AI meetup for frontier researchers and tech founders (EurIPS side event)
Are you building frontier AI? Scaling AI products? Conducting novel research?
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) and byFounders invite you to our tech meetup dedicated to cutting-edge AI engineering and infrastructure.
Whether you’re attending EurIPS or a part of Copenhagen’s blooming tech scene‚ we bring you the opportunity to connect and exchange knowledge with the leading names in the ecosystem - all in a relaxed yet hip setting.
Our theme is low-bit training (FP4), its impact on computational costs, and greater implications on ML research and AI productization.
Agenda
18:30 - Doors open
19:10 - Opening words
19:15 - Tech talk #1 -> NVFP4 Training on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra by Paul Chang, MLE at Verda
19:30 - Tech talk #2 -> Optimizing accuracy-vs-computation in native FP4 training for LLMs by Andrei Panferov, PhD Researcher at ISTA
19:45 - Tech talk #3 -> TBA soon
20:00 - Dinner, drinks, networking
21:00 - Doors close
Who should join?
Founders in AI-native startups and scaleups
AI Product Leaders looking to optimize and scale
ML Engineers working across use cases
AI Researchers working across academia and applied labs
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About Verda
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a Nordic provider of cloud infrastructure for frontier AI - powered by 100% renewable energy.
Verda is among the first to deploy NVIDIA's Blackwell and Blackwell Ultra systems in Europe.
Verda's AI team conducts R&D into efficient AI, from fault-tolerant training to world and media inference at scale.
About byFounders
byFounders is the community-powered early-stage venture fund investing in the New Nordics. The fund is backed and supported by its unique Collective, consisting of some of the region’s most accomplished founders and operators.
With a team spread across Copenhagen and Stockholm, byFounders invests at pre-seed and seed stage. byFounders takes an impact-aware approach to investing and working with the broader startup ecosystem.