Cees Snoek is a full professor in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he heads the Video & Image Sense Lab and the interdisciplinary Human-Aligned Video AI Lab. He is also a director of two public-private AI research labs: QUVA Lab with Qualcomm and Atlas Lab with TomTom. At University spin-off Kepler Vision Technologies he acts as Chief Scientific Officer. Professor Snoek is also scientific director of Amsterdam AI, a collaboration between government, academic, medical and other organisations in Amsterdam to study, develop and deploy responsible AI. He was previously an assistant and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam, as well as Visiting Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, Fulbright Junior Scholar at UC Berkeley, head of R&D at University spin-off Euvision Technologies and managing principal engineer at Qualcomm Research Europe. His research interests focus on making sense of video and images by machine learning and foundation models.