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New Frontiers
Transforming Science into Strategic Power
Scientific discovery is accelerating, opening new possibilities across deep tech, energy, microelectronics and critical technologies.
Join university leaders, deep-tech founders, investors and industry leaders exploring how breakthrough research can move from the lab to market, scale globally and build the next generation of technology champions.
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European market independence is fighting for its own future. Technologies contributing to European sovereignty have a distinct attractiveness and commercial upside that legacy tech lacks.
Hendrik Brandis Founding Partner, Earlybird Venture Capital
Previous speakers
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Hendrik Brandis
Founding Partner, Earlybird -
Kostya Novoselov
Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate, Professor, National University of Singapore -
Arun Sundarajan
NYU Professor; Author and Expert -
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Co-founder of Android and Partner, Google VenturesDirector of Research, Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University -
Heike Freund
COO, Marvel Fusion -
Lory Thorpe
Quantum Safe Industry Lead, IBM
Previous participants
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