Thursday, November 21 | Times Square Tower (7 Times Sq.) | 9 AM - 5 PM
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Thank you to everyone who attended the first-ever TechDay AI Founders Day! It was an amazing day filled with valuable networking, insightful talks from the top investors, exciting pitches from innovative AI startups, and actionable business strategies to help startups succeed in the AI sector.
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About the event
TechDay AI Founders Day is a one-day conference for founders building AI-enabled products and services in all market verticals. AI has quickly become one of the most consequential technologies this century, and innovation in the sector is happening at the startup level. In such a crowded sector, however, finding your place and getting ahead is challenging. That is why we created TechDay AI Founders Day: to bring founders with groundbreaking AI technologies the best growth and business strategies from top investors and industry experts. Founders hear and learn from these leaders, packing their toolkits with actionable business tactics and useful market insights to help them unlock their next stage of growth. At TechDay AI Founders Day, founders also have several structured networking opportunities with their peers, allowing them to forge crucial connections to help them navigate the AI sector.
What Founders Can Expect:
Networking sessions that allow them to make new connections with industry peers and investors
Interesting talks and insightful panel discussions from top AI investors and business leaders
Actionable startup business strategies that they can use to meet their goals
Thank you to our Speakers
Ryan
ATkinson
CEO & Co-Founder, Spacebar Visuals
Chris
Brown
Ecosystem Manager, NVIDIA
AArsha
CHUGH
Global Strategy Leader, IBM
RObert
Daniels
Director, GSI, Business Development, Palo Alto Networks
Jeff
Frommer
Jeremy
Kagan
Managing Partner, Textbook Ventures
Kristine
Startup Advisor & Founder, Velocitysquad & Female Founder House
Kring
Bryan
Director, Tech:NYC Foundation
Lozano
Pete
Mathias
Partner, Alumni Ventures
Octavius
MOOre
Director of Platform, Tech:NYC
Betsy
MUlé
Investor, F-Prime Capital
Thomson
Nguyen
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Saga Ventures
Phillip
Rivers
Founder, Growthpointe.io
AVP of Emerging Technology Initiatives, NYCEDC
Shoicket
Brian
Scott
Smedresman
Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP
Charlie
Stephens
VC & Startup Ecosystem, Fidelity
Breen
Sullivan
Founder, The Fourth Effect
Emily
Zhu
Investor, New York Life Ventures
Congratulations to the AI Founders Day Pitch Fest Participants
Ryan
Eppley
Co-Founder & CEO, Seb AI
Wang
Joanna
Founder and CEO, HaveYouMet
Philip
Delvecchio
Co-Founder & CEO, Keymate AI
Kit
Mueller
Co-Founder, SkillBuilder.io
Dror
Margalit
Co-Founder and CEO, Context
Eric
Tang
Co-Founder, Livepeer
Mani
Subrahmanyam
Founder & CEO, SyenApp
Event Agenda
Doors Open
9:00 - 9:45 AM
Continental Breakfast
Networking
9:45 - 10:00 AM
Welcome Address
Delivered by Walter Charnizon, President of TechDay
10:00 - 10:30 AM
Delivered by:
Bryan Lozano, Director of the Tech:NYC Foundation
Octavius Moore, Director of Platform at Tech:NYC
Brian Shoicket, AVP of Emerging Technology Initiatives, NYCEDC
Supporting NYC AI Founders
How To Get Customers Without Being a Marketing Expert
10:30 - 11:00 AM
Delivered by Phillip Rivers, Founder of Growthpointe.io
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
How To Tell Your Story Without Writing A Word
Delivered by Ryan Atkinson, CEO and Co-founder of Spacebar Visuals
Delivered by:
Jeremy Kagan, Managing Partner at Textbook Ventures
Chris Brown, Ecosystem Manager, NVIDIA
Growing and Scaling Your AI Startup With NVIDIA: A Fireside Chat
11:00 - 11:30 AM
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Lunch/Networking
1:00 - 1:30 PM
Anatomy of a Financing for AI Startups
Delivered by Scott Smedresman, Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP
1:30 - 2:30 PM
AI Founder Pitch Fest with Alumni Ventures
Moderated by Pete Mathias, Partner at Alumni Ventures
Participating startups:
Context, HaveYouMet, KeyMate.AI, Livepeer, Seb AI, Skillbuilder.io, Syen App
Delivered by:
Aarsha Chugh, Global Corporate Strategist & Leader, IBM
Robert Daniels, Director of GSI Business Development, Palo Alto Networks
2:30 - 3:00 PM
How to Make Your Startup Stand Out: Pitching to F500 Enterprises
Delivered by:
Jeff Frommer
Kristine Kring, Startup Advisor & Founder, Velocitysquad & Female Founder House
Breen Sullivan, Founder, The Fourth Effect
Harness the Power of Advisory & Governing Boards for AI Startups
3:00 - 3:30 PM
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Navigating AI Funding in 2025 VC Panel
Led by:
Betsy Mulé, Investor at F-Prime Capital
Thomson Nguyen, Partner at Saga Ventures
Emily Zhu, Investor at New York Life Insurance Company
Moderated by Charlie Stephens, Startup & VC Ecosystem at Fidelity