Powering AI: From Chips to AI Factories
Join us for an evening of insight and conversation at the Prosus AI House on Wednesday, April 22 2026.
Behind every impressive model sits a stack of infrastructure that determines what can actually be built and deployed. Chips, accelerators, data centres and emerging AI factories shape performance, cost, and speed to market.
In this session, we step inside the infrastructure layer of AI. Speakers will share stories from the hardware and compute side: how constraints shape innovation, how teams optimise for efficiency and scale, and how organisations think about resilience and long-term capacity.
For an AI audience, this is a grounded conversation about the physical realities that power intelligent systems.
17:00-18:00 AI House open, refreshments
18:00-19:30 Program
19:30-20:30 Networking drinks
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Fabrizio Del Maffeo, Chief Executive Officer/ Co-Founder - Axelera® AI
Ruben Hamming-Green, Co-Founder at IMChip
Han de Groot CEO@VOLT | Infra for AI. NL-EU AI-Gigafactory Initiator
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Curated and moderated by Monique van Dusseldorp.
About the speakers
Fabrizio Del Maffeo is CEO and co-founder of Axelera AI, the semiconductor scale-up building high-performance, energy-efficient AI chips for edge and inference applications. A seasoned leader in AI and hardware, he previously headed AI at Bitfury Group and led AAEON Europe (ASUS Group), and now steers Axelera’s rapid growth with a team drawn from leading global tech companies.
Under his leadership, Axelera AI has emerged as one of Europe’s most ambitious AI hardware players—recently securing over $250 million in funding, the largest round for a European AI semiconductor company to date, bringing total capital raised to more than $450 million.
Ruben Hamming-Green is co-founder and Head of R&D at IMChip, a Groningen-based deeptech startup developing next-generation, energy-efficient AI chips inspired by the human brain. With a PhD in neuromorphic materials and devices from the University of Groningen, he operates at the intersection of materials science, semiconductor engineering, and AI hardware, working to fundamentally rethink how computing systems process and store information.
Han de Groot is CEO of VOLT, a Dutch AI infrastructure company building large-scale “AI factories” that integrate data centers, GPU compute, and cloud platforms into sovereign, full-stack environments for Europe. A serial entrepreneur and early data-center pioneer—co-founder of Switch Datacenters and founder of MetrixLab—he now focuses on the next generation of compute infrastructure powering AI.
He is the initiator of AI Gigafactory.NL, a multi-billion-euro effort to establish one of Europe’s flagship AI compute hubs in Rotterdam, aimed at securing digital sovereignty and reducing dependence on US and Chinese infrastructure.
Monique van Dusseldorp is a curator/moderator of tech events and part of the AI House team.
AI House Amsterdam
AI House Amsterdam is a hub for artificial intelligence created by Prosus. With world-class technical events, the AI House offers free AI training and workshops, collaborations between engineers and academia, elite hackathons, meetup events, investor-founder events, residency programs for top AI experts, a moonshot project studio, and more.
About Prosus
Prosus is the power behind the world’s leading lifestyle ecommerce brands, across Europe, India, and Latin America, unlocking an AI-first world for our 2 billion customers.
The Prosus technology ecosystem spans food delivery, payments, classifieds, travel, events, and mobility. Our integrated approach enhances user engagement and creates the foundation for unprecedented AI capabilities through proprietary data and cross-service intelligence.
Address and contact information
AI House is located on the third floor of the Symphony building, Mahlerplein 5, Amsterdam.
Questions? [email protected]