Thank You for Being a Vital Part of Our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit!
/It’s been 9 years since we started hosting our Annual LDV Vision Summit – the premier global gathering in visual tech.
In 2023, for the third year in a row, we hosted our summit virtually. While we like in-person events, handshakes, and networking, we see our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit as a truly global event, with no boundaries and no fees to get the latest update on all things visual tech!
This year again, we welcomed top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs to discuss cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions to improve the world we live in.
About a thousand people tuned in from all around the world to listen to expert speakers from DeepMind, Mural, Snap, BioAge, Synthesia, Salesforce, Harvard Medical School, Insight Partners, Useful Sensors, Conviction, Niels Bohr Institute, Air Street Capital, Uizard, Pano, Humanity, Northeastern University, Seedcamp, Forbes, and more.
In this fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, DeepMind’s Clément Farabet shared his views on the positives, negatives, and lessons learned building artificial intelligence projects while at University, to founding a startup that successfully exited and at large Fortune 100 corporations.
We hope our 3 fireside chats, 12 lightning keynotes & 2 panels got you inspired by the incredible opportunities for visual tech to improve business and society. You can always re/watch select sessions on our LDV YouTube channel.
A special thank you goes to all of our speakers and all of you attendees as our summit would not exist without your collaboration!
Panel moderated by Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes: Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies.
Panelists: Reshma Sohoni of Seedcamp, Nikhil Sachdev of Insight Partners, Sarah Guo of Conviction, and Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital.
We love getting perspective from our community so we have gathered images and quotes about our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit below.
"LDV Vision Summit was a blast this year, it's always great to hear from all the great entrepreneurs in LDV's network live. Also love that the LDV team drives discussions on all aspects of building companies, from fundamental science to leadership, team building, current trends, and history to better deal with the future. Highly recommend it." - Clément Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind
"The summit was a great reminder of the now essential role computer vision plays in our everyday lives and in our future. While the underlying topics were incredibly diverse, an interesting pattern did surface regarding the opportunities & challenges behind all these innovations, not to mention the teams behind them: as Evan always says, it's all about the people! I am certain this will have galvanized the audience to consider kick-starting their own adventure, or join some of those showcased by the LDV team." - Dr. Alexandra Boussommier, Founder & CEO at ImVitro
"LDV Capital has deep domain expertise and an impressive portfolio of companies leveraging visual technologies and AI. This was clearly showcased at their recent LDV Vision Summit. It was such a pleasure to meet such a smart audience during the LDV Vision Summit, and I hope that I was able to impart some of the learnings from my past mistakes to the conference attendees." - Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap
In this fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, Mural’s Mariano Battan spoke about the rollercoaster life of a resilient entrepreneur.
Professor Ostadabbas spoke about machine learning algorithms that detect signs of future developmental disorders in infants.
Camilo Fosco, Co-Founder & CTO at Memorable, spoke about generative AI & cognitive science to make ads memorable.
“The summit was phenomenal! It provided valuable insights into the industry's direction and showcased impressive tech from startups in the vision space. The LDV community is brimming with exceptional entrepreneurial and technical talent. I was humbled to present alongside such talented founders and distinguished professors. Thank you, LDV, for organizing this amazing event!” - Camilo Fosco, Co-Founder and CTO at Memorable
Reshma and Seedcamp co-invested with us at LDV in Gardin, a UK-based optical phenotyping hardware/software startup whose tech can tell when a crop or a plant is stressed or not and why.
"The LDV Vision Summit brought together some of today's most brilliant minds in visual technologies and artificial intelligence. It's been a pleasure to contribute as a speaker and meet the entrepreneurs and investors shaping the industry and our collective future. Congratulations to the team for putting together such a diverse and extremely high-quality program." - Reshma Sohoni, Partner at Seedcamp
“The LDV vision summit is always an amazing whirlwind of talks from scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs, and it was a real pleasure to be there. It’s a truly unique event to see what deep visual and AI tech will be driving the future, and I plan to attend next year!” - Ryan Benmalek, Co-Founder & CEO of Daimon Labs
“The buzz around generative AI is not just hype, it's real. The capabilities of LLMs and generative AI are almost hard to grasp and it truly feels like we are witnessing the emergence of the next platform, comparable to the impact mobile and cloud had. The LDV Vision Summit was the perfect platform for me to connect with fellow founders and thought leaders who are just as excited as I am about the possibilities that this technology holds. I can't wait to see where this takes us. LDV is one of our most valuable early investors and I would highly recommend Evan and the team.” - Steffen Tjerrild, Co-Founder & CFO at Synthesia
In this fireside chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, Snap’s Ty Ahmad-Taylor shared his views on the future of visual technologies’ impact on business and society over the next 50 years.
“The playbook for building AI-first technology companies is being written as we speak and the climate for investing is rapidly evolving. Having the opportunity to share experiences and best practices amongst investor peers at LDV Vision Summit is a great opportunity to test and refine one's views.” - Nathan Benaich, General Partner at Air Street Capital
“I had a lot of fun on the LDV Vision Summit longevity panel discussing how advances at the leading edge of AI and visual technology will extend human healthspan. Enabling people to live longer, healthier lives is one of healthcare’s biggest challenges — and to help rapidly translate AI’s potential into real-world impact in the clinic, it’s crucial that we continue to foster conversations like these at the interface of biotech, tech, and scientific innovation.” - Kristen Fortney, CEO & co-founder at BioAge
“Really enjoyed speaking at the LDV Vision Summit. This was an inspiring gathering of innovators and thought leaders with some great discussions on the promising and rapidly evolving field of AI. Thanks Evan and team.” - Nikhil Sachdev, Managing Director at Insight Partners
“The LDV Vision Summit was extremely rewarding and the number of ideas I got from seeing all the ways people were applying these techniques will be invaluable in my research. The possibilities and the state of the art of the field also blew my mind. I would in quantum technology which is still in its infancy but will benefit from a lot of automation and computer vision advances to scale to even hundreds of "quantum bits". I'm glad to see people working on so many fields and topics relevant to my work, but from different fields.” - Dr. Anasua Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
“It was a pleasure to moderate a panel at the LDV Vision Summit with four leading venture capitalists in AI. Their perspective on opportunity areas, the role of big tech companies in AI innovation today, and on other topics such as the need for talent in the field was valuable to me as a reporter, and was reinforced by apt questions from the audience.” - Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes
Panel moderated by Dr. Jack Kreindler of Certific: How and When Will Deep Tech Increase the Longevity of Humans? Panelists: Michael Geer of Humanity, Daniel Kraft of NextMed Health & Digital.Health, and Kristen Fortney of BioAge.
“The LDV Vision Summit is a fascinating event. It was very well organized and the speakers/contents were amazing. It is a great place to get an update on all things visual tech across all industries! This year’s lineup was fascinating and diverse with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and professors - it covered a wide range of topics from healthcare to climate/sustainability! It was a great honor to be part of it and share what we are doing in our Augmented Cognition Laboratory at Northeastern.” - Sarah Ostadabbas, an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Northeastern University, the director of the Augmented Cognition Laboratory, and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
"Each year LDV’s Vision Summit is the most exciting and thought provoking event in the visual tech community where experts unveil cutting edge technologies across years before they’re a hot topic! It was truly an honor being a part of this year’s panel on how advancements in AI & ML will bring innovative technologies that deliver human longevity to the masses!" - Michael Geer, Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
"The 2023 LDV Vision Summit was an incredibly impactful experience for me. As someone coming from the academic side who wanted to learn more about big tech and venture-backed start-ups, my first LDV Vision Summit did not disappoint. The panels and fireside chats were particularly helpful as I think of opportunities and challenges I might face when scaling up my technology. To be included within such an innovative and thoughtful community was a great honor." - Shannon Stott, Ph.D. is the d'Arbeloff Mass General Research Scholar at Mass General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
“The LDV Vision Summit is an important event on the international investor stage showcasing leading researchers and entrepreneurs focused on the next wave of innovation related to how visual tech is the future of healthcare, automation and AI. It was a privilege to be asked by LDV to moderate a panel with an esteemed group of pioneers in the healthy-longevity space to discuss how visual tech & AI will increase the healthspan of humans and the nuanced challenges we face to get there.” - Dr. Jack Kreindler, Co-Founder of Certific
Ryan Benmalek shared Daimon Labs’ vision to deliver empathetic artificial intelligence that remembers you, evolves along with you, and can help you develop new skills.
Dr. Shannon Stott spoke about a new direction for her lab, focusing on better understanding immune interactions in cancer at a single-cell level.
Sonia Kastner, Founder and CEO of Pano AI, shared how visual technologies are at the crux of disaster mitigation solutions to help tackle the climate crisis.
Nikhil Naik, Director of AI Research at Salesforce, shared how large language models like ChatGPT could be used for protein design.
LDV Capital invests in people building businesses powered by visual technologies. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech teams leveraging computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to analyze visual data. We are the only venture capital firm with this thesis. Our first annual LDV Vision Summit in 2014 has become known to top technologists, investors, and entrepreneurs as the premier global gathering in visual tech.
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Thank you for being a part of our 9th Annual LDV Vision Summit!
