Whatever it takes 🫡

Time to get off the brake — €500 billion to ramp up defense, fix infrastructure, and boost the economy 🦾

@tagesspiegel.de – link below 👇

When the Empire strikes back, European Defense Tech @eurodefensetech.bsky.social must return – may the force of innovation be with us! 🦾

Our @eurodefensetech.bsky.social Hackathon Next Week in Munich Is Fully Booked 💥

With 450+ registrations, we've hit full capacity—our venue literally can't hold any more people!

Despite the overwhelming interest we simply have no more room 😅

Weekend plans: the {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon #2 🦾

Great opportunity to explore new technology, work with advanced AI tools, and build something impactful—from useful features to complete AI-powered solutions 🤖

"Wie bringen wir die smartesten Leute in Europa dazu, Drohnen statt Dating-Apps zu entwickeln

Ich hatte das Vergnügen, darüber mit Maximilian Henning für den Tagesspiegel Background zu sprechen – ist ein spannender und lesenswerter Artikel geworden!

background.tagesspiegel.de/it-und-cyber...

Wie war das nochmal mit der Zeitenwende?

Über 1000 Tage sind vergangen, seitdem Olaf Scholz seine Zeitenwende-Rede gehalten hat – doch die Wende selbst lässt auf sich warten ...

Happy New Year 2025 🎇

How does Santa deliver billions of gifts in one night?

The @irishtimes.bsky.social has interviewed scientists who have a hunch: quantum physics

www.irishtimes.com/news/science...

Hope Santa stopped by your place, and you'll have a great start to 2025 🥳

Looking forward to the #UltimateDemoDay by UnternehmerTUM tomorrow – hit me up if you're around and wanna chat about deep tech and computing 🤗

P.S. On Wednesday will be the Future of Computing Conference 2024, which I'm organizing with TUM Venture Labs and INAM

future-of-computing.com/conference

Just one week to go till the Future of Computing Conference 2024 🤖

👉 Tickets: www.eventbrite.de/e/future-of-...

Great turnout at our European Defense Tech Hackathon this weekend in Paris with 150+ participants, 30 teams, and lots of energy 🦾

"By taking several smaller-scale quantum processors and networking them with our highly efficient photonic quantum links, we’ll be able to build modular, multi-core quantum computers"

Had the pleasure to interview Tom Darras, co-founder and CEO of Welinq

www.future-of-computing.com/welinq-shapi...

Nine days to go, and already 200+ participants registered on Luma for our next European Defense Tech Hackathon in Paris 🦾

paris.eurodefense.tech

One trip to Ukraine, two months of fundraising, and plenty of coffee chats later, the Second @eurodefensetech.bsky.social Hackathon is happening this November 🚀

👉 in Copenhagen this weekend, Nov 15-17: cph.eurodefense.tech

👉 and in Paris two weeks later, Nov 29 - Dec 1: paris.eurodefense.tech

Which books did you read in 2023? 📖

My reading list this year included:

People in the 1900s: Who needs cars if we have horses already and a supply chain to feed them?

People in the 2000s: Who needs optical processors if we have electronic chips already and a $1T supply chain to manufacture them?

#OpticalComputing #FutureOfComputing