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Bringing together NYC's best minds to discover humanity's potential

Civic Hall, Union Square

Super AI ML Summit

Opening Remarks

Opening Keynote: The $10 Trillion Frontier - Why AI's Biggest Opportunities Are Still Ahead

Opening Keynote: 0 to AI Unicorn 🦄

VC Perspective: The Great AI Race - What Defines the Next AI Unicorn?

AI Moats: What Really Keeps Competitors Out: Data, Distribution, and Defensibility in the AI age

Inside the Enterprise AI Playbook: How Fortune 1000s Are Partnering with Startups to Deploy AI

GenAI Unleashed: Balancing Innovation & Responsibility

PM Keynote: Building a Billion-Dollar AI Video Platform: Lessons from Synthesia’s CRO

NYC's AI Playbook: Lessons from City Hall to Boardroom

Building Without Borders: Lessons from UK Founders Who Internationalized in NYC

Scaling AI in the Real World: Founder Stories from the Trenches

PM Keynote with NFL Legends: Championship Mindset -- What Elite Athletes Know About Winning

Rise of the Agents

Go-to-Market in the AI Age

Inside AI Budgets: Where the Next $100M Will Be Spent

Closing Keynote: Zero to Unicorn in Two Years -- Winning in the Age of AI Agents

Deputy Mayor

Ana Almanzar

Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. They invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces.

General Partner
($46B AUM)

David Haber

Fireflies.ai is a global AI company focused on enhancing meetings and conversations through advanced transcription, summarization, and workflow automation tools. Founded by CEO Krish Ramineni and CTO Sam Udotong, the company operates remotely with a team of around 100 employees across more than 20 countries. Fireflies.ai serves over 500,000 organizations, including 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and has achieved a valuation exceeding $1 billion.

Co-Founder
AI unicorn
20M+ users, 500k+ orgs

Sam Udotong

Decagon is a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023 by Jesse Zhang and Ashwin Sreenivas. The company specializes in generative AI-powered customer support solutions for enterprises. With significant venture capital backing, Decagon has raised approximately $200 million and is valued at $1.5 billion. The team consists of around 100 employees and serves notable clients such as Notion, Duolingo, and Substack.

Decagon offers a cloud-based SaaS platform that features an AI agent engine utilizing large language models. This platform automates various customer service tasks, including answering product questions and managing subscriptions, across multiple channels like chat, email, and social media. Key features include 24/7 automated AI agents, omnichannel support, and analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions. Decagon aims to enhance customer experience by empowering brands to deliver efficient and scalable support while improving engagement and loyalty.

Co-Founder
AI unicorn (a16z, Accel)
AI agents for customer exp

Ashwin Sreenivas

Global Head, AI/ML/Data & Cloud
Managing Director
ex-CTO, Deutsche Bank

Bijit Ghosh

Head of AI Research & Standards
Trust & Safety

Reena Jana

Deputy Commissioner

Dilip Chauhan

Director of AI/ML
Oversees NYC's AI Action Plan

Jiahao Chen

The New York Football Giants are a professional American football team in the National Football League (NFL), competing in the National Football Conference (NFC). Founded in 1925 by Tim Mara, the Giants are one of the oldest franchises in the league, boasting a rich history that includes eight NFL championships and four Super Bowl titles.

The team provides entertainment through live football games, attracting fans from the New York metropolitan area and beyond. They offer a range of merchandise, including apparel and collectibles, and engage with their fan base through digital content and community outreach programs. The Giants have played a significant role in popularizing professional football in the United States, contributing to the league's growth and maintaining a loyal following among sports enthusiasts.

2-Time Super Bowl Champion
9-Year Captain for NY Giants

Zak DeOssie

New York City Economic Development Corporation is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization that works for a vibrant, inclusive, and globally competitive economy for all New Yorkers. We take a comprehensive approach, through four main strategies: strengthen confidence in NYC as a great place to do business; grow innovative sectors with a focus on equity; build neighborhoods as places to live, learn, work, and play; and deliver sustainable infrastructure for communities and the city's future economy.

Senior Vice President
Innovation Industries

Daria Siegel

Senior Vice President
Partnerships

Justin Kreamer

Incoming Director
Economic Development

Sebastian Sharma

Former Chief AI Officer
Professor, Columbia University
ex-Chief Data Scientist, S&P Global

Alain Biem

11-Year NFL Veteran
Ex-NY Giants & Arizona Cardinals

Justin Pugh

Bessemer Venture Partners is a California-based venture capital firm that invests in businesses such as retail and healthcare.

Partner
($20B AUM)

Elliott  Robinson

Intel Capital focuses on equity investments in technology startups across various sectors, including artificial intelligence, autonomous technology, data centers, cloud computing, 5G, next-generation computing, and semiconductor manufacturing.

With a mission to support Intel’s ecosystem, Intel Capital has invested over $20 billion globally and has a presence in North America, Western Europe, Israel, and Asia Pacific. The firm actively invests in AI and has backed notable companies such as SambaNova Systems and AI21 Labs. Intel Capital not only provides capital but also offers extensive support through programs like the Intel Capital Embedded Expert Program, which connects startups with Intel experts to assist in product development and scaling. 

Partner
($5B AUM)

Erica Van

The seed fund designed for founders in AI. Backed by Google, Gradient Ventures has more than $1bn under management and has backed more than 150 AI-focused startups, investing at seed and series A stage.

Partner
Google’s AI Fund

Vig Sachidananda

Union Square Ventures (USV) is a venture capital firm based in New York City, founded in 2003 by Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham. The firm specializes in early-stage investments in companies that are transforming large markets through technological and societal changes. USV has supported over 130 startups, including well-known names like Twitter, Etsy, and Stripe.

USV operates as a small partnership with a generalist investment approach across various sectors, including social media, fintech, and climate solutions. The firm has raised and invested 14 funds since 2004, focusing on early-stage internet-enabled businesses, climate startups, and later-stage opportunities. USV typically acts as a lead or co-lead investor, actively engaging in company development and fostering long-term partnerships with founders. Their investment strategy emphasizes identifying disruptive opportunities at the edge of large markets.

General Partner
($3B AUM)

Rebecca Kaden

Synthesia is a synthetic media company founded in 2017 by AI researchers and entrepreneurs from prestigious institutions. The company specializes in AI-generated video content creation, aiming to simplify and democratize video production. Its browser-based platform, Synthesia STUDIO, allows users to create professional-quality videos featuring realistic digital avatars that can speak any scripted text.

CRO
$2B Unicorn (Accel, NVIDIA)
AI Generated Video from Text

Ken Lawshe

Fortune Media Corporation is a multinational media company based in New York City. It publishes *Fortune* magazine and operates Fortune.com, along with various business-related media products and events. The company became independent in December 2018 after being sold by Meredith Corporation.

*Fortune* magazine, founded in 1930, is known for its in-depth business journalism, corporate profiles, and economic analysis. It has gained a reputation for its literary style and artistic covers, as well as its annual rankings like the Fortune 500. The company also organizes conferences and forums, such as the Global Forum and the Most Powerful Women Summit, which connect business leaders and influencers for networking and thought leadership.

Fortune Media Corporation primarily serves business professionals, corporate executives, investors, and policymakers, providing them with comprehensive insights into business and economic trends.

Senior Reporter

Leo Schwartz

Head of AI GTM
ex-Data & AI Director, Microsoft
ex-Data & AI Leader, IBM

Jon Flynn

CTO
Head of Enterprise Technology Services

Tsvi Gal

Global AI Policy

Jason Schultz

Viz.ai is the pioneer in the use of AI algorithms and machine learning to increase the speed of diagnosis and care, across 1,700+ hospitals and health systems in the U.S. and Europe. The AI-powered Viz.ai® One is an intelligent care coordination solution that identifies more patients with a suspected disease, informs critical decisions at the point of care, and optimizes care pathways and helps improve outcomes. Backed by real-world clinical evidence, Viz.ai One delivers significant value to patients, providers, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies. For more information visit viz.ai.

COO
$1B Healthtech AI Unicorn

Jieun Choe

Chief Solution Architect
Focused on agentic capabilities
ex-MD AI/ML, JPMorgan Chase

Hitesh Seth

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) makes the world work better for everyone. Our cloud-based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile. And we can all create the future we imagine. The world works with ServiceNow.

VP of Applied AI
Forward Deployed Engineering
($200B Market Cap)

Miku  Jha

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn't just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. 

Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of more than 220,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Director, Capital Markets
ex-Co-Head, AI Product
JPMorgan Chase

Gaby Marano

London & Partners (L&P) is the organization overseen by the Mayor of London that aims to promote London and its businesses internationally, describing itself as ‘London’s growth agency’.

It was formed in 2011 from the merger of Visit London, Think London and Study London. L&P’s work includes attracting tourists and businesses to London, and supporting London businesses to expand and reach international markets. L&P is a social enterprise, funded mainly by the GLA, with the Mayor appointing its Chair.

Director, North America

Stephen Feline

Co-Founder & CEO
Ex-Head of Forward Deployed AI Engineering, Palantir

Eugen Alpeza

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale.

Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

GTM Leader
ex-Head of Sales, Contextual AI
ex-Head of Sales Strategy, Scale AI

Chloe Ho

Head of Data Science

Assad  Farooqui

Healthee is an AI-powered healthcare navigation platform based in New York City. The company simplifies employee health benefits, making healthcare access easier and more efficient for both employees and organizations. Healthee's mission is to provide seamless guidance on health plans, providers, costs, and benefits coverage through advanced AI technology.

CEO, Co-Founder
AI-Powered Health Benefits
($100M+ raised)

Guy Benjamin

Rho is the financial automation platform that helps finance teams maximize time for strategy. Our platform offers checking accounts, corporate cards, and AP automation that automates busy work, speeds up accounting, and controls spending.

Chief Business Development Officer
($200M+ raised)

Jason Grohowski

An end-to-end AI software platform that structures messy data, builds digital workflows, deploys agentic solutions, evaluates/measures impact, and mobilizes relevant human experts. Invisible has trained foundation models for more than 80% of the world’s leading AI model providers, including Cohere, Microsoft, and AWS, and have the expertise to customize AI for any industry, function, or use case. In 2024, they reached $134M in revenue and were named the #2 fastest growing AI company on the Inc. 5000.

CTO, Data and Growth
Trained >80% of the world’s top AI models
($100M+ ARR)

Alexius  Wronka

Co-Founder
AI advancing human intelligence
Backed by Sam Altman, NEA, and a16z

Brett Bejcek

The National Football League is America's most popular sports league, comprised of 32 franchises that compete each year to win the Super Bowl, the world's biggest annual sporting event. Founded in 1920, the NFL developed the model for the successful modern sports league, including national and international distribution, extensive revenue sharing, competitive excellence, and strong franchises across the board. The NFL is the industry leader on a wide range of fronts.

Headquartered in New York City, the NFL expands across the nation and the globe with the offices including the NFL West office based in Inglewood, CA, the NFL Films office based in Mt. Laurel, NJ. The NFL also has satellite offices in Atlanta, Washington DC, and Chicago. Our International offices are located in the UK, Germany, China, Mexico & Canada.

Senior Manager Player Engagement

Amir Carlisle

Partner

Agatha Kluk

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of our low cost, elastic, open and flexible, secure platform.


Head of AI Transformation & Value
ex-Director, Data & AI/ML @ KPMG, Deloitte

Auon Khan

Head of Migrations & Modernization
ex-VP of Global Sales Operations, Vimeo
ex-VP of Sales Operations & Development, Shutterstock

Kate Pignata

Skin Dossier is a Precision AI Diagnostics & Recommendation Engine for skincare, haircare, supplements, dermatology, and aesthetics. Taking a cue from precision medicine, we go beyond the industry standard of a quiz and facial imaging with our multiple diagnostics and a holistic assessment to analyze a consumer's biology, lifestyle, and environment while increasing conversion, order size, and retention for our SaaS customers.

Founder & CEO
Contributor, Forbes
A SaaS Precision Beauty Health Advisor

Sindhya Valloppillil

The Fedcap Group is a nonprofit founded in 1935, dedicated to improving economic and social well-being for people facing barriers to inclusion. Serving over 340,000 individuals annually across the U.S., the U.K., and internationally, it advances opportunity through four core practice areas: Workforce Development, Educational Services, Health Services, and Economic Development. Fedcap provides job training and placement, skill-building educational programs, and behavioral health support to help people secure and sustain employment. Its economic development work promotes equity and community self-sufficiency. Operating with a matrix structure that combines national expertise and local insight, The Fedcap Group delivers innovative, high-impact services to help individuals achieve sustainable independence.

Chief Strategy Officer and Sr. VP for Education

Jim Malatras

Special Counsel

Charles Diamond

C10 Labs is a venture studio fund located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2023. The company focuses on creating and supporting AI-first startups in high-growth sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, transportation, and energy. C10 Labs aims to reshape the landscape of AI-driven ventures by providing comprehensive support to early-stage teams and innovators.

Led by co-founders Shahid Azim, Patricia Geli, and Ramesh Raskar, C10 Labs offers resources like funding, talent acquisition, and client access. The company invests in various areas, including HealthTech and Enterprise LegalTech, developing AI solutions for clinical claims, chronic disease management, and legal technology platforms. C10 Labs is committed to building a community for AI entrepreneurs, recently showcasing ten teams at its inaugural winter cohort Demo Day.

Managing Partner & CEO

Shahid Azim

Scalestack is an AI-powered, enterprise-grade GTM orchestration and activation platform that empowers RevOps, SalesOps, and Marketing Ops teams to focus on high-propensity accounts and leads, making smarter, faster targeting decisions that directly drive revenue growth. Through scalable, automated workflows, Scalestack dynamically cleans, enriches, and prioritizes data using customizable AI agents that reason through and filter data sources, delivering sharper insights for GTM targeting and prioritization. Trusted by leading companies such as MongoDB, Redis, Remote, and Harness, Scalestack helps organizations shift from static to dynamic, real-time account profiling, accelerate lead conversion through enriched data and intelligent prioritization, and optimize sales and marketing alignment by improving CRM hygiene and creating a unified, high-quality data foundation across teams.

CEO
ex-Principal BD, AWS

Elio Narciso

Auquan's Intelligence Engine uncovers financially material hidden insights early using RAG AI (retrieval augmented generation). Transform company due diligence, KYC, ESG research, and risk monitoring and focus on what you do best: high-level analysis and making strategic decisions. 

Portfolio managers, research analysts, and corporate teams use Auquan to expand the scale and scope of their research and focus only on high-value analysis so they're always prepared to act ahead of market.

Chandini Jain

MyCofoundr.AI is an AI-powered business advisory platform tailored for founders, freelancers, and small to medium-sized businesses. Established in 2019, it provides expert guidance on essential areas of business growth, including funding, sales, and strategy, through an intelligent AI co-founder that is always available.

The platform offers personalized mentorship, smart investor matching, pitch optimization tools, and ongoing support for startups. Its key services include an AI Business Advisor that delivers customized advice, investor matchmaking to connect startups with suitable investors, and tools for refining pitches. MyCofoundr.AI aims to empower entrepreneurs and SMB owners by providing clarity and expert support in their business journeys, making startup insights more accessible. With a small team, the company focuses on helping users navigate the complexities of startup development effectively.

Founder

Gary Stewart

Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers, data experts, and strategists who build intelligent digital solutions and capabilities at pace. We partner with ambitious enterprises to create scalable software that enhances digital experiences, empowers developers, and delivers measurable results.

With deep expertise in solving complex digital challenges and a people-first, collaborative approach, we help teams build breakthrough products and modernize legacy systems with confidence.

Our 500 experts across 20+ countries are trusted by global leaders including Condé Nast, Lululemon, Puma, SunLife, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media O2, and Walmart.

We design and deliver platforms that unite people, processes, and technology—enabling faster deployment, greater scalability, and lasting business impact.

Managing Director, Americas
ex-Global VP, Thoughtworks, ex-IBM
$10M ARR

Corey Eastman

Anam is a cutting-edge AI platform providing photorealistic, expressive personas that enhance customer experiences across industries. Whether it's customer support, sales, education, Anam offer AI avatars that seamlessly integrate with your product.

Co-Founder & CEO
Forbes 30 under 30
$11M raised

Caoimhe  Murphy

Stifel Bank is a Missouri-chartered bank and a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp., a leading independent investment bank and financial services company established in 1890. The bank became part of Stifel in 2007, marking the company's entry into banking and expanding its financial services offerings.

Stifel Bank provides a range of banking services that include deposit accounts, loans, and other traditional banking products. These services are designed to complement the investment and wealth management solutions offered by Stifel Financial Corp. The bank supports a diverse clientele, including individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities, all while emphasizing a client-centric approach and a commitment to fiduciary responsibility.

Director, Venture Banking

Ly Nguyen

TriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll and real-time technology. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business.

Consultant (President's Club)

Julie Semple

Supermomos is a community tech start-up that facilitates curated, verified, in-person communities, and brings together likeminded professionals to connect, learn, and give back together.

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