From Lab to Launch: Commercializing AI Research with Samsung Next, Inovia Capital, Radical Ventures, and Golden Ventures

​Join us and the Ecosystem team at the University of Toronto’s Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus for an evening focused on AI research and entrepreneurship, bringing together researchers, students, founders, and local investors for a conversation on how breakthrough technical work becomes real companies.

​Why attend

• ​Hear from researchers and investors shaping the Toronto AI ecosystem

• ​Learn what makes AI research commercially viable

• ​Explore emerging opportunities in research-driven spinouts

• ​Meet students, researchers, founders, and local VCs over reception

​The evening will conclude with a networking reception for attendees to continue the conversation with fellow researchers, students, founders, and VCs. Light bites will be served.

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Panelists:

• ​Gennady Pekhimenko: UofT Associate Professor, Senior Director AI Software @ Nvidia, CEO CentML (acquired by Nvidia),

• ​Parasvil Patel: Partner, Radical Ventures. 

• ​Kory Jeffrey: Partner, Inovia Capital

• ​Nick Chen: Partner, Golden Ventures

​Agenda

​5:30 PM: Doors open / check-in
6:00 PM: Welcome remarks
6:10 PM: Panel: From Research to Company
6:55 PM: Audience Q&A
7:10 PM: Networking reception
8:30 PM: Event close

​About the Hosts

​​​Samsung Next is a robust venture fund that invests in bold and ambitious founders building in AI, infrastructure, robotics, blockchain, fintech, healthtech, and mediatech.

The University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus Ecosystem team intentionally convenes the people shaping tech innovation, from founders, translational researchers, capital, thought leaders, and global industry partners, in the same rooms, at the same tables, working toward aligned outcomes