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AI Engine

AI Engine was co-founded by Dawn investor Zoe Qin to help talented people either become entrepreneurs or join the fast-moving technology industry.

 

Zoe and the team host a range of events, starting with hackathons and now including workshops and coworking sessions, to connect and inspire their growing community.

 

The next AI Engine events are:

The Engine Room – 10 November 2025

The Engine Room Demo Day – 1 December 2025

 

For more on AI Engine, including hackathons across Europe, follow their updates here.

Next Wave 25 Intrapreneurs

Disruption from startups and builders is extremely important, but the innovation ecosystem isn’t created in a silo. True transformation happens when business innovators champion it inside their organisations, embedding it into industries and operations to spark large-scale change. Alongside AI Engine, we are shining a spotlight on the individuals within established industries and large corporations who are leading AI adoption. We recognised 25 individuals in 2025 - check back next year for the Next Wave 26.
Next Wave 25 Intrapreneurs

Featured Talks & Sessions

AI Insights

FEATURED
Evgenia Plotnikova • 07.30.2025
Market Study: GenAI Adoption
40 enterprises with $1B+ in revenue were surveyed to understand how they’re deploying, scaling, and governing GenAI. What we found: GenAI is now moving from the edge of innovation into the core of enterprise operations — but scaling remains as much an organizational challenge as a technical one. Key insights on rollout velocity, tooling fragmentation, budget trends, and governance gaps in the full report.
Shamillah Bankiya • 05.15.2025
Vibecoding
Dawn’s GenAI Adoption Study of 40 billion-dollar revenue enterprises finds GenAI moving from proof-of-concept to production: 78% of companies are formally deploying it today, and a majority expect the technology embedded in every routine task by 2027.
Henry Mason • 01.13.2025
AI agents
Writing software has always been a killer use case for LLMs – expensive, digitally native, with formal language and explicit patterns. Models have been improving exponentially on coding benchmarks.
Andrea Guariglia • 01.10.2025
Voice AI market
AI agents present a new iteration of automation. Founders are rapidly standing up agentic applications that can solve specific needs in functions like sales and customer success – without a human in the loop.
Ties Boukema • 01.10.2025
What the AI?!… Dawn Capital
Dawn Team • 01.10.2025
AI funding: Dawn Capital backs ex-Google team’s customer service startup
Dawn Team • 01.10.2025
AI self-hosting start-up Doubleword finds new Dawn with £9m funding boost
Ties Boukema • 01.10.2025
Humans 2.0: How One VC Is Supercharging Relationships Through AI
Shamillah Bankiya • 01.10.2025
How close are we to AI lawyers?