Alex Hern
Moderator
Sessions (3)
Sessions featuring Alex Hern at HumanX Amsterdam 2026
Turning the Promise of Frontier AI into Reality
Colin Jarvis explains how OpenAI’s forward deployed engineers help enterprises move frontier AI from pilots into production by pairing engineering, communication, and domain expertise. He highlights manufacturing, life sciences, and semiconductor examples where successful adoption starts with high-value business problems, builds trusted workflows, and scales beyond one department.
After the Exit: Building and Backing the Next Wave of AI Out of Europe
Peter Sarlin reflected on bootstrapping Silo AI from 2017 to its 2024 sale to AMD, arguing Europe can build major AI companies despite fragmented markets, limited capital, and insufficient compute for today’s frontier labs. He described PostScriptum’s post-exit role: funding European founders, supporting research, and building sovereign-stack and defense AI companies aimed at the next AI paradigm.
Where Capital & Emerging AI Categories Collide
VC panelists identified security, world models, material science, drug discovery, biology, compute, chips, and energy as AI categories worth watching beyond agentic hype. They argued defensible AI companies need domain-grounded founders, narrow and useful workflows, customer love, speed of execution, and incremental progress that supports fundraising.