AI is Rebuilding Industry: From Hardware Engineering to Intelligent Logistics | Sunstone Stage Connects
Sunstone Stage Connects: Violet Labs, HALZAT
📅 Friday, August 7, 2026 | 2:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 Sunstone
AI isn't just transforming software—it's redefining how the physical world operates.
Whether it's building satellites, autonomous vehicles, or moving freight across the country, the biggest challenge isn't the AI model—it's fragmented data and inefficient workflows spread across disconnected systems.
Join Sunstone Stage Connects for an afternoon with Violet Labs and HALZAT, two startups building the AI infrastructure behind manufacturing and logistics. Discover how they're turning workflows that once took hours—or even days—into AI-powered operations completed in minutes.
If AI is transforming knowledge work, these founders are transforming the physical economy.
Featured Speakers
Lucy Hoag, PhD
Founder & CEO, Violet Labs
Violet Labs is building the AI data layer for hardware engineering, connecting fragmented data across product design, engineering, manufacturing, testing, and operations into a unified platform. By enabling engineers and AI agents to work from the same source of truth, Violet helps enterprises accelerate product development, improve collaboration, and unlock AI across the entire product lifecycle. Today, the company supports customers across aerospace, defense, energy, automotive, and robotics with more than 80 enterprise integrations.
Founder & CEO, HALZAT
HALZAT is building an AI-native operating system for freight, transforming shipment requests from emails, spreadsheets, PDFs, screenshots, and messages into end-to-end logistics workflows. From pricing and booking to dispatch, tracking, proof of delivery, and settlement, the platform automates the most time-consuming tasks in freight operations. With every completed shipment, HALZAT continuously improves future pricing, carrier matching, and operational decision-making, creating an intelligent logistics platform built for the next generation of supply chains.
Agenda
2:00 PM – Check-in & Registration
2:30 PM – Welcome
2:35 PM – Founder Spotlight: Current Surgical
2:55 PM – Q&A
3:00 PM – Founder Spotlight: NeuroQure
3:20 PM – Q&A
3:30 PM – Networking
Why Attend
Whether you're a founder, investor, healthcare professional, researcher, student, or innovation enthusiast, join us as we connect the people and ideas shaping the next generation of healthcare technologies.
We look forward to seeing you at Sunstone Stage Connects!
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