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Unlocking EIC Funding: The Deep Tech Playbook for European Startups

If you are an entrepreneur or a university researcher looking to scale your innovation, here is what you need to know about navigating the European Innovation Council (EIC) ecosystem. At the EDIH meetup in Warsaw (March 2026) Michiel Scheffer, the President of the Board at EIC, provided an inside look at how Europe supports breakthrough innovation through the EIC.

From Data to Autonomy: How AI Turns Industrial IoT into Predictive and Adaptive Systems

Industrial IoT gives industry a nervous system; AI can give it something closer to a brain—at least for specific, well-scoped tasks. In practical terms, AI (and especially machine learning) complements IIoT by extracting patterns from data that are difficult to encode as fixed rules: early signs of wear, subtle process drifts, non-linear relationships between settings and quality outcomes, or rare anomalies that humans only notice after the fact.
 

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Na Fu

Prof. Na Fu

Position and company:

Professor in Human Resource Management at Trinity Business School, Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.

Expertise:

Strategic, digital, and sustainable human resource management.
Tomas Krilavičius

Prof. Tomas Krilavičius

Position and company:

Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Vytautas Magnum University.

Expertise:

Ph.D. in Hybrid Techniques for Hybrid Methods, with interests in AI, Language Technologies, and scientific infrastructures.
Raluca Apostol

Raluca Apostol

Position and company:

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Nestor.

Expertise:

Ph.D. in machine learning, specializing in engaging, developing, and retaining talent in hybrid work environments.

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