RAISE Summit
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- 34 min
Ori, PolyAI, Cresta, Writer & Fireworks AI: Is Enterprise Defensibility Possible in an AI's World?
Mike Butcher, May Habib, Russell Banzon, Nicola, Lynn, Amalia, Mahdi
Industry leaders convened to declare that traditional SaaS and seat-based pricing models are collapsing as enterprises pivot to agentic AI, where value is derived from direct outcomes and autonomous revenue generation rather than software access. The consensus emphasizes that architectural advantages are temporary, with true defensibility emerging only through proprietary data flywheels and comprehensive organizational adoption strategies that integrate AI into core workflows. Looking toward 2025, the panel predicts a surge in production-level deployments driven by a tenfold reduction in infrastructure costs, forcing companies to prioritize offensive scaling over defensive postures to survive rapid market disruption.
- 29 min
Anjney Midha of a16z: Algorithmic Independence The Next Frontier in National Infrastructure
The event defines Sovereign AI as a four-tiered strategy for achieving technical and cultural independence, utilizing methods like mid-training to correct deep-seated biases rather than simple fine-tuning. As nations transition from closed-source prototypes to open-source models, a geopolitical divide is emerging where "hypercenters" like the US and China face competition from Europe's "Mistral Compute" initiative while non-hypercent nations adopt joint-venture models to retain value. The discussion concludes with predictions that general-purpose robotics and universal computer use will mature within two years, leveraging Europe's specific strengths in computer vision to secure its strategic position in the global AI landscape.
- 35 min
AI Visionaries Panel: Collaboration is All You Need! Open Source as AI's Great Accelerator
Olivier, Ankit, Matt, Mitchell, Jim, Jonathan
Leaders from Nvidia, Red Hat, Mozilla, and the Linux Foundation convened to analyze the symbiotic relationship between AI-driven investment strategies and the accelerating open-source ecosystem. The panel emphasized that while artificial intelligence boosts code velocity, the primary value in commercial open source now lies in community coordination and neutral standards that prevent market fragmentation. Key outcomes included the identification of a "reverse venture capital" approach for selecting durable projects and a consensus that human oversight remains critical for navigating the legal and architectural challenges of AGI development.
- 18 min
Aurélien Rodriguez, Director at Cohere: Building AI for Security-Minded Enterprises
In this session, a former Meta AI researcher now directing foundation model training at Cohere explains how the company prioritizes secure, grounded generation over pursuing Artificial General Intelligence. The discussion highlights a strategic shift toward on-premise deployment and retrieval-augmented pipelines that ensure data remains within client environments while minimizing hallucinations through strict source verification. By leveraging co-development partnerships with entities like Fujitsu and RBC, the organization focuses on specialized, high-value tools that deliver concrete business impact in regulated sectors without mimicking human biology.
- 34 min
Bruno Gagliardo, Global Head of Data & AI @ Sanofi : Molecule to Market, Driving AI Transformation
Bruno Gagliardo, Larry Orimoloe
Sanofi CEO Bruno Gagliardo unveiled a five-year strategy to transform the pharmaceutical giant into a "pharma tech" leader by migrating 85,000 employees to a cloud-based data mesh architecture powered by large-scale AI. The initiative integrates the RAISE governance framework and a $100 million impact barrier to mitigate hallucination risks while accelerating drug discovery and regulatory submissions from 19 weeks down to five. This cultural shift prioritizes AI augmentation over replacement, utilizing agentic systems and a hybrid build-or-buy approach to deliver substantial efficiency gains across research, manufacturing, and commercial operations.
- 19 min
A Fireside Chat: Beyond Asimov's Laws: How GenesisAI is Bringing AI to the Physical World
Omar, Sebastien Detranier, Francois Beaufort, Theo Varontas
Genesis AI is a Paris-San Francisco startup backed by Eclipse, BP France, and Alvin that aims to automate 50% of the global economy's physical tasks by applying internet-scale foundation models to general-purpose robotics. Co-founder Sebastien Degraffe leverages a proprietary physics engine and a three-pronged data strategy to solve the scarcity of diverse robotics training data, differentiating the firm from competitors reliant on expensive human-in-the-loop collection methods. With a seed round exceeding $100 million, the company plans to deploy Proof of Concepts in pharmaceutical labs and hotels within the next year while targeting full-scale commercialization of adaptable, generalist machines over a three-to-five-year timeline.
- 22 min
WEKA, Cohere, Nebius: Rewriting the Rules Agentic AI and the Race to Scale
Lauren Vaccarello, Cécile Robert-Michon, Dan Shtan, VYACHESLAV TYKHONOVSKYI, DAN GALPIN, Danila
At a panel on AI infrastructure and economics, Weka CMO Lauren Vaccarello, Cohere's Cécile Robert-Michon, and Nabeus CTO Dan Galpin discussed the necessity of rethinking legacy systems to support massive scale and agentic AI. The speakers emphasized that modern requirements prioritize intelligence per token over raw cost efficiency, citing Nabeus's software-first approach that achieves near-NVIDIA benchmark performance without virtualization and Cohere's converged storage solutions that deliver 20x faster checkpointing. They concluded that enterprises must abandon rigid long-term planning in favor of short-cycle agility to navigate the rapidly shifting demands of privacy, security, and compute resources in a commercial AI landscape.
- 19 min
Alok Sama & Nikesh Arora: AI, Cybersecurity, and Bold Leadership
The event outlines a systemic shift toward the democratization of intelligence, where agentic AI transforms search, disrupts traditional ride-sharing economics through autonomous fleets, and expands cybersecurity threats into state-sponsored warfare. Parallel to these technological shifts, the discussion contrasts high-risk investment strategies at SoftBank with Palo Alto Networks' disciplined acquisition model of retaining founders to build unified security platforms. The presentation concludes by warning of an imminent quantum computing vulnerability that threatens current encryption standards before defenders can establish quantum-safe protocols.
- 20 min
Dr. Uri Yerushalmi, Co-Founder&CAIO, Fetcherr: How AI Driven Decision Maximizes Business Performance
Dr. Uri Yerushalmi, Uri Arushalmi
Uri Arushalmi, Chief AI Officer of Fetcher, presents Large Market Models as a quantitative evolution beyond current generative AI, utilizing deep learning on complex market data to simulate probabilistic dynamics rather than just processing text. These systems integrate internal and external data to run computational simulations that select policies maximizing revenue, successfully generating statistically significant revenue uplifts exceeding 10% in A/B testing. By enabling proactive anticipation of market shifts instead of reactive responses, this approach allows organizations to define competitive outcomes through structural market access rather than traditional operational metrics.
- 18 min
Mike Mattacola, CBO of CoreWeave: Building the Next Generation of Cloud in Europe
CoreWeave announced an all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific to secure over 1.3 gigawatts of U.S. power capacity, while its revenue surged from $15.8 million to nearly $2 billion driven by strategic partnerships with major AI firms like Mistral and NVIDIA. The company is aggressively expanding European infrastructure with €1 billion in investments across six data centers and a seventh pipeline, utilizing a global supply chain strategy to mitigate local capital and talent shortages. Looking ahead, CoreWeave aims to lead industry consolidation by focusing on rapid capacity deployment and talent acquisition rather than active mergers, positioning its Blackwell and future Rubin hardware to support the next generation of high-performance computing.
- 21 min
Alexis Ohanian, Founder, 776, Reddit & Victorien Tixier, CEO, ScorePlay: The Future of AI in Sports
Alexis Ohanian, Victorien Tixier, Vic
At an industry conference, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian interviewed Scoreplay CEO Vic LaRosa to discuss how artificial intelligence will commoditize content production while elevating live sports as the premier vehicle for authentic, real-time human connection. Their dialogue highlighted Scoreplay's mission to replace legacy infrastructure with centralized AI automation for media asset management, a strategy designed to unlock global market reach through instant localization and data-driven camera placement. The conversation further emphasized a strategic pivot toward women's sports, where Ohanian argues that re-underwriting assets from first principles and leveraging digital-first storytelling will drive exponential valuation growth and reshape traditional league dynamics.
- 19 min
Jennifer Tejada, CEO&Chairperson, PagerDuty: Never Miss a Beat Building Reliable Experiences with AI
Spotify and PagerDuty are leveraging artificial intelligence and standardized infrastructure to address a 43% surge in major operational incidents that cost enterprises nearly $1 million each. By shifting from a pet-centric to a cattle-centric philosophy, Spotify enforced rigid "golden paths" through its Backstage platform, a move that enabled fleet-wide code transformations and the commercialization of its internal tools as the B2B "Portal" product. This evolution toward automated digital resilience and code remediation prioritizes predictability over developer autonomy, allowing Spotify to manage its massive codebase while transforming into a higher-margin infrastructure provider.
- 10 min
Jack Collier, Chief Growth & Marketing Manager, IO.Net: Why Open Models Need Open Infrastructure
A recent analysis identifies a critical infrastructure bottleneck where centralized control of compute power and API dominance force 70% of users toward closed-source models despite 83% preferring open alternatives. To dismantle these barriers, io.net leverages a global distributed network of over 1,000 GPUs to slash costs from $15 to $3.50 per million tokens while offering transparent, blockchain-verified access for training and inference. The platform is further expanding its ecosystem through a new "Training as a Service" feature and an inaugural hackathon, aiming to accelerate the shift toward a permissionless, decentralized AI future.
- 19 min
Fabricio Bloisi, CEO of Prosus Group at RAISE 2025
On the one-year anniversary of his appointment as CEO, Fabricio outlined Prosus's strategy to transform its $130 billion valuation into a €1 trillion European tech giant through a $15 billion AI investment and aggressive expansion. The company is accelerating this vision by restructuring 40,000 employees, deploying 200 AI models at portfolio firm iFood, and seeking regulatory approval for a $4 billion acquisition of Just Eat Takeaway. With profitability increasing tenfold and $18 billion in reserves, Prosus plans to double its size and target fintech and e-commerce sectors to secure global leadership in AI-driven commerce execution.
- 19 min
Stephanie Cohen - CSO @ Cloudflare: Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
On July 1, Cloudflare implemented a permission-based default policy to block AI scrapers while launching a beta for micropayments via HTTP 402, aiming to transition the web into a value-based economy where content creators control data access. This strategic shift, supported by data showing a 65% surge in training crawler traffic, has drawn criticism from industry figures like BrightData's David Bossert but is defended by CEO Matthew Prince as necessary to repair the broken economic relationship between publishers and tech giants. Complementing this infrastructure, newly appointed Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen leverages her Wall Street background to guide Cloudflare's expansion into cybersecurity and AI financial services, predicting that high-value human judgment will remain essential even as automation transforms data-rich sectors.