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Tess Lawrence Tess Lawrence
May 23, 2022

Hinterland of Things Conference

June 1 – Germany
1,300 selected C-Level innovators will come together in Bielefeld. Meet some of the most important shapers of innovation in Germany. Join the selected group of CEOs of traditional companies, founders of unicorns and soon-icorns, investors, editors as well as facilitators of change.

Lead Today. Shape Tomorrow.

June 1-2 – Austria
One of Europe’s leading events for female entrepreneurship, creating meaningful connections between more than 2,500 participants in a hybrid format. It’s where startup & tech opinion leaders come together to contribute to an ecosystem with equal opportunities for everyone.

Web2Day

June 1-3 – France
A conference about questioning the impacts of Tech. To offer a unique experience to their festival-goers has always been their motto.

Arctic15 Helsinki

June 7-8 – Finland
Arctic15 is one of the most efficient startup conferences in the Nordics & Baltics and provides you with the best meeting place to build relationships and make deals.

SaaStr Europa 2022

June 7-8 – Spain
Join 2,500 other SaaS-lovers in the heart of Barcelona to learn the playbook on how to go from $0 to $100m ARR with less stress and more success.

Money 20/20 Europe

June 7-9 – Netherlands
This is the place where the industry moves forward. From global leaders to new challengers and from tech giants to scrappy startups.

Rise of AI Conference

June 8 – Germany
A popular B2B expert conference for artificial intelligence. Exclusively for 200 invited guests on-site and unlimited virtual participants. The main focus this year is sustainable AI.

South Summit

June 8-10 – Spain
2022 will be South Summit’s 10th anniversary. To celebrate it they’re preparing the best edition to date. Connect with key players in the ecosystem, find business opportunities and meet new talent, all in one place.

App.js Conf

June 8-10 – Poland
App.js Conf is a react native and expo-focused event, where you can learn straight from the creators of those technologies and connect with a community of mobile devs from all around the world. A full day of practical workshops and 2 days of informative talks and networking.

SummerSaaS

June 9 – Virtual
SummerSaaS is an online event for seed-stage SaaS companies from Emerging Europe, Finland and Israel. This year, a new pitch track for tech startups operating in Ukraine will be organized. With attendees choosing the price to pay for their tickets, all the proceeds will be donated to the winner of the pitch competition!

B2B Rocks 2022

June 9-10 – France
This year’s main B2B Rocks event is the culmination of the SaaS community’s online activities and content; gathering 1,500 entrepreneurs, investors and executives for a 2-day face-to-face conference giving internationally-focused SaaS leaders access to the people and ideas shaping the industry.

CogX Festival

June 13-15 – UK
One of the largest global gatherings of CEOs, academics, activists, entrepreneurs and policymakers to help get the next 10 years right.

SuperVenture 2022

June 14-16 – Germany
Not just another tech event. SuperVenture gives you three days full of insight and networking focused on VC and LP perspectives.

MET AMS

June 14-17 – Netherlands
The event will explore different aspects of metaverse culture, from how NFTs and the metaverse are impacting every industry – from art and music through to fashion and gaming – as well as covering important topics like diversity, inclusion and sustainability.

Dublin Tech Summit

June 15-16 – 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

June 15-18 – 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.

TNW Conference

June 16-17 – Netherlands
The Next Web Conference is where founders, investors, corporates, and governments unite to discover the future of technology, now.

Collision

June 20-22 – USA
Collision is “America’s fastest-growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit.

Selfmade Summit 2021

June 22-23 – Iceland
Selfmade Summit is a new conference created for women entrepreneurs who are building and scaling online businesses. Women who have used their skills and passions to create online programs and courses to help people without being restricted by location.

hub.berlin

June 22-23 – Germany
‌‌‌‌‌With 8,000+ digital experts, hub.berlin is one of the most important tech festivals in Europe. On two days full of inspiring keynotes, workshops, live tech experiences, digital art, and an unforgettable club night, we create a vibrant community with a lasting impact on the digital transformation in Europe!

Digital Marketing World Forum (#DMWF)

June 23-24 – UK
DMWF Global returns to London for a must-see hybrid conference and exhibition bringing together the brightest minds in digital marketing.  Two days of top-level strategic content and digital marketing insights, networking, and discussions from the world’s most reputable brands.

Influencer Marketing World

June 23-24 – UK
A conference for savvy and creative marketers, looking to take their influencer marketing campaigns to the next level! Brought to you by MarketingTech News, Influencer Marketing World is set to bring together a community of senior marketing professionals offering unparalleled, thought-provoking sessions from industry experts

European Blockchain Convention

June 26-28 – Spain
Meet with the startups, investors, corporates and developers changing the world.  Right at the heart of Barcelona, the event will feature 100+ speakers across a variety of panels, keynotes, workshops and fire-side chats on the current state of blockchain, crypto, DeFi, NFTs, and Web 3.

MWC Shanghai

June 29 – July 1 – China
Since the first edition of Mobile World Congress in China, the GSMA has successfully convened the industry, governments, ministers, policymakers, operators and industry leaders across the broader ecosystem. MWC Shanghai has grown to a three-day international event, attracting senior executives and companies from a wide range of vertical industry sectors to the region.

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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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