Lab to launch: launching Europe's AI future
Gathering the best AI researchers, data scientists, and technical AI builders to discuss the current state of AI, the path to AGI, and how we can turn more AI research into leading companies in Europe.
Agenda
18:00 – 19:00
Arrival & Welcome
19:00 – 19:30
“Lab to Launch”: Going commercial whilst giving back
A discussion on the importance of frontier AI contributions with Jakob, co-author of "Attention is All You Need" and major contributor to self-attention, now co-founder of Inceptive, and Marcel, who co-created Borg (Kubernetes' precursor) and is now co-founder of CUE Labs. Plus thoughts from Judith Dada, one of Europe's leading VCs, on how to balance commercial growth and research at scale while keeping what makes Europe's AI community unique at its core. Moderated by Tobias Halloran, Director, NVIDIA Startups EMEAI.
19:30 – 20:00
"Lab to Launch”: The future of Generative Vision
A technical talk by NVIDIA’s Tobias Lasser, leading DevTech for Europe and Prof. of AI at TUM.
20:00 – 22:00
Networking, Drinks & Nibbles
Speakers
Tobias Lasser, Manager AI Developer Technology, NVIDIA
Tobias Lasser leads NVIDIA’s AI DevTech team for Scalable Deep Learning. He previously headed the Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems research group at the Technical University of Munich, where he earned his PhD and degrees in computer science and mathematics, and where he continues to serve as a professor.
Jakob Uszkorzeit, CEO & Co-Founder, Inceptive
Jakob Uszkorzeit started Inceptive to enable a new generation of medicines, reminiscent of software, but running on our cells. Inceptive pursues this vision by learning life’s languages through a unique combination of cutting-edge AI and scalable biochemistry experiments. Before Inceptive, Jakob conducted deep learning research at Google Brain, including co-authoring the papers “Attention Is All You Need” and “An Image Is Worth 16x16 Words” that introduced the neural network architectures now at the core of virtually all modern AI models across language, vision and science. Earlier, he led the language understanding team behind Google Assistant and many Google Search features, and worked on Google Translate in its early days.
Marcel Van Lohuizen, CEO & Co-Founder, CUE Labs
Drawing on nearly two decades at Google, where he co-created Borg (Kubernetes' precursor), helped build the Go programming language, and researched why large-scale systems fail, Marcel created CUE to address the fundamental challenges of configuration management. Insights from his earlier research in symbolic AI enabled CUE to tackle issues such as eliminating the root configuration errors behind major service outages and providing strict guardrails for LLMs.
Tobias Halloran, Director, EMEAI Startups, NVIDIA
Tobias Halloran leads NVIDIA for Startups and Inception for EMEA and India. Previously, he built research driven AI startups to acquisition; led AI/ML Strategy and Business Development for AWS Startups and holds research degrees at the intersection of Philosophy and AI from Oxford University where he holds positions as a researcher at various AI labs.
Judith Dada, General Partner, Visionaries
Judith is a General Partner at Visionaries Club. Previously, she was General Partner at La Famiglia, a European seed stage venture capital fund investing into B2B technology companies that enable or disrupt large industries. In 2024, La Famiglia merged with US-based VC firm General Catalyst, where she worked as Partner. Judith focuses on enterprise and AI-driven business models. Her portfolio includes companies like Personio, Parloa, Orben, Buynomics, Ethon and Black Forest Labs. She started her career at Facebook, managing Amazon Europe’s product and marketing strategy and Facebook’s VC Initiative.