Christina Caljé

    Member and treasurer of the Foundation Friends of the Amsterdam Museum

    Christina Caljé bridges frontier technology, capital, and society — starting with a single conviction: that public understanding isn't a communications problem. It's a prerequisite for adoption.

    She is the founder of TINTT (Too Important Not To Try), a platform spanning investments, advisory, and media, built on the belief that understanding is the difference between technologies that transform society and those that don't.

    Her current focus includes quantum technology, which she sees approaching a similar inflection point to AI several years ago. As creator, host, and executive producer of Stories From the Lab, she goes inside Europe's most advanced labs and scale-ups to make complex science accessible and investable, treating narrative not as decoration but as critical infrastructure for the adoption of frontier technology.

    A former Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, Christina went on to found and scale AI video company Autheos, which was successfully acquired in 2021. She has been an active angel investor across Europe and the US, and serves on investment committees and boards spanning technology, academia, and international exchange — including as Board Chair of the School of Business & Economics at VU Amsterdam and Treasurer of Fulbright Netherlands.

    Her work has been consistently recognized, with awards and accolades from institutions such as Techleap, AI4All, EU Top 50, Women in Tech Netherlands, and Inspiring Fifty Netherlands.

    She is driven by a core belief: "If we don't explain frontier technologies early, we lose the public later." She is one of Europe's emerging voices on the civilizational stakes of frontier technology and who gets to understand it.