Air Street AI Meetups: Europe Tour
Join us in Munich, Zurich, Paris in February and March 2026.
Connecting the AI community
Air Street AI meetups bring together ~150 researchers, founders, engineers, and operators who are actually building and deploying AI systems. These are deliberately small, curated evenings designed for people doing the work, not talking about the work. The goal is simple: share hard-won lessons, surface emerging technical frontiers, and help exceptional builders find one another.
Over the next few weeks, we’re hosting Air Street AI meetups in Munich, Zurich, and Paris featuring speakers from Black Forest Labs, Odyssey, Google DeepMind, Sereact, and Polar Mist. I’ll be presenting updates from our State of AI Report, the most widely read and trusted analysis of key developments in AI.
Air Street Munich AI, 17 Feb 2026
Against the backdrop of the world’s most important defense and national security gathering, the Munich Security Conference, this evening focuses on AI systems that reason about, perceive, and act in the physical world.
Fabian Gura, Member of Technical Staff, Odyssey
Odyssey is building frontier world models that simulate how visual and physical environments evolve over time and under intervention. With Odyssey-2 Pro, the team describes a “GPT-2 moment for world models,” where interactive, real-time simulations become viable and begin scaling rapidly in capability. Odyssey’s work pushes world models beyond static video toward systems that can be explored and acted upon.
Gustaf von Grothusen, CEO, Polar Mist
Polar Mist is building autonomous maritime defense systems for operation in GPS-denied and contested environments. Its Semper platform combines an unmanned surface vessel that can carry a variety of payloads with Polar Mist’s vision-based navigation and positioning system, enabling persistent autonomy without navigational drift.
Air Street Zurich AI, 19 Feb 2026
This evening centers on how AI systems learn to see, model, and manipulate the physical world, from pixels to policies.
Robin Rombach, CEO, Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI research lab developing state-of-the-art visual intelligence, including its latest FLUX models for controllable image generation and editing. Founded by the original authors of latent diffusion, the company recently raised $300M at a multi-billion-dollar valuation, cementing its position as core infrastructure for next-generation visual AI.
Marc Tuscher, CTO, Sereact
Sereact is a frontier robotics research and deployment company, starting with picking and handling in warehouses and industrial environments. The company’s models enable robots to perceive, reason, and act in highly variable, real-world settings without brittle rule-based pipelines. Sereact’s work targets one of robotics’ hardest problems: robust generalization from vision to action in production. The systems are deployed across hundreds of robots for large enterprises in Europe and the US.
Air Street Paris AI, 11 March 2026
An evening focused on frontier visual intelligence and open source models.
Cyril Diagne - Black Forest Labs
Cyril works at the intersection of visual intelligence, generative models, and creative tooling. His work explores how modern vision models can move beyond recognition toward interpretation, controllability, and human collaboration. At Black Forest Labs, he focuses on pushing visual foundation models into new expressive and interactive regimes.
Edouard Yvinec - Google DeepMind
Edouard is a research scientist at Google DeepMind and a core contributor to DeepMind’s Gemma family of open-weight large language models, including Gemma 3, which was designed to be among the most capable models that can run on a single GPU.
We look forward to meeting you on the road!