8:30 AM

9:30 AM

Registration

9:30 AM

9:40 AM

Opening Remarks

9:45 AM

10:05 AM

Beyond the Moat: Building Enduring Strategies in an AI-Native World

Jeremiah Owyang

General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures

Keynote

10:10 AM

10:55 AM

Architecting Systems to Accelerate U.S. AI Dominance: Infrastructure, Talent, and Energy

Ibrahim AlSuwaidi

Partner, DCM

Natif Nawaz

CGO & Managing Partner, Aurum Equity Partners

Lari Hämäläinen

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Val Bercovici

Chief AI Officer, WEKA

Bill Barry

CEO, IgniteGTM

AI General

10:55 AM

11:10 AM

The Lean Vertical AI Startup: An Emerging Framework for Building AI Companies

Akash Saraf

Founder and CEO, TheAgentic

Keynote

11:10 AM

11:50 AM

Investing in Real AI, Not Just Hype: Agents, Models, and the Apps Built on Them

Allen Taylor

Managing Partner, Endeavor Catalyst

Eric Anderson

Partner, Scale Venture Partners

Jon Chu

Partner, Khosla Ventures

SC Moatti

Managing Partner, Mighty Capital

Brian Sparkes

CEO at Silicon Valley Venture & Host of Silicon Valley Impact Podcast, Silicon Valley Venture, LLC

Venture Funding

11:55 AM

12:25 PM

Fireside Chat with Amjad Masad, CEO of Replit

Amjad Masad

CEO, Replit

Ray Dargham

Founder & CEO, Step

Fireside Chat

12:30 PM

1:10 PM

Generative AI Foundation Models: Cost and Inference Challenges

Brady Forrest

Founder, Ignite Talks

Barkley Dai

Product Lead - Model Capabilities, Luma AI

Vasanth Mohan

Head of Developer Relationship, SambaNova

Adam Goldstein

Co-founder, Chairman, and Head of Research, Softmax

Gen AI

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

How to Deliver Strong Pitches & Investor Readiness

Yousra Gaballah

Founder, Sprintly Partners

Roundtable Session

12:30 PM

1:30 PM

What It Really Takes to Expand to the US

Eric Chan

Advisor , Seed2Exit

Roundtable Session

1:10 PM

2:10 PM

Lunch & Networking

2:10 PM

2:50 PM

AI and Robotics: Where Intelligent Machines Are Headed

Tai Hsia

CFO, LUUM

Nima Banai

Co-Founder & CEO, Assemble Labs

Steven Echtman

Founder, Aiify.io

De Kai

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

Deeptech

2:50 PM

3:30 PM

From Seed to Scale: Financing AI Startups Beyond Borders

Sara Rona

Managing Director, Head of UK/Europe & MENA, Silicon Valley Bank

Ashish Aggarwal

General Partner, Chamaeleon

David Nabti

CEO & Co-Founder, Bloom.pm 🌻 - Accelerator Platform & Programs

Jeni Chang

Managing Director & Investor, Founder Institute

Global Scaling

3:35 PM

4:15 PM

The Rise of AI Agents: From Assistants to Autonomous Decision-Makers

Praveen Akkiraju

Managing Director, Insight Partners

Rak Garg

Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Mariane Bekker

Managing Partner, Founders bay

Agentic AI

4:20 PM

4:45 PM

Coding the Vibe: How Taste is Shaping the Next Generation of Products

Chris Messina

Investor, Ride Home AI Fund

Ash Kumra

Head of Programming & Media Host, Ai Collective & Ai Hype Guy Host

Fireside Chat

4:50 PM

5:25 PM

Scaling Enterprise AI: From Data Bottlenecks to Deployment

Anand Vallamsetla

Founder & CEO, Resilience AI

Gabriela de Queiroz

Founder, F02 Labs

David Hefter

AI strategy for investments, BlackRock

Gen AI

5:25 PM

5:55 PM

Startup Pitch Competition – Final Round

Anto Patrex

CEO, Cosmicbrain AI

Jeremiah Owyang

General Partner, Blitzscaling Ventures

Eric Lee

Principal, Cota Capital

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