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  • ADS Webinar | What Makes a Great Startup?

    In this webinar, in collaboration with ACE, we explored the journey of a startup, the challenges founders face and how to navigate through them. With speakers Daniela Redondo and Maxime ten Brinke from ACE and Ruben Halfhide from Gymspaces.

  • Millions for AI knowledge and investment consortium

    CWI will be part of a knowledge and investment consortium made up of a large group of Dutch universities and a venture capitalist has been awarded an €8 million grant to accelerate the application and marketing of innovations in the field of AI.

  • ADS Webinar | Responsible and Ethical use of AI

    In this webinar, we explored how we can use AI responsibly and ethically. Particularly initiatives that deal with sensitive data or have a significant impact on people.

  • Claes de Vreese becomes fifth university professor of AI at UvA

    Claes de Vreese has been appointed university professor of AI and Society by the University of Amsterdam. This appointment takes the number of university professors in the field of AI at the UvA to five. De Vreese will focus on the ever-increasing role that automated decision-making and AI plays in our digital society, bringing together various sub-areas, including politics, media and democracy.

  • ASIF Ventures is recruiting a new board

    ASIF Ventures is recruiting a new board. Are you interested in venture capital? Do you have what it takes to fund the new Dutch unicorns?  Fund student startups at ASIF ventures for 1 year, full-time. Apply now.

  • Amsterdam Science Innovation Award

    Do you have an innovative idea and would you like to develop it further? The Innovation Award is the Amsterdam competition for research based innovative ideas that contribute to a better world. You have the chance to get feedback on your idea, get a pitch training, share your innovation with the public and win €10.000!

  • AI, Media and Democracy

    How will AI change media? What new opportunities can AI create for democracy? And what conditions need to be fulfilled for these things to happen? On 22 February 2021, The AI, Media and Democracy Lab was launched to look into these questions. A collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and CWI.

  • ICAI Launch Pad

    Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) has initiated the Launch Pad to retain talent in the AI and Data Science ecosystem.