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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit21 min
Poolside AI, IREN, Forbes: From 10x to 100x Building AI Systems for Real World Scale
Emma Allen, Dennis Skriniop, Isa Kent
Dennis Skriniop of Iron and Isa Kent of Poolside discuss the critical infrastructure and energy requirements for scaling foundation models toward human-level intelligence. Kent outlines Poolside's $500 million investment in automating a "model factory" that executes 1,800 monthly experiments, emphasizing that 80% of success relies on distributed systems engineering rather than algorithmic discovery. Skriniop and Kent further analyze the necessity of hybrid power grids, disaggregated storage architectures, and the emerging role of specialized "Neo-Clouds" to address the exponential complexity of operating clusters exceeding 10,000 GPUs.
- RAISE Summit22 min
Lin Qiao, Co-Founder & CEO, Fireworks AI: Open Models: The future of AI agent development
Fireworks CEO Lin positions 2025 as a pivotal year for AI agents, highlighting the platform's deployment for major enterprises like Cursor, Uber, and UiPath through a unique "data flying wheel" strategy that aligns model distributions with proprietary product data. The service scales 5 trillion tokens daily across 1,000 models while utilizing multilora compression and reinforcement fine-tuning to achieve up to 15x performance gains in coding and research tasks. By offering enterprise-grade security and bringing custom models to production with 100x faster iteration speeds, Fireworks enables organizations to transform AI from a utility into a core intellectual property asset.
- RAISE Summit40 min
WEKA, Intel, Graphite, InstaDeep & AWS: Scaling Without Crashing. AI Framework for Enterprise Growth
Eduardo, Mary, Damien, Val, Karim, Murray, Fula Ousmane
The event details the industry shift from experimental AI in 2023 to the scaling of autonomous agents in 2024-2025, driven by urgent economic pressures that are forcing a 75% reduction in cached input pricing. Industry leaders outline a strategic framework prioritizing top-level governance and data transparency to mitigate security risks while navigating a market where compute cost competitiveness will determine the survival of AGI-era businesses. Specific sector applications, ranging from diagnostic health agents to AI-driven code review systems, illustrate how organizations must integrate these tools as central transformation enablers rather than isolated initiatives.
- RAISE Summit22 min
Inception Fund & AI: From Inception to Exit Building AI Giants from Europe and the Nordics
Former professor Peter Sarlin founded the private AI lab Silo AI in 2017 and led the bootstrapped company to a $700 million exit when acquired by AMD in 2022, establishing the largest pure-play AI acquisition in Europe. Sarlin attributes this success to a contrarian philosophy that prioritized functional machine learning over hype while hiring primarily from academia, resulting in a workforce of over 220 AI scientists before the strategic sale. Beyond this specific case study, Sarlin highlights that the fragmentation of the European single market remains the primary barrier preventing regional startups from scaling into trillion-dollar enterprises, forcing founders to adopt a global-first strategy despite Europe's strengths in industrial AI applications.
- RAISE Summit23 min
Alex Ratner, CEO & Co-Founder, Snorkel AI: Data Centric AI in the Agentic Era
Alex, co-founder of Snorkel.ai, argues that specialized agentic systems require robust evaluation benchmarks composed of prompt datasets, rubrics, and verifiers to serve as functional product requirements. His company provides data operations platforms to major US banks and federal agencies while demonstrating that custom-trained models using programmatic evaluators can outperform GPT-4 on complex insurance underwriting tasks. This approach establishes high-quality data and verification logic as the foundational prerequisites for optimizing Reinforcement Learning in enterprise environments.
- RAISE Summit37 min
OVH Cloud, ClickHouse, Neon, Aiven, Airbyte & Commit: Open Software Infrastructure 2.0
Abel, German, Oskari, Heike, Michel, Alexei, Francois Beaufort
Executives from Aiven, Neon, Airbyte, ClickHouse, and OVHcloud converged to discuss how open-source data platforms are securing $10 billion in combined valuations while addressing enterprise needs for data sovereignty and interoperability. The panel detailed how the AI boom is driving a shift from human-led development to agentic provisioning, creating demand for storage-centric architectures that support short-lived, unstructured data workloads. Looking ahead, industry leaders predict a five-year trajectory where hundreds of millions of citizen developers leverage commoditized AI to compress development cycles, necessitating hybrid infrastructure strategies that balance local model execution with scalable cloud data management.
- RAISE Summit40 min
Alix, SAP, Daytona, Feedly, Prosus & Handelsblatt: The Future Agentic AI & Autonomous Workflows
Alix, Edwin Kodabachan, Paul Van der Boor, Alexander Maisor, Emmanuel Casimates, Ivan Bourazin
Experts at a recent industry gathering defined Agentic AI as a shift from simple request-response models to autonomous systems capable of multi-step planning, emphasizing that security and governance remain critical barriers requiring strict human oversight. SAP and other leaders proposed frameworks like "agentic quality controls" and locally hosted environments to manage agent identities and comply with regulations, while anticipating a workforce evolution where humans supervise "digital teammates" rather than performing manual tasks. Despite concerns over the hype cycle, participants agreed that organizations with mature data and processes will soon leverage these tools to exponentially increase productivity, provided they implement robust guardrails to direct this technological capability toward tangible business value.
- RAISE Summit37 min
Fractile AI, Rogo, Scribble VC, San Francisco Compute: The AI Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Eric Manisse, Elizabeth Weill, Walter Goodwin, John Willett
San Francisco Compute CEO Eric Manisse, Scribble Ventures' Elizabeth Weill, and founders Walter Goodwin and John Willett convened to analyze strategies for scaling AI infrastructure, hardware, and enterprise solutions amidst rapid technological evolution. The panel detailed critical operational frameworks, including balancing hardware development timelines with software agility, mitigating hallucination risks in financial applications, and proactively shaping export control regulations rather than merely complying with them. Experts concluded that long-term success in this sector relies on specialized human expertise for deep tech, the creation of durable data moats, and a shift toward treating global compute as a utility to drive the next industrial revolution.
- RAISE Summit39 min
Data Overload into Actionable Gold: AI’s Rescue Mission for Enterprises Tackling Unstructured Data
Nassime Reyholt, Victoria, Samuel Cohen, Harry Folliter, Robert, Alonzo Garcia
Representatives from Doctolib, Databricks, Alorica, Fergen, and Blackbox AI convened to discuss the critical transition from structured legacy systems to leveraging unstructured data for enterprise decision-making. The panel emphasized that successful AI deployment requires strict governance, real-time evaluation frameworks, and the use of synthetic data to ensure agents can reliably execute tasks without the 80% pilot failure rate common in the industry. By prioritizing data intelligence over model architecture, these leaders outlined a roadmap for moving from experimental playground agents to autonomous systems that self-correct in live production environments.
- RAISE Summit21 min
Fireside Chat with George Robson, Partner @ Sequoia & Felix Blossier, Co-Founder & COO @ Pennylane
Penny Lane, founded by seven entrepreneurs after the Price Match acquisition, transitioned from a service-led hybrid model to a pure software platform designed to empower SMB accountants through AI-driven co-pilot tools rather than automation. The company navigates the complex regulatory landscapes of Continental Europe, particularly France and Germany, by leveraging a business rule management system that allows non-engineers to manage compliance updates without code changes. With a recruitment strategy prioritizing curiosity and domain expertise over experience, Penny Lane aims to scale its all-in-one bookkeeping and tax solution across Europe despite the severe scarcity of local accounting talent.
- RAISE Summit31 min
Clarifai, Oracle, TensorWave, Cherry & Vaire: Sovereign AI in a Borderless Tech World
Nadia, Rodolfo, Don Barnetson, Peter Tomasik, Hakim Lumi, Matt Zehler
Panelists including Peter Tomasik, Hakim Lumi, and Don Barnetson established that physical infrastructure and talent are the primary prerequisites for Sovereign AI, warning that Europe faces a competitive deficit while the Middle East leverages energy wealth to emerge as a third global contender. The discourse highlighted significant risks regarding stranded hardware assets due to rapid obsolescence and emphasized that current enterprise adoption remains driven by pragmatic cost and performance rather than theoretical sovereignty. Strategic recommendations from the session urge diverse silicon sourcing, cohesive national policy frameworks, and a shift toward "security by design" to address the complex vulnerabilities inherent in large language model deployment.
- RAISE Summit40 min
Antoine Bordes (Helsing) & Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA): Where Public Research Meets Innovation
Antoine Bordes, Gaël Varoquaux, Rob, Isabelle Riel, Joëlle Barral
At the expanded RAISE conference, experts from institutions including INRIA, Google DeepMind, and Helsing discussed the critical friction between public research and private innovation in the European AI ecosystem. Panelists outlined a 2035 vision where generative AI transforms healthcare and defense through rapid commercialization, while warning that bureaucratic bottlenecks and a "one-way door" for talent are stifling Europe's competitive growth. The discussion emphasized a need to shift from funding isolated technologies to building scalable products that bridge the gap between foundational academic discovery and urgent market application.
- RAISE Summit34 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.
- RAISE Summit35 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.
- RAISE Summit22 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.