baker-Taylor, who will share their expertise and vision for the future of technology and business.

World Blockchain Summit

August 2-3 – Singapore
Experience the power of collaboration and innovation at the World Blockchain Summit Singapore 2023, where global blockchain leaders, enterprise experts, and government officials come together to shape the future of web3. This prestigious event serves as a platform for networking, knowledge sharing, and forging impactful partnerships.

Techsauce Global

August 16-17 – Thailand
Techsauce Global Summit (TSGS) is widely regarded as one of Asia’s top 3 tech summits and the largest in Southeast Asia. It is where global tech businesses meet, build solid relationships, and make the real deal. Organized yearly by Techsauce since 2016, TSGS reunites all the tech sectors to show its best.

Coinfest Asia

August 24-25 – Bali
Coinfest Asia is an insight & networking festival focused on Crypto and Web3 ecosystem. This year’s theme will be #Converge to unite Web2 and Web3 companies through an immersive and festival-like conference. Coinfest Asia 2023 is inviting global industry players from Web2 and Web3 to showcase their Web2.5 convergence technology, find new partners, and promote & raise their brand awareness.

The Conference

August 29-30 – Sweden
The Conference is a two-day gathering in Malmö, Sweden. A thousand curious minds from all over the world meet to delve into the promises and pitfalls of human-machine-nature-and-more relationships.

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London-based AI laboratory Ineffable Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed on 27 April 2026. The financing is the largest seed round ever raised by a European company and one of the largest first-money-in rounds in the global history of artificial intelligence. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Participating investors included Nvidia, DST Global, Index Ventures, Google, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, the British government’s recently established vehicle for backing strategic AI capacity on home soil. A bet on a different path to general intelligence Ineffable Intelligence was founded in 2025 by David Silver, the former Vice President of Reinforcement Learning at Google DeepMind and the principal architect of AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar. He is joined by three further DeepMind alumni: Wojciech Czarnecki, Lasse Espeholt and Junhyuk Oh. 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. Reinforcement learning at frontier scale has historically required years of careful environment design before producing competitive systems, and Ineffable’s “first contact” framing sets a high bar against which it will be judged. But for now, with a billion dollars on the balance sheet, four of the discipline’s most accomplished researchers in the founding team and a sovereign co-investor at its back, Ineffable Intelligence is the most heavily resourced new entrant in the European AI cycle. Sesamers covers European fundraising rounds across deeptech, fintech and AI. Source: tech.eu.

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