Global AI Pitch Summit 2025-Co-host by Stanford Entrepreneurs & Stanford Founders & BFC
🚀 Why Attend the 2nd Global AI Pitch Summit: Founders of the Future
AI is moving fast - but the real revolution belongs to those who turn intelligence into impact. Co-host by Stanford Entrepreneurs, Stanford Founders, and BFC.
This November, 10,000+ innovators, 1,000 startups, and 100 global investors and corporate leaders from 30+ countries will gather at the Santa Clara Convention Center to shape what comes next for humanity’s most transformative technology.
This is not another tech show. It’s where visionaries meet investors, where research becomes reality, and where AI meets purpose.
🧠 Come for the ideas. Stay for the connections. Leave with a future.
Whether you’re:
A founder looking for your next investor,
An investor searching for the next unicorn,
A researcher pushing the boundaries of what’s possible,
Or a policymaker shaping the ethical edge of AI —
this summit is your front-row seat to the AI era.
Event Luma Page: https://luma.com/GAP2025
💡 What to Expect
Two action-packed days of keynotes, panels, and live startup pitches - all sessions designed to inspire, challenge, and connect.
Deep dives into Generative Intelligence, Responsible AI, and Cross-Border Innovation.
Global networking with founders, investors, policymakers, and researchers who are actively building the AI ecosystem of tomorrow.
Four Workshops including Coding with AI, GEO with experts, AI arts, and GTM with AI tools.
Special Sessions like:
“Top 10 Reasons Founders Succeed” — with Shaun Johnson — General Partner @ AIX Ventures, early backers of Perplexity, Hugging Face and WindSurf
“State of the Market: Trends in Private Funds” — with Ronald Ratcliffe — Managing Director @ blackrock
"30-Year Outlook: The Next Wave of AI Opportunities" — with Ray Wu Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures
VC Panel：Beyond the Buzz: What Investors Actually Look For in AI Startups — with Ray Wu Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures and Gloria Zhang , VP of DCM Ventures
“When AI Becomes Your Teammate: The Next Evolution of Work” — with Wen Sang , Co-founder & COO of Genspark.ai (0–50M ARR in 5 months)
“Why I Never Hired for Talent – and Built a Winning Team Anyway” — with Bolun Li , Founder & CEO of Zogo (eight-figure all-cash acquisition)
“Accelerating Humanity’s Transition to AGI” — with Rocky Yu , Founder of AGI House
“What I Wish I Knew: 10 Stanford Founders Share Their Hardest Lessons” — hosted by Joseph Pigato , President of Stanford Entrepreneurs
Breaking into the U.S. Market: A Global Founder’s Playbook - Host Ryan JB Taylor , Fusion Fund
Selected Highlights:
Beyond Algorithms: Embedding Responsibility into AI Systems Sam Hamilton , SVP Data & AI, Visa
Building AI Products That Last: From Creation to Trust Shub A , SVP AI, U.S. Bank | USC Professor | Author & Board Advisor
The Dawn of AI-Driven Clinical Drug Development Will Ma, Founder & CEO HopeAI (Backed by Mayo Clinic & Debiopharm)
These sessions take you from finance to healthcare to enterprise trust systems, revealing how AI is quietly re-engineering every industry.
Part of Our Speakers- 2nd Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025
A lineup of world-class founders, investors, and AI leaders driving innovation across industries:
Ronald Ratcliffe — Managing Director @ BlackRock
Miko Matsumura — Managing Partner @ gCC Venture Capital
Ryan JB Taylor — Early Stage Investor @ Fusion Fund | AI & Deep Tech
Wen Sang — Co-founder & COO @ Genspark.ai | Founder @ Smarking (acq, YC/Khosla backed)
Shub Agarwal — Senior VP of GenAI @ U.S. Bank | Adjunct Professor @ UCLA | Author
Bolun Li — Founder @ Zogo (acq), Forbes 30 Under 30, (eight-figure all-cash acquisition)
Stash Pomichter — Founder @ Remus Capital, MIT Alumni
Sana Wajid — SVP @ Fetch.ai Innovation Lab | Chief Development Officer @ Fetch.ai
Sophie Ren — Founder & CEO @ ChatSlide.ai | Forbes 30 Under 30, Forbes Business Council Member
Joseph Pigato — President @ Stanford Entrepreneurs
Rocky Yu , Founder of AGI house
Sam Hamilton , SVP Data & AI, Visa
Paul Fang — President @ Bay Area Founders Club (BFC)
Stephen D. Torres — Co-founder @ Ellerra
Chris Bradbury — Principal @ Alumni Ventures
Xiaoyin Qu — Founder @ HeyBoss
Echo Cheng — Founding Partner @ Brightway Future Capital
Alex Dang — Former McKinsey Partner | Bestselling Author
Iris Sun — Principal @ 500 Global
🎨 Innovation Meets Humanity
From the stage to the soul — creativity takes center stage. ✨ The Science in Motion performance — created by Stanford scientists Xiao Han Mengyu Liu Sophie R. and more— transforms the science of cancer, memory, and the brain into a breathtaking choreography. Every move becomes a molecule. Every rhythm, a heartbeat
🎯 Our Mission
The Global AI Pitch Summit isn’t just another tech conference — it’s a curated ecosystem for connection, learning, and collaboration.
We aim to make this year’s program the most informative, inspiring, and founder-centric yet — a space where knowledge flows freely, partnerships are born, and ideas become ventures that truly matter.
Join us to build the global AI ecosystem of tomorrow — one conversation, one idea, and one founder at a time.
Visit Our Website
To learn more about the event, visit our website at https://www.globalpitch.ai.
🚀Recap-1st Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025 🚀
About the Host
The Bay Area Founders Club (BFC), founded by Dr. Paul Fang in Silicon Valley in 2022 and managed by a dedicated group of Stanford alumni and students, is a thriving community of over 50,000 members, including more than 2,000 startups and over 650 venture capital firms. With most startups in our network raising $1-10 million, and some exceeding $20 million, our mission is to empower creators who aspire to make a global impact. We provide the essential resources, support, and connections needed to transform visionary ideas into reality.
Special Event by Science in Motion (Stanford)
🌍 Science in Motion: When Data Becomes Dance
Science in Motion, an NGO founded by Stanford scientists, reimagines how scientific concepts can move—literally—through the language of dance and art.
At the Global AI Pitch Summit 2nd this November, join us for our debut performance:
Cancer - A Visceral Exploration of Life, Fragility, and Resilience
This groundbreaking performance transforms complex medical ideas into living, breathing movement. Each gesture embodies a molecule; each rhythm mirrors the pulse of cellular transformation. Through choreography, we translate science into emotion, data into rhythm, and research into poetry in motion. 💃
Science in Motion is where the precision of science meets the soul of art - a collaboration that reminds us that discovery, too, has a heartbeat.
This is only the beginning. Many more creations await—on memory, learning, the brain, and beyond.
If you live at the intersection of science and art, we invite you to join us. Let’s move science forward together.
About the Organizers
Welcome to Connect with Our Organizers of the Upcoming Summit
If you have any questions or are interested in collaborating, please reach out to the right organizer based on your interests:
Paul FANG – President, Bay Area Founders Club (BFC)
For sponsorship opportunities or to connect with BFC community of 50,000+ founders and VCs in the Bay Area, reach out today.
Sophie REN – Founder & CEO, Chatslide.ai
I love designing informative, high-energy events that connect brilliant minds. I personally created the structure, agenda, and overall framework for both this year’s and last year’s summits. （If you’d like to join as a speaker, be part of a panel, or have a crazy idea you want to bring to life reach out to me.）
Joseph PIGATO – President, Stanford Entrepreneur
For Stanford alumni who are attending or looking to get involved
Stephen D. Torres – Co-founder, Ellera
For Berkeley and Harvard alumni interested in participating or collaborating
Ryan JB Taylor – Investor at Fusion Fund
For attendees from Cambridge, Oxford, or other European communities who want to connect and grow together
Together, we’re shaping a global founder community that’s curious, supportive, and genuinely excited to explore what the future of entrepreneurship can look like. 🚀
About the Writer:
Hey, I’m Sophie 👋
I help design the content framework for this summit. Over the years, I’ve seen how people build with AI in so many different corners of the world - Bay cafés where ideas grow over coffee, Berlin hacker lofts buzzing past midnight, Tokyo studios glowing at 2AM - and each has its own spirit.
One of my joys is bringing that diversity of thought back to Silicon Valley and bring Silicon Valley thoughts to everywhere, so every summit feels fresh, human, and alive.
This spring, I’ll also be co-organizing another GenAI gathering at one of Europe’s largest incubators in Paris 🇫🇷 and I continue to support the Stanford Founders Demo Day series.
If this resonates - if you’d like to speak, join a panel, spark a session, collaborate, sponsor, or simply be in the room - just DM me. No agenda needed. I simply love connecting thoughtful, curious people and seeing what we can create together in this moment of possibility.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-r-60981b9b/
The next wave of AI founders is already forming — and there is space for all of us. 🌍
About the communities behind this:
Bay Area Founders Club (BFC)
A space where founders actually support one another — with shared resources, honest reflection, and real help. Not just networking — real community.
Stanford Entrepreneurs
A global alumni network of Stanford founders, builders, and investors who connect, learn, and grow together at every stage of the entrepreneurial journey.
Stanford Founders
A cross-disciplinary network within the Stanford ecosystem that helps graduate-founders find collaborators, co-founders, and early-stage support across fields and continents.
Global AI Pitch Summit
A platform bringing together founders, researchers, and investors who are shaping the next wave of AI. This summit is one chapter in a larger, ongoing global conversation.
We’re not just hosting events.
We’re building a shared table and there is room here for thoughtful, curious builders. 🌍