Michael Amar

Conferences aren’t about stages.
They’re about engineered collisions between the right people.
We are building those collisions at scale.
Stay tuned for the next gen of tech events.

China's robot makers have the moves. The race is now for the brain.

Chinese embodied AI companies raised $13B across 322 deals in H1 2026, 5x a year earlier
Hardware margins are collapsing. X Square, Galaxea and Spirit AI are already around $3B each. The next US-China tech front isn't the body. It's the software that makes a robot useful on a new job without being rewritten for every task.

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China blocked SoftBank's $5.4B ABB robotics deal for the China business. ABB confirmed it officially. SoftBank stock fell about 7% in Tokyo.
Physical AI is hitting borders, not just actuators.

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Quiet but telling deal in event logistics. miMeetings is buying 25 years of planner and agency relationships and plugging them into AI workflows and a supplier marketplace.

That's the AI roll up playbook coming to events: buy the trust, automate the ops.

Curious to see what margins look like a year from now. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

In 2017 we named an event Paris Blockchain Week.

Today we’re retiring the name.

Here’s why we changed a brand tens of thousands of people love 🧵