What Does AI in Business Mean

‘Grow with AI’ micro-events bring best of breed CXOs together with Industry C-level to make smart growth more accessible. Learn how smart and high impact solutions transforming industry

  • Theme 1: Stay Close to Customers. Sales, Marketing, Care, GDPR, Brand, Telecommuting, Adapting Brand to COVID context, focus to New Growth opportunity

  • Theme 2: Smart Operations. Manufacturing, Logistics, Security, Operational Analytics, Talent Placement, Employee Safety, Space Refactoring, People Analytics, Supply Chain Visibility, Forecasting, Supplier Risk, Finance & Funding

  • Theme 3: New Business Models. AI, Data and Cloud platforms. Growth Point Enablement for industry or functions, Encrypted data, Data exchange, Knowledge discovery, Digital tracking for COVID, New Digital Governance

  • Theme 4: Impact. High R&D and Science or High Impact on Industry and Quality of Life

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Small, invite-only gatherings, well-scripted and informative presentations and small focus groups for 2-direction learning.

RECENT AI & GTM Learning Sessions

“New Business Models”

  • CTO Teradata “Automation vs. Augmentation”

  • Head Data Science, Autodesk (video stream) “Build vs. Buy for distributed data science teams”

  • Transformation Lead, Royal Haskoning “Developing new ventures to deal with climate change" 

  • EMEA Senior Solutions Engineer, H2O.ai (San Francisco/Bnlx) "How to become an AI company” 

  • Lead for AI Applications in Environmental Science, American Meteorological Society (video stream) “Creative destruction at intersection of corporates, startups & climate change”

  • Managing Partner, Cresco Law “Innovate, Collaborate & Grow: Partnering models for SaaS & AI entrepreneurs, companies and investors”

“Stay Close to Customers”

  • CEO Gravity R&D (Budapest) “Deep Learning Adoption in Traditional Industry”

  • ex Head Sales Analytics @ Uber, Groupon, Youtube “Growth Analytics Playbook & interfacing with data science teams”

  • CEO Cognism “GDPR Compliant Lead Generation and Growth Thru Acquisition”

  • CEO Chatlayer (Antwerp) “Using outward-facing conversational AI today and in the future"

  • CEO Edward.ai (Warsaw) "How to manage local and global Sales teams using AI"

  • CEO Globalventure.com “How to Grow your Next Remote 1m ARR”

  • CEO Gpredictive (Hamburg) “Industrialized Machine Learning for CRM”

  • CCO Mindspeller (New York) “Implicit brand tracking & equity optimisation AI” 

  • COO Synerise (Krakow) "Marketing AI for Retail"

“Smart Operations”

  • CCO, Algolytics (Warsaw) “Location Intelligence & CRM”

  • SVP Intelligent Enterprise, SAP “AI Micro-services for Enterprise Transformation”

  • Head Customer Success Transformation, TP Vision/Philips TV “Stakeholders, speech analytics and CX resilience”

  • CEO Manual.to (Gent) “Internet of content & job training for manufacturing.”

  • CEO BrainCreators (Amsterdam) "Making AI accessible for smart operations and those who will benefit most"

Past Showcases Shazam, Adyen, Swiftkey, Blockchain, GetApp, Synerise, Optimizely and 200 AI related companies. Past Speakers Audi, Samsung, Apple, SAP, Cisco, Facebook, Kohl’s, Adobe, Amazon, Ericsson, GE, Telefonica, BofA, Schwab and others. B2B investors A16Z, Index Ventures, US Ventures, Giza Polish Ventures, EBAN

COVID Hybrid Events 2020-2022

2020 Antwerp GVX 8 with Live participation from Germany, the US & Canada with TP Vision/Philips TV, Royal Haskoning, Uber (ex), Northzone, Fortino Capital and 20 CXOs. Co-hosts: Cresco Law, European Leadership University, H2O.ai and Global Ventu…

2020 Antwerp GVX 8 with Live participation from Germany, the US & Canada with TP Vision/Philips TV, Royal Haskoning, Uber (ex), Northzone, Fortino Capital and 20 CXOs. Co-hosts: Cresco Law, European Leadership University, H2O.ai and Global Venture Exchange.

Antwerp Session March 2020

50 Transformation Execs & 15 Tech Firms. Volta Ventures, Northzone, 01 Ventures, Younick Ventures, Fortino Capital and other VCs. Special Speaker Carl Wouters (Antwerp), Historian Advisor to 106th Infantry Division & St. Vith Memorial. Co-hosts by Cresco Law, H2O.ai and European Leadership University

CEO data science meets talent platform Techwolf.

CEO data science meets talent platform Techwolf.

Online SESSION March 2021

150 Transformation Execs, 40 Deep Tech VCs & 200 Tech Firms. Co-hosted by Tech Tour, International Venture Club.

Amsterdam “Data Cruise” Oct 2021

50 Transformation Execs & 15 Tech Firms. UberEats SVP Search, SAP SVP Intelligent Enterprise, FedEx Head of Digital. Co-hosts by Gravity R&D (exit NASDAQ firm), Algolytics, LeaseWeb, Women in AI.

Online SESSION November 2021

150 Transformation Execs, 40 Deep Tech VCs & 200 Tech Firms. Co-hosted by Tech Tour, International Venture Club.

HYBRID SESSION 11 OCTOBER 2022

75 Transformation Execs & 15 Tech Firms. Co-hosted by Holland International Distribution Council, Women in AI, Braincreators, The Hague Business Agency & Reyne Tax Experts.

Learn and gain a lifelong network of leaders active in AI.

Calistoga Retreats 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019.

Calistoga Retreats 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019.

2013 Founding Partners (from left): Haas MBA (Spain), iMinds Venture Lead (now with SmartFin Capital), Berkeley Venture Capital Executive Program Director, Chris, iMinds Managing Director (today w SmartFin Capital), Haas MBA (France, Startup CEO), H…

2013 Inaugural even in Mountain View (from left): Haas MBA (Spain), iMinds Venture Lead (now with SmartFin Capital), Berkeley Venture Capital Executive Program Director, Chris, iMinds Managing Director (today w SmartFin Capital), Haas MBA (France, Startup CEO), Haas MBA (US, VC), Haas MBA (Belgium, Salesforce Exec), CEO CoffeeShop (5 time California GVX sustainer), Haas MBA (The Netherlands, Deloitte), Haas MBA (Italy, Microsoft XBox). iMinds from Gent, Belgium, reached World’s fourth best business accelerator two years later (Source: UBI Global rankings, 2015). Not pictured: The Ministry Economic Affairs of The Netherlands and City of Amsterdam.

Winery in Calistoga with leaders from Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, France, UK and the US. Data Tech Convoy 2018 California. Working Groups with 40 Corporate & B2B Execs in data domains like AI and Blockchain.

Executive Retreat in Calistoga with leaders from Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, France, UK and the US.

Corporate leaders & CXO AI Leadership Series.

GVX 7 in 2018 with AI Working Groups with SAP, Softbank, IBM, Adobe, Almaz Capital and startup CXOs. (San Francisco 2018)

AI in Business working groups with SAP, Softbank, IBM, Adobe, Almaz Capital and startup CXOs. (San Francisco 2018)

In 2013 GVX invited 20 Senior Corporate Execs including SVP Adobe, GE, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments & 20 European scaleup CXOs including Shazam and Adyen (prior to their first external funding round) to Fenwick & West in Mountain View. The fo…

20 Senior Corporate Execs including SVP Adobe, GE, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments & European CXOs Shazam and Adyen (prior to their first external funding round) to Fenwick & West in Mountain View.

CEO of Danish eye tracking startup The Eye Tribe at GVX 2014. Two years later they merged with VR market leader Oculus.

CEO of Danish eye tracking startup The Eye Tribe at GVX 2014. Two years later they merged with VR market leader Oculus.

William Stevens, Managing Director International Venture Club & Tech Tour (Brussels, Sofia) was instrumental to us in 2013, 2014, 2015 culminating in 2016 with cooperation in the Amsterdam Stock Exchange on the West Coast of Europe.

Managing Director International Venture Club & Tech Tour (Brussels, Sofia) was instrumental to us in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2021.

Use Your Imagination, Knowledge & Networks to Transform & Grow in 2020.

Use Your Imagination, Knowledge & Networks to Transform & Grow in 2022.

GVX 2 2014 Dutch Consulate San Francisco. CEO & Founder Posios remote from Gent with 20 scaleup CXOs from Slovenia, France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium joined The World Bank, Software AG, Telefonica, IBM, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Fac…

2014 with CXOs from Slovenia, France, Germany, the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium joined The World Bank, Software AG, Telefonica, IBM, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Facebook and other industry leaders.

GVX 3 with Berkeley alumn investor, VC Council (center) and UC Berkeley entrepreneurship instructor/Co-Chair (right). More than 100 UC Berkeley MBAs have contributed to GVX.

VC Council (center) and UC Berkeley instructor/Co-Chair (right). More than 100 UC Berkeley MBAs have contributed to GVX.

22 October 2007 Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley Laureate Historian "The First Modern Economy: Success, Failures and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815”.

22 October 2007 Jan de Vries, UC Berkeley Laureate Historian "The First Modern Economy: Success, Failures and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815”.

NAF NorCal Business Exchange is where GVX got its roots. The event session was held as a Tribute to Alfred Peet (1920 to 2007), founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea, at HP with The Northern California chapter of the Netherland America Foundation.

NAF NorCal Business Exchange is where GVX got its roots. The event session was held as a Tribute to Alfred Peet (1920 to 2007), founder of Peet's Coffee and Tea, at HP with The Northern California chapter of the Netherland America Foundation.