Smart AI Leadership Summit

Smart AI Leadership Summit by Smart Venture Media is back.

3 summits in 365 days. This one’s the best yet.

The room on April 2:

C-suite & VPs from Meta, Microsoft, Nebius, Box, Together AI, LangChain, Databricks, Lyft, MongoDB, Snorkel AI Execs from Anthropic & ElevenLabs

Founders of billion-dollar companies: Crusoe, Higgsfield AI, Serval, Dexterity, Inc. Partners from Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Bessemer Venture Partners, Gradient, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund

Not a massive conference. Not a private dinner. Something in between — and harder to get into than both.

Every seat earned. We cover the billion-dollar questions: How do you build distribution for your AI startup? How do you raise? How do you make money?

Who you’ll be in the room with:

  • Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
  • Justin Osofsky, VP, Meta, ex-COO, Instagram
  • Marc Boroditsky, CRO, Nebius
  • Chase Lochmiller, CEO, Crusoe
  • Olivia Nottebohm, COO, Box
  • Rashida Hodge, CVP, Microsoft
  • Kevin Smith, CIO, Lyft
  • Deepa Gopinath, CIO, MongoDB
  • Scott Holden, CMO, Vanta
  • Anand Raghavan, CPO, Snorkel AI
  • Kenan Saleh, Partner, a16z
  • Sonali Singh, Partner, Sequoia
  • Lauri Moore, Partner, Bessemer
  • Aaron Jacobson, Partner, NEA
  • Madison Faulkner, Partner, NEA
  • Miloni Madan Presler, Partner, IVP
  • Caroline Duffy, Partner, Cowboy Ventures
  • Andrew Brackin, Partner, Gradient Ventures
  • Boris Sofman, CEO, Bedrock Robotics
  • Matan Grinberg, CEO, Factory
  • Alexander Mashrabov, CEO, Higgsfield AI
  • Samir Menon, CEO, Dexterity
  • Dan O’Connell, CEO, Front
  • Jake Stauch, CEO, Serval
  • Rong Yan, CTO, HeyGen
  • Anupam Singh, VP, Roblox
  • Dan Tobin, VP, Databricks
  • Namrata Ram, VP, Together AI
  • Mark Goldberger, VP, Metaview
  • Daren Moffett, VP, LangChain
  • Jeff Settle, VP, Runlayer
  • Jules Gsell, ex-VP, Databricks
  • Lauren Schwartz, Head of Strategic Sales, Anthropic
  • Patricia Degnan, Partner, a16z
  • Elizabeth Weil, MD, Scribble Ventures
  • David Kwon, Partner, Abstract Ventures
  • Yousuf Khan, Venture Partner, Ridge Ventures
  • Anarghya Vardhana, Venture Partner, Maveron
  • Ashish Uchill, GTM, ElevenLabs, ex-VP, Brex
  • Alan Du, Partner, M12
  • Radhika Malik, Partner, Dell Technologies Capital
  • Shomik Ghosh, Partner, Sierra Ventures
  • Brent Murri, Partner, M13
  • Joseph Ros, Partner, Entrepreneur First
  • Daniel Suh, Partner, Gold House Ventures
  • Anand Chandrasekaran, Managing Partner, Celesta Capital
  • Parul Saini, ex-Head of IT, Uber

Follow the conversation on LinkedIn and stay updated as we get closer to April 2.

April 2. SVB Experience Center, SF. 8:30AM to after party.

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