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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit19 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.
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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.
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Atindriyo Sanyal, CEO of Galileo: Making Enterprise Gen AI “Reliable”
Galileo, an AI evaluation platform founded by a former Siri architect, addresses the critical "measurement problem" plaguing generative AI by introducing a specialized observability framework designed to productionize complex RAG and multi-step agents. The company's proprietary Luna models provide sub-200ms real-time inference for dynamic guardrails and qualitative-to-quantitative error analysis, effectively solving the latency and accuracy trade-offs that typically hinder enterprise deployment. This approach enables Fortune 500 organizations to move beyond basic statistics and systematically identify nuanced failure patterns in data quality, tool execution, and security across high-stakes workflows.
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Tanuja Randery, Managing Director EMEA of AWS: Unlocking the AI Mindset
Tanuja Randery, Tineja Ranjari
A global presentation highlighted that AI adoption is outpacing mobile growth, with companies like Amazon and British Telecom reporting hundreds of millions in savings through generative coding agents. While the European market faces a critical talent shortage, AWS outlined its strategy to bridge this gap by training millions of individuals and launching a sovereign cloud infrastructure to ensure data security. The event concluded by urging organizations to accelerate from experimental pilots to high-impact deployments in sectors like healthcare and manufacturing to unlock the projected €600 billion economic potential.
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Christina Kosmowski, CEO, LogicMonitor: Scaling Observability, Performance, and the Future of AI
LogicMonitor introduces Edwin, an autonomous agentic AI capable of processing 1.8 trillion metrics to predict and resolve IT infrastructure issues, thereby shifting the focus from reactive firefighting to strategic leadership. This capability is exemplified by IHG, which leveraged the platform to stabilize its global loyalty system across 7,000 hotels and reclaimed up to five hours of weekly labor for its infrastructure lead. The presentation underscores a fundamental evolution where CIOs and executive teams must prioritize technology resilience as a direct driver of brand integrity and organizational growth within this new AI landscape.
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Liran Zvibel, Cofounder, CEO of WEKA: Rise of the Token Economy The New Economics of AI
Scheduled for 2025, this event frames the fourth industrial revolution as the dawn of artificial general intelligence, shifting focus from pattern matching to reasoning models that distinguish true AGI capabilities from simple skill replication. Industry leaders and technical experts will address the critical economic divergence between massive training expenditures and the urgent need for cost-efficient inference, highlighting how latency and tokenomics currently dictate profitability. Strategic infrastructure solutions, including server elasticity and pre-fill disaggregation, will be presented as the essential mechanisms for enabling sustainable, just-in-time AI deployment while securing the industry's path to mass adoption.
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CoreWeave @ RAISE 2025: Building the Next Generation of Cloud in Europe
CoreWeave announced a strategic all-stock acquisition of Core Scientific to secure 1.3 gigawatts of U.S. power capacity, a move designed to accelerate AI cluster deployment and eliminate intermediary costs. Following its rapid pivot from crypto to artificial intelligence, the company recently completed an innovative IPO and is aggressively expanding its European footprint with $2.2 billion in committed capital and plans to deploy next-generation Blackwell and Rubin Next architectures. This growth trajectory positions CoreWeave to address global power bottlenecks while advising the market that future consolidation will be driven primarily by talent migration rather than traditional mergers.
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Wes Cummins, Founder & CEO of Applied Digital: Ellendale’s Purpose Built AI Factory in North Dakota
Applied Digital is expanding its high-power density data center operations by securing a 400-megawatt contract with CoreWeave to construct a North Dakota campus utilizing stranded wind energy and designed for AI workloads. The company transitioned from Bitcoin mining to Tier 3 semiconductor-grade infrastructure after spending $5 billion on this project to ensure "five nines" reliability and extreme cooling standards for hyperscalers. With approximately 3% ownership by NVIDIA, the firm is capitalizing on the shortage of available power sites in the U.S. heartland while planning future phases that will integrate gas assets and explore nuclear options like small modular reactors.
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RAISE 2025 : Fireside Chat with Amit Bendov, CEO & Co Founder of Gong
Amit Bendov, Brian Bauman, Amit Bhandav
Founded by Amit Bhandav to solve CRM data gaps, Gong.io leverages autonomous AI to capture sales communication and transform enterprise productivity from manual entry to instant, context-aware insights. Operating on a maturity scale between assisted and near-autonomous levels, the platform currently handles high-volume administrative tasks while preserving human judgment for high-liability decisions. As enterprise leaders demand integrated AI for revenue generation, Gong drives adoption by eliminating briefing bottlenecks for Fortune 500 clients while fostering a unique culture that prioritizes employee personal branding and deep client relationships.
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Alex Laubscher, CTO of Windsurf: Engineering at the Speed of Change
Alex Laubscher, Dimitris Bontolos
Windsurf has transitioned from a basic coding tool to an AI agentic IDE, rapidly evolving to enable enterprises to write approximately 90% of their code while tackling complex legacy systems through advanced retrieval and memory capabilities. The platform supports this high-velocity adaptation by integrating design files, reducing project iteration times from months to days as seen with partners like Ferrovial, and targeting a 99% productivity increase in software engineering. To secure global enterprise adoption, the company recently established a Frankfurt data center to guarantee GDPR and FedRAMP compliance, ensuring data sovereignty for clients in sensitive sectors while preparing to scale from 100 to hundreds of large European organizations.
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RAISE Summit 2025: The AI Evolution Open Source, Fast Inference, and the Agentic Revolution
Tony Kim, Thomas Wolf, Rodrigo Liang, Arjun Kharpal
The AI sector is rapidly pivoting from foundational model development to agentic inference and production, driven by a strategic race for full-stack superiority where proprietary models currently retain a six-to-twelve-month performance lead. Enterprises are increasingly adopting open-source alternatives to ensure data privacy and cost efficiency, prompting a hardware shift focused on energy-efficient inference rather than raw training power. While consumer assistants and automated SaaS applications are expected to mature within two years, the industry faces critical bottlenecks regarding gigawatt-scale energy demands and the potential for data security breaches.
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Or Lenchner - CEO of BrightData : The Data Awakening Defining the Future of AI
Bright Data, the world's largest web data collection infrastructure provider, successfully defended its scraping practices in high-profile lawsuits against Meta and X, establishing a legal precedent that defines public data as information freely accessible without login barriers. Serving as the primary data source for major AI labs, the company supplies over 40 billion daily website interactions for training Large Language Models while maintaining strict standards against filtering private or paywalled content. Looking ahead, Bright Data predicts a "dual internet" architecture emerging within six to twelve months that accommodates both human users and autonomous AI agents, eventually evolving into a robotics-focused era where these foundational data models enable complex physical automation.
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RAISE Panel 2025: The AGI Ascent Climbing Toward Superhuman Intelligence
Chase Lockmiller, Ilya, Peter, Sarah, Biang, Dario
A diverse panel of industry leaders and researchers analyzed the trajectory of artificial general intelligence, identifying energy scarcity and data quality as primary constraints while debating the future of centralized versus decentralized model architectures. Discussion highlighted a strategic shift toward massive test-time compute and human-AI collaboration, contrasting fears of cognitive atrophy with the potential for AI to automate outcome-based tasks while preserving process-driven human uniqueness. Experts concluded that regulatory frameworks must evolve alongside technological speed, with the consensus that AGI remains a moving target defined by the symbiotic relationship between human creativity and machine capabilities.
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Clara Chappaz - French Minister Delegate: Can France Overtake AI? Inside the French Vision
Building on eight years of pro-business reforms and a strategic focus on nuclear-powered compute infrastructure, France has secured its position as a global fifth in AI capability while launching the "Dare AI" initiative to bridge the gap between scientific excellence and public adoption. This €109 billion investment supports frugal model development and open-source principles, aiming to train 15 million citizens and equip 125 SMEs across sectors like healthcare and agriculture to overcome current deployment barriers. With key players including Mistral AI and OVH Cloud driving the ecosystem, the government is positioning the nation to define the next 24 months of the AI race through inclusive talent acquisition and targeted sector-specific innovation.
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Eastern European Dynamism: Rayscho Raychev & Delian Asparouhov on Space Tech & AI Innovation
Rayscho Raychev, Delian Asparouhov, Deleon Asparov, Raicho Raichev, Vyacheslav Tykhonovskyi
Deleon Asparov of Founders Fund and Endurosat CEO Raicho Raichev discuss how the Bulgarian space company scaled from bootstrapping to securing rapid venture capital while deploying over 60 satellites. Raichev highlights Endurosat's strategy of using AI to slash data costs and eliminate traditional mission control, contrasting the region's "survivalist" work culture and 10% flat tax against stagnant Western European economies. The panel concludes by predicting that Eastern Europe will lead a defense and technology renaissance driven by geopolitical necessity, aiming to reduce reliance on the United States and prevent the decoupling of critical industrial sectors.