​📣 Calling Founders & Engineers 📣

​Join us for an exclusive panel discussion featuring AI startup founders as they reveal the pivotal role of data in taking their AI models from concept to deployment. In this session, we'll dive deep into how innovative startups are building robust data pipelines, managing complex datasets, and overcoming challenges to scale AI solutions effectively.

​The event will kick off with a dynamic panel of AI leaders sharing their hands-on experiences, followed by a Q&A session where you can dive into the technical and strategic details. Stick around afterward for a networking session and happy hour, where you can connect with fellow founders, engineers, and industry experts over drinks and great conversation.

​Co-hosted by Array Ventures and Eventual Computing. This event is a part of #SFTechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.

​Agenda

​5:00p - 5:45p: Doors Open & Networking 👥

​5:45p - 6:30p: Fireside Chat ft. Co-Founders & CEOs of Eventual Computing, Happyrobot, Mozart Data, & Overview.ai

​6:30p - 8:00p: Networking & Happy Hour 🍻

​About Panelists

​Sammy Sidhu is the co-founder and CEO of Eventual, the company behind Daft. Sammy's background is in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Deep Learning and has over a dozen patents/publications in the space. Prior to Eventual, Sammy worked in Autonomous driving for 6 years and sold a startup to Tesla Autopilot in the process.

​Chris Van Dyke is the CEO and founder of Overview. Overview sells the OV20i, the most advanced AI smart camera for manufacturing. The product helps manufacturers automate inspection steps, improve uptime, and reduce errors on their manufacturing lines. Installed in over 100 factories, at some of the largest manufacturers in the world, the OV20i is a popular and innovative product. Before founding Overview, Chris was at Tesla for 8 years, where he built the teams that designed the Gigafactory and launched the Supercharger network.

​Pablo Palafox is the CEO of Happyrobot. He did his robotics undergrad in Spain, then went to Munich to pursue his PhD in AI & Deep Learning at TUM. After a research internship at Meta, he dropped out of his PhD program to pursue startups with his cofounders Luis Paarup and Javi Palafox. They got into YC for the S23 batch and are now building the best platform to orchestrate AI agents for logistics.

​Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, the easiest way to spin up a modern data stack. He has also worked at fast-growing startups including Eaze, Opendoor, Zenefits, Yammer/Microsoft, Playdom/Disney. He also has been involved with sports analytics at the Philadelphia Eagles, and has run a hot sauce company, Bacon Hot Sauce. He holds a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley.

​Moderator: Shruti Gandhi

​Shruti Gandhi is the founder of Array Ventures. She is based in Silicon Valley and has invested in over 75 companies in their preseed rounds which are now worth billions. With over 15 exits to companies such as  Apple, Paypal, ServiceNow, Amazon, JAMF, and others. She has attended Booth School of Business and Columbia University for her Masters in Computer Science.

​Co-hosted by Array Ventures & Eventual

​Array Ventures is an early stage enterprise data AI/ML fund. Array leads $1.5-$2m investments at the preseed stage. Array VC manages $150m in AUM and has over 75 investments in the area of AI powered security, infrastructure, cloud, and vertical SaaS. Array VC has 15 exit to companies like Amazon, Paypal, Gartner, JAMF, ServiceNow, and others.

​The team at Eventual Computing is building Daft, an open source framework that powers ETL, analytics, and ML/AI at scale. Its familiar Dataframe API is built to outperform Spark in performance and ease of use.

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