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August 26, 2022

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CES 2023

January 5-8 – USA
This is where the world’s biggest brands do business and meet new partners, and the sharpest innovators hit the stage. It is an opportunity for brands to collaborate, meet new partners and discuss major topics such as immersive tech of VR/AR and gaming, robotics, AI and machine learning, automotive, blockchain and cryptocurrency, NFTS, and a lot more.

METAVSUMMIT 2023

January 12 – UAE
Metavsummit is one of the largest Web3 events that helps crypto, NFT & metaverse companies come to Dubai to meet investors and strategic partners.

SXSW 2023

March 10-19 – USA
The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for the global community of digital creatives to encounter cutting-edge ideas, discover new interests, and network with other professionals who share a similar appetite for forward-focused experiences.

AIBC EURASIA 2023

March 13-16 – UAE
With the United Arab Emirates prioritizing bleeding edge technology through both opportunities for funding and attractive taxation schemes, we can imagine no better place for our lucky attendees to see a glimpse of the world of tomorrow. With the expo being a nexus of entrepreneurs and investors, they might just be part of this bright new future.

BLOCKCHANCE 2023

March 14-16 – Hamburg
BLOCKCHANCE® introduces blockchain and emerging technology for a positive and sustainable future. With an optimistic curiosity, it attracts and creates a community of like-minded people, thought leaders, and visionaries like Vitalik Buterin and Michael Saylor. The mission is to educate about social and economic perspectives and changes brought to us by blockchain technologies.

Virtuality Paris 2023

March 16-17 – France
Virtuality is the biggest Web3 and metaverse business event in Europe. The next edition will take place from March 16th until March 17th in the great venue of the Carreau du Temple, in the quarter of the Marais in Paris. During this week, expect hackathons, meetups, conferences, keynotes, workshops, diners and parties in outstanding venues all around the city.

Nvidia GTC 2023

March 20-23 – Virtual
NVIDIA GTC is more than an AI conference for developers. It’s a global experience that brings together thousands of brilliant innovators, researchers, creators, thought leaders, and decision-makers who are shaping our world with the power of AI, computer graphics, data science, and more.

NFT Tallinn 2023

May 5-10- Estonia
One of the largest Web3 events in Northern and Eastern Europe returns for it’s second year, with over 50 confirmed speakers including Wendy O, Mason Versluis, and Tom Crown, and 50 more TBC, this event will feature presentations, workshops, networking opportunities, and after-parties galore. NFT Tallinn is your bridge to Web3 in Europe.

Epic Web3 Conference

June 9 – Portugal
Epic Web3 Conference. The largest conference focused on the growth of Web3 products. Content valuable event with curated opportunities for networking and fundraising, learning and lead generation.

Metaverse Summit 2023

June 12-13 – France
Set to explore and build the future of the metaverse by gathering entrepreneurs, investors and experts from 3D, VFXGaming, VR, AR, Web3 and beyond, Metaverse Summit aims to share and transmit knowledge in the most sustainable way possible in order to develop a more decentralized, fertile future for the metaverse.

Metacon 2023

June 26-30 – South Korea
Metacon 2023 aims to explore new business opportunities in the metaverse including blockchain, NFTs, cryptocurrency and digital products. Metacon will attract partnerships and collaborations across industries and cultivate unique opportunities on the digital economy and the expansion of the metaverse.

NFesT Barcelona 2023

July 4-5 – Spain
NFEST is a captivating and interactive NFT festival that centers around the practicality of blockchain technology in diverse creative fields. With its immersive experiences and engaging activities, the festival spans three days of fringe-style activations across the city, nurturing a vibrant community centered around WEB3 and A.I.

ETH Barcelona 2023

July 5-7 – Spain
ETHBarcelona is taking place in one of the most beautiful and innovative cities in the world as a half-conference, half-culture/festival, with opportunities to connect with the most forward-thinking individuals in the blockchain industry.

Festival of the Future 2023

July 6-8 – Germany
A place to connect with trailblazing leaders, innovative founders of startups, influential investors, respected scientists, skilled artists, and passionate newcomers at the “Festival of the Future.” This event provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and understanding of the latest breakthroughs in AI, Life Sciences, Quantum Computing, New Space, Web3, Metaverse, Energy, Mobility, and ClimateTech. Immerse yourself in the latest technological advancements and let the blend of art, music, and an exceptional venue fuel your creativity and inspiration!

EthCC Week 2023

July 18-24 – France
EthCC will be one of the flagship events with more than 250 speakers coming from all over the world, multiple side events, meetups, panels and parties will take place on the same week in Paris. The EthCC Week is a moment of inclusive conversations, educational gatherings and welcoming celebrations.

SIGGRAPH 2023

August 6-10 – USA
SIGGRAPH is one of the premier conferences for computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. This year, we gather in person in Los Angeles and virtually to celebrate our diverse, global community and the stories, innovations, and industry advancements that make us SIGGRAPH.

European Blockchain Convention 2023

Oct 24-26 – Spain
Join 5,000+ attendees in a 3-day event and don’t miss the opportunity to meet with the startups, investors, corporates, and developers that are changing the world. Right in the heart of Barcelona, the event will feature 300+ speakers across a variety of panels, keynotes, workshops, and fire-side chats on the current state of Blockchain, Crypto, DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse, and Web3.

Augmented Enterprise Summit 2023

October 24-26 – USA
The Augmented Enterprise Summit, formerly known as EWTS, is the longest-running and most comprehensive event dedicated to the business and industrial applications of XR, wearables, and other emerging technologies, including AR/VR/MR, body-worn sensors, exoskeletons, digital twins, and more.

Web Summit 2023

November 13-16 – Portugal
Web Summit 2023 will be one of the largest Tech events in the world, bringing together founders and CEOs of technology companies, fast-growing startups, policymakers, and heads of state to ask a simple question: Where to next?

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Nebular Summit 2022

July 22 – France
Join Cosmos ecosystem developers, researchers and entrepreneurs as they discuss the challenges facing the Interchain and envisage the expanding Internet of Blockchains.

Seoul Meta Week 2022

Oct 4-6 – South Korea
Seoul Meta Week 2022 introduces a novel platform to create a blockchain-based ecosystem with collective values. Experts, creators, NFT artists & collectors will gather from across the globe to share their knowledge on the latest trends related to the metaverse, NFTs, Web3 and blockchain technology.

IIA Summit: Building Web3 2022

Oct 6 – USA
An exclusive, breakthrough event featuring the most innovative minds building the next generation of the Internet. Imagination in Action is based on the principal that innovation starts with a spark of inspiration. Speaker announcements coming soon.

Sustainable Blockchain Summit LATAM 2022

Oct 12 – Columbia
The Sustainable Blockchain Summit (SBS) seeks to catalyze projects that will better align the global economy with the natural world, and broaden the scope of our ambitions to encompass all planetary boundaries required to keep our world habitable. Join one of the world’s premiere forums at the intersection of web3 and the biosphere and help us solve these problems together.

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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. 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