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Talks and recognition

Selected, 2025 to 2026

A record of where the ellipsis partners have spoken, judged, lectured or been selected, most recent first. For our own events see Learning Sessions, the Machine Intelligence Summit and the ICRA 2026 workshop.

2026

  • September, Malmo. Closing the loop on Autonomy Day, with Levtek and Inflection, straight after the Autonomy Conference.
  • July. Yariv Adan joins the board of SwissVC as a board member and guild leader.
  • July. Escape Forward podcast: Yariv Adan with Cristina Caffarra on European AI sovereignty and running an AI-native fund.
  • June, Vienna. Investing in Robotics: How to Judge, What Breaks, What's Hot, our workshop at ICRA 2026.
  • May. GenAI Zurich and the Agent Economy Association's inaugural event: the agent stack behind the fund. Yariv Adan on the jury of the Ignition AI Hackathon at EPFL; Matthias Dantone runs the SSEN Hackathon at Chalmers.
  • March, London. Deploy OneStage: ellipsis one of 18 venture managers selected from 377 applications by the LP advisory committee; Matthias Dantone pitched to 50-plus LPs.
  • March. NVIDIA AI Change Makers pre-GTC event: Matthias Dantone with NVIDIA's Linda Malm on what AI investors expect from startups in 2026.
  • February. The Innovator, Interview of the Week: Yariv Adan on defensible AI. Donkeys, Not Unicorns published in Towards Data Science.
  • January, Davos. AI House Davos during the World Economic Forum: Robert MacKenzie moderates the roundtable on robotics and physical AI; Yariv Adan takes part in several roundtables and speaks at the bluegain leaders' lunch.
  • January, Gothenburg. GoWest, the Nordics' largest venture forum: Matthias Dantone co-organises the founder stage (300-plus applicants for 10 pitch slots); Yariv Adan in a fireside chat with Inception Fund.

2025

  • November, Helsinki. Slush x RAISE: ellipsis selected among the top 20 emerging managers from over 300 applicants.
  • November, Beijing and Shenzhen. Investor study tour; see On the ground in China.
  • November, Zurich. Product Management Festival: Yariv Adan curates the AI track and gives a keynote and fireside chat with Mark Hull, with portfolio founders from LogicStar, Arato, Mirelo and Deepflow on stage.
  • November. WhoIsRaising interview: from 17 years at Google to venture.
  • October, Zurich. Launch by ETH Entrepreneur Club: Yariv Adan keynote and interview with mimic's CTO on the robotics opportunity. Tech investing lecture at ETH Zurich x University of St. Gallen by Yariv Adan and Matthias Dantone. Zurich AI Festival, Robotics and AI Founders Summit: Robert MacKenzie on the VC panel with Redalpine and Swisscom Ventures. Planet A Ventures x ellipsis robotics dinner. The Awakening of Robotic Art at the Zurich AI Festival: Yariv Adan on AI as a mirror of human intelligence in art.
  • October, Gothenburg. Gothenburg Tech Week: Matthias Dantone with Erik Lindblad (Zenith Ventures) on evaluating startups in the AI era.
  • October, Zug. The Human Factor of AI Implementation (SBS Swiss Business School and ISZL): Yariv Adan on AI and creativity.
  • September. AI Crossroads, East Meets West in Robotics: Robert MacKenzie keynote on bridging European and Asian robotics innovation.
  • June, Zurich. Panoramai Enterprise and Tech Summit: Yariv Adan on the commoditization revolution.

Earlier: Yariv Adan has spoken on AI since 2016 at the World Economic Forum, Google Cloud Next, the Delphi Economic Forum, Slush, Enterprise Connect, AI+X Zurich, the Salzburg Summit and the Product Management Festival.