FundFest XI

15:00 - 17:00 Online

🤖 Get ready for Robo Con @ Amsterdam's biggest basketball arena! We have over 30 robots coming to the event, and more than 1,300 people have signed up to attend across Luma and Meetup.com! 🤖 🏀🏀🏀 We'll have an open robotics expo where you can walk around the basketball arena, check out the robots, and network. We'll also have some fun entertainment (more on that below) at the event. The doors open at 16:00, although of course you can get there later. We know work can be busy! 🤖🤖🤖 We have over 30 robots coming to Robo Con! The TU Delft, VU, and UvA robotics departments are bringing a variety of robots. We'll also have robots from large organizations like Monumental, Nebius, the Dutch police force, and Prosus, as well as robotics startups like Antfarm, BTScout, Manus, and VNYX. 🍿🍿🍿 We'll have some entertainment for this event, including a robot football match (known as a "RoboCup"), a robot dance contest, a robot race, and a t-shirt cannon firing free t-shirts into the crowd! The UvA RoboCup team will be bringing a mobile football pitch, they'll set it up on the court, and we'll hold a football match between two teams of robots! 🚓🚓🚓 For a fun twist, the Dutch police force's "RoboCop" robot will play in the RoboCup football match. RoboCop vs. RoboCup! Try saying "RoboCop vs. RoboCup at Robo Con" three times fast!! Anyway, the show and entertainment will start around 18:00. 🎤🎤 🎤 But it's not just silly entertainment. We'll have an excellent panel after the entertainment portion of the event. The panel will discuss the cutting edge of AI in robotics, and features Sebas Visser, (the founder and CTO of Monumental), Laura Ferranti (a professor in the Cognitive Robotics department at TU Delft), and Pepijn Kooijmans (leads Hugging Face's open-source robotics initiative). Seb Vaessen will moderate the panel. Seb leads venture investing in Europe at Prosus, and is investing in robotics companies. After the panel ends, we'll go back to an open expo and networking until they