

Ascend GenAI Summit: Enterprise Insights & Startup Innovation
An evening of real product stories, founder demos, and hands-on AI insights in Orange County.
Connect with Southern California’s builders, founders, PMs, engineers, researchers, designers, and students as Al Brown, CTO of Veritone, and two early-stage founders share how they’re turning ideas into shipped GenAI products, from prototype to real market traction.
⭐ Keynote Speaker: Al Brown, CTO of Veritone
Veritone is a leading enterprise AI company powering large-scale model orchestration, automation, and AI infrastructure across media, public sector, and commercial industries.
Their aiWARE platform coordinates hundreds of ML models across audio, video, text, and structured data, processing trillions of tokens in real workflows.
Al brings deep expertise in building and scaling GenAI systems in production, offering rare insight into how enterprise organizations actually deploy AI at scale.
What to Expect
Enterprise insights from Veritone’s CTO
Real founder demo sessions from early-stage startups
Open Q&A with speakers
Networking with builders, PMs, designers, founders & investors
📅Agenda
6:00 – 6:30 PM • Networking
6:30 – 7:00 PM • Keynote: Al Brown, CTO @ Veritone
7:00 – 7:30 PM • Startup Demos
7:30 – 8:00 PM • Q&A + Networking
👥 Who Should Come?
Perfect for:
• Founders & entrepreneurs: learn how GenAI is built in both startups and enterprise
• Engineers & PMs: understand real-world GenAI deployment
• Tech professionals: connect with operators building AI today
• Students: explore career paths and meet industry leaders
How to Participate
1️⃣ Get Your Ticket here on Luma (limited spots!)
Early Bird ends Dec 5
2️⃣ Interested in doing a startup demo?
Register here:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gvcYtCUB
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