AI startup ecosystem
Artificial intelligence is one of Europe's fastest-growing startup sectors, with hubs in London, Paris, Berlin, and Helsinki driving advances in generative AI, computer vision, and NLP. European AI startups benefit from strong academic research, increasing VC specialisation, and growing enterprise demand across industries. We track 929 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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CV Summit 2026
Switzerland's largest blockchain, AI and digital-assets business conference at Kongresshaus Zurich. Two days, four stages, 3,000+ attendees and 250 speakers spanning Web3, AI and tokenized finance for founders, investors, institutions and policymakers.
CyberChess 2026
Annual international cybersecurity conference organised by CERT.LV across three tracks (#CyberStory, #CyberShock, #BalticDomainDays) with policy panels, technical sessions on AI security and threat intel, plus a two-day Capture the Flag competition.
CYBERSEC European Cybersecurity Forum 2026
One of Europe's leading public-policy-meets-industry cybersecurity forums. For security and infrastructure founders it offers access to EU policymakers, CISOs, and defence and critical-infrastructure buyers — strong for startups navigating regulation and enterprise or government sales.
CYBERTRAP
CYBERTRAP (CyberTrap Software GmbH) is a Vienna-based cybersecurity company building an AI-driven deception and proactive defense platform. Its Engage Platform uses high-fidelity lures, decoys, and adaptive digital twins that mirror real assets to detect attackers early, study their behavior, and convert intrusions into threat intelligence, aiming to cut attacker dwell time from weeks to hours. The company positions itself against AI-driven attacks that can move laterally within minutes of a breach.
Cyprus AI Expo 2026
Three-day AI conference at Radisson Blu Larnaca with 40+ speakers covering AI applications across healthcare, finance, law, education and creative work, with keynotes, workshops, startup showcases and live demos.
Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify, the world's largest music streaming platform, which he launched in 2006 and took public on the NYSE in 2018. Outside Spotify, Ek is an active angel investor and a key figure in Stockholm's thriving tech ecosystem. Through his personal investments and Prima Materia, his private investment firm, Ek backs early-stage European startups across healthcare, AI, defense tech, and consumer technology. He invested EUR 100M into Prima Materia to support moonshot companies working on some of Europe's hardest problems. Ek has also backed several Nordic startups directly as an angel, and his presence in the ecosystem has helped attract global attention and talent to Sweden's startup scene. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful European tech founders of his generation.
Daniel Gebler
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Picnic, the Amsterdam-based online grocery delivery company, where he leads engineering, data and the in-house machine-learning platform that powers its app-only model. He is a confirmed speaker at TechEx Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, presenting on applied AI and data at scale.
Daniela Brönstrup
Vice President of the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency), Germany's regulator for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railways, with a focus on digital infrastructure and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit (AIDAQ) in Berlin.
Darktrace
Darktrace is a cybersecurity company founded in 2013 in Cambridge by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge alongside former intelligence professionals. The company pioneered the use of self-learning AI for cyber defense, modeling the immune system to detect novel threats and anomalous behavior across enterprise networks, cloud, email, and operational technology. Darktrace listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2024 in a deal valuing the company at approximately $5.3 billion. Its products serve over 8,000 organizations globally.
Dash0
Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform for software engineering teams. Because it is built directly on the open OpenTelemetry standard, it ingests logs, metrics, and distributed traces from any stack, vendor, or environment without requiring proprietary agents, positioning this openness as a way to avoid vendor lock-in. The product covers application and infrastructure performance monitoring, log management with filtering and search, distributed tracing, and Kubernetes monitoring. It was founded by Mirko Novakovic, who previously founded the observability company Instana.
Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2026
Hybrid AI and data engineering summit at Legia Warszawa Conference Center bridging advanced research with production use cases. Good lead-generation venue for startups building ML infrastructure, analytics platforms, and enterprise data tooling.
Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2027
The next Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit runs 21 April 2027 in a hybrid format and 22 April 2027 online. The event bridges advanced AI and data-engineering research with production use cases, a good lead-generation venue for startups building ML infrastructure, analytics platforms, and enterprise data tooling.
Data Festival 2026
Munich-based conference on applied data science, machine learning, and AI in the enterprise, with talks from data leaders at BMW, Siemens, Allianz, and top European scale-ups. Strong focus on real-world ML use cases, data engineering, and MLOps. 2,000+ attendees. Tickets EUR 450-990.
DATA festival Munich 2027
DATA festival Munich 2027 runs 17-18 March at Muffatwerk in Munich. A fixture of Munich's event calendar since 2017, the festival serves as a year-round community platform for data, analytics and AI professionals, focused on practical implementation over hype.
Data Science Conference Belgrade 2026
Southeast Europe's largest data science and AI conference, held in Belgrade with 1,200+ data scientists, ML engineers, and analytics leaders from across the Balkans, CEE, and Western Europe. Three days of talks, hands-on workshops, and a career fair. Content spans applied ML, LLMs in production, MLOps, and data engineering at scale. Tickets EUR 200-600.
Data Science Summit 2026
Poland's leading data-science conference, with an online day and an onsite day at PGE Narodowy. For data and AI founders and analytics teams it is a strong recruiting and partnership venue across the Polish data community.
Data Stack Conf 2026
Data Stack Conf 2026 is a one-day in-person conference at Inter Expo Center, Sofia, for engineers building modern data platforms — databases, streaming, analytics, observability and AI data infrastructure — with practitioner talks and networking.
DataCentres Ireland 2026
Ireland's leading data centre conference and exhibition at the RDS Dublin. Combines 100+ exhibitors with multi-stream conference tracks covering colocation, AI, power, cooling and sustainability for 2,000+ infrastructure professionals.
DataGreen
Builds eco-friendly data centres using direct chip liquid cooling and hermetic server enclosures, recovering up to 98% of waste heat for building heating or grid re-injection. Cuts data-centre CO2 emissions by up to 82% while reducing energy costs.
Dataiku
Dataiku is an enterprise AI platform that enables data teams to collaboratively build, deploy, and manage machine learning and analytics projects at scale. Founded in Paris and now also headquartered in New York, Dataiku serves over 500 enterprise customers including Unilever, GE, and Sephora. The platform bridges the gap between data scientists, analysts, and business users, and was valued at $3.7 billion after its 2022 Series F round.
