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Counteract a monopolized world in deeptech - March 2024
With George UGRAS, Managing director at AV8 Ventures and Christian REITBERGER, Partner at Matterwave Ventures
Christian Reitberger expresses concerns about a potential future dominated by Nvidia, where all computing services are provided by a few major companies, creating a monopolized and homogenous landscape. He advocates for a more diverse and colorful world, where system integration incorporates various technologies and architectures.
George Ugras shares optimism, citing historical precedents where dominant market shares have been challenged by innovative newcomers.
There are alternatives to Costly LLMs and GPUs - March 2024
With Eric Benhamou, Founder at Benhamou Global Ventures
Eric Benhamou discusses 2 main themes highlighted by George and Christian during the conference: infrastructure and applications. He acknowledges the capital intensity associated with AI generation, raising concerns about industry concentration.
He emphasizes the need for a debate on open versus closed models in AI development. He expresses optimism about the potential of scaled AI applications, particularly in vertical deployments, to disrupt industries.
And also discusses the challenges and opportunities in infrastructure, including the shift from cloud-centric to edge and on-premise computing. He underscores the importance of robust cybersecurity measures against emerging threats posed by Gen AI.
Overall, Eric Benhamou anticipates fruitful discussions at the conference, particularly regarding breakthroughs in AI deployments and productivity enhancements.
Energy, Defense Challenges in France & Europe: Spotlight on - March 2024
With Christian Reitberger, Partner at Matterwave Ventures
Christian Reitberger highlights two distinct aspects of France: its strong emphasis on nuclear energy and its successful collaboration between major defense players and the startup ecosystem. Christian Reitberger discusses the significance of nuclear energy in France, contrasting it with the preferences of other European countries like Germany. He suggests a lively debate on the necessity of nuclear energy, including Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), to meet energy demands, particularly for industries and data centers. Christian Reitberger also praises France’s model of collaboration between defense corporations and startups, noting its resemblance to successful practices in the United States. He emphasizes the uniqueness of these dynamics and suggests showcasing them at a French conference to provide valuable insights uncommon elsewhere.
GenAI: Addressing Infrastructure Needs for LLMs - March 2024
With T.M. Ravi, Founder at The Hive
T.M. Ravi presents four key discussion topics: Gen AI, climate, health (specifically cancer), and defense. He emphasizes that Gen AI and infrastructure extend beyond GPUs to include middleware, new-gen operating systems, and a data layer for Large Language Models (LLMs). Ravi underscores the importance of integrating infrastructure with applications and improving operations, coding, R&D, and design. He highlights the CEO of Nvidia’s statement that 30% of new code at Google is Gen AI-generated, indicating significant advancements. Discussions also touch on vertical and horizontal applications, providing ample material for debate.
Frugal and Edge Computing - March 2024
With Dieter KRAFT, Director ar TRUMPF Venture and François TISON, General Partner at 360 Capital Partner
Francois Tison challenges Nvidia’s viewpoint, advocating for less compute power to sustain the planet. He sees a global shift towards frugal computing and believes Europe’s engineering strengths position it well for reindustrialization.
Dieter Kraft highlights the trend towards more efficient computing, particularly on the edge, and its potential to reshape architectures. Both identify these topics as key for discussion at the INPHO event, emphasizing collaboration to address challenges and seize opportunities.
Evolving Computing Hardware - March 2024
With Mathieu Costes, Airbus Venture
Mathieu Costes highlights the evolving computing landscape, emphasizing Quantum Computing and emerging hardware technologies. He discusses the importance of these advancements for Venture Capital investments, particularly in early-stage ventures. Costes also underscores the need for software orchestration in hybrid architectures and the urgency for sustainability in data center operations.
The hot topics to invest in according to INPHO Venture Summit Editorial Committee
Many sectors had to face many present challenges and had to adapt to a consequent change in behavior that has occurred in the past few years. The durability of this change is however very difficult to predict, making it important for entrepreneurs to focus, not on today’s problems, but on tomorrow’s issues, which is going to be a very different world than the last two years.
Will the wind of change blow through the European Innovation Council?
Beyond the amounts of future investments that promise to nurture long and tough negotiations between the European institutions, the proposal of the European Commission for the next Research & innovation program introduces several new features that have already raised also some interesting discussions.
Hamamatsu Photonics at the forefront of innovation
HAMAMATSU Photonics at the forefront of innovation through their corporate venture funds HAMAMATSU Photonics is one of the innovative and historical partners of the INPHO® Venture Summit. This year again, they will join the impressive list of key players participating...
INPHO Venture Summit 2018 panel of selected startups
INPHO Venture Summit 2018 panel of selected startups the startups that will shape tomorrowThe 24 following cutting-edge companies have been selected among 150 high-level applicants, by our board of top-level VCs and Entrepreneurs..Sensing and Business ModelsAriana has...
Key players are joining INPHO® Venture Summit 2018
key players joining INPHO® Venture Summit 2018 like John Suh, VP and founding Director of Hyundai CRADLE Hyundai Motor, HAMAMATSU Photonics, Blue Ocean Venture, Newfund, IBM …. Join the impressive list of key players joining INPHO® Venture Summit. It’s high time you...
What is at stake for industrial Blockchain to arise?
What is at stake for industrial Blockchain to arise? Discussing our survey results Blockchain is part of the 10 strategic technology trends of 2018 listed by Gartner, with a business value predicted to reach $176 billion by 2025, and increase to $3.1 trillion by 2030....
A vision for Artificial Intelligence: Prophesee brings metavision to machines
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of PROPHESEE (the French inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision system in the world) shared with us his expectation towards Artificial Intelligence solutions in the machine vision sector.
Last chance for Early Bird tickets !
European Summer may be on everyone’s mind but October is the best time to visit the lovely wine country in Bordeaux and join INPHO Venture Summit! Get your Early Bird tickets before it’s too late
Cloud-computing : now and tomorrow
Michel Cui, head of Mid-market & Internet Industry at Alibaba Cloud Europe shares a first taste of the future of cloud-computing domain.
Market survey: Blockchain for Industrial Applications
At INPHO® Venture Summit, we consider cryptocurrency as the tip of the blockchain iceberg with much more potential, especially in Industrial Applications. Share your feeling on the topic with us !
The future of Blockchain for Industrial applications : insights from VeChain
The future of blockchain for industrial application – an interview with Jérôme Grillères, General Manager of VeChain, for INPHO® Venture Summit.
Top reasons why investors attend INPHO® Venture Summit
INPHO® Venture Summit, is an invite only congress that brings leading global visionaries together to exchange high level insights off the beaten tracks.
We challenge our guests to be enlightened by latest industry disruptions, contribute to innovative ideas, and exchange solutions that will influence the foundations for next generation impact.
The hot topics to invest in according to INPHO Venture Summit Editorial Committee
Many sectors had to face many present challenges and had to adapt to a consequent change in behavior that has occurred in the past few years. The durability of this change is however very difficult to predict, making it important for entrepreneurs to focus, not on today’s problems, but on tomorrow’s issues, which is going to be a very different world than the last two years.
Will the wind of change blow through the European Innovation Council?
Beyond the amounts of future investments that promise to nurture long and tough negotiations between the European institutions, the proposal of the European Commission for the next Research & innovation program introduces several new features that have already raised also some interesting discussions.
Hamamatsu Photonics at the forefront of innovation
HAMAMATSU Photonics at the forefront of innovation through their corporate venture funds HAMAMATSU Photonics is one of the innovative and historical partners of the INPHO® Venture Summit. This year again, they will join the impressive list of key players participating...
INPHO Venture Summit 2018 panel of selected startups
INPHO Venture Summit 2018 panel of selected startups the startups that will shape tomorrowThe 24 following cutting-edge companies have been selected among 150 high-level applicants, by our board of top-level VCs and Entrepreneurs..Sensing and Business ModelsAriana has...
Key players are joining INPHO® Venture Summit 2018
key players joining INPHO® Venture Summit 2018 like John Suh, VP and founding Director of Hyundai CRADLE Hyundai Motor, HAMAMATSU Photonics, Blue Ocean Venture, Newfund, IBM …. Join the impressive list of key players joining INPHO® Venture Summit. It’s high time you...
What is at stake for industrial Blockchain to arise?
What is at stake for industrial Blockchain to arise? Discussing our survey results Blockchain is part of the 10 strategic technology trends of 2018 listed by Gartner, with a business value predicted to reach $176 billion by 2025, and increase to $3.1 trillion by 2030....
A vision for Artificial Intelligence: Prophesee brings metavision to machines
Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of PROPHESEE (the French inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision system in the world) shared with us his expectation towards Artificial Intelligence solutions in the machine vision sector.
Last chance for Early Bird tickets !
European Summer may be on everyone’s mind but October is the best time to visit the lovely wine country in Bordeaux and join INPHO Venture Summit! Get your Early Bird tickets before it’s too late
Cloud-computing : now and tomorrow
Michel Cui, head of Mid-market & Internet Industry at Alibaba Cloud Europe shares a first taste of the future of cloud-computing domain.
Market survey: Blockchain for Industrial Applications
At INPHO® Venture Summit, we consider cryptocurrency as the tip of the blockchain iceberg with much more potential, especially in Industrial Applications. Share your feeling on the topic with us !
The future of Blockchain for Industrial applications : insights from VeChain
The future of blockchain for industrial application – an interview with Jérôme Grillères, General Manager of VeChain, for INPHO® Venture Summit.
Top reasons why investors attend INPHO® Venture Summit
INPHO® Venture Summit, is an invite only congress that brings leading global visionaries together to exchange high level insights off the beaten tracks.
We challenge our guests to be enlightened by latest industry disruptions, contribute to innovative ideas, and exchange solutions that will influence the foundations for next generation impact.
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At the INPHO® Venture Summit, it is all about supporting entrepreneurs
Written on 14 November 2020.
For its 7th Edition, INPHO® organized by Alpha-RLH has placed Bordeaux and deep tech at the heart of the new digital world imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite such constraints, it has been a great success.
INPHO® Venture, the widely recognized Summit to invest in deep tech game changers
Written on 15 October 2018.
INPHO® Venture Summit which took place 11th and 12th October 2018 in Bordeaux, France, established itself as an undisputed worldwide reference summit for private investors and corporate executives investing in deep tech hardware to shape the future and keep ahead of competition.
Inpho® Venture Summit: europe abounds with innovation ; ecosystem maturing but needs more private capital and industry support
Technological innovation and entrepreneurship is on the rise in Europe, say panelists at INPHO® Venture Summit, a financial investor and strategic business partnering event focused on growth market investments.
Inpho® Venture Summit: l’Europe déborde d’innovation ; l’écosystème arrive à maturité mais requiert le soutien des investisseurs et des industriels
L’Europe s’intéresse de plus en plus à l’innovation technologique et encourage l’entrepreneuriat. C’est ce qui ressort des interventions lors du INPHO® Venture Summit, la convention d’affaires dédiée aux investisseurs et aux entrepreneurs visant les marchés en croissance.