Vienna, Austria · Event Organisator Austria's largest non-university research institution, focused on applied research in energy, mobility, health, digital safety and security and innovation systems. It organizes Technology Talks Austria, a flagship innovation conference convening leaders from politics, industry and academia on technological sovereignty and resilience.
Vilnius, Lithuania · Event Declarative AI 2026 brings rules, reasoning, decisions and explanations to Vilnius, co-locating RuleML+RR 2026 (the 10th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning), DecisionCAMP 2026 and the 22nd Reasoning Web Summer School. The program spans symbolic and neuro-symbolic AI, decision intelligence, DMN standards and explainable AI, and includes an industry track, a rule challenge and a doctoral consortium.
Zakopane, Poland · Event The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, held in Zakopane in the High Tatras with proceedings published by Springer. A research-heavy gathering of AI scientists and engineers, relevant for deep-tech and AI founders scouting cutting-edge methods, recruiting research talent and exploring research-to-startup spinouts.
Kaunas, Lithuania · Event ICIST 2026 is the 32nd International Conference on Information and Software Technologies, hosted by Kaunas University of Technology. The two-day program brings together researchers, engineers, developers and industry practitioners across information systems, business intelligence, software engineering, AI, IoT, cybersecurity and IT applications, with peer-reviewed proceedings published by Springer. Remote participation is also available.
Vienna, Austria · Incubator Founded 2002. Academic incubator supported by University of Vienna, TU Wien, and Vienna Business Agency. Helps research-driven startups commercialize IP via START:IP and SCALEup, with funding up to EUR 100K and lab access. Scope: Regional (Vienna).
Kyiv, Ukraine · Event Ukraine's largest popular-science and deep-tech conference, with 50+ speakers from 15+ countries, held in person in Kyiv despite wartime conditions. Relevant for deep-tech and science-driven founders looking for research collaboration and talent.
Espoo, Finland · Event Organisator InstituteQ is Finland's national quantum research and innovation hub, a consortium of seven leading institutions: Aalto University (coordinator), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the Universities of Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Tampere and Oulu, and CSC-IT Centre for Science. It operates three pillars — InnoQ (innovation and ecosystem development), ResQ (fundamental and applied research), and EduQ (education and talent) — and hosts the Finnish Quantum Flagship, an eight-year initiative jointly funded by member organisations and the Research Council of Finland. InstituteQ organises the annual Finnish Quantum Days conference and publishes it on its domain instituteq.fi.
Geneva, Switzerland · Person Senior Director of Research and Engineering at Google DeepMind, leading research teams working on foundational machine learning and applied AI. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
Vienna, Austria · Event A two-day flagship innovation conference themed around technological leadership for a resilient Europe, organized by AIT. It convenes international experts and decision-makers from politics, industry and academia for keynotes, plenary debates, in-depth workshops and networking on technological sovereignty, resilient infrastructure and turning research into industrial strength. A strong fit for deep-tech founders and R&D-driven startups.
Jyväskylä, Finland · Event Organisator The University of Jyväskylä is a Finnish multidisciplinary research university and the main institutional host of Finnish Quantum Days 2026. Its Department of Physics serves as the primary local organiser of the event, with the organizing committee chaired by Riku Tuovinen and the programme committee chaired by Professor Tero Heikkilä. The university's Faculty of Information Technology and Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics are also involved in the event's organisation.
Geneva, Switzerland · Person Professor at the Université de Montréal, Turing Award laureate and a founding pioneer of deep learning, and Co-President of the LawZero AI-safety initiative. He is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.