One of the biggest AI gatherings I’ve seen is coming up — GenAI Week Silicon Valley 2025, happening July 13–17 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. And here is the All-Star Speaker List. Act today and secure your seat! Scan the QR code in the poster or use "BRUCE" to get 15% off the ticket price. For startup pitches and exhibition stands, please contact me for additional discounts!
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It’s co-hosted by GPTDAO , Microsoft ,
Generative.AI, Stanford Entrepreneurs ,Stanford Founders , and more.
This is not just another conference.
🚀 From Stanford professors to OpenAI scientists, unicorn founders to quantum-tech pioneers, the future of AI is gathering in one place — and you’re invited.
💥 Why this one’s different:
🧠 30,000 attendees — it’s massive
💡 300 GenAI startups & live AGI demos
🎤 Speakers from OpenAI, Meta, Tesla, Stanford, DeepMind, IBM, Google
💬 100 tactical sessions — from agent frameworks to monetization
🤝 Top investors from a16z, Sequoia, OpenAI Startup Fund, BlackRock, Pear VC
🎯 Founder pitch stage — for startups from pre-seed to Series A
🌍 With attendees from over 30 countries, it’ll be buzzing with energy, ideas, and opportunities.
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And yes — all present. Expect live demos like Tesla Robotaxi and Meta’s newest AI hardware on-site.
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This is your front-row seat to what’s next.
💡 Founders — ready to pitch your startup on the big stage? Apply now through the Founder’s Pitch Package for a shot at presenting in front of global investors and decision-makers.
📅 July 13–17, 2025 📍 Santa Clara Convention Center 🎟️ Tickets & Info
🎁 Use our code BFCFRIEND for 15% off your ticket ➡️ Claim your spot
📢 Want to pitch your startup on stage? 👉 GenAI Week Pitch Form
📚 Still deciding which day(s) to attend? 👉 Full Speaker Lineup (One-Stop Guide)
📈 Are you a VC planning to attend? If you’d like a more tailored experience — whether that’s curated intros, private sessions, or special access — feel free to fill out this quick form: 👉 VC Interest Form
Your One-Stop Guide to GenAI Week 2025 Speakers (with All LinkedIn Links) is as follows:
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🔹 Jason Wei, OpenAI scientist behind CoT & GPT-3Soumya Batra, core author of Llama 2 & 3
🔹 Arvind Jain ,CEO of Glean ($7.2B valuation)
🔹 Shannon McClenaghan, CEO of StartX ($40B community)
🔹 Rob Ferguson, Head of AI Startups @ Microsoft
🔹 Deon Nicholas, CEO of Forethought ($100M raised)
🔹 Steve Nouri , CEO of geniWorks (12M followers)
🔹 Edward Oates, Co-Founder of Oracle
🔹 Soumya Batra , Author of Llama2 and Llama3
🔹 Michael Stewart, Managing Partner @ M12 (Microsoft VC)
🔹 Jason Lopatecki, Founder&CEO of Arize AI
🔹 Nikhil Krishnan , CTO @
C3.ai ($3.5B)
🔹 Todd Graham , Managing Partner of Microsoft's Venture Capital
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🔹 Shravan N. Partner of IVP($7.25B Under Management)
🔹 Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten ($825M)Zihan Wang, Creator of DeepSeek V2
🔹 Zihan Wang, Author of DeepSeek V2
🔹Vanessa Larco,former Partner @ NEA
🔹 Richard Socher, CEO of
You.com ($90M)
🔹 Jeff Lu, CEO of Akool ($40M ARR) ,
🔹 Sophie R. , CEO of ChatSlide , Forbes 30 Under 30
🔹 Swapnil Jain, CEO of
Observe.AI ($800M)
🔹 Jay Allardyce, President @ Generative AI (10M community)
🔹 Megh Guatam, CPO Crunchbase
🔹 Sharon Zhou, PhD, VP of AI AMD
🔹 Ajay Vashee General Partner of IVP, CFO of Dropbox through IPO
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🔹 Jack J. McCauley, Co-Founder of Oculus VR
🔹 Saanya Ojha,Partner @ BCV ($10B fund)
🔹 Ben Morss, Developer Evangelist @ DeepL
🔹 Shaun Johnson, GP @ AIX Ventures (Perplexity, Hugging Face)
🔹 Admit Jain, CTO Personify Health (Valuation $3B)
🔹 Balaji Ganesan, CEO @ Privacera ($380M)
🔹 Tim Shi , CTO @ Cresta ($1.6B)
🔹 Peter Coats, SVP Wildcat Discovery Technologies ($7.5B AUM)
🔹 Xenia Strunnikova , Head of CX, Fraud&Safety Strategy DoorDash
🔹 Chandrakant D. Patel, PE , Chief Engineer of HP
🔹 Shub Agarwal, Management and Gen AI of U.S. Bank
🔹 Lenjoy Lin, Co-founder Genspark
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🔹 Mengdi Wang, Princeton Prof., Donald P. Eckman Awardee
🔹 Jia Li, Chief AI Officer @
LiveX.AI, IEEE Fellow
🔹 Miha Kralj, Global Partner @ IBM
🔹 Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight ($1.1B)
🔹 Kahini Shah, Partner @ Ovious
🔹 Vijay Chandrasekhar, CEO of COSMOS ($27.8M raised)
🔹 Stefan Leichenauer, VP @ SandboxAQ ($5B quantum-tech)
🔹 Timothy Young, CEO of Jasper ($1.2B)
🔹 Daniel Wagner, CEO of Rezolve ($55M)
🔹 Filip Kozera, CEO of Wordware ($30M raised)
🔹 Tengyu Ma, Chief AI Scientist Voyage AI by MongoDB
🔹 Arthur Qin, Founder&CEO of AC Future
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🔹 Monica Bajaj, VP of Engineering @ Okta ($18B)
🔹 Xi Chen, Professor @ NYU Stern
🔹 Jim Dukhovny,CEO of Alef Aeronautics (flying cars!)
🔹 Charles Xie, CEO of Zilliz ($40M raised)
🔹 Cindi Howson, Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer @ ThoughtSpot ($1.25B)
🔹 Ali Khodaei — VP of AI Product at SandboxAQ (Valuation: $5B)
🔹 David Hefter — Director at BlackRock (World's Largest Asset Manager)
🔹 Byung-Gon Chun — Co-Founder & CEO at FriendliAI (LLM Inference Accelerator)
🔹 Gunveer Gujral — Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta (Pioneered Scalable AI Infrastructure)
🔹 Chandni Dhanjal — Senior Product Director at Expedia Group (Market Cap: $20B )
🔹 Satya Nitta — Co-founder & CEO at Emergence (Innovated Recursive Autonomous AI)
🔹 Drew Dennison — Co-Founder & CTO at Semgrep (Funding: $193M)
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🔹 Ashish Agrawal — CTO at Eudia
🔹 Zhou Yu — Founder at
Arklex.ai (Forbes 30 under 30, 2018)
🔹 Sebastien Jean — CTO at Phison (Market Cap: $100B )
🔹 Steven Hoffman — Chairman & CEO at Founders Space (World's leading Incubator & Accelerator)
🔹 Vaibhavi Gangwar — Co-Founder & CEO at Maxim (Revolutionizing AI Evaluation Standards)
🔹 Bret Waters — Instructor at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
🔹 Jenny Xiao — Partner at Leonis Capital (Research-driven, AI-first and seed-stage VC)
🔹 Junchen Jiang — Assistant Professor at UChicago (Pioneered Video Quality Optimization)
🔹 Andrew Mayne — Founder & Ex-OpenAI at Interdimensional (Shaped Early AI Prompting)
🔹 Ang Li — Founder & CEO at Simular (Pioneered Continual Learning Agents)
🔹 Vic Bhatia — Technical Founder & CEO at
Fixpliance.AI (Automated Compliance Engineering Leader)
🔹 Gagan Reen — Advisor at GenAI Works (AI Community with 10M Followers)
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🔹 Anu Shukla — Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Botco AI (Generative AI Marketing)
🔹 Dan Sahar — Co-Founder at Guidde (Raised $30M Funding)
🔹 Dan Thomson — CEO at Sensay (Invented AI Replicas for Memory Care)
🔹 Michael Dimler — SVP, Support Operations at Asurion
🔹 Matthew Phillips — Director of AI Strategy at Asurion
🔹 Itamar Novick — Founder & General Partner at Recursive Ventures (Scaled Life360 to IPO)
🔹 Lu Zhang — Founder & Managing Partner at Fusion Fund (Fund Size: $500M )
🔹 Ryan Wang — Co-Founder & CEO at Assembled (AI-Driven Support Operations)
🔹 Anant Bhardwaj — CEO at Instabase ($2B AI Platform Instabase)
🔹 Jeremiah Owyang — Investor at Blitzscaling Ventures (Fund Size: $50M)
🔹 Hassan Sawaf — Founder & CEO at aiXplain (Democratized AI $16.5B-backed Platform)
🔹 Manisha Raisinghani — CEO at sifthub (Revolutionized Logistics With AI)
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🔹 Rocky Yu — Founder & CEO at API House Ventures (Built Collaborative AI Innovation Hub)
🔹 Alon Talmor — Founder & CEO at Ask-AI (Enterprise AI NLP Pioneer)
🔹 Gurudutta Ramanathaiah — Engineering Lead at Infinitus Systems (AI-Driven Healthcare)
🔹 Ivan Lee — Founder & CEO at Datasaur (Stanford-Educated Product Leader)
🔹 Kyle Corbitt — Founder at OpenPipe (Democratizes Fine-Tuned AI Models)
🔹 Rohit Valia — Founder & CEO at Tumeryk (Built Tumeryk's AI TrustScore System)
🔹 Scott Clark — Co-Founder & CEO at Distributional (Transformed Enterprise AI Reliability Testing)
🔹 Stephen Delaporte — Founder & CEO at Avar Robotics (Powering Practical, People-Centered Robotics)
🔹 Vanja Josifovski — CEO at Kumo AI (Democratized Predictive AI Globally)
🔹 Sumeet Agrawal — VP of Product Management at Informatica (Led Enterprise AI Integration)
🔹 Daniel Svonava — Co-Founder & CEO at Superlinked (Redefining Vector Search Infrastructure)
🔹 Vidya Narayanan — Co-Founder & CEO at FinalLayer (Automating Personal Branding with AI)
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🔹 Andy Singh — Founder & CEO at Teqfocus Consulting LLC (Built $35M Tech Firm)
🔹 Oussama Elachqar — Co-Founder at Oumi (TBD)
🔹 Tedi Papajorgji — VP of Engineering at Resemble AI (Led Netflix Voice Innovation)
🔹 Munish Gandhi — Founder & CEO at Statisfy (Agentic Customer Success Platform)
🔹 Matt Butcher — CEO at Fermyon (WebAssembly Cloud Computing Engineer)
🔹 Ray Wu — Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures (Venture Capital in Blockchain)
🔹 Jugal Anchalia — Co-Founder & CEO at Cobalt (Healthtech and Devtools Innovator)
🔹 Jeremiah Stone - CTO of SnapLogic
🔹 Bo Li ,CEO of Virtue AI(Funding:$30M)
🔹 Ben Lerner , Co-Founder&CEO of
Espresso.AI
🔹 John Koeter , Senior VP IP Group of Synopsys Inc
🔹 Hemant Joshi, CTO of FloTorch
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🔹Kaycee Lai, Founder&CEO of Promethium
🔹 Ken Osborn ,VP of Marketing of Teqfocus
🔹 Suman Kanuganti , Co-founder&CEO of
Personal.ai (Funding: $30M)
🔹 Erol Guney, Chief Software Architect Avalara
🔹 Joseph Johnson , CEO of LedgerUp
🔹 Junyu Huang , COO of Novita
🔹 Claude Zdanow , Chairman &CEO of Onar
🔹 Alvin Xiao , Founding Partner of NYX Ventures
🔹 Xinyi Cao , Co-founder @ Flowgen
🔹 Michael Kravec , CSO BlueYeti
🔹 Basel Salahieh , CEO of Vimmerse
🔹 James Gambale , AI, ML, and Patent Attorney OneSource Cloud
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🔹 Sankalp Arora , Co-founder & CEO of Gather AI
🔹 Geraldine Woloch-Addamine Founder & CEO of Good4work
🔹 Ryan Starks Head of Marketing of Rising Team
🔹 Elaine L. Founder&CEO of
Prosgrow.ai
🔹 VS Joshi , Global Head of Product Marketing, Digitate
🔹 Vache Moroyan Chief Product Officer of
Observe.AI
🔹 Sean E. Mitchell VP of Customer Success Gather AI
🔹 Chandini Jain, Founder&CEO of Auquan
🔹 Sana Wajid Chief Development Officer & Senior Vice President
Fetch.ai
🔹 Natalia Bielczyk, PhD , Founder & CEO Ontology of Value®
🔹 Paul Fang, Ph.D. President of Bay Area Founders Club
🔹 Joseph Pigato President of Stanford Entrepreneurs