Nexus

The meeting ground for founders defining the data and AI frontiers

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2024

ABOUT
NEXUS
EST 2023

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London

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From Technical Capability to Commercial Execution

AI capability is advancing faster than organisations can adopt it. The greatest challenges founders face are no longer technical, they are commercial. The founders who win are those who can turn technical advantage into repeatable go-to-market execution, real customers, and durable revenue.

Nexus brings together founders defining the frontiers of data and AI to exchange  the GTM insight that determine outcomes early: finding the first customers, designing pricing models, enterprise sales, and building repeatable revenue engines without compromising technical depth .

SPEAKERS

Led by a collective of founders and operators who have built and scaled companies at the frontier of data and AI

Past
Lars Nordwall
Lars Nordwall
COO, Neo4J
Amy Heineike
Amy Heineike
Founding AI Engineer, Tessl
Joel Belafa
Joel Belafa
Founder & CEO, Biolevate
Vincent Molina
Vincent Molina
Founder & CEO, PyonnateAI
Andreas Lundmark
Andreas Lundmark
Managing Director, BCG X
Julien Launay
Julien Launay
Founder & CEO, AdaptiveML
Kevin Ryan
Kevin Ryan
Founder, AlleyCorp, prev Founder & CEO, MongoDB
Julien Simon
Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist, Arcee, prev Hugging Face
Sam Stephenson
Sam Stephenson
Founder & CEO, Granola
Pietro Casella
Pietro Casella
Chief AI Architect, MGX, prev EQT Motherbrain
Emma Burrows
Emma Burrows
Founder, Portia, prev Stripe
Camilla Giesecke
Camilla Giesecke
Chief Operating Officer, Klarna
Eric Landau
Eric Landau
Founder & CEO, Encord
Misha Jessel Kenyon
Misha Jessel Kenyon
GTM Lead, Mistral
Conor Forde
Conor Forde
Chief Revenue Officer, Aiven
Sam Sklar
Sam Sklar
B2B Growth, ElevenLabs
Ellen McCormack
Ellen McCormack
Head of EMEA Sales, Clay

Workshops and sessions are rooted in practice with playbooks from founding and operating experience where technical excellence meets commercial reality. Topics span,

  • Founder-led sales

  • Early customer discovery

  • Paths to product-market-fit

  • PLG and enterprise sales motions

  • Building high-performing commercial teams

  • Revenue architecture and repeatability

partners

Shaped in collaboration with venture capital and infrastructure partners from the defining European data and AI ecosystems

VENTURE PARTNERS
INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS
Editions
NEXUS
EST 2023
2024
01.18
Stockholm
01.27
Stockholm
02.27
London
2025
03.26
Paris
04.17
London
2026
04.01
Paris
04.23
London
05.13
Stockholm

The greatest accelerant for founders is proximity to peers who have navigated the same commercial challenges

Running across the most dynamic European ecosystems