​This Is About the Second Act

​Date: Thursday, January 22, 2026
Time: 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: 2623 Camino Ramon, San Ramon, CA 94583

​The founders on this stage have already won once.

​They’ve built companies at scale, navigated enterprise complexity, survived growth chaos, and delivered real outcomes across large global organizations.

​Now they’re building again.

​This time, they’re not starting with org charts, headcount plans, or legacy processes.

​They’re starting with AI as the operating layer.

​This event explores how experienced founders rethink services when they know what breaks at scale — and design for it upfront using AI.

​Featured Live Demos (Founders)

​Saurabh Kumar
CEO & Co-Founder, Rezolve AI
Agentic AI for autonomous employee and IT service delivery

​Indus Khaitan
Founder & CEO, Redblock AI
Agentic identity security executing changes across disconnected applications without APIs or tickets

​Gorish Aggarwal
Founder & CEO, Sybill
AI-native revenue copilot automating sales execution and turning conversations into actionable insight

​Founder & Operator Panel

​Sumit Mehra
Co-Founder & CTO, Tredence
AI and data platforms powering global enterprises

​Anji R Maram
Founder & CEO, CriticalRiver and Meeru AI
Scaling AI-driven services with deep enterprise execution

​Panel Moderator

​Mahesh Shah
Ex-CEO, CoreTrust
Led large-scale services organizations, served as CIO for a global enterprise, and built a high-growth services startup—now currently helping AI startups to scale.

​Why This Event Matters

​First-time founders ask: “What can AI do?”

​Serial founders ask: “What should never exist again?”

​This is a conversation about:

• ​Eliminating entire categories of manual service work

• ​Designing businesses where AI absorbs complexity before humans ever see it

• ​Rebuilding services for speed, margin, and resilience — not just growth

​Who This Event Is Really For

• ​Founders building their first, second, or third company

• ​Operators responsible for large-scale service delivery and margins

• ​Investors backing founders who optimize for durability, not demos

​If you’ve already lived through scale, this event will feel familiar — and refreshingly honest.

​What You’ll Leave With

​Not inspiration.
Not hype.

​But mental models from people who’ve already paid the price of learning the hard way — and are now building again with AI.

​Thank you!
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