8:30 AM — Registration & Breakfast

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9:30 AM — Welcome & Opening Remarks: Grace Gong (Smart Venture Media)

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9:45 AM — Partner Spotlight: Timur Yarnall (Head of AI/ML Startups Business at Amazon Web Services)

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9:55 AM — Partner Spotlight: Rachel Waddell (Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank)

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10:00 AM — Panel: Security AI
 

• Shravan Narayen (Partner of IVP)

• Dave Zilberman (General Partner of Norwest Venture Partners)

• Shomik Ghosh (Partner of Boldstart Ventures)

• Casber Wang (Partner of Sapphire Ventures)

• Bala Sathiamurthy (Former CISO of Atlassian & Nerdwallet)

• Anna Sarnek (Cyber BD at AWS)

 

10:45 AM — Break

 

11:00 AM — Panel: Enterprise AI
 

• Jake Flomenberg (Partner of Wing VC)

• Nikhil Sachdev (Managing Director of Insight Partners)

• Eugene Lee (Partner of OMERS Ventures)

• James da Costa (Partner of Andreessen Horowitz)

• Saanya Ojha (Partner of Bain Capital Ventures)

• Simon Wu (Partner at Cathay Innovation)

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11:45 AM — Unlocking AI Potential: Anna Patterson (Ceramic.ai, Formerly Google & Gradient Ventures)

 

12:15 PM — Lunch & Networking

 

1:15 PM — Panel: AI in Consumer Products

& Services
 

• Anna Barber (Partner of M13)

• Brandon Yahn (Partner Convivialite Ventures)

• Vanessa Larco (Formerly Partner at NEA)

• Megh Gautam (Chief Product Officer of Crunchbase)

• Samantha Wu (Chief Marketing Officer of Eventbrite)

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2:00 PM — Panel: AI Agents
 

• Aditi Maliwal (Partner of Upfront Ventures)

• Henry Yin (Co-founder of AGI house)

• Eylul Kayin (Partner of Gradient Ventures)

• Tejas Manohar (Co-CEO of Hightouch)

• Tim Shi (Co-Founder of Cresta)

 

2:45 PM — Break

 

3:00 PM — Panel: Vertical AI & Deep Tech
 

• Phil Boyer (Partner of Crosslink Capital)

• Alan Cohen (General Partner of DCVC)

• Aidan Madigan-Curtis (Partner of Eclipse)

• Kevin Novak (Managing Partner of Rackhouse VC)

• Meagen Eisenberg (Chief Marketing Officer of Samsara)

• Miloni Madan Presler (Partner at IVP)

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3:45 PM — The Fortune 500 Perspective

• Sydney Sykes (NVIDIA VC Partnerships)

 

4:15 PM — Future of AI Development

 

4:45 PM — Partner Spotlight: David Yarbrough and Cris Cafiero (Business Consultants at Sequoia )

 

4:55 PM — Partner Spotlight: Kevin Novak (Managing Partner of Rackhouse Ventures)

 

5:00 PM — Closing Remarks

 

5:15 PM — Cocktails & Reception