Charting Your AI Career Path: Insights from Experts in Innovation, Research, and Industry

Are you an early-career researcher, PhD, or postdoc looking to carve out your next steps in AI? Join us for an inspiring lunchtime panel with leading voices from the worlds of startups, academia, and industry consulting! Meet entrepreneur and innovation coach Arthur Tolsma, grant-winning researcher Savvas Zannatou, academic mentor and counsellor Iliana Yocheva and Senior Data Science Consultant Lucas Bresser.

Hear how they navigated their career journeys, gain practical tips on research grants, entrepreneurship, and thriving in academia or industry—and get your questions answered!

What does it take to transition from a PhD to consulting, academic track, industry, or entrepreneurship in AI-related fields, and how can I navigate my career? Join us for a lunchtime panel and deep dive with experts sharing their experiences and advice.  

Find out more about the event under the following Link

Note for TU Delft PhDs:
This AI Lunch qualifies for discipline-related skills (GSC) credit under the “Form for earning GSC for TU Delft AI(-related) seminars” scheme. Please check with your Faculty Graduate School & supervisors.

Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and be inspired to take the next step in your AI career. Save the date!

This event includes free lunch for which registration is required (help us reduce food waste!)

(This event will be held in English)

Programme
12.00 – 12.30 | Lunch & networking
12.30 – 13.30 | Panel I. Careers, options, and outlooks: moderated by Marie-Therese Sekwenz, featuring Arthur Tolsma, Iliana Yocheva, and Lucas Bresser
13.30 – 14.00 | Panel II. Concrete next steps in academic career paths: With the Panel I. and Savvas Zannettou

The Delft AI (Lab) Lunch series
This series is part of the monthly Delft AI (Lab) Lunches, a recurring meet-up hosted by the TU Delft AI Labs & Talent community at Mondai | House of AI.
Every month, we host a panel to discuss challenges and developments made at the intersection of AI and a specific field. During these events, you can participate, learn, make connections, inspire and be inspired by and with the Delft AI Community. We invite all interested staff and students from TU Delft to join these sessions. Please contact community manager Charlotte Boelens for more information about this series or the TU Delft AI Labs & Talent Programme.

Note for TU Delft PhDs
The TU Delft AI Lunch series is eligible for earning discipline related skills GSC with the ‘Form for earning GSC for TU Delft AI(-related) seminars’. Check with your local Faculty Graduate School (FGS) if your FGS offers this option for earning Discipline Related Skills GSC; and with your supervisors if they accept our seminars on your Doctoral Education (DE) list. If you already have a form, don’t forget to bring it with you.