Are you an early-stage startup founder or just interested in the startup world? Join the SpartUp Incubator for an in-depth discussion on how founders can set themself up for success as a student entrepreneur. Hear from a panel of entrepreneurs and experts as they share real-world insights to help you stand out and stay ahead. 

As AI reshapes global innovation, Iprova is collaborating with Microsoft again to lead the charge in data-driven invention. Following the success of last year’s inaugural summit, the two organisations are hosting an exclusive one-day event on the 10th September 2025 at the world-renowned IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland. Together with Microsoft, Iprova will showcase some of its latest Agentic AI-based technologies and unveil a new, ground-breaking integrated human-agent workflow product set for launch later in 2025.

The invitation-only event brings together senior leaders from enterprise Research and Development (R&D), Intellectual Property and innovation to explore the latest developments in data-driven invention creation. Through hands-on sessions with the latest agentic AI tools, expert insights and collaborative discussions, attendees gain invaluable strategic insights to enhance their invention workflows and drive real-world impact.  

Innovation leaders in enterprises are under increasing pressure to deliver breakthroughs faster while managing costs. The demand for robust, data-driven invention creation has never been more urgent.

The adoption of AI in R&D continues to accelerate. According to the 2025 International Innovation Barometer (IIB), 75% of businesses are integrating AI into their R&D processes, revolutionising data analysis, predictive analytics, and more. In this shifting landscape, staying ahead means embracing the latest AI-powered methodologies.

Founder and CEO at Iprova, Julian Nolan said, “As the world speeds up, the ability to efficiently and collaboratively create high-value inventions in direct and real-time response to global change is becoming a fundamental requirement. Our event is designed to provide a buyer’s guide to the tools, insights and partnerships they need to thrive in this new era of AI-assisted invention.”

Raya Volinsky, Global Director AI Business Solutions, Microsoft commented, “Our collaboration with Iprova exemplifies Microsoft’s commitment to driving innovation through trusted and scalable AI and cloud technologies. By building on Microsoft Azure and using the Microsoft Commercial Marketplaces, Iprova enables their customers’ enterprise R&D and innovation teams unlock the full potential of AI to accelerate invention and achieve breakthrough outcomes with real-world impact.”

The event will feature live demonstrations of AI-assisted invention tools, an exclusive look into the daily workflows of an AI-assisted inventor, and case studies highlighting breakthrough invention strategies from leading enterprises. Participants will also take part in collaborative sessions on invention workflows and value creation, culminating in insightful network opportunities with industry pioneers.

Attendees will hear from thought leaders who will unpack the science behind invention, share market trends, and offer guidance on navigating the evolving AI and innovation landscape.

Join an innovative group of industry leaders driving the future of AI-powered invention. Space is limited, and participation is by invitation only. Request your spot today at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-assisted-invention-summit-2025-tickets-1412377632519?aff=oddtdtcreator

GTS

The annual GTS conference brings GF executives and technologists together with customers and partners to discuss the latest breakthroughs and innovations in the semiconductor industry.

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors the world relies on to live, work and connect. We innovate and partner with customers to deliver more power-efficient, high-performance products for high-growth markets. With our global manufacturing footprint spanning the U.S., Europe, and Asia, we are a trusted and reliable source for customers around the world.

Join us at SAFE™ Forum 2025

Discover the future of intelligent silicon at SAFE™ Forum 2025, where ecosystem partners, industry leaders, and technology experts come together for inspiring keynotes, in-depth tech sessions, and dynamic networking opportunities—all centered around the theme,
“Alliance for Silicon Intelligence.”

About Startup World Cup

The Startup World Cup is a series of global startup conferences and pitch competitions powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures, featuring 100+ regional events across 60+ countries. These events culminate in our 2025 Grand Finale hosted in Silicon Valley (USA), where winning startups from each regional event will compete for a $1M prize on October 17th, 2025.

A worldwide connected Event Series!!

D&R IP-SoC Days are the unique worldwide events fully dedicated to IP (Silicon Intellectual Property) and IP based Electronic Systems.

IP-SoC providers, the seed of innovation in Electronic Industry, are invited to highlight and demonstrate their latest products and servcies and share their vision about the next innovation steps in the Electronic Industry.

IP consumers can view at a glance the latest Technology trends and exciting Innovative IP/SoC products.

Through a global view, Electronic systems leaders may identify disruptive innovation leading to new market segment growth.

TSMC GRAND ALLIANCE

The TSMC Grand Alliance is one of the most powerful force for innovation in the semiconductor industry, bringing together our customers, EDA partners, IP partners, and key equipment and materials suppliers at a new, higher level of collaboration.

The objectives of the TSMC Grand Alliance are straightforward: to help our customers, the alliance members and ourselves win business and stay competitive.

We know collaboration works. We have seen it in the great strides our customers and ecosystem members have made through the Open Innovation Platform® that supports our customers' innovation and helps them attain maximum value from TSMC's technology.

Today Open Innovation Platform is an unmatchable design ecosystem and a key part of the Grand Alliance that will prove much more powerful. Looking at R&D investment alone, we calculate that TSMC and ten of our customers invest more in R&D than the top two semiconductor IDMs combined.

Through the Grand Alliance TSMC will relentlessly pursue our mission and collaborate with customers and partners. We need each other to be competitive. We need each other to win. Such is the power of the Grand Alliance.

LES Silicon Valley 21st Annual Chapter Conference
"The Silicon Valley Deal Machine"

The Silicon Valley Deal Machine encapsulates the ecosystem that catalyzes innovation through intellectual property (IP), fueling transformative technologies and economic growth. Silicon Valley remains a critical engine for IP-intensive industries that contribute $7.8 trillion to the U.S. GDP—41% of the total—and support over 44% of U.S. employment, (USPTO IP Economic Report, 2019).

LES-SVC’s 21st Annual Chapter Conference celebrates Silicon Valley’s unparalleled legacy while addressing the cutting-edge trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of innovation and IP deal-making. This full day event will convene leading innovators, entrepreneurs, and dealmakers (e.g., investors, legal, M&A, and corporate executives).

Discussions will highlight trends shaping innovation/IP deal-making and explore strategies to sustain its impact through R&D, licensing trends, technology transfer, and multilateral deal-making across key sectors like AI, semiconductors, advanced materials, biotechnology, autonomous vehicles, photonics and electronics, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and quantum computing.

Key Audience Takeaways:

• Gain insights into cutting-edge licensing trends and practices in IP-impactful industries.

• Learn strategies for scaling IP-driven startups / spinouts, attracting funding, and driving global technology adoption.

• Build meaningful connections with a diverse network of innovation and IP deal makers.

Management thinking and tools for building our post-industrial future

Our first Post-Industrial Forum event of 2025 is here! We will focus on how AI Agents will revolutionize strategy and business model development, in large organizations as well as in startups.

We will discuss:

• ​Problems in strategy and business model design

• ​How AI agents will accelerate strategy development

• ​Using AI agents to monitor strategy execution

• ​How AI agents will speed business model development

• ​What strategies and business models will become possible (or easier) with AI agents

• ​Autonomous organizations

• ​Addressing technological and cultural obstacles to AI agent deployment

​Speakers
- Frode L. Odegard, CEO, Post-Industrial Institute
- Mick Costigan, VP Salesforce Futures, Salesforce
- Dr. Tatyana Mamut, CEO, Wayfound.ai
- Pepi Menon, VP and CPO, Outshift by Cisco, Cisco

Silicon Valley Chapter: From Problem to Profit: AI-Driven Innovation and Licensing

Learn how AI is helping to accelerate innovation and commercialization by re-shaping problem-solving, invention, and licensing, impacting research, development, manufacturing, and supply chain ecosystems.

Join us for an insightful event hosted by the Licensing Executives Society, Silicon Valley Chapter (LES-SVC), featuring seasoned industry experts, including representatives from Hyundai New Horizon Studio, Owl Autonomous Imaging, Iprova, Dolcera, and KPMG. Together, they will guide you through the journey from identifying problem areas (or opportunities to innovate) and novel solutions to turning them into profitable licensing opportunities. This event is perfect for professionals in the technology and intellectual property licensing field, as well as inventors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders seeking innovative solutions that generate profits.

PANEL: (Bios below)
John Suh, Former Vice President, Hyundai Motor Company, Founding Director, New Horizons Studio
Joel Rosenberg, Managing Director, Iprova - North America
Samir Raiyani, CEO, Dolcera
Chuck Gershman, President and CEO, Co-Founder at Owl Autonomous Imaging
Braden Weatherhead, Managing Director, KPMG IP Complianc
Michael Pierantozzi, Moderator and Board Member, LES-SVC (IAM Strategy 300)

Agenda:

1.      Identifying Problems / Opportunities: Learn effective strategies for identifying problem areas (or opportunities to innovate) within your industry or business.
2.      Discussing the Innovator’s Dilemma: Explore how innovation and creativity, with a special focus on Iprova's invention capability and Dolcera’s IP Author, play a crucial role in problem-solving and licensing.
3.     Success Stories: Hear real-life success stories from businesses that have turned problems into profitable licensing ventures, including:

a.      Hyundai’s New Horizon Studio: Pushing the extreme limits of vehicle development, building vehicles to traverse off-road terrains with unprecedented mobility, through a combination of robotics and wheeled locomotion technology.

b.      Owl Autonomous Imaging (Owl AI): For Automotive OEMs and their Tier 1 suppliers, Owl AI designs, develops and sells intelligent 3D imaging for autonomous vehicles.

c.      Iprova's Invention Studio: Discover how Iprova's cutting-edge invention capability has empowered businesses to create novel solutions, SEPs and drive high value licensing opportunities.

d.      KPMG IP Contract Compliance: Discover how KPMG helps IP owners manage royalty contracts over the lifecycle, including the recovery of royalty revenues lost due to inaccurate and incomplete self-reporting by licensees.

e.      Dolcera’s IP Author: Gain insights into how Dolcera's IP Author enhances intellectual property management and strategy, providing valuable tools for maximizing licensing potential.

4.      Networking Session: Connect with fellow professionals, speakers, and potential collaborators during the networking session.

When you leave the program, you will know more about:

• What is the role of AI technology and Tech / IP licensing models in re-shaping innovation ecosystems, e.g., automotive?

• How do inventors and licensing executives use AI to solve problems, support decision-making, and accelerate deals to profitability?

• How can corporate venture and innovation partners collaborate to accelerate innovation in R&D, manufacturing, and supply chain ecosystems? 

Who Should Attend:
Licensing Professionals, Intellectual Property Managers, FFRDC Managers, Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Business Development Executives, Investors, and Legal Professionals

CLE: 1.5 hours California CLE available.

About the Forum

 The Silicon Catalyst Semiconductor Industry Forum series was launched in 2018 with the charter to create a platform for broad-topic dialog among all stakeholders involved in the semiconductor industry value chain. The Forum topics focus on technical and financial aspects of the industry, but more importantly the industry’s societal, geopolitical & ecological impact on the world.

Opportunity to gain
insight into

• Emerging advanced node design challenges and corresponding design flows and methodologies for A16, N2, and N3 processes.

• Latest updates on TSMC 3DFabric™ chip stacking and advanced packaging processes, InFO, CoWoS®, and SoIC, 3DFabric Alliance, and 3Dblox standard, plus innovative 3Dblox-based design enablement technologies and solutions, targeting HPC, AI/ML, and mobile applications.

• Comprehensive design solutions for specialty technologies enabling ultra-low power, ultra-low voltage, analog migration, RF, mmWave, and automotive designs targeting 5G, automotive, and IoT designs.

• Ecosystem-specific AI-assisted design flow implementations for 2D and 3DIC design productivity and optimization.

• Successful, real-life applications of design technologies, IP solutions, and cloud-based designs from TSMC's Open Innovation Platform® Ecosystem members and TSMC customers to speed up time-to-design and time-to-market.

The conference for edge AI

Join us on September 24th, 2024 (online or in person) to hear from top technology leaders and innovators in Edge AI. Experience the event virtually or in person (Mountain View, California).

Connectwith businesses

Hear how leading enterprises are solving their biggest challenges with edge AI, unlocking new innovations.

Engagewith AI experts

Connect with like-minded industry leaders and learn best practices for deploying edge AI solutions at scale.

North America's largest electronics event for design engineers

Sensors Converge has evolved over nearly four decades as an event focusing solely on sensor technology, to a larger and more diversified event focusing on electronics technologies and embedded systems that work hand-in-hand with sensors. From enabling innovation, to process design & control development, to transforming markets, Sensors Converge covers technologies and applications that are driving smart sensor innovation into the era of sustainable living. 

Iprova and Microsoft partner to launch AI-Assisted Invention Summit

AI-assisted invention pioneer Iprova and  global technology giant Microsoft have joined forces to launch a new conference to look at the successes, issues and challenges in the fascinating and rapidly-developing area of AI-assisted invention.  The new conference, “The AI-Assisted Invention Summit”, brings together technology experts and academics, as well as current and potential future users of the approach. The event takes place on Tuesday 4th June in Lausanne, Switzerland, within the prestigious surroundings of IMD, the leading international business school which is well-known for having an important role in the study and development of innovation. In addition to the key role played by both Microsoft, in jointly organising the event with Iprova, and IMD, by hosting the event, the summit is also supported by leading intellectual property law firm Potter Clarkson and by EPFL Innovation Park, the leading Swiss deep tech innovation hub.

D&R IP SoC Day, Silicon Valley USA

D&R IP-SoC Silicon Valley 2024 Day is the unique worldwide Spring event fully dedicated to IP (Silicon Intellectual Property) and IP based Electronic Systems.

IP-SoC providers, the seed of innovation in Electronic Industry, are invited to highlight their latest products and services and share their vision about the next innovation steps in the Electronic Industry.

IP consumers can view at a glance the latest Technology trends and exciting Innovative IP/SoC products. Through a global view, Electronic systems leaders may identify disruptive innovation leading to new market segment growth.

DEDICATED IC FOUNDRY

TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) created the semiconductor Dedicated IC Foundry business model when it was founded in 1987. In 2023, TSMC served 528 customers and manufactured 11,895 products for various applications covering a variety of end markets including high performance computing, smartphones, the Internet of Things (IoT), automotive, and digital consumer electronics. Annual capacity of the manufacturing facilities managed by TSMC and its subsidiaries exceeded 16 million 12-inch equivalent wafers in 2023. These facilities include four 12-inch wafer GIGAFAB® fabs, four 8-inch wafer fabs, and one 6-inch wafer fab – all in Taiwan – as well as one 12-inch wafer fab at a wholly owned subsidiary, TSMC Nanjing Company Limited, and two 8-inch wafer fabs at wholly owned subsidiaries, TSMC Washington in the United States and TSMC China Company Limited. In August 2023, TSMC announced its plan to jointly invest in European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), in Dresden, Germany, to build a specialty technology fab. ESMC aims to begin construction of the fab in the second half of 2024 with production targeted to begin by the end of 2027. TSMC continues to execute its plan to construct and operate two fabs in Arizona, the United States. Production of the first fab is targeted for the first half of 2025, and construction of the second fab is ongoing. The Company is also building a new fab in Kumamoto, Japan, with production targeted by late 2024.

STARTUP WORLD CUP 

Startup World Cup is a global series of conferences and competitions that bring together the top startups, investors, entrepreneurs and tech CEOs around the world. Starting with regional competitions in nearly 50+ countries across six continents, hundreds of selected top technology startups compete for the chance to move onto the Grand Finale event in San Francisco to win a $1 million investment grand prize. Startup World Cup is organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures in partnership with investors and local sponsors.