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WEEK 43 · 19–25 OCTOBER
Agent costs, a Claude build night and a science hackathon
This week has 8 events, and three fall on Thursday. If you're building with agents on a small budget, Your Agent is Too Expensive lets you work through your own numbers with speakers from OpenAI, AWS and Lovable. If you'd rather build, the Claude Impact Lab on Wednesday ends with demos.
In the (news), two Danish seed rounds for AI agents, and Datatilsynet's inquiry into AI trials with patient messages.
THIS WEEK'S EVENTS
Copenhagen Cloud AI Day | Werkstatt, Refshaleøen, Copenhagen
Devoteam and Google Cloud host keynotes and live activations, with speakers from companies including Too Good To Go.
Local Site CPH: Open Scientific Intelligence Hackathon
For anyone working on agents, models, datasets or benchmarks in the physical sciences and mathematics; it's free, hybrid, and the space is open both days.
Copenhagen | Claude Impact Lab
Short talks, group building with Claude and a closing demo, hosted by the Applied Futures co-founders; you leave with a prototype and a 30-day impact plan.
Your Agent is Too Expensive: Taking Control of Your AI Bill
Made for pre-seed and seed founders and early engineers: a 30-minute panel, then breakout rooms where you go through your own cost numbers.
Overtager AI advokatfuldmægtige?
In Danish: a panel with DLA Piper and Advokatsamfundet on which tasks AI can take from junior lawyers and how new lawyers will learn the trade.
PostHog Talk: The Future of Agentic Coding
Aimed at startup founders and agentic engineers who want to hear how PostHog approaches promptless, self-driving engineering.
"Listen. We Need to Talk" - An AI breakfast on voice agents with Heyra and ElevenLabs
An early start for anyone deploying voice agents in regulated industries, with a live demo and talks on customer service, trust and security.
AI NEWS FROM DENMARK AND THE NORDICS
SmallClaims raises DKK 15 million to let AI agents run small business lawsuits
A seed round led by Vendep Capital for an AI platform that runs small-claim lawsuits for SMEs, with a plan to prove the model country by country.
Danish startup raises €2.8 million seed to expand AI platform for financial and insurance advisors
A Copenhagen and Berlin startup whose agents handle admin, transcription, sales coaching and calls for financial and insurance advisors, now with €2.8 million to grow.
"Those involved must answer for it": Major inquiry begins into "illegal" AI trial
Datatilsynet is looking into AI trials in two regions that shared over 100,000 patient messages with third parties; worth reading if you work with health data.
NEW AI JOBS
Global Assoc Commercial Competitive Intelligence Director (1Year Contract)
Director-level, focused on AI strategy and stakeholder management rather than building.
Forward Deployed Engineer, CTO Area
Senior, hands-on engineering with Python, TypeScript, C# and LLMs, based in Copenhagen.
Vision Developer – American Football
Computer vision and deep learning in Python with MLOps, for an ML engineer who likes sport.
Udvikler til vores AI-team
Mid-level role building with LLMs on Azure with CI/CD, inside a law firm in Copenhagen.
THE JOB MARKET IN NUMBERS
112
new AI roles last week
−10 on the week before
387
AI roles open in Denmark now
CI/CD
fastest-rising skill, 30 days
in 14.2% of new ads, up from 9.1%
7.6%
of all new Danish job ads mention AI
last 7 days, 5,009 ads counted
Last week brought 112 new postings, 10 fewer than the week before. CI/CD rose 5.1 points in 30 days, while Python cooled 7.1 but still leads. 68.1% of ads are in English and just 8.0% ask for Danish. The 29 industry ads stating pay put the median at 66996 DKK a month.
STARTUP OF THE WEEK
Teton
Teton puts anonymised computer vision sensors in hospital and care home rooms to track activity, sleep and mobility and alert staff, with no wearables and no one watching a feed. It's used by 10,000 senior living managers and care staff.
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