August 21, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO

Bringing together industry-leading speakers in San Francisco to discuss everything AI, SaaS & Venture Capital. Join us for a day of talks, networking, and showcases.

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David Hefter leads BlackRock’s internal AI strategy and adoption for investments, working across public and private markets. He chairs the AI governance committee and produces an internal weekly AI newsletter. With over two decades experience at BlackRock, David has been driving AI initiatives for the past 5+ years, having studied computer science and AI at Columbia University.

Praveen Akkiraju is a Managing Director at global software investor Insight Partners. He brings a product and operational lens to investing in passionate entrepreneurs who seek to challenge the status quo in the areas of AI & automation, data platforms, DevOps, and infrastructure software. Praveen spent the early part of his career in the trenches, building products and scaling engineering teams to build world-class platforms in highly competitive market segments. As CEO of VCE and Viptela, Inc., Praveen has lived through the experience of navigating startups through product strategy, team building, and the Go-To-Market scaling required to build $100M+ revenue businesses. At Insight, Praveen counts CrewAI, Reco, Workato, and Bardeen among the companies in his portfolio, many of which he supports as a board member.

Eric is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and security. He is a Board member at Scale portfolio companies QA Wolf, Cortex, Datastax, Permit.io, and Upsolver, and a Board observer at AppOmni, BigID, Expel, Honeycomb, and Matillion. Before Scale, Eric led early Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services product teams. At Google, he was a Product Manager in the Data Analytics and Machine Learning group. He led the team that launched Cloud Dataprep and key components of Cloud Dataflow. Previously, Eric built aircraft engines in General Electric’s Operation Management Leadership Program. He’s a contributor to open source projects including Alluxio, where he is on the Project Management Committee, and Apache Beam.

Jon is a Partner at Khosla Ventures passionate about machine learning and its impact on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and developer tools.Prior to KV, Jon built a career in technology as a founder, early employee, and organizational leader across a variety of engineering and product roles. He began his career as an early engineer at Palantir (PLTR), helping scale it from 200 to 1800 employees and founded and sold KoalityCode to Docker, where he created and led Docker’s enterprise division. At Opendoor (OPEN), Jon held roles as both Head of Product for Growth and Head of Engineering for Core Machine Learning helping scale the company to IPO. Most recently, Jon spent time at Facebook leading international engineering organizations in both VR & ML.Jon holds a B.S. in Computer Science with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University.

Ted has spent his working career at the intersection of technology and business strategy most recently as an Expert Partner at Bain & Company. In his role at Inflection AI, Ted oversees all business operations including sales, marketing, and customer success. Follow Ted on LinkedIn to read his regularly published newsletter on AI, Infinite Future.

Allen brings 20+ years of experience in economic development and venture capital with a focus on emerging markets to his leadership roles at Endeavor, a mission-driven organization focused on supporting high-growth companies in emerging and underserved markets. As the Managing Partner of Endeavor Catalyst, Allen leads Endeavor’s innovative co-investment fund that has been recognized as one of the most active global venture investors in markets like Latin America and the Middle East. Since launching in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has raised over $500M+ across four funds and made 300+ investments in 30+ different countries, including more than 50 companies now valued at $1B+. Allen is a frequent guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves on the boards of several entrepreneurship and venture capital-focused organizations, including Kauffman Fellows (Class 16), Alter Global, STV (Saudi Arabia) and Scale-Up Ventures (Brazil). A graduate of Princeton University, he lives with his wife and two children in Northern California.

Amjad Masad is a Jordanian American entrepreneur and engineer. He founded Replit, a cloud-based AI-powered software development platform, and one of the fastest growing developer communities in the world. Prior to his role at Replit, Amjad worked at Facebook, where he led the JavaScript infrastructure team and contributed to popular open-source developer tools. Additionally, he played a key role as a founding engineer at Codecademy, a prominent online coding school.

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SC Moatti is the Founding Managing Partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm that capitalizes on the growing importance of product managers in enterprise success. She earned her reputation as a “genius at making products people love” during the cloud/mobile era, when she built products that billions of people use at Siebel Systems and Meta, won industry awards and nominations from the Wall Street Journal and the Emmys, and wrote an award-winning bestseller on what makes a great product. As a venture capitalist honored on the Kauffman Top 30 Index, she invested in pioneering companies like Amplitude (NASDAQ: AMPL), Groq, and Canela. SC earned a master’s in electrical engineering and a Stanford MBA, and is a Kauffman Fellow and member of YPO.

Bill leads IgniteGTM with deep expertise across AI infrastructure, cloud computing, and data center strategy. An experienced operator in Silicon Valley’s enterprise and deep-tech ecosystem, he specializes in building go-to-market frameworks that align technical innovation with commercial growth. Bill is a trusted advisor to leadership teams navigating scale, transformation, and new market entry, bringing clarity, precision, and a repeatable path to traction.

Tai Hsia is CFO at LUUM, a revolutionary Beauty Experience Automation company that uses robotics and physical AI to work hand-in-hand with estheticians and cosmetologists to provide best-in-class beauty services more safely, quickly, and consistently. Tai also currently serves on the board of directors of Blackdot, the world’s first robotic tattooing device using physical AI to offer unmatched self-expression and allowing artists to share and get compensated for their works of art, and DARI Motion, the world’s only FDA cleared markerless AI-powered motion analysis solution focused on health, wellness, and performance. Tai is also an active angel investor focused on pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups. Previously, Tai was COO at Wynd Technologies, COO at MOCAP Analytics, Co-Founder & CEO of mConnected, and a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis.

Nima is the co-founder and CEO of Assemble Labs building an Al copilot for electrical engineers. A mechanical and aerospace engineer by training, Nima has built his career across startups and large tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, specializing in early-stage technology development. Most recently, he’s focused on pioneering technologies that enable the next generation of hardware devices. He completed his studies in engineering at Stanford and USC in California, and lives in the Bay Area.

Mariane is a tech executive with over a decade of experience in building high-performing engineering teams. She is currently the Managing Partner at Founders Bay, where she connects 80,000 founders and VCs with events, virtual workshops, and fundraising resources.

Founder and CEO of Resilience AI, a pioneering health care startup and & The Why Man. With 25 years of experience, I am a techno-business engineering and product leader adept at building Google-scale distributed systems in fintech and healthtech, focusing on AI and Web3 technologies. I’ve won eight prestigious hackathons related to AI and Web3, both within Google and at renowned hack houses in Silicon Valley. I hold an executive MBA and have educated over 1,500 Fortune 500 executives on the applications of AI and blockchain over the past six years at UC Berkeley. A passionate public speaker, influencer, and blogger at TheWhyMan.Blog, I advocate for #ResponsibleAI and its transformative potential in business.