TechCrunch opens voting for four Founder Summit sessions in Boston
TechCrunch has opened voting on the program for the Founder Summit conference, which will take place in Boston on November 4. Of the 11 finalists, voting will determine four sessions that will be included in the event schedule. Votes can be cast until September 4.
The list of nominees includes discussions on artificial intelligence, open source, hardware manufacturing in the United States, raising venture funding, and the work of small teams. Topics also include a strategy for participating in events for early-stage startups and scaling a hardware manufacturing company in the United States.
Artificial intelligence and enterprise sales
Several candidates focus on the practical application of AI. Shishir Tewari, head of enterprise data engineering at Procore Technologies, is proposing a session on GraphRAG and the use of knowledge graphs to work with fragmented data for language models.
Linden Tibbets, CEO and co-founder of IFTTT, intends to discuss tools and workflows that help small teams build and release products faster with AI. A session by Ambi Robotics co-founder and CTO Jeff Mahler is devoted to the difference between impressive AI demonstrations and deploying systems in real-world conditions.
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Merve Kitapci, managing partner and chief growth officer at ADIN.AI, proposed a discussion on bringing major enterprise clients into a Series A round, including pricing and partnerships with agencies. A separate session by Vikram Choudhery, CEO and founder of Genoa Ventures, will address medical AI and the integration of technologies into clinical processes.
Open source and investment
Peter Farkas, CEO of Percona, will present the experience of building a commercial business based on open source without venture capital to revenue of more than $50 million. Gregory Kurtzer, CEO and founder of CIQ, will discuss building open-source communities using CentOS and Rocky Linux as examples.
Also among the nominees is a session by Draper Associates partner Andy Tang on startups creating new market categories. Untapped Ventures founder and general partner George Bandarian is proposing a discussion on the criteria by which Y Combinator, a16z Speedrun, and leading venture funds assess technical founders in AI and robotics.
