After an epic month, Tech Trends will be in Vienna for this years’ Pioneers conference.

Founded in 2009 the Pioneers conference has become a highlight of the European tech start-up calendar. It takes place every year in the 500-year-old Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna and brings together a community of 2,500 founders, investors, executives and public sector representatives from over 100 nations.

Founded in 2009, the Pioneers conference has become a highlight of the European tech calendar
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Pioneers takes place in the 500-year-old Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna and brings together a community of 2,500 founders, investors, executives and public sector representatives from over 100 nations
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This year’s theme is Blurred Frontiers and the announced speaker line-up so far includes Amazon Vice President & CTO Werner Vogels, Lighting Labs Co- Founder and CEO Elizabeth Stark and Lilium Co-Founder and Head of Calculation & Design Patrick Nathen.

Pioneers establishes and facilitates direct, meaningful business relationships between startups, corporate executives, and investors to foster growth and innovation. It is the ultimate One-Stop-Hub for global tech innovators to access high- value, curated and qualified data of early and Series A European startups.

Stay tuned for the latest news by following @techtrends_tech and tweet us with the #pioneers hashtag
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Tech Trends at Pioneers

Undoubtedly one of the headline acts on the first day of Pioneers’18 will be geneticist Josef Penninger, who will dissect some of the life sciences’ extreme potential in a keynote entitled: The Age of Impact: Why Curiosity Leads The Way. This renowned researcher, who is founding director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, will be discussing how humans can be made stronger from the inside out.

 

And with Penninger moving to Vancouver later in the year to take over the leadership of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of British Columbia, it could be one of the last few chances to see him speak in his native Europe.

 

Penninger will not be the only game-changing life sciences hero on the Arena Stage at the Hofburg. The second afternoon will see Olivier Oullier, President of pioneering EEG company Emotiv, showcase the fascinating concept of a ‘wearable for your brain’ in his keynote talk. He’ll dive into how neurofeedback will empower individuals to understand their own brain and accelerate brain research globally.

 

We’ll continue to delve into the grey zone between the life sciences and artificial intelligence as Insilico Medicine CEO Dr Alex Zhavoronkov showcases how Artificial Intelligence can contribute to humans living not only longer, but more healthily so. Insilico is a leader in the next-generation AI and blockchain technologies for drug discovery, biomarker development and aging research.

 

Moderating this session with Dr Zhavoronkov on the second afternoon of Pioneers’18 will be Danny Crichton, the Editorial Manager at TechCrunch. And it will be a busy day for him, because he’ll also be chairing our Found in Translation discussion, which will unpack how Artificial Intelligence can break down international language barriers with real-time translation. The stars here will be Waverly Labs CEO Andrew Ochoa and Unbabel CEO Vasco Pedro, whom Pioneers’17 visitors will remember from his Arena Stage appearance last year.

 

The session will examine just how far translation technology has moved on with the help of AI in the last 12 months, specifically exploring Unbabel’s automated video subtitling service and the Waverly Labs translation earbuds.

 

Crichton will also have a role to play on day one, as one of a four-strong panel judging a selection of three startups in our Pitch the Media session on the Amplify Stage. This takes the form of a panel discussion and interactive workshop, in which the startups try to convince the media to cover their stories – and then learn how to do it better!

 

The other members of this session’s jury will be TechTrends Deputy Editor Tom Atkinson, Startup Europe Research Director Natalie Novick, and Heatmap’s Alice Bonasio, who in addition to Editing Tech Trends and contributing to the likes of Wired and Ars Technica is also the author of VRgins: Love, Sex and Relationships in the Virtual Age.

Tech Trends is an official media partners of Pioneers Festival 2018
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Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. Connect with her on LinkedIn and follow @alicebonasio on Twitter

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We’re off to Los Angeles from the 22^nd to the 26^th October to join the brightest minds in data analytics for the Teradata Partners Conference 2017.

Tech Trends continues its relentless globe-trotting by adding yet another top tech event notch to its proverbial bedpost: The Teradata Partners Conference in LA.

Tech Trends will be at the #TDPARTNERS17 conference from the 22nd to the 26th October
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OK, I’m not going to lie. Any chance to escape the rain for a spell of California sunshine is always welcome, yet for anybody who’s into technology, data is actually a pretty sexy subject.

Data is actually a very sexy subject
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Think of any cool tech, from VR to the Internet of Things, EdTech, green energy, mobility, finance, and yes, even sex. Big Data, AI and Machine Learning will be the backbone of how these pan out.

Machine Learning, AI and Big Data affect every cool technology out there
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Described as the premier customer-led global data conference, the conference aims to bring together experts to help companies in all sectors drive more value from data.

At PARTNERS, you will meet and learn from change-agents and practitioners—those marching to their own tune. You will see tomorrow not as another day, but where The Edge of Next is.

Illustrious keynote speakers include Jason Silva from National Geographic’s Brain Games, Emmy-winning tech expert Katie Linendoll and the legendary director of MIT’s Media Lab Joi Ito. I know that I for one am very excited about hearing Mr Ito’s thoughts on what lies just over the horizon for tech.

MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito is among this year's keynote speakers
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Check out some of the highlights from last year’s conference below:

If you’re lucky enough to be heading over there, reach out and say hello on Twitter @alicebonasio or @techtrends_tech , and you can also follow the latest from the conference on #TDPARTNERS17

To find out how to leverage VR/AR/MR in your enterprise, Tech Trends offers bespoke Virtual Reality Consultancy support

Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. Connect with her on LinkedIn and follow @alicebonasio and @techtrends_tech on Twitter.

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The EdTechXEurope summit brings together 800 attendees and over 100 speakers and thought leaders from the EdTech sector to explore the current state of EdTech and what we can expect in future.

How do issues around globalization, personalization and acceleration affect the EdTech landscape? What innovations are going to disrupt Education in the next year, and what does this mean in practice for educators, students, policymakers and the technology industry?

What innovations are going to disrupt Education in the next year?
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The lineup includes speakers from Google Education, IBM, BBC Worldwide Learning and IBIS Capital as well as Sir Robert Winston from Imperial College London and a host of start-ups and innovators, including some that were previously featured here such as Bibblio, Knowledgemotion and TES Global.

The event takes place over two days on June 15-16 at Kings Place in London, and you can register for tickets and updates on the EdtechXEurope website.

Another exciting aspect of this year’s conference is the transatlantic collaboration that will happen between EdTechXEurope and SXSWedu, with a session powered by Ron Reed and his team, helping bridge the gap between the two continents.

Entrepreneurs will get a chance to pitch and meet with investors at EdTechXAllStars
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Emerging entrepreneurs will also get a chance to pitch and meet with investors at EdTechXAllStars, a competition designed to give promising startups in the sector a platform to showcase their ideas

Tech Trends is an official media partner of EdTechEurope, and Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief. She also regularly writes for Fast Company, Ars Technica, Quartz, Wired and others. Connect with her on LinkedIn and follow @alicebonasio and @techtrends_tech on Twitter.

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