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WEEK 42 · 12–18 OCTOBER

A quiet week, then agents everywhere from 19 Oct

This week's calendar has one event: the CAMeLS reading group on Monday at the main library, reading a paper on agent skill evolution. The following week is the busy one, so sign up now.

Your Agent is Too Expensive on 22 Oct suits founders and early engineers watching their LLM bill. The Claude Impact Lab on 21 Oct is for building a prototype in one evening. In the news, PSV Tech's second fund means more pre-seed money for Nordic startups.

THIS WEEK'S EVENTS

COMING UP

Further out, and worth signing up for now.

MON 19 OCT

WIDA - Nordics | Machine Learning & AI Agents

17:00 – 19:30 · Heyra, 17 Rosenborggade, 1130 København · Free

A free evening on ML and AI agents, from core concepts to real-world use and how to work alongside them.

WED 21 OCT

Copenhagen | Claude Impact Lab

16:00 – 21:00 · CodeNode Copenhagen, København, Denmark · Free

For builders who want to leave with a working prototype: short talks, group building, a closing demo and a 30-day impact plan.

THU 22 OCT

PostHog Talk: The Future of Agentic Coding

17:30 – 21:00 · Frederiksholms Kanal 30, København, Denmark · Free

For founders and engineers curious about PostHog's approach to promptless, self-driving engineering.

All upcoming events →

AI NEWS FROM DENMARK AND THE NORDICS

All the news →

NEW AI JOBS

AI Change Lead

VELUX

A non-coding role built on stakeholder management, for someone who guides teams through AI adoption.

Legal Tech Operations Consultant

Bech-Bruun · Junior

Junior role building with RAG on Azure and Docker; asks for Danish and suits someone curious about legal tech.

Full-stack Engineer

Instantcall · Copenhagen

TypeScript and SQL in Copenhagen; Danish is asked for.

All open AI roles in Denmark →

THE JOB MARKET IN NUMBERS

116
new AI roles last week
+40 on the week before
353
AI roles open in Denmark now
AWS
fastest-rising skill, 30 days
in 11.5% of new ads, up from 5.7%
7.7%
of all new Danish job ads mention AI
last 7 days, 7,199 ads counted

Last week brought 116 new postings, 40 more than the week before. AWS rose most over 30 days, to 11.5% of ads from 5.7%, while deep learning cooled. DTU leads with 22 open roles, and 27.8% of roles are entry-level. Most ads, 74.4%, are in English; only 10.1% state pay.

Hiring the most — DTU (22), Technical Sciences - Institut for byggeri og Bygni (15), Aalborg University (15), University of Copenhagen (13), University of Southern Denmark (13)
Roles most in demand — PhD / Postdoc (79), ML Engineer (58), AI Software Engineer (57), AI Consultant (45)
Where the roles are — Software & IT (42.8%), Universities & research (29.5%), Life sciences & health (18.4%), Consulting & advisory (17.8%)
Entry level — 27.8% of open roles are student, intern or junior positions (98 of 353)
University vs industry — 27.8% of open roles are PhD, postdoc and faculty posts, 72.2% are in industry
Language — 74.4% of the ads are written in English; 7.4% ask for Danish
Pay — 42 of 417 ads state a salary (last 30 days) — median 41,365 DKK a month
Also rising — AI agents (24% of new ads, up from 18.4%), SQL (17.5%, up from 12.2%)
Cooling — Deep learning (16.3% of new ads, down from 21%), Linux (3.8%, down from 7.6%)
Asked for together — Deep learning + Python (180 ads), LLMs + Python (169 ads)

The full job market report →

STARTUP OF THE WEEK

Corti

Copenhagen · Founded 2016 · ~95 people

Corti builds AI infrastructure for healthcare conversations: speech-to-text, medical coding and agentic APIs for clinical workflows, processing more than one million interactions a week. Worth a look if you want to see LLMs in production in a regulated field.

All Danish AI startups →

Reply and tell me which evening you're keeping free, or what I should add.

— Dmitrii