Sparklabs & Nex AI Startup Forum
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📩 RSVP now to stay in the loop as the NBA All-Star Weekend approaches. You won’t want to miss this!
PROGRAM / SPEAKERS (www.aistartupforum.com)
10:00AM
Trends in Venture Capital: Latest News from Silicon Valley
TIM DRAPER, Founder of Draper Associates and DFJ. Early investor in Baidu, Hotmail, Skype, Tesla, SpaceX, Ring, Coinbase and others.
SUZANNE XIE, Partner at Neo. Business lead at Stripe for B2B payments, Director of Product at Twitter. Founder & CEO at Lightwell (Acquired by Twitter)
SERGIO MONSALVE, Founding Partner at Roble Ventures, Former Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, Co-founded the Entrepreneur-in-Residence Program at Stanford
10:45AM
AI’s Disruption: What Industries Will Be Impacted the Most?
ANNA PATTERSON, Co-founder Co-founder & CEO at Ceramic.ai, Founder of Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI Fund), Serial Entrepreneur with two companies sold to Google
HONGXIA YANG, Co-founder & CEO at Reallm, Former Head of AI at ByteDance U.S., Former Director of AI at Alibaba Group, 2020 National Science and Technology Progress Award
(China's top tech accolade)
MARK MANARA, Head of Startups GTM at OpenAI, Former Head of Business Development, Early Stage Startups at AWS, Co-founder at Farm Hill
FULL PROGRAM IS HERE: https://www.aistartupforum.com
Getting Here: https://www.chasecenter.com/news/know-before-you-go-2025-nba-all-star-weekend/
We highly recommend taking public transportation or ride share services:
Ride share drop offs will be at:
Lot C, 74 Mission Rock St, San Francisco, CA 94158
Public transportation:
There is a Muni Train platform right across from Chase Center as well as additional Muni stops near the arena
Parking lots open to the public:
-1650 3rd Street
-1800 Owens Street
-901 16th Street
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