AI & Espresso - Saturday Event
Welcome to Naples Tech Meetups of the Greater Naples area!
Our desire is to help create Innovation, Capital and Entrepreneurship in an effort to make Naples one of the best places to do business in America.
This AI workshop is moderated by your host, Naples Tech Meetup founder Sebastien Leduc. Sebastien is a Tech Entrepreneur, Advisor & Investor, passionate about helping exceptional entrepreneurs grow their venture and achieve their most ambitious objectives.
8:30 - 9am: Espresso & Bites
Come early to meet and greet some new faces!
We have a delegation of entrepreneurs and innovation community leaders joining us from the North East and Canada, notably the CAMP accelerator.
9am
SBDC, Heidi Cramer
Heidi Cramer, from SBA’s Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) will be talking about how AI is changing small business.
“This year, AI is transforming small businesses by streamlining operations, improving decision-making with real-time data insights, and automating repetitive tasks — freeing owners up to focus on strategy and growth. Alongside, SBDCs are adapting their advising services to help small business owners understand and adopt practical AI tools responsibly, ensuring they improve productivity while managing risks like bias, privacy, and cost.”
9:20am
Wintrust, Mark Ryczek
Mark, Market President for Lake Forest Bank will discuss the use of tech in the banking sector.
“In 2025, AI is reshaping the small business banking landscape by accelerating credit risk assessment, enhancing customer service through chatbots and predictive analytics, and enabling personalized financial solutions at scale. As a market president at Wintrust, I’m seeing firsthand how AI can empower small businesses to access capital faster, optimize cash flow management, and enhance financial decision-making — while we in banking must ensure transparency, fairness, and data security to build trust.”
9:40am
Appcom, JC Duchaine: Present the “Path to AI” for entrepreneurs and businesses.
“Today, many businesses feel the pressure to “have AI,” yet few truly know how to make it meaningful. In this talk, Jean-Christophe Duchaine, CEO of APPCOM, shares a pragmatic, business-driven approach: starting from who you are and what you do as an organization, then identifying where AI can genuinely create value. Through real-world use cases and accessible tools, he’ll show how curiosity about AI can evolve into concrete gains in productivity, efficiency, and innovation.”
10:20am Espresso Break
10:30am
Avenue Media, Harrison Ambs: use of tech & AI to help grow a marketing agency and become hyper-competitive to acquire competition.
“This year, AI is giving marketing agencies like Avenue Media the edge to scale faster, work smarter, and deliver highly differentiated services — driving both rapid client growth and operational efficiency. By strategically using technology and AI, we’re positioning ourselves to be hyper-competitive in the market, not only to outperform rivals but to acquire them as we expand.”
10:50am
Penza, Vito Penza: leveraging AI in law. Deep dive into GPT VS attorney.
“AI is transforming legal services for small businesses by automating contract review, compliance, and risk assessment. At Penza Law, we use these tools to deliver faster, more cost-effective counsel while anticipating client needs.”
DraftyAI, Antuan Vazquez: “The impact of AI in law isn’t just about moving faster, it’s also about enablement. Enabling lawyers to spend more time with clients, focus on high-value strategic work, scale their firms sustainably, and avoid burnout. At DraftyAI, we build AI-powered drafting tools that do exactly that. The best legal AI doesn’t just produce legal drafts, it’s built with domain expertise and designed to fit the day-to-day realities of legal practice.”
11am- 11:30am
Open networking.
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Naples Tech Meetups: 3 simple rules
1. Entrepreneurs First
Our objective is to help foster entrepreneurship and innovation in SWFL. We believe in community and synergy, to help existing and aspiring entrepreneurs build great companies from SWFL to the world.
2. Be Generous
We all have our businesses and projects to promote, but arrive to this group with an open mind and an objective to give to the community, first. Then magic happens.
3. Southern Hospitality
Be hospitable the Southern way. That's something that attracted many of us to relocate to our beautiful paradise of SWFL. Let's keep ourselves courteous, respectful, constructive with each other.
Looking forward to being your hosts,
Seb & Naomi
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