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Selected Events: May 2023

Suzanne Newman Suzanne Newman
April 19, 2023

NFT Tallinn

May 8-10 – Estonia
NFT Tallinn features speakers across the different corners of the Web3 industry with firesides, keynotes, panels, workshops, expo arena, pitch competitions, creative installations, performances and more.

PAUA Paris

May 12-13 – France
PAUA is a gathering of entrepreneurs, explorers of consciousness and conscious business leaders. PAUA’s mission is to explore uncharted territories, rediscovering ancient and unveiling new technologies that offer a broader and richer perception of reality.

Podim

May 15-17 – Slovenia
The main focus of the event is to connect startups with investors, potential customers, and partners, as well as to provide a platform for networking and learning from industry experts. The event features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, pitching competitions, and one-on-one meetings.

Digital Construction Week

May 17-18 – UK
The event features a diverse range of activities, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, interactive workshops, live demonstrations, and exhibitions. It covers various topics related to digital innovation, such as building information modelling (BIM), virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), drones, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and smart cities.

Digitalk Conference

May 17 – Bulgaria
In its 2023 edition, Digitalk will present people, innovation and technology breakthroughs that will drive humanity and businesses forward. Ambitious companies will not try to build a bridge to the past, but instead, embrace the disruption and use their investments and best ideas to design a new future.

Women in Tech Global Summit

May 22-23 – France
The Women in Tech Global Summit is an annual conference that aims to promote gender diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. The event brings together women from around the world who work in technology or are interested in pursuing careers in the field. The summit features a variety of activities, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to women in technology, such as leadership, career development, entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, and emerging technologies.

EcoMotion Week

May 22-24 – Israel
EcoMotion Week is an annual event that takes place in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is considered the largest smart mobility gathering in the world. The event brings together startups, investors, policymakers, and industry leaders from around the globe to discuss the latest trends and innovations in the smart mobility industry.

Innovate4Climate

May 23-25 – Spain
I4C 2023 will bring together the public and private sectors to turn up the volume on innovative climate solutions across finance, markets, policy and technology. Participants will have the opportunity to connect with leaders driving climate ambition, learn about cutting-edge approaches to accelerate climate action, and identify new investors, customers and partners.

Tech.eu Summit

May 24 – Belgium
Tech.eu Summit is an annual conference that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and industry experts from across Europe to discuss the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in the European tech ecosystem.The event features a range of activities, including keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to the European tech industry, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity, fintech, and digital health.

Latitude59

May 24-26 – Estonia
Latitude59 is an annual startup and tech conference that takes place in Tallinn, Estonia. The event brings together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and industry experts from around the world to discuss the latest trends and developments in the European startup ecosystem. The event features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, pitching competitions, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, e-governance, and sustainability.

Infoshare

May 24-25 – Poland
Infoshare is an annual technology conference that takes place in Gdansk, Poland. The event brings together entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and other stakeholders from around the world to discuss the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. The conference features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, startup pitches, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to technology and entrepreneurship, such as artificial intelligence, fintech, e-commerce, and cybersecurity.

ChangeNOW

May 25-27 – France
ChangeNOW is an annual global summit that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and thought leaders from around the world to discuss and promote solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. The conference aims to inspire and facilitate positive change by showcasing innovative and sustainable initiatives and promoting collaboration among stakeholders. The conference features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and exhibitions. It covers various topics related to sustainability, social impact, and innovation, such as circular economy, climate change, clean energy, and social entrepreneurship.

EMERGE Conference

May 28-29 – UAE
Started in Belarus in 2018, EMERGE conference has become the hotbed for tech, founders, community leaders, bigger companies and investors from across the New East — including countries from Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia.

ViennaUP

May 30 – June 7 – Austria
ViennaUP’23 is a decentralized community-driven festival blooming in the heart of Europe. Initiated by the Vienna Business Agency, this exciting adventure connects startup ecosystems, businesses, founders, investors, tech enthusiasts, creatives, and visionaries. This year, they are looking forward to a nine-day experience emerging out of the cooperation with 30+ program partners, resulting in 50+ opportunities to network, pitch, invest, develop and hack the code.

Dublin Tech Summit

May 31 – June 1 – Ireland
The event brings together entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and other stakeholders from around the world to discuss the latest trends and developments in the technology industry. The conference features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, startup pitches, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to technology and entrepreneurship, such as artificial intelligence, fintech, e-commerce, and cybersecurity.

Web2Day

May 31 – June 2 – France
The Web2Day Conference is an annual technology and innovation event that takes place in Nantes, France. The conference brings together entrepreneurs, investors, developers, and other stakeholders from around the world to discuss the latest trends and developments in technology and innovation. The conference features a diverse program that includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and networking sessions. It covers various topics related to technology and innovation, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, design, e-commerce, and entrepreneurship.

GITEX AFRICA

May 31 – June 2 – Morocco
GITEX AFRICA, the continent’s largest all-inclusive tech event, will connect tech titans, governments, SMEs, startups, coders, investors and academia, to accelerate, collaborate and explore new ventures. A curation of emerging technologies from fintech, e-commerce, cloud, IoT, AI, telecom to cybersecurity will be heavily featured during the three-day annual pan-African forum in Marrakech, Morocco.

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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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