SF ↔ Tokyo AI Leaders Luncheon
We're excited to host an exclusive luncheon bringing together founders, investors, and enterprise leaders from San Francisco and Tokyo to explore the future of AI and deepen connections between the two ecosystems.
We're honored to be joined by two featured guests.
Jesse Leimgruber is CTO and Co-Founder of OpenHome, an operating system for ambient AI at the edge. A Thiel Fellow and Stanford CS alumnus, Jesse is building AI that lets devices listen, understand context, and act in the real world. OpenHome is backed by Hugging Face, Headline, SBVA, and more. He'll give a live demo during the session.
Panos Madamopoulos-Moraris is the Founder of Exoscaleton and Senior Advisor at Stanford University. As founding Managing Director of Partnerships at Stanford HAI, he built one of the world's most significant multistakeholder AI ecosystems. An active angel investor, his portfolio spans Together.ai, Resolve.ai, Moonlake.ai, and Bigspin.ai. He's a frequent speaker at the World Economic Forum, Milken Institute, and TED.
Designed as an off-the-record, AMA-style discussion, the session will offer candid perspectives on frontier AI and company building, bringing together builders, investors, and operators from both ecosystems for an intimate exchange of ideas.
We're inviting:
AI and digital transformation leaders at major enterprises
Founders building AI-native products
Venture capital investors, family offices, and allocators
Researchers and technical leaders advancing AI
Senior operators shaping Japan's AI ecosystem
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