Eugene Shustef

🚀 Attending SaaStr Annual in San Mateo this week? Let's connect and elevate your networking strategy! I'm excited to host 1-on-1 Braindates to discuss how Leads Caddy is improving lead information collection at in-person networking events. 🔍 Discover how our AI powered assistant can: - Streamline your networking process - Boost your conversion rates - Maximize your ROI from events - Save tons of time during and post event 👉 Click the link and grab a slot, or simply DM me! See you soon at SaaStr Annual! #SaaStrAnnual #LeadsCaddy #Networking #LeadGeneration #StartupLife

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Networking update: At The Seattle Chamber of Commerce event RLC in Action: The Future of AI: Application in Industries I had the chance to hear from industry leaders about the relative impact of AI in their perspective fields. Summary: Vibhu Srinivasan-Director, AI/Cloud Solutions, Innovation Lead -Accenture: 60% of tasks that can be automated will be automated. This will likely cause some redundancies for entry-level positions but will increase efficiencies and relevant daily activities across all roles. Aylin Caliskan-Assistant Professor-Information School, UW: AI learns from our internet data so it learns Bias from its base information. Automatically generating statements such as "SHE is a nurse" or "HE is a doctor" which was only emphasized be the next panelist's experience. Elizabeth Wako, M.D.-President & CEO-Swedish Health Services: When she used AI to summarize her end-of-year review, including her achievement of becoming active CEO of Swedish Health Services, it assumed she was male, and input the assumptive descriptors. This is not as consequential as using AI for the recommended treatment of a patient with a certain profile, only to learn that the AI didn't account for the economic or insuranceworthiness differences, leading it to recommend a sub-par health recommendation. While this is only one of the potential risks of using AI, the healthcare industry is anticipating 203 billion dollars in savings due to efficiency. A worthwhile investment as long as we navigate the learned bias wisely. David Namura-Gov't Affairs & Public Policy-Google: David notes that the biggest risk of government intervention with AI is the chance to overreach in fields. Particularly if there may be a lack of sufficient education and knowledge in government officials surrounding AI. Thank you to Laura Ruderman, CEO, Technology Alliance, and Barb Wilson, Puget Sound Local Gov't Affairs, Microsoft for moderating the event. And I can't wait for what else Seattle has to offer for AI Week!

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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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🚀Launch announcement! Gavel's pre-built legal workflows are out and available in California for probate, family and estate law. 🙏Thank you LawNext and Robert Ambrogi for the coverage. This is the start of an exciting journey changing our industry. At #Gavel, our mission is to make the law universally accessible. The turn-key solutions we just announced can be used by any attorney to automate the repeated generation of standardized forms and documents for their clients. We believe that quickly adopting modern solutions like these are key to delivering cost effective and accessible legal services. This was also a good test of Gavel's infrastructure and AI. All the pre-built workflows and powerful logic were built on Gavel, and just took a few weeks to get from idea to testing and launch! #BuiltOnGavel #LegalTech #Law #GenerativeAI cc: Dorna Moini

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California's biggest risk of the next 20 years - running off two of the primary economic drivers. California policy makers need to think hard about it’s long term economic prospects because policies are having a negative impact on two key groups – founders that start companies and the leaders that scale them. Without them, it's hard for economies of any size to find growth. Let's start with Silicon Valley, which was built by founders and builders in PC chips with Intel, networking with Cisco, enterprise databases with Oracle, search with Google, social networking with Facebook, and consumer devices with Apple. So how do things look in 2024? AI is the new Bay Area tech segment, especially with $50B in venture capital last year. But other key segments have moved elsewhere. Arizona leads in autonomous driving. Crypto-currency is largely outside of California because of cheaper energy elsewhere. Virginia put the most data center square footage in in 2023. Joby, a leader in drone taxis, chose to relocate from Monterey to Dayton to build out 2 million square feet of high-end avionics manufacturing. High-profile founders like Elon Musk have relocated Tesla and Twitter to Texas. All told, 352 companies with over 100 employees have left California in the last decade and the move out rate is accelerating and none of the same size companies have relocated into California. Over half relocated to Texas. California’s next generation of builders and founders is leaving California in real time. So how does it look in ag and food? In 2023 California ag gdp was $59.4 billion and the top 10 commodities were all over $1 billion. Because of California’s lead in specialty crop production, many AgTech companies chose to locate all or big parts of their team here. Our ability to keep them here depends on our ability to keep the acreage here. California lost over 60,000 acres of asparagus production in 40 years and the production facilities and AgTech in fields and facilities all left the state thanks largely to NAFTA and labor policy cost increases. How bad is the acreage exodus? From 1997 to 2022, USDA Census data show that California lost 4.6 M ag acres (16% of the total) and 24,857 farms (28% of the total). Straight line these numbers for another 30 years and the numbers go to 9 M acres lost and 45,300 farms lost for 55 years – 32% of acreage and 52% of farms. These numbers could get worse because of a few key policy factors: (1) lack of investment in water storage and maintenance; (2) net zero policies that decrease reliability and increase power costs; and (3) labor policies that increase minimum wage and AEWR and class action friendly PAGA rules. (Continued in first comment) Damian Mason Todd Thurman Rhishi P. Sachi Desai Rob Trice Danny Bernstein Ben Palone

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Are you working in #QC 🧪 and wondering what AI 🤖 can do for you? Then you should read this blog post by my colleague Cheng Han #TetraScience and Bryan Holmes from Andelyn Biosciences! I love how #GenAI can be used for creating reports in QC!

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Industry Insider – California hosted a fantastic event with CDPH and their IT leadership. If you are not a member, you should join. Not only do you get access to a broad cross section of the tech community, but you also get to hear directly from agencies. Here are four take aways I shared with our team. IT decision making involves policy and program people not simply IT leadership. They participate and inform the process, but they are not the sole decision-makers. They have a very pro-Microsoft disposition. Their history of AD Hoc, program driven technology spend means their technology stack is very complicated. They view building on a Microsoft platform as a major driver of efficiency and cost savings. Their technology budgeting process is changing which offers opportunities to capture larger sales across program areas in the future. CDPH has massive privacy and security concerns they need help addressing.

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AI leaders have a crucial chance to address risks now and strengthen governance practices before playing catch-up to regulations, notes Kjell Carlsson, Ph.D. of Domino Data Lab. In a recent VentureBeat article, he shares his perspective on California's AI bill veto and why proactive governance is key to the future of AI innovation. Learn more about this addressing this opportunity: https://gag.gl/4WCTkP #AI #AIGovernance #AIInnovation #DataScience

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Excellent and actionable advice on how to drive a transformation within an organization.

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It's great to see Governor Newsom and his team appreciating the nuances of regulating Generative AI and veto-ing S.B. 1047. We need AI regulation for sure, but it needs to be grounded in how GenAI models and applications actually work. I'm looking forward to seeing more efforts in (1) better understanding of what safety means for GenAI and what guardrails effective guardrails even look like, (2) funding to academic research, think tanks, and labs to address (1); and (3) more partnerships between government, academia and industry on AI. https://lnkd.in/gVc7_7va #generativeai #airegulation #sb1047

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Insights into a company that is focused on monetizing the space economy. From lunar landing vehicles to communication systems. Intuitive Machines truly is tackling a new frontier. https://buff.ly/48ZsNwW #space #nasa #lunar #intuitivemachines

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Wayfound just wrapped up an amazing panel with Okareo and thewaive.ai discussion at SF Tech Week on "AI Agents Beyond the Hype & Toward Real ROI." The conversation was lively, insightful, and full of real-world examples of how AI agents are reshaping business operations right now. We explored how AI is reducing burn rates, saving time, and creating real impact across different domains. We’ve pulled together the top 10 takeaways from the session in a Carousel post for easy scrolling. Check them out! Want to see the full discussion? Watch the panel with Tatyana Mamut 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 Scott Jorgensen Matthew Wyman on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/gRJXV9AU If you’re curious about how AI agents are creating real value beyond the hype, you won’t want to miss this! #SFTechWeek #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Wayfound #TechPanel #ROI #Innovation #BusinessGrowth

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Is your #association tech stack optimized and well supported?

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Perhaps the only #AI themed #PODCAST attempting to become #SELFAWARE is BACK with a new episode. Daniel Bishop is on a top-secret side mission, so I am flying solo. This week, we discuss: • California's AI Act: A New Frontier Or A Slippery Slope? • Are AI Companies Ready For A Mandated Shutdown Switch? • How Much Damage Can Rogue AI Models Really Cause? • The Billion-dollar Price Tag For AI Training - Who's Left In The Game? • #OpenAI, #Anthropic, And Uncle Sam - An Early Access Alliance • #Copyright In The #AI Era - Who Owns The Data That Trained The Models? • Can AI Self-awareness Be Regulated, Or Will It Laugh In Our Faces? "Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion" ~ The other Hunter

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Venture capitalists have poured billions into defense tech startups, but the U.S. government seems hesitant to take the plunge. Is it a lack of trust or just a fear of commitment? Is this a case of "innovation theater" or a missed opportunity for national security? Either way, this mismatch could dampen the innovation we need to stay ahead in the global arena. #SiliconValley #DefenseTech #GovernmentContracts #VentureCapital #EmergingTech https://lnkd.in/gSjCP6TU

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@Clario's SVP and General Counsel, Lauren Misztal, recently spoke with the multinational law firm, Sidley Austin, about the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in clinical trials. In an insightful interview, Lauren discusses how our AI models are advancing clinical trials, reducing the burden on patients and sites, and why Clario follows the highest ethical standards when developing and implementing Artificial Intelligence solutions. Check out the interview here https://lnkd.in/eC39XcVy

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