"The most beautiful part of the whole thing is when we started the project we didn't really know each other, but slowly we've grown up together." It's a remark that you might expect to hear in a scene from one of your favourite movies, or perhaps in a confession from a colleague on a team-building day. But it's actually how AI tech startup Aiir Innovation's CEO Bart Vredebregt explains how five AI students and an AI professor came together to launch a business that could revolutionise the maintenance industry. It all started in 2015, when Dutch airline KLM invited students on the University of Amsterdam AI master's degree programme to work on a project to automate the inspection of their jet engines. When done manually, this inspection requires an engineer to put a camera called a borescope into the engine after removing the aircraft's wing.

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arriving in Amsterdam on the 27-28 June, the second annual AI Expo Europe event will host 2 co-located events covering IoT and Blockchain, with 8,000 attendees expected to attend including CTO's, CDO's, Head's of Innovation and Technology, IT Directors, Developers & Start-Up's, OEM's, Government, Automotive, Operators, Technology Providers, Investors, VCs and many more. The AI Expo will showcase the most cutting-edge technologies from more than 300 exhibitors and provide insight from over 300 speakers sharing their unparalleled industry knowledge and real-life experiences. The event will host a dedicated start-up incubator zone where you can see the latest AI & IoT technologies and innovations in action, in addition to the vast exhibition of 300 companies who will be showcasing their products and services within the field of AI, IoT & Blockchain. Expect to see demos and booths from Microsoft, IBM, PTC, Kore, Hercules, Thales, Rutronik, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, BPU Holdings, Start-up Amsterdam, ML6, Bottos, Ortec Data Science, Adani, NTR Labs, Prosper BI and many more. Start-ups within the incubator zone include Aiir Innovations, Botsquad, Mercury.AI, IoTify, Porter, 3D Universium, Zazu, 904 Labs, Innovation in Motion, Blockhearts, Mind Trace, Sightcorp, Cupenya, Effect.Ai, Sodaq, Amberscript, BrainCreators, Clockworks to name a few. In addition, attendees can join speakers from Aiir Innovations, Mercury.AI and BrainCreators within the AI Technologies track on day 2 (28th June) as they explore innovative artificial intelligence techniques.