Etiënne vantKruys, Managing Partner at trgc.io, was my guest on Udienza, my video podcast: AI and chips in Amsterdam.
Etiënne vantKruys of trgc.io on AICA, a conference on AI and chips in Amsterdam that puts hardware and software builders, industry and academia in one room.
AI & Chips Summit 2026 (AICA)
AICA Summit, 26 Nov, KIT Amsterdam. Register on Luma with the discount code AICA20@.
From the conversation
- Hardware makers and software engineers seldom met in the same room; the result, as he puts it, was drivers and blue screens.
- The aim is a European stack, built by bringing industry and academia together.
- Experts drift into tunnel vision; talking to someone in an adjacent field broadens what you build or research.
- Most of the programme is technical rather than about sovereignty, and aimed at builders, AI engineers and computer scientists.
- Breakout rooms are open to the community for tutorials and workshops.
- His AGNTCon takeaway: everyone is adding bricks and cement to a building whose shape nobody knows yet.
- He hopes to take the conversation to regulators: how technology investment is taxed, and more growth-stage funding for European start-ups.
The full conversation: AI and chips in Amsterdam, on Udienza.
