Can Startups Still Win in AI? What Serious Founders Should Build Now, with Rajeev Rajan and Vivek Sharma

​Where is AI truly delivering value in enterprise settings, how are team structures and roles changing, and where are the biggest opportunities still up for grabs?

Join Vivek Sharma and Rajeev Rajan for a candid conversation on what they’re seeing from inside the world of B2B and enterprise AI. We’ll dig into the latest adoption trends, the gap between AI demos and real production use, how technical teams are evolving, and whether startups still have room to win as the labs push further into the stack.

​This will be a practical, opinionated discussion for founders, builders, and operators who want a clearer view of what’s real in AI right now — and what might matter next.

Event agenda:
3 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. — Networking
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. — Fireside chat with Vivek and Rajeev
4:30 p.m - 5 p.m. — Networking

Vivek Sharma is co-founder of ArchAstro, a new Seattle startup building AI systems for enterprise workflows. Previously, he held product and engineering roles at Stripe and Microsoft, and was a VP at Meta.

Rajeev Rajan is an enterprise technology leader who recently joined Stripe to lead the company's Revenue and Financial Automation (RFA) division. He was previously CTO at Atlassian and led Meta's Pacific Northwest engineering office.