The rain didn’t dampen our fun yesterday at TechDay AI Founders Day 🤖☂️
A massive thank you so much to everyone who attended the first-ever #TechDay #AI Founders Day! It was a fantastic day filled with innovation and a demonstration of what makes NYC such a dynamic environment for the AI revolution. We hope everyone made valuable connections and collected useful insights, knowledge, and strategies to help build, grow, and scale their AI startup.
We want to extend a thank you as well to our amazing 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 Lis Kring Simonsen, Startup Advisor & Founder of VelocitySquad & Female Founder House
Bryan Lozano, Director, the Tech:NYC Foundation
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 R., Founder, Growthpointe.io
Brian Shoicket, AVP of Emerging Technology Initiatives, NYCEDC
Scott Smedresman, Partner, Co-Chair Global Technology Group, Brown Rudnick LLP
Charlie Stephens, VC & Startup Ecosystem, Fidelity
Breen Sullivan, Founder, The Fourth Effect
Emily Zhu, Investor, New York Life Ventures
Please give it up for the fantastic startup participants in the TechDay AI Founders Day Pitch Fest: Context, HaveYouMet, Inc., Keymate.AI, Livepeer, Seb AI, SkillBuilder.io, SyenApp
Thank you also to our sponsors, Fidelity Private Shares, Anchin, Brown Rudnick LLP, Consulate General of Canada in New York | Consulat général du Canada à New York, Spacebar Visuals; and our community partners, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), Cela, NY Tech Alliance, Textbook Ventures, and WEVE Acceleration
And a final thank you to Brown Rudnick LLP for providing this beautiful space at 7 Times Square for us to have our event!
It was a magical day. See you all at the next event 👋