Lasers, AI and Defence against the Dark Arts #SFTechWeek
tl;dr - epic talks + rave
Agenda
Plan to mix in the fireside chats and talks to keep things fresh!
🚪 Doors Open (6pm)
🔥 Fireside Chats
David Wilson - Founder Tyr Ventures, VP Global Business Strategy Eon Productions. Assistant Director, Golden Eye; Assistant Producer, Casino Royale; Exec Producer of various James Bond 007 Video Games. The chat will be hosted by Alice Bentinck (Co-Founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First)
Investor Panel on State of Deep Tech & Dual Use Tech. Hosted by Sahil, CEO Atomionics
Nicolas El Baze - General Partner @ Partech Ventures; Partner @ Febe Ventures
Vishal Harnal - Global Managing Partner @ 500 Global
Keith Adams - Founding General Partner @ Pebblebed
Faraz Khan - Founding GP @ Giant Step Capital
💬 Talks
Transcelestial (Series B) - Rohit, CEO - Using Lasers on Earth and Space to bring affordable Internet everywhere and provide national security to our Borders. An InQTel, EF, Airbus Ventures, Partech, Tyr Ventures backed company.
Atomionics (Series A) - Sahil, CEO - Using Lasers, Quantum Sensors and AI to pinpoint critical materials and resources in Earth's Crust (for now). An InQTel, EF backed company.
Recursal AI (Seed) - Eugene, CEO - Creators of RWKV Attention-Free Transformer, Native Support of Asian Languages, deployed on 1.5B devices worldwide. Creators of Featherless.ai and Recursal Cloud for on-prem, air gapped, highly secure offline inference. An HF0 backed company.
Iris Lab (Seed) - Nicolas, CEO - Lasers for power delivery. An EF Backed Company.
🍺 Kickass Rave
Food and lots of drinks and music + trippy visuals!
👯 Co-Hosts
Pebblebed - Pam, Keith and Tammie (@pebble_bed) - Deep Tech Investors in AI and Dual Use. Also fabulous owners of The Warehouse @ Pebblebed!
Entrepreneur First (EF) - Alice Bentinck (@Alicebentinck) - World's Largest Creators of Deep Tech startups and Founding Teams, now in SF
Transcelestial - Rohit (@jharohit)
Atomionics - Sahil (@iamtapi)
🤔 Who should come?
If you INVEST in - deep tech, AI, telecom, lasers, entertainment, defence, natsec, space.
If you are a STARTUP in - deep tech, AI, telecom, lasers, entertainment, defence, natsec, space
If you are a BUSINESS in - entertainment, telecom, mining/resources, computing, space, defence, natsec, system integration or contracting in above business verticals.
If you hate the current company you are in and think you are a hotshot would like to build cool thing and want to join one of the companies talking or coming to this event.
If you like to party 😎
ℹ Instructions
Chatham House Rules https://www.perplexity.ai/search/if-i-am-attending-an-event-whi-dCddUsWpSbSyPRVc3M_Hfw
Come in 10-15 mins early as limited seating (also to get some beers going in order to relax!)
If you are a startup, encouraged to bring demos.
If you are an investor or corporate, encouraged to stay longer and try to chat with startups around.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.