[SEA AI WEEK] AI GTM Day Panel

​How do AI startups land their first customers, and how does go-to-market change when AI is in the product and in the process? A founder, a Microsoft GTM lead, and a third operator compare notes.

​Featuring

​Jonathan G. Blanco, Founder & CEO, Aizii

​Technology executive and product leader with 15+ years in retail technology across Fortune 500 brands, enterprise retail, and venture-backed startups. Jonathan has consistently been early to each new wave of retail innovation, from social commerce to beacons to crypto commerce, and now agentic commerce. He led product innovation at Sears, founded TF Labs and Niftmint, and today is building Aizii, the transaction layer for agentic commerce, making brand catalogs discoverable by AI models and transactable by autonomous purchasing agents. He also teaches Product Go-To-Market as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Washington.

​Nia Joseph, GTM Lead, Microsoft

​AI product and go-to-market leader who helps organizations turn emerging technology into products and workflows people actually use. At Microsoft, she supports internal AI initiatives for global marketing and operations teams, guiding adoption across cross-functional groups. She is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor and AI educator who has taught more than 3,000 professionals how to use AI for business growth, with courses for DataCamp and universities including UT Austin, UNLV and Northwestern.

​Mark van Oppen, Chief Revenue Officer, SecureAuth

​Mark leads all commercial functions at SecureAuth, which helps companies control what their AI agents are allowed to do. He built his career selling infrastructure technology, including at Blue Box Group, where he was the first rep to close more than $1M in recurring revenue in a single quarter, and he later won an IBM Cloud Outstanding Technical Achievement award. His philosophy is simple: customers buy trust. Based in Kirkland, he has served on the board of the Lamb Foundation and got his start in the kitchen at FareStart.

​Agenda

• ​11:00 Panel discussion

• ​Audience Q&A and networking

​Who should attend: founders, marketers, sales and growth leaders.

​📍 Thinkspace Seattle, 1700 Westlake Ave N #200, Seattle, WA 98109, on Lake Union

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