AI House Davos — panel
"What's in it for us? Rising innovators' perspectives on AI" — alongside the lead author of the EU AI Act.
"What's in it for us? Rising innovators' perspectives on AI" — alongside the lead author of the EU AI Act.
with Junge Wirtschaft Uni Linz
Hands-on session on personal AI assistants in the working day of young professionals.
80 registrations · ~20 on the waitlist
Read the full entryRepresented Linz at the annual summit.
Global summit: 11,000+ participants, 169 countries.
Read the full entryYouth Stage panel in Geneva on how youth-led communities drive AI innovation on the ground.
Akademisches Gymnasium Linz
Our 2025 AI literacy workshops for school students in Linz.
~100 school students
Read the full entryDevelopers and students building prototypes for real social-sector challenges.
50 applications · 23 students · 3 completed solutions
Read the full entrywith Catalyst Now
Global webinar on AI literacy in the social-impact ecosystem.
AT · CZ · SK
Trilateral youth dialogue on AI, misinformation and regional democracy.
5 days · AT · CZ · SK · 2 Linz facilitators
Read the full entryLand OÖ Zukunftsakademie
We took part in the Future Skills Circle and fed into its report "Future Skill: AI-Kompetenz".
IT:U Austria
Linz hub of a 24-hour global build.
~22 local participants · 24 hours
Global format: ~10 cities, 24 hours.
Read the full entryco-hosted with GDG Linz at JKU · winners ceremony at Dynatrace HQ
Full-day AI hackathon — SDG-oriented prototypes.
144 participant records · 19 teams · 20 judged projects
Read the full entrywith YAL Madrid + Young WFPHA
Winners presented at the World Health Assembly (Geneva) and the WFPHA Global Meeting (Cape Town).
500+ applications · 30 teams · ~100 participants · 48 hours
Read the full entryfactory300
Linz hub of the global Hack-Nation series.
Global format: 5,500+ applications, 1,700+ builders, 13 hubs.
Read the full entrywith Women in AI Austria
Linz edition of a global SheBuilds wave.
3+ working prototypes
Global format: 120+ events worldwide.
Read the full entryJKU LIT Open Innovation Center
Flagship event on hiring, talent and the AI labour market. Speakers from Google Austria, Microsoft Austria, AWS Austria, NXAI (Sepp Hochreiter), Dynatrace, McKinsey, PwC, Impact AI, Syntactiq, Nineteen Twenty-One.
~200 participants · ~200 on the waitlist · 10 senior speakers · 40+ at the leadership dinner
Read the full entrySpeaker at "Catalyzing Youth-Led Digital Public Infrastructure", a WSIS 2026 side event.
Global Educators Academy and a talk at the Action & Impact Hub: who trains the trainer in AI?
Hub leaders represented the Young AI Leaders Community at the second informal stakeholder consultation.
Tabakfabrik Linz
Europe has the research, the talent and the industrial base. Invest or Die! puts start-ups, industry, investors and public actors in one room at Tabakfabrik Linz to work out why scaling is still so hard.
379 registrations
Read the full entryJKU Linz · Science Park 1
A free, in-person mini-hackathon on open-source AI. Build a working prototype in one afternoon with open-weight models, on-site mentors and side challenges from Google Gemma, Lovable and ElevenLabs. Dinner and networking after.
87 registrations
Read the full entryZirkus des Wissens · JKU Linz
Students already use AI to study, write and code. What should universities protect, what should they change, and where should they draw the line? An Oxford-style debate brought philosophy, AI research, international perspectives and student experience to the same stage at JKU Linz.
182 + 42 event registrations
Read the full entryKepler Hall · JKU Linz
Find us at our booth at the Get Involved fair: study advice from AI students, early access to workshops and hackathons, and your first project crew.
Brussels
Our AI Literacy & Future Skills Initiative — an ESF+ Social Innovation Match case study — selected as one of 12 initiatives across Europe with its own exhibition room, and one of 3 on the main stage.
1 of 12 initiatives · 1 of 3 on the main stage
Read the full entry9 cities · 6 countries
Simultaneous launch evening across the European hackathon network.
Österreich Werbung, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 13, 1030 Vienna, Austria
A hands-on morning at Österreich Werbung: small-business owners connect Claude to their own tools and leave with one real task running.