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Nordic Blockchain Conference 2023

September 6-7 – Denmark
Nordic Blockchain Conference (NBC) unites the largest web3 network in the nordics with the global community. They bring together industry experts, thought leaders, educators and professionals to explore the possibilities and opportunities within the web3 space and beyond. NBC creates a container to enable connection and collaboration between professionals and businesses from all over the world.

CogX Summit 2023

September 12-14 – United Kingdom
CogX Summit brings together change makers in business, government, science and academia to understand the biggest transformational opportunities of our time, identify the challenges we must overcome along the way, and address the critical question of how to move forward.

Intelligent Health 2023

September 13–14 – Switzerland
Intelligent Health is back to bring together the global AI and health communities to advance discussions on how to apply AI and drive technological collaboration in healthcare.

TechBBQ 2023

September 13-14 – Copenhagen
TechBBQ is for entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts looking for an intimate, well-designed and educational experience; the main goal being to support and strengthen the Nordic ecosystem by fostering growth for startups and scaleups. Their annual summit creates an environment where you can encounter pioneering startups within the ecosystem, engage in conversations about the latest trends, network amidst a warm and lively atmosphere, draw inspiration from influential speakers, and indulge in a classic BBQ experience.

Infobip Shift 2023

September 18-19 – Croatia
It’s a 2-day multistage hybrid conference dedicated to people passionate about software, continuing the tradition of delivering interactive, engaging, and exciting content. You can expect multiple tracks, to learn from extraordinary minds, engage in virtual experiences, prospect from an exhibit hall, and expand your network during afterparties.

CRYPTOVSUMMIT 2023

September 18-19 – United Arab Emirates
CRYPTOVSUMMIT brings together the policymakers, leaders, and innovators of the metaverse to discuss a wide range of topics. It’s a premier conference for anyone interested in cryptocurrency and related technologies. Part of what makes it so significant within the context of metaverse events is its convergence of expertise and subject matter. CRYPTOVSUMMIT’s workshops and lectures can teach you everything you need to know about where cryptocurrency is right now. And the expert speakers will also offer panel discussions and presentations to show what new groundbreaking developments are on the horizon.

B2B Rocks 2023

September 19 – France
The B2B Rocks event is the culmination of the SaaS community’s online activities and content bringing together 1,500 entrepreneurs, investors, and executives for a conference giving internationally-focused SaaS leaders access to the people and ideas shaping our industry.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

September 19-21 – USA
The original startup conference — stays fresh, relevant and focused on founders, investors, and the future of tech year after year. Whether you’re a startup rookie learning the ropes, a seasoned investor searching for the next big thing, or a founder hell-bent on changing the world – Disrupt delivers the tools, knowledge, and connections to help you make it happen.

France Digitale Day 2023

September 20 – France
The France Digitale Day (#FDDay) is one of the most exciting startup meet-ups in France. The 11th edition will take place on September 20, 2023 in Paris.  Every year, FDDay brings together over 2,500 founders and investors from across France and Europe to discuss the latest trends in business, tech and society in a unique, village-like venue in the heart of the French capital.

Motion by Electronomous 2023

September 20 – Ireland
Meet founders, investors, Mobility Startups, OEM’s, Tier 1s and technologists who are helping shape Future Mobility. Prepare for one action-packed day of hands-on workshops, demos, tours, test drives, deep dive sessions and robust panel debates led by thought leaders & luminaries of the mobility, automotive and aviation industry.

DMEXCO 2023

September 20-21 – Germany
DMEXCO is one of Europe’s leading digital marketing & tech events, with numerous sessions covering a myriad of topics, allowing you to experience the leading minds and groundbreaking topics of digital business live on stage.

Speedinvest Marketplace Conference

September 21 – Germany
Discover the latest trends, explore the newest technologies, and learn from real-world success stories while diving deep into the exciting and ever-changing world of marketplaces. This is your chance to level up your marketplace game and future proof your business.

Metaverse Summit 2023

September 21-22 – France
Metaverse Summit is set to explore and build the future of the metaverse by gathering entrepreneurs, investors and experts from 3D, VFXGaming, VR, AR, Web3 and beyond. They aim to share and transmit knowledge in the most sustainable way possible in order to develop a more decentralized, fertile future for the metaverse.

Bits & Pretzels 2023

September 24–26 – Germany
Bits & Pretzels Founders Festival is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and supporting their growth by facilitating robust connections with potential investors, customers, and employees. They remain vigilant across various industries, constantly seeking out unique opportunities.With more than ten years of invaluable experience, they have played a pivotal role in fueling the growth and success of numerous businesses.

TechChill Milano 2023

September 25–27 – Italy
TechChill Milano 2023 will span Day 0 (pre-events) and 2 main event days. In its second year, the conference is expected to host around 50+ experienced, handpicked speakers, over 1.3k attendees, 100+ international investors, and 200+ diverse startups. They offer a variety of side events, networking opportunities, workshops, and exclusive parties. There will be multiple VIP invitation-only events, including ecosystem overviews, VIP networking, a speakers’ dinner, investors’ dinner, and official parties.

SOSV Climate Tech Summit 2023

September 26-27 – Worldwide
Climate tech startups are playing a vital role in the fight against climate change and this is their forum. The SOSV Climate Tech Summit aims to convene the climate tech startup ecosystem of founders, investors, technologists, corporates, policymakers and media to discuss the extreme challenges ahead. In parallel with the summit, SOSV operates a VC-Founder matchup for qualified investors and founders, which last year generated more than 1500 meetings.

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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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