Innovation district at AI in Science Summit & Digital Tech Summit
November’s first week was busy in Danish tech. The months’ third and fourth days saw thinkers, doers and legislators in European AI assemble in the Danish capital, to discuss how to deploy artificial intelligence in science across the European Union. Fifth and sixth of November were for more general tech and with a Danish focus. At AI in Science summit 2025 as well as at Digital Tech Summit, Innovation District Copenhagen was there to encourage entrepreneurs, corporates and eco-system actors to join our world-class district.
Official Danish Presidency programme
The AI in Science Summit 2025 was part of the official programme of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2025. It was arranged by Innovation District Copenhagen-partner University of Copenhagen in tandem with the European Commission and the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
Highly ambitious with attention from high places
With over 1200 registered, 50 nationalities and 6 thematic tracks the event was highly ambitious. It was graced by the presence of the Danish ministers for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund, for Digital Affairs, Caroline Stage Olsen, as well as European Commissioner for Digital and Frontier Technologies, Henna Virkkunen, and European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva.
700 million Euro for more AI in European science
A main event at the summit, turned out to be the launch of the European flagship initiative RAISE – Resource for AI Science in Europe. RAISE couples a 107 mio Eur virtual trans-European institute with a 600 mio Eur pool to secure access for European researchers to AI computational power. The 700 million is expected to be followed by a 3 billion Eur boost to the annual investments in AI by the research support programme Horizon Europe.
Universities from across the country
Digital Tech Summit is arranged every year in Copenhagen by seven Danish universities and the media house, “Teknologiens Mediehus” which is owned by IDA (Danish Society of Engineers). It brings researchers, companies, organisations and digital talents together for two days to share insights about the latest breakthroughs and to meet peers. Some main discussion points were: How to support European Digital sovereignty, secure growth funding and the needed talent. Apart from speakers and debates, the summit also saw presentations of 19 university spinouts from across Denmark.
Exhibiting Innovation District Copenhagen at digital summits
Innovation District Copenhagen was thrilled to be invited to host a booth at both events. Our visitors got to hear about our 2 square kilometre district with its 3 leading academic institutions, 5 start-up communities, 10 incubator & accellerator programmes, 40,000 researchers, students and staff… and 500 start-ups & scale-ups.