Conference Schedule
September 3, 2026
Smart AI 100 Summit
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Registration & breakfast
MC: Colton Dempsey — Partner, N47
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Welcome
Grace Gong
9:10 – 9:40 AM
AI Security: Defending the New Attack Surface
Alex Stamos — Chief Product Officer, Corridor; former CSO, Facebook
Emilio Escobar — CISO, Datadog
Joel de la Garza — Investment Partner, a16z
Moderator: Grace Gong
9:40 – 10:10 AM
Building AI Companies That Last
Sri Viswanath — CEO, Sycamore; former CTO, Atlassian; former Managing Director, Coatue
Snehal Antani — CEO, Horizon3
Brendan Ittelson — Chief Ecosystem Officer, Zoom
Moderator: Grace Gong
10:15 – 10:35 AM
Fireside — AI at Scale
Amit Zavery — President, Chief Product Officer & COO, ServiceNow
Moderator: Grace Gong
10:35 – 11:00 AM
What CIOs Are Actually Buying
Yousuf Khan — Founder, Clario; former CIO, Moveworks
Sree Kancharla — CIO of Sailpoint
Moderator: Yousuf Khan
MC: John Lin — Partner, Linea Ventures
11:00 – 11:20 AM
Where the Money Is Going in AI Infrastructure
Gaurav Bhogale — Partner, Mantis VC
Jordan Segall — Partner, Redpoint
Brian Zhan — Partner, Striker Venture Partners
David Kwon — Partner, Abstract
Amit Chaturvedy — Managing Director, SE Ventures
Moderator: Grace Gong
11:20 – 11:40 AM
Inference at Scale?
Debajyoti (Debo) Datta Co-Founder, Hippocratic AI
Lance Matthews — Partner, DTCP Growth
Aaron Jacobson — Partner, NEA
Alberto Taiuti — CEO, Reactor
Moderator: Grace Gong
11:40 – 12:00 PM
Fireside chat — AI native services - the next frontier of VC investing
Dan Mishin — Founder, Manifest
Jake Saper — General Partner, Emergence Capital
12:00
Lunch
12:15 - 12:35 PM
Fireside chat
George Hu — President, Fireworks AI
Moderator: Grace Gong
12:35 – 12:55 PM
Sequoia One Fireside chat
Kyle Holm — VP, Sequoia consulting group
MC: Anarghya Vardhana
12:55 – 1:15 PM
What AI Needs to Work in the Real World
Marshall Choy — CBO, Rebellion
Philip Rathle — CTO, Neo4j
Boris Sofman — CEO, Bedrock Robotics
Omar Haroun — CEO, Eudia
Moderator: Grace Gong
1:15 – 1:45 PM
Inference, security, data, enterprise
Kai Mak — CRO, Together AI
Nancy Wang — CTO, 1Password
Ross Fubini — Managing Partner, XYZ (Forbes Midas List)
Aidan Madigan-Curtis — Partner, Eclipse
Jordan Tigani — CEO, MotherDuck
Moderator: Grace Gong
1:45 – 2:05 PM
How We Know If a Model Is Any Good
Andrew Dai — CEO, Elorian
Anand Kannappan — CEO, Patronus AI
Rong Yan — CTO, HeyGen
Jason Goodison — CTO, General Compute
Saurabh Sharma — CPO, You.com
Moderator: Jake Flomenberg — General Partner, Wing Venture Capital
2:05 – 2:35 PM
Real World ROI from AI
Yogi Goel — CEO, Maxima
Guy Marion — CMO & Growth, Chargebee
Cheryl Cheng — Managing Director, M12 (Microsoft VC)
Abbas Haider Ali — Chief Customer Officer, Atlassian
Arnab Bose — Chief Product Officer, Asana
Moderator: Grace Gong
2:35 – 2:55 PM
Autonomous AI Agents
Rohan Anil — Co-founder, Core Automation
Ashish Kakran — Managing Partner, Seligman Ventures
Moderator: Grace Gong
2:55 – 3:25 PM
Vertical & Horizontal AI
Wen Sang — COO, Genspark
Jake Stauch — CEO, Serval
Spiros Xanthos — CEO, Resolve AI
Julie Choi — CMO, Cerebras
Zachary Lipton — Co-Founder, Abridge
Lindon Gao — Founder, Dyna Robotics
Moderator: Grace Gong
MC: Danny Wen — Operating Partner, Wing Venture Capital
3:25 – 3:40 PM
Fireside
Steve Jang — Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures (Forbes Midas List, Uber Coinbase Perplexity Fal)
Moderator: Josh Constine — Venture Partner, SignalFire
3:40 – 4:10 PM
Fireside — Power, Chips, and the Neocloud Economy
Marc Boroditsky — CRO of Nebius
Moderator: Grace Gong
4:10 – 4:40 PM
Fireside — Trusting AI Enough to Delegate to It
Jeetu Patel — President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco
Moderator: Grace Gong
MC: Josh Constine — Venture Partner, SignalFire
4:40 – 5:40 PM
Smart AI 100 Demos
4:40–4:45 — GC AI
4:45–4:50 — Espa
4:50–4:55 — FishAuto
4:55–5:00 — SpreadJam
5:00–5:05 — MavenAGI
5:05–5:10 — Clean
5:10–5:15 — Uare AI
5:15–5:20 — Intology
5:20–5:25 — Rlwd
5:25–5:30 — Clockwork
5:20 – 5:30 PM
Award giving and pictures
Mona Li — VP of Nebius
5:30 – 5:33
Closing and pictures
Grace Gong — Founder of Smart Venture Media
6:00 – 8:00
Happy hour
Conference Schedule
April 2, 2026
Smart AI
GTM Summit
12:30 PM
Check-In, Welcome & Networking
MC by Kevin Jiang, Founding Partner, Mangusta Capital
4 pm and after
MC by Josh Constine, Venture Partner, SignalFire
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Opening Address: Setting the Stage for AI Leadership
John Benetti, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
Partner Keynote: SVB
Partner Keynote: Sequoia
MC: Anarghya Vardhana, Venture Partner, Maveron
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
Partner Keynote: SVB
Partner Keynote: Sequoia
MC: Anarghya Vardhana, Venture Partner, Maveron
1:05 – 1:20 PM
Opening Remarks: Why AI Now
Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
1:20 – 1:50 PM
Opening Fireside chat: The Future of AI Security & Scale
Snehal Antani, Co-Founder & CEO, Horizon3.ai
Ilya Kirnos, Founding Partner & CTO, SignalFire
2:00-2:40 PM
Panel: The New AI Investment Playbook
Lucas Swisher, General Partner, Coatue Management
Susana Rojas, Partner, Index Ventures
Kathleen Estreich, Partner, Pear VC
Ambar Bhattacharyya, Managing Partner, Maverick Ventures
Elizabeth Weil, Managing Director, Scribble Ventures
Andy McLoughlin, Managing Partner, Uncork Capital
Matt Vail, Head of VC Partnerships, OpenAI
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
3:20 – 3:50 PM
Fireside Chat: AI, Trust & the Future of the Enterprise
Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
4:50 – 5:20 PM
Panel: From Breakthroughs to Business: Scaling AI in the Real World
Dipti Borkar, VP & GM, Microsoft
Aparna Sinha, SVP of Product, Vercel
Sami Ghoche, Co-Founder & CEO, Forethought
Arpit Mittal, Partner, Threshold Ventures
Timur Yarnall, Director of AI Partners, Snowflake
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
4:00 – 4:50 PM
Smart AI 100 Startup Demos: Founders on the Frontier
Rishi Bhargav, Co-Founder, Descope
Karan Vaidya, Co-Founder, Composio
Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder & CEO, Wisdom AI
Christopher Potts and Moritz Sudhof - Co-Founders of Bigspin AI
Mahi de Silva - Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Higgsfield AI
Sara Wyman - Founder & CEO of Stackpack
Allen Wang, Co-Founder & CEO, Ditto AI
Conor Brennan Burke, Founder & CEO, Hyperspell
Bill Sun, Founder - Generative Alpha
Lenjoy Lin, Co-founder, Genspark.ai
1:00 – 1:40 PM
The Billion-Dollar Blueprint: Patterns Behind the Fastest-Scaling AI Companies
Alexander Mashrabov, CEO & Co-founder, Higgsfield AI
Jake Stauch, Co-founder & CEO, Serval
Samir Menon, Founder & CEO, Dexterity Inc.
Dan O'Connell, CEO, Front
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
5:30 – 6:00 PM
Panel: Global AI Capital Flows (Where Big Tech and VC Are Betting Next)
Ganesh Bell, Managing Director, Insight Partners
Janelle Teng, Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Sara Choi, Partner, Wing VC
Thomas Jueng, Senior Managing Director, Samsung Ventures
Tushar Gupta, Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures
Clayton Petty, Partner, Gradient Ventures
Aidan Madigan-Curtis, Partner, Eclipse Capital
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
6:10 – 6:40 PM
Fireside Chat: The Next Wave of AI Infrastructure
Marc Boroditsky, Chief Revenue Officer, Nebius
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
6:40 – 7:20 PM
Smart AI 100 Awards & Group Photo
Grace Gong, Founder and CEO, Smart Venture Media
Jason Saltzman, Head of Insights, CB Insights
Presented by HubSpot, Snowflake, Morpheus, Vercel, SVB, Sequoia, Nebius, Wilson Sonsini, Auth0, Smart Venture Media
2:40 – 3:10 PM
Panel: Building the AI Dream Team (How to Recruit and Retain the Best Talent)
Advith Chelikani, Co-Founder, Pylon
Connor Heggie, Co-Founder, Unify
Deborah Hanus, Co-Founder & CEO, Sparrow
Dave Yarbrough, Business Consultant, Sequoia
Ivor Stratford, CEO, Morpheus
Meera Clark, Partner, Redpoint Ventures
Moderator: Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
4:50 – 5:00 PM
Smart AI 100 Interactive Games lead by 14.ai
Closing Remarks Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
4:50 – 5:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Grace Gong, Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
5:00 PM
Cocktail Reception & Speaker Dinner
(Invite Only)
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Leveraging the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Shape Tomorrow
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Founder & CEO, Smart Venture Media
President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco
CRO, Nebius
CMO, Cerebras
President, Fireworks AI
President, CPO, and COO, ServiceNow
Chief Customer Officer, Atlassian
CISO, Datadog
Chief Ecosystem Officer, Zoom
CPO, Asana
Co-founder, Core Automation
Co-Founder, Director, Hippocratic Al
CRO, Together AI
CTO, 1Password
Co-Founder, Abridge
Investment Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
CMO & Growth, Chargebee
Co-founder & COO, Genspark
Alex Stamos, Chief Product Officer, Corridor; former CSO, FacebooK
Co-Founder & CEO, Clario
CIO at Sailpoint
Founder, Sycamore
(ex-CTO at Atlassian)
CBO, Rebellions
CEO & Co-Founder, Horizon3.ai
Philip Rathle, CTO, Neo4j
Co-Founder & CEO, Bedrock Robotics
Founder and CEO, Resolve AI
CPO, You.com
Founder & CEO, Serval
Founder & CEO, Manifest OS
CEO, Dyna Robotics
Co-Founder & CEO, Eudia
CTO, HeyGen
CTO, General Compute
CEO, MotherDuck
Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures (Forbes Midas List)
Managing Partner, XYZ (Forbes Midas List)
Partner, Redpoint Ventures
Managing Director, M12
GP, Emergence Capital
Partner, Abstract
VP, Sequoia Consulting
Product Marketing Leader, Sequoia
Co-Founder & CEO, Elorian AI
Co-Founder, CEO & CFO, Maxima
CEO & Co-founder, Patronus AI
CEO, Reactor
Partner, DTCP
Partner, Eclipse
Partner, Mantis Venture Capital
Partner, Striker Venture Partners
Partner, Wing Venture Capital
Partner, Linea Ventures
Operating Partner, Wing Venture Capital
Partner, N47
Venture Partner, SignalFire
Managing Partner, SE Ventures
Managing Partner, Seligman Venture
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Ticket Price $1,400
Venue
715 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Who You’ll Meet
Get face-to-face with top-tier venture capitalists hunting for groundbreaking AI startups, Fortune 500 execs ready to invest and integrate new tech, and visionary founders who’ve successfully scaled AI solutions. Build relationships here that drive funding, partnerships, and strategic growth.
Why Attend?
Walk away with actionable strategies to accelerate your market expansion, insider knowledge on how Fortune 500 companies select AI partners, and real-world advice for navigating funding rounds from elite investors. One day here can unlock the connections and insights to scale your AI startup faster.
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