April 24 | Meet Your Co-Founder XL |Life Sciences & Health Edition

Meet Your Co-Founder XL is a live national matchmaking event to find a promising tech start-up to join or to find a co-founder to strengthen your tech company.

This edition centers around Life Sciences & Health: Digital Health Solutions, MedTech, Biotech, (Bio)pharma, and Diagnostics.

Application process
1. Register for Meet Your Co-Founder XL before April 2, at 12:00 pm.
2. We select tech companies and co-founders based on the criteria of motivation, supply & demand and criteria as indicated by the start-up’s needs.
3. In case you are selected to join our curated match-making event, you will receive an official invitation before April 11, 2024.

April 25 | From concept to cure: Empowering startups in oncology innovation

Join this Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS symposium, designed to empower oncology startups in tackling critical challenges, including:

Proof-of-concept.

Clinical Trial Complexities.

Competition.

During the symposium speakers from both inside and outside Johnson & Johnson will share how they’ve addressed these challenges, and how startups might access the expertise and resources to do so.

April 25 | AI020 | Amsterdam AI

Amsterdam AI presents: AI020. On April 25th expect to be surprised. It's for students, companies and AI enthusiasts in general. There are no visitors, only participants at this event!

The programme is based on supply and demand; of students and employers but also visitors and presenters, jobs and future employees. It is a unconference networking opportunity, a community gathering, a bridge between knowledge and industry, and a dynamic space for innovation.

May 2 | TTT_AI Workshop: patenting and 'open source' licensing of SW AI & data

a workshop on IP for AI (patents and Open Source licensing) specifically with scientists in mind. They can be working towards a spin-out, or working in an ICAI Lab, or as scientists in research dealing with research collaboration and consortium agreements, wanting to learn about IP matters.

Two experts on patent right and copy right (including Open Source licensing) will be presenting: Arnoud Engelfriet (ICTRecht) and Anson van Rooij (Arnold & Siedsma).

Date: May 2nd 2024, 1400-16.30 h, drinks till 17.30h
Location: Room DAY Startup Village Science park 608

May 3 | The Amsterdam Founder and Investor Meetup 2024

Hosted by AMS Institute and Startup Network Europe, and sponsored by HubSpot for Startups, The Amsterdam Founder and Investor Meetup 2024 is an intimate gathering of Dutch Pre-Seed and Seed Stage VCs, Angel Investors, and Founders.

Please note that:
You must be a Startup Founder, CXO, or Investor in order to attend. We do not consider Agencies, Coaches, Consultants, and similar service providers to be Startups.

Complimentary drinks will be included in the ticket price.

AGENDA:
6.00pm-6.30pm: Networking
6.30pm-6.45pm: Investor Pitches
6.45pm-10.00pm: Networking

Tickets are limited, so make sure to secure your spot soon!

May 16 | Samewerken met de wetenschap op het Amsterdam Science Park: de Europese innovatiehub voor AI, Deep Tech en Duurzaamheid

International competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Innovation and knowledge development are happening faster and faster. ore and more companies are therefore tapping into the scientific expertise, innovative power and talent at the Amsterdam Science Park. In order to maintain an advantage within their market. Together they develop revolutionary solutions for today's problems and tomorrow's challenges.

Explore the Science Park with us!

May 21 | Spotlight: AI for Retail Lab | LAB42 x ICAI

Discover AIRLab Amsterdam’s groundbreaking work on socially responsible algorithms and transparent AI technologies used in consumer recommendations and goods flow management.

Program:

16:00 - Opening & Welcome by Maarten de Rijke (Professor at UvA)
16:10 - AIR Lab at Albert Heijn - investigations into product recommendations by Anca Dumitrache (Data Scientist at Albert Heijn) 16:30 - Q&A Session
16:45 - Borrel with posters
18:00 - End

May 23 | AI Tinkerers Amsterdam | Inaugural Meetup

Following the popularity of the vibrant community of AI Tinkerers in London, Berlin, San Francisco, Seattle, New York and elsewhere, we’re thrilled to expand our reach and bring the magic to Amsterdam! This is your chance to showcase your latest AI demos, connect with fellow practitioners, and dive deep into the world of LLMs and generative AI.

Space is strictly limited to 50 people for this first event and we will be screening attendance.

Sign up now for an evening of hands-on demos and talks and connect with a community of active builders! Participate by presenting your own work, or just share ideas with like-minded people.

May 27 & May 28 | AI’s Impact on Society, Media and Democracy | Amsterdam Sciece Park

How is AI impacting the media and our democratic processes? What can be expected in the near future, and what measures need to be taken to ensure society at large benefits from these rapid developments? The emergence of powerful AI (such as Large Language Models) is rapidly pervading our digital society and has the potential to profoundly transform people’s public and private lives. There is therefore an urgent need to explore how we can ensure that these developments are both enriching, beneficial and fair for society as a whole.

May 30 | Festive kick-off symposium AI for Sustainable Molecules and Materials

Recently, the University of Amsterdam initiated its Research Priority Area on AI for Sustainable Molecules and Materials. On Thursday afternoon, 30 May 2024, a festive kick-off meeting will be organized for research staff, students and external guests who are working in this field already, as well as researchers interested in learning about this new vibrant field of science. Especially for the latter, the program contains inspiring showcases and matchmaking activities.

The event will take place in the Auditorium of the Matrix ONE building, Science Park 301, Amsterdam.

To attend the event - please register!

April 5 | Community Drinks x Funding Day 2024

Join us for the exciting FREE Startup Funding Day 2024 hosted by Startup Village x ROM InWest and Funding partners.

14:30 - 15:00 - Walk In
15:00 - 16:00 - Pitching Masterclass by David Beckett with a Funding Panel
16:15 - 17:00 - Negotiation Masterclass by Thomas Mensink
17:00 - 18:00 - Speed Dating with Funding partners
18:00 - 20:00 - Community Drinks & Networking

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

May 3 | Community drinks for Tenants

Closed community Drinks sessions exclusively for tenants of the Village.

June 7 | Community Drinks x Google Cloud x LAB42

Topic: Exploring Google’s Generative AI: Empowering Startups through multimodal AI

Startups, especially those rooted in science and academic communities, are at the forefront of innovation. Join us to discover the potential AI holds to empower startups and researchers to enable the creation of new products and business models.

Speakers:
Tim Salimans, Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Rokesh Jankie, Customer Engineering Manager and AI expert at Google Cloud

Join us for this amazing session, that will follow up with some ommunity drinks!

July 5 | Community Drinks x Business Club

The detailed plan will be shared shortly.

Smart Health Amsterdam
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Industry’s top healthcare, AI and data science

AI for Good
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Accelerate UN Sustainable Development Goals

Golden Egg Check
Startup Roulette
Monthly speeddates
Startup - investors

CWI | Calender Future Events
CWI serves as the Dutch national research institute for mathematics and computer science.

ELLIS SOCIETY
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European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems

Several Dates | Pitch Clinic Leapfunder

We will show you how to build an effective 'conclusion chain' for your Pitch Deck in a series of simple slides.

Several Dates | Leapfunder Investor Readiness Session
By joining the Investor Readiness Session you will: Learn how to talk to investors and where to find them; Find out which key moments you should pitch and Practice your 30-second pitch & get expert feedback.

Several Dates | Finance Academy (Online Workshop for Startup Founders)

By joining the Finance Academy you will learn how to: Use convertibles; Structure different equity classes; Set up debt safely (if you must); Read a shareholders' agreement and/or an investment agreement

ACE Incubator

As we step into this new academic year, we're committed to fostering a dynamic environment where creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship are at the core. Over the past few months, we've been working on refining the incubation program and setting up the Fall ’23 edition.

Time commitment: 10-week program (part-time)

Dates: November 13th until January 31st (including a 2-week break)

For whom: entrepreneurial (graduate) MSc students, researchers and academics that have an innovative tech or science business idea they aim to bring to market.