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Officially kicked off the Silicon Valley Summit! Over the next few days, we’ll welcome more than 4,000 people into our home right here in Silicon Valley. The energy is high, our building is packed, and people from all over the world are here this week to connect, collaborate, and talk about what’s next across tech and innovation. Hard to believe this is also my 34th Summit with Plug and Play Tech Center . Every year brings a different energy, new ideas, and new people shaping the future. Pumped for the week ahead!

Our Silicon Valley Summit is back this week, May 19-21! We’re also celebrating 20 years of Plug and Play Tech Center this year, which makes this Summit feel even more special. There’s going to be a lot happening over the next few days. Startup pitches, product demos, conversations around AI and emerging tech, reconnecting with partners from around the world, and meeting founders building what’s next. One conversation I’m especially looking forward to is the chat between Starcloud Co-Founder & CEO Philip Johnston and our Founder & CEO, Saeed Amidi . Should be a great discussion on where technology, infrastructure, and innovation in space are heading. So many people flying in. So many connections happening in one place. Let’s make the most of the week. If you’re coming, hit me up! #PNPTCSiliconValley

Excited to partner with the Farm Robotics Challenge again and host the awards ceremony alongside the Plug and Play Tech Center Summit. Winners will be invited to pitch on stage during the Fall Summit, November 3-5! Can't wait to see what this year's innovators bring to the table! #Agtech #Robotics #Innovation

The AI advantage is increasingly shifting from who trains the smartest models to who can run them cheapest, fastest, and most efficiently at scale. Excited to unpack the next battleground of AI infrastructure, inference economics, full-stack control and moat, and where Europe can realistically compete, together with Gilles Backhus , Co-Founder, VP of AI & Product at Tensordyne at Deep Tech Momentum in Berlin this Thursday. Plug and Play Tech Center backed Tensordyne in 2018. A lot has changed. Join our session to learn more: "From AI Math to AI Margins: Who Wins the Inference Stack" 📍 21 May, 14:15 - 14:45 #PlugandPlayTechCenter #VC #AI #Inference

Modern software is being shipped faster than traditional security workflows can keep up with, especially as AI-generated code becomes more common. Hacktron AI is taking a different approach by bringing continuous, attacker-grade security testing directly into the development lifecycle through AI-powered agents designed by elite offensive security researchers. Proud to see Plug and Play Tech Center support the team as they build the future of offensive security infrastructure. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d6RBzb-b

One of my favourite moments of the year is almost here as we welcome 4,000+ people to Plug and Play Tech Center HQ in Sunnyvale for the Silicon Valley May Summit. Over 3 days, we'll hear from 200+ AI startups across 20+ industries, with 75+ speakers joining us from across the innovation ecosystem. And if the energy from previous years is anything to go by, it's going to be a really special few days. What I'm most excited about is the fireside chat on May 20th between our Founder and CEO, Saeed Amidi , and Philip Johnston , Co-Founder and CEO of Starcloud . Starcloud is one of our newest unicorns and a company that has been on my mind a lot lately. Philip is working on building data centers in space because building AI infrastructure at the scale the market demands is running into some very real walls now, like energy and land. So what Starcloud is doing is genuinely one of the more ambitious answers to that problem that I've come across, and hearing Philip talk through the vision in person is something I've been looking forward to. I'll also be moderating a panel at the Summit with Austin Noronha , Nick Vyas , and Howard Wright , which should make for a really interesting conversation. If you're going to be in Sunnyvale from May 19th to 21st, I’d love to connect while we’re there.

We're a few days away from the Silicon Valley May Summit, and I'm looking forward to what's shaping up to be a really strong 3 days. From May 19th to 21st, we'll have 300+ startups pitching across 20+ industries at Plug and Play Tech Center HQ in Sunnyvale, with 75+ speakers and 4,000+ people in the building. One thing I've come to appreciate about these Summits is that you can't really replicate what happens when this many people with this many different perspectives are in the same place for three days. So if you can make it to Sunnyvale between May 19th and 21st, I'm sure it will be worth the time. Link with Summit details in the comments.

Following a recent $170M Series A and rapid rise to unicorn status (and becoming Plug and Play Tech Center 's newest unicorn), Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston will sit down with our Founder & CEO Saeed Amidi at the Silicon Valley Summit for an opening fireside chat on the company’s journey, the future of orbital computing, and what it takes to build data centers in space. Join us on May 20: https://pnptc.in/4n8Ix7V #PNPTCSiliconValley

🇨🇾 Cyprus is the fastest-growing startup ecosystem in the European Union. 800 startups and scale-ups. Fivefold increase since 2020. Top 40 globally. Plug and Play Tech Center Cyprus is the scaling layer that the ecosystem has been missing. With Ίδρυμα Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας/Research and Innovation Foundation , ASBIS , Tototheo Global , ECOMMBX , and Mastercard . 🚀 Officially open. https://lnkd.in/gCvFFKFh