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Taking place on April 21–22 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London, the Tech.eu Summit London 2026 will once again bring together founders, investors, and operators from across Europe for two days of focused conversations, insights, and networking.

Following the recent agenda announcement, here’s a closer look at what to expect from each day of the event and how to make the most of your time at the summit.

The agenda is further shaped by a speaker lineup that includes executives and investors from organisations such as OpenAI, Wise, NATO Innovation Fund, Notion Capital, Oxa, and 2150, reflecting a mix of global tech leaders, venture capital, and fast-scaling startups.

April 21 - First day of the Tech.eu Summit London 2026

The first day of the Tech.eu Summit London 2026 will focus heavily on the forces currently shaping the European tech ecosystem, with artificial intelligence taking centre stage across multiple sessions.

Discussions will explore how AI is being integrated into products and operations, as well as how companies are positioning themselves in an increasingly competitive global landscape. Alongside this, investors and founders will share perspectives on funding conditions, scaling challenges, and what it takes to build resilient companies in today’s market.

Climate tech, fintech, and deep tech will also feature prominently throughout the day, reflecting continued investor interest in these sectors. Sessions are expected to move beyond surface-level trends, offering practical insights from those actively building and backing companies across Europe.

April 22 - Second day of the Tech.eu Summit London 2026

On the second day, the programme shifts towards more focused, sector-specific conversations and operational learnings.

Mobility, energy, and emerging technologies will be explored through panels and discussions that highlight both opportunities and ongoing challenges. Founders and operators will share first-hand experiences on scaling teams, entering new markets, and navigating regulatory environments across different European regions.

The second day will also continue to build on themes introduced earlier in the summit, offering a more granular look at how strategies discussed on day one translate into execution.

The venue: Queen Elizabeth II Centre

Following last year’s edition, the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster will once again host the event. Its central location and multi-floor layout make it well-suited for a conference of this scale, allowing attendees to move easily between sessions while also creating space for informal meetings and conversations.

Networking & Tech.eu Events App

Networking remains a core part of the Tech.eu Summit London 2026 experience. We believe that conferences are just as much about the people as they are about the content. With the Tech.eu Events App, you’ll have access to the full agenda, speaker details, and networking tools that allow you to connect with other attendees, arrange meetings, and stay updated on everything happening during the event.

The Tech.eu Events App is available for download on the App Store and Google Play Store.

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AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in 2026 and manufacturing deployment by 2027. AlixLabs, a deep-tech semiconductor startup based in Lund, Sweden, has closed its €15 million […]

The chairman of the new £500m UK government-backed VC fund backing domestic AI startups last night channelled his inner Craig David to indicate the speed of its investing, rebuffing criticism that it might be slow and bureaucratic.

Referencing words from a David hit song, James Wise said: “Just last week we met a company that told us they were doing a fundraising round. On Monday, we met the founders. 

“On Tuesday, we did due diligence. On Wednesday, we made a decision. On Thursday, we took them out to celebrate, moving at a speed that Craig David would blush at.”

Wise was speaking at the launch event of Sovereign AI, which took place at the London headquarters of self-driving AI scaleup Wayve.

The event was packed with Wise, a partner at London VC Balderton, AI minister Kanishka Narayan, technology secretary Liz Kendall, Wayve CEO and co-founder Alex Kendall, and Meryem Arik, the CEO and co-founder of AI startup Doubleword, addressing the audience.

The launch event came as the first deals from the £500m fund, which is aimed at keeping the UK's best AI startups in the UK as they scale across the world, were announced.

Wise said: “We are venture investors with a mandate to back the AI companies in Britain we believe are national priorities and on commercial terms.”

Generally speaking, the fund is investing cheques of between £5m and £10m, leading and following on investing rounds, usually investing in Seed and Series A.

It is investing in areas ranging from AI model development to AI drug discovery to agentic AI.

The fund is also offering portfolio firms access to UK government-funded supercomputers, procurement opportunities, and free visas for international hires.

Wise is heading up Sovereign AI with Joséphine Kant, a VC who previously worked at Y Combinator.

Defending criticism about the size of its investments, when US AI firms were raising billions, Wise said the size of its investments could change the course of a company.

He added: “When the time comes for founders we work with to raise those larger rounds, we will be able to introduce them to the best investors in the world. And they will have a hotline to the British Business Bank, who we are already working with, hand in glove.”

Wise said one of the key criteria for investments was that “they must have the potential to be a huge commercial success”.

The fund has also faced criticism from some VCs that it might be bureaucratic and slow to invest.

Liz Kendall said: “I believe sovereign AI is going to be one of the most important things this government does to build a better future for our country.” 

She added that AI was “beyond negotiable for our national security”.

The first equity investment from the fund is in AI infrastructure startup Callosum, for an undisclosed amount.

The fund has also awarded compute power from its supercomputers to Prima Mente, Cosine, Cursive, Doubleword, Twig Bio and Odyssey, to train their AI models. In return, the fund will get a first refusal on future investment in some of these startups.

IMAGE: Callosum founders

Doctolib,  @Hôtel-Dieu (AP-HP) and Roche are launching Care Forward, a support program for European health startups at STATION F. 

Designed to help young companies develop, test and deploy their solutions as close as possible to care delivery needs, it brings together technological expertise, access to clinical environments, and medical and regulatory support.

Based in the heart of STATION F, this program targets European startups that can demonstrate a rapid, measurable impact on the healthcare system, regardless of their maturity stage. It aims to accelerate the rollout of practical solutions, ready to be proven in real-world settings and to meet the daily requirements of healthcare professionals and patients’ needs. 

The program is open to both early- and late-stage, developing technologies dedicated to the healthcare sector, whether digital solutions, AI, connected devices, or services.

Projects may focus on a specific step of the care pathway — identification, diagnosis, treatment or follow-up — as well as innovations that improve the overall efficiency of the healthcare system.

Any technological contribution demonstrating a concrete impact on the healthcare system is welcome to join this new initiative. 
 

• Doctolib will support program participants with technology integration, the use of AI in healthcare, an in-depth understanding of practitioners’ expectations, and deployment strategies at the European scale. 
  
• @Hôtel-Dieu (AP-HP) will provide privileged access to AP-HP innovation platforms designed to support the emergence of innovation in the service of healthcare, and through them, to hospital environments. Startups will be able to engage directly with clinical realities, align their solutions with real-world needs, and leverage the expertise of professionals across the 38 hospitals of Europe’s largest university hospital system. 
  
• Roche will provide essential strategic support to navigate the sector’s complexity. Its teams will help entrepreneurs master regulatory constraints, demonstrate the health economic value of their projects, and gain access to a global network of scientific experts.
  

In addition to this hands-on support, the program includes regular meetings with specialised investors and key industry stakeholders, as well as exclusive invitations to events across Europe’s health ecosystem. 

According to Jean-Urbain Hubau, Managing Director, France, Doctolib:

“Our healthtech ecosystem is full of talent, but the real challenge remains scaling and adoption by healthcare professionals. With this program, we want to give startups the codes and tools so their innovations truly—and quickly—make it into the daily lives of care teams and patients.” 

According to Nicolas Castoldi, Deputy Director to the CEO of AP-HP and Executive Director of the @Hôtel-Dieu:

“This program is a further demonstration of our commitment to accelerating the emergence of innovation as close as possible to care delivery, in order to better meet the needs of healthcare professionals and patients.

It builds on our innovation platforms and supports the development of the new Hôtel-Dieu, a major innovation hub at the heart of a hospital with 14 centuries of history.” 

According to Jean-François Brochard, President, Roche Pharma France:

“This program will combine our longstanding expertise with the innovation capacity of healthtech startups.

Our shared ambition is to optimise care pathways to ensure lasting benefits for patients, simplify the daily work of care teams, and strengthen the efficiency of our healthcare system.” 

Applications for the program are open until May 15th. 

AlixLabs, a developer of Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) solutions for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, has closed a €15 million Series A funding round in the first quarter of 2026. The round includes a strategic investment from Stephen Industries, building on earlier participation from Global Brain and other institutional investors.

The funding marks a key milestone for AlixLabs as it continues to advance its proprietary ALE solutions, including its APS™ (Atomic Pitch Splitting) platform. The approach is designed to enable more precise, efficient, and cost-effective semiconductor fabrication, addressing the growing complexity of advanced device architectures.

Atomic Layer Etching is widely regarded as a critical enabler for future semiconductor nodes, complementing Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) processes by allowing atomic-scale precision in material removal. As semiconductor manufacturing evolves, ALE is expected to play an increasingly important role in production.

The new funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand technical capabilities, and strengthen partnerships with semiconductor manufacturers.

With this investment, AlixLabs aims to further establish its position within the European semiconductor ecosystem and advance its ambition to become a global provider of Atomic Layer Etching solutions.

The Swedish telecoms equipment maker narrowly missed profit forecasts, with adjusted EBITA falling 20% year-on-year to SEK 5.6 billion. North America, which drove a 20%+ surge in Q1 2025, declined sharply as prior-year pull-forward investment unwinds. CEO Ekholm blames rising semiconductor input costs, partly driven by AI demand. Ericsson reported a sharp fall in profitability […]

Akbank AG, the German subsidiary of Turkey’s leading bank Akbank TAS, has successfully completed Phase 1 of its core banking transformation, to the leading SaaS cloud banking platform Mambu. The transformation was delivered in close partnership with Innovance, Mambu’s strategic technology partner.

The milestone marks a full transition away from Akbank AG’s legacy core system for its Retail and Private segments, with all customers and accounts in these business lines now operating on Mambu’s composable, API-first cloud-native core banking platform.

Operating under the supervision of Germany’s financial regulatory authority, BaFin, Akbank AG’s transformation represents a significant example of a regulated European bank modernising its core banking infrastructure through a structured, phased migration strategy.

The new architecture, hosted on Microsoft Azure, combines:

• Mambu as the core banking foundation. Its API-first architecture enabled the bank to integrate
  easily with partners and reduce operational complexity, lowering maintenance effort and improving
  resilience.
• Core+ layer: This custom implementation layer communicates with Mambu and other integration services, acting as the central orchestration and business logic layer.
• Implementation partner: Innovance playing a key role in integrating the Core+ architecture with Mambu to enable scalable product modelling, transaction validation and limit management and standardised integration patterns aligned with Akbank AG’s target architecture.

A standout milestone was the delivery of the Limit Proposal Application in 2022, which enabled Akbank AG to launch a digital corporate credit approval process in just four months. The fully integrated ecosystem now includes core banking, accounting, payments, digital channels (web and mobile), wealth management back office, document management, and enterprise financial crime detection components. The modular approach allowed Akbank AG to adjust parameters—such as pricing, fees, and interest settings—directly through configuration rather than code, significantly reducing implementation time.

With Retail and Private Banking now live, the next phase of the transformation covering Corporate Banking and Lending is underway. This next stage will focus on complex lending requirements and the integration of several new systems using Mambu’s modular service structure.

“The industry is undergoing rapid transformation, and customers increasingly expect agility and seamless digital experiences,” said Osman Kara, Core Banking Technologies Vice President at Akbank AG. “With the successful completion of Phase 1 on Mambu, and in close collaboration with Innovance, we have modernised our core banking foundation and established a scalable architecture to support our next phase of growth.”

“Mambu is proud to have powered the transformation of Akbank AG. A show of our strength in the region, as well as our continued partnership with Innovance, this project will transform the banking capabilities of the region, as well as the offerings from Akbank AG. We look forward to the next phase of transformation.” says Mark Geneste, Chief Revenue Officer - Mambu

Yusuf Ürey - Innovance Founder & CEO: “At Innovance, we approach core banking transformation as a long-term capability shift rather than a system replacement. Together with Mambu, we have established a modern technology backbone for Akbank AG that enables continuous evolution, allowing the bank to respond faster to changing customer expectations and market dynamics.”

Mehmet Ali Özcan - Innovance Germany - Managing Director: “In this transformation, we developed the Core+ layer end-to-end to manage business logic, integrations and validations independently, while ensuring seamless interaction with Mambu’s platform. This approach allowed us to simplify system interactions and create a more adaptable and scalable foundation for future banking services.”

The successful migration strengthens Mambu’s footprint in the DACH region and, together with Innovance’s engineering and delivery capabilities, demonstrates the viability of replacing legacy core systems within regulated European banking environments.

Named after the crystallographer who helped reveal the structure of DNA, GPT-Rosalind is OpenAI’s first domain-specific model series, fine-tuned for biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering. Access is restricted to a trusted-access programme for vetted enterprise customers including Amgen, Moderna, and Thermo Fisher Scientific. OpenAI has launched GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built specifically for life […]

The UK government has selected Cosine, the British AI company whose models have outperformed OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and DeepSeek on independent coding benchmarks for two consecutive years, as one of the first partners in its newly launched £500 million Sovereign AI programme. 

Cosine was founded in 2022 by Alistair Pullen — who has been building AI products since 2018 and shipped his first iOS app at age nine — and Yang Li, who previously scaled Mobike to 220 million users across four continents before its $55 billion acquisition. A Y Combinator graduate, the company has raised $8 million from investors including Lakestar, SOMA Capital, and Gaingels.

As both an AI lab and a product company, Cosine builds and owns its models, trains its agents, and deploys the full stack. Its platform supports more than 38 programming languages, including Fortran, COBOL, Ada, and Verilog — purpose-built for the legacy codebases that underpin Britain's defence systems, nuclear infrastructure, and financial services backbone. 

It is the only end-to-end sovereign AI coding platform built, owned, and operated entirely in Britain.

Cosine is already engaged across UK defence primes and critical national infrastructure operators, including organisations involved in the UK's nuclear deterrent programmes and next-generation defence platforms. For organisations operating at the classified edge of British industry, sending code to a foreign-managed server is often legally and operationally prohibited. Cosine was built for that constraint: its platform deploys entirely within a customer's own infrastructure, without an internet connection, without data leaving the building, and without reliance on foreign-managed models.

Through the UK’s AI Research Resource (AIRR), the Sovereign AI Fund has awarded Cosine 500,000 GPU hours on Isambard-AI — one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe — worth millions of pounds in infrastructure value. 

For the first time, this makes it possible to build and deploy a fully sovereign AI model entirely on British soil, with no foreign dependency at any stage. In addition, the Sovereign AI Fund’s venture arm has secured the option to participate in Cosine's next funding round.

"Cursor and Claude Code are outstanding products. They are also legally off the table for a lot of our customers," said Alistair Pullen, CEO and co-founder of Cosine.

"The moment your work touches classified infrastructure, you need an AI that lives entirely inside your walls. We built Cosine that way from the start, because retrofitting security onto a cloud product is not the same thing, and the people we work with know the difference.

What we are building now goes further: a truly British AI lab, producing sovereign models for Britain's most critical use cases, owned and controlled by the UK, for the benefit of the UK."

"For two years we've been telling defence primes and critical infrastructure operators that we can do what no one else can: air-gapped, on-premise, trained on the legacy code that runs Britain's most sensitive systems," said Yang Li, COO and co-founder.

"The one thing we couldn't say was that the model itself was trained on sovereign infrastructure. The AIRR grant completes that picture. The UK should be an AI maker, not an AI taker - and this is what that looks like in practice."  

The European Investment Bank is lending €20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technologies and animal-free drug safety testing methods. BioLamina, the Stockholm-based biotechnology company that produces the protein scaffolding used to grow […]

The Japan-headquartered EV battery manufacturer, controlled by China’s Envision Group and backed by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, is mulling an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise up to $2 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The move marks a significant change from earlier plans to list in the US. Envision AESC, the electric vehicle […]

The Silicon Valley institution has closed roughly $7 billion for its expansion strategy fund, nearly doubling its comparable 2022 vehicle. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took over as co-stewards in November 2025, are making the raise their opening statement on the AI era. Sequoia Capital has raised approximately $7 billion for a new fund, […]

Elizabeta Gjorgievska Joshevski’s career spans multiple continents and leadership roles, yet her current focus reflects a consistent theme: understanding how technology translates into business outcomes. As founder and CEO of EverCognitive, she brings that perspective into an AI landscape where many organizations are still defining their AI transformation and how to apply it in practical […]

In short: Roblox is upgrading its built-in AI assistant with agentic capabilities including a planning mode that analyses game code before proposing action plans, procedural 3D model generation, mesh generation, and self-correcting loops that test and refine outputs. The update also adds MCP client integration with third-party tools like Claude and Cursor, with a roadmap […]

When a need arises, many people instinctively turn to someone they know. A quick message to a friend or a brief conversation often brings clarity, shaped by shared experiences and personal understanding. According to Stanley Fulton, founder of Trusti, this pattern has long guided everyday decisions, offering a sense of familiarity that extends beyond simple […]

In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pattern analysis, environmental safety alerts, and activity tracking. The update also adds Galaxy AI-powered routine creation, millimetre-wave ambient sensing with local processing, […]