Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what actually reaches production. That gap between strategy and delivery is the organising idea behind TechEx Europe 2026, which runs on 19 and 20 October at the RAI Amsterdam and gathers senior enterprise technology leaders from […]
OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongside Meta, Amazon, and Google. Instead, the company summoned reporters and agency executives to a semi-secluded villa near the harbour, a staging choice that doubles as metaphor: OpenAI is in the ad business, […]
For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, now in its 72nd year, ran from 16 to 20 June 2025 and drew roughly 15,000 delegates from 90 countries, the sort of crowd that turns a seaside town into […]
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London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with fringe events running across the city through Friday. The festival drew more than 30,000 people from over 130 countries, with 600-plus speakers. One theme swallowed the rest: AI featured in roughly half […]
If you have been meaning to register for the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas Gathering Amsterdam and have not got round to it, this is the moment. The event takes place on Wednesday 3 June at De Weesper on Weesperstraat, and the guest list is nearly full. Tickets remain free, but only for as long as there […]
Independent research by DutchBasecamp and Ogni, based on 150+ founder perspectives across Europe, will be revealed at an exclusive Amsterdam event co-hosted with CCIA Europe on June 30. Across Europe, startup and scale-up founders are increasingly warning that fragmented and overlapping digital regulation is slowing down innovation, delaying expansion, and making it harder tocompete globally. […]
Four guests, one question: when everyone has AI, what will actually make a SaaS company win? The panel on 3 June in Amsterdam will try to answer it. There is a moment, somewhere between the third and the fourth AI feature release of the quarter, when even the most enthusiastic founder begins to wonder whether […]
One of the confirmed sessions at MozCon’s New York date is titled “Preparing for the Death of the Open Web.” The speaker is Mike King, founder of digital marketing agency iPullRank. It is not the most alarming talk title on the 2026 conference calendar. It might be the most honest. The backdrop is not easy […]
A speaker panel, food, and a room full of people who actually want to connect. The gathering takes place on 3 June at Flexas.com in the heart of the city. There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from attending the wrong networking event. You know the type: a cavernous venue, a cash bar, […]
