AI Meet-Up: Talks & Drinks | Edition #13

We invite you to a new AI Meet-Up: A fun way to get in touch with the artificial intelligence community and the ecosystem!

Join us for talks and drinks, and connect with the artificial intelligence community of the AI Innovation Center!

On March 19, we are happy to welcome Steven Hunsche from our resident Axelera AI to the stage. Axelera AI brings AI from the cloud to the edge. Traditionally, AI tasks are processed in the cloud on large and expensive machines, introducing high costs, high power usage, high latency, and privacy challenges.

To solve these problems, Axelera AI introduced Metis: an edge AI processor designed for AI inference. Learn how it efficiently and effectively processes AI using its unique Digital In-Memory Compute (D-IMC) techniques, keeping power usage low while processing AI tasks at incredible speeds, up to 214 tera operations per second (TOPS).

Join us as they dive into how edge AI is transforming real-world applications, bringing powerful and efficient AI processing closer to where data is generated.

Program AI Meet-Up

Date: 19 March 2026

Location: AI Innovation Center, High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTC 5)

Program:

15:30 - 16:00 Walk-in

16:00 - 16:15 Welcome and update AI Innovation Center by Philipp Werle (HTCE)

16:15 - 17:00 Talk and Q&A by Steven Hunsche (Axelera AI)

17:00 - 17:15 Open mic

17:15 - 18:30 Drinks and networking

Our speaker

Steven Hunsche is a Solutions Engineer at Axelera AI, combining deep technical expertise in electronics, computer science, and machine learning with customer-facing insight. He partners with developers and enterprises to design scalable solutions while translating complex innovations into compelling narratives that make advanced AI accessible to organizations building breakthrough applications.