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Looking To Interview Belgian, Dutch, And/German Game Devs! Hello everyone! My name is Kris and I’m looking to interview any game developers from Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands either currently working or who have formerly worked in any of these countries! I have special interest in anybody who is working in VR/AR/ Mixed Reality of any kind, but any game developer meeting the criteria is welcome! I’m hoping to conduct an interview sometime this week over Zoom, and my availability is really open, so I’m willing to make time. I wanna ask some questions about the European games industry, and compare it to the American games industry. The interview shouldn’t take long maybe 10 to 15 minutes max. Regardless, any help would be greatly appreciated!
Any Belgian football experts out there (specifically Anderlecht)? I'd love to speak to you for a work thing if you fit that bill.
I'll be popping over to Brussels next week to talk at the big 2026 European External Action Service conference on foreign information manipulation from Monday to Wednesday. I know the event can be quite helter skelter, but if you're around, ping me! Let's grab a coffee or (Belgian) beer. I'm going to be talking about the future of FIMI in the AI age - and one of my big focuses this year is on the manipulation *of* AI models in covert and scaled ways in order to have influence. We have really focussed too much on deepfakes so far, but my sense is that the race to influence and mould prompt responses at scale is the real gold rush of influence, and that the scramble to win it is really is going to be one of the defining characteristics of FIMI from hereon in. I am very keen to hear from anyone that might point me towards case studies. It doesn't have to be geopolitics - it might be in the area of market manipulation, or brands and reputations. And it doesn't have to be proven or certain; I'm as keen to investigate examples which are emergent, unproven, and ambiguous. Thank you!
I’d love to hear from you: did you apply to run the Scaleup Europe Fund? What do you make of the concerns? Who do you think will be chosen to manage the pot of money? [url=mailto:[email redacted]]Send me a note.[/url] As I hear from many of you, the EU’s new Scaleup Europe Fund is among the buzziest topics in the VC ecosystem right now. At €5bn, the fund will be the region’s largest ever funding vehicle — and a major prize for whichever firm wins the rights to run it. And it’s prompted intensifying speculation around the selection process. The fund, set to launch this spring, will back deeptech companies across the region. Applications to oversee the multi-billion euro pot closed last month, and we’re reporting that firms that have advanced to the next stage of the process will be invited to present in Brussels next week. Among those we know or are likely to have applied, based on qualifications: Lakestar, Eurazeo, Northzone, Atomico and Vitruvian Partners. But recently, much of the speculation around who will oversee the fund’s investments has centred around one investor in particular: Swedish investment firm EQT, seen by some as a potential frontrunner. We’re reporting that concerns have been raised to the Commission about a new part-time external adviser at EQT, who joined the firm the same month he left the Commission, where he advised on the creation of the Scaleup Europe Fund. [url=https://email.sifted.eu/e3t/Ctc/LZ+113/d2mfCN04/VWVR5X3yD5yPW8FGtK-5-Z5G8W5d86_w5Ljj_kN1f4_Yg3qgz0W7Y8-PT6lZ3mMW6G4ZPw3NXFcMM26LVMDLHNgW89cHsB3vDcxCW7yFKqN1Qq-RGW3r4Z5B11C8CxW352KJR8Bk6M6W4jXyJ_8YMJKMW1SX9Z22SCyGrN15kTZ5J_0ZXW1V_CjD5_gZxyW2gGmVz4S99cNW7QQhkR2MZm-zW1J6cVs1wpSYFW8_PR1w60nVnLW5fR_k31yxHr8W2hKd0f4XPVnBN5jp7fWr4Zy9W3srpkw18zgvLW1vBTSf2skmS-W8LYQzg7lyCJyW4w_pys6bfYvhW2-12YB2w9Dh6W1cgYGN95MVsnVFQv2g1zdsD6W64q4Wm3K85DpW7J6DBd3KHd59f30PNPj04]More details here.[/url]
Is the safe adoption of AI possible? If you've been following the AI news over the last week, it's pretty clear that voluntary guardrails, self-regulation and international regulatory alignment can't be relied up on to produce safer outcomes, so what are the alternatives? For the Lloyd's Register Foundation Foresight Review on the safe adoption of AI, we're investigating alternative routes to safe adoption, including sociotechnical methods of assurance and safety-by-design approaches to AI development. As these are both emergent areas, I'm really keen to speak with people working in both of these areas, particularly if your work is early stage and not easily discoverable. If that's you, please do get in touch! Would love to have a greater sense of works in progress and the kinds of challenges you're facing getting this work off the ground. And - while I'm here - I'll (unusually for me) be in Brussels for couple of days in mid-March and very keen to get some conversations in the diary.
#journorequest Looking to speak with startup founders and VCs operating in Flanders for an upcoming feature: “Why does Flanders produce world-class research but struggle to scale it?” If you’d like to contribute, please send me a DM or comment below. Thank you! #Dutch #AI #Flanders #Europetech #Europeanstartups
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