Upcoming LDV Events
12th Annual LDV Vision Summit
March 11, 2026, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Virtual Event
Victor Riparbelli, Co-Founder & CEO at Synthesia, LDV Capital portfolio company. He spoke at our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2025.
Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Sequoia Capital. She spoke at our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2025.
Jan Kautz, VP of Research, NVIDIA Research. He spoke at our 11th Annual LDV Vision Summit in 2025.
Every year, we bring together an impressive lineup of speakers – from tech giants to under-the-radar startups, esteemed research labs and leading venture capital firms.
We’re thrilled to announce the first few speakers:
Dr. Jan Erik Solem, CEO and co-founder of Stær, is building robots that are truly autonomous, able to map new environments, understand space, plan their movements and continuously improve. Most recently, Dr. Solem was director of engineering for Maps at Meta following the company’s 2020 acquisition of his startup Mapillary, where LDV was the first investor.
Dick Costolo is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 01 Advisors. Prior to 01 Advisors, Dick was CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015, having joined the company as COO in 2009. During his tenure, he oversaw major growth and was recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential U.S. Tech CEOs by Time. Before Twitter, Costolo worked at Google following its acquisition of FeedBurner.
Julia Hawkins is a General Partner at LocalGlobe & Latitude with a focus on health and deep tech. Prior to LocalGlobe, Julia worked at Universal Music, where she established the company’s corporate venture arm and led investments in ROLI and Sofar Sounds, among others. Before that, she worked at Goldman Sachs, Last.fm, and BBC Worldwide.
Cem Sertoglu is managing partner at Bek Ventures, which backs founders across Central and Eastern Europe and has investment successes like UiPath, Payhawk, and Peak. Bek Ventures has been recognized by HEC as the world’s top-performing venture firm since 2010. Bek Ventures has been recognized by HEC as the world’s best-performing venture firm since 2010.
Join our free event to be inspired by cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions that are improving the world we live in!
LDV Vision Summits
Our Annual LDV Vision Summit counts over 20,000 deep tech entrepreneurs, technologists, academics/researchers and investors in its community.
Since its inception in 2014, it has been the premier global gathering in visual tech and AI.
Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Sequoia Capital
2025
Eleventh annual LDV Vision Summit (virtual)
Ira Kemelmacher-Schlizerman, Meta & University of Washington
2022
Eighth annual LDV Vision Summit (virtual)
Dr. Anastasia Yendiki, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School - Massachusetts General Hospital
2018
Fifth annual LDV Vision Summit
Eric Fossum, Professor at Dartmouth University and inventor of CMOS imaging chip
2017
Fourth annual LDV Vision Summit
Nabeel Hyatt, General Partner at Spark Capital
2016
Third annual LDV Vision Summit
2015
Second annual LDV Vision Summit
Adam Singolda, Founder & CEO, Taboola
2014
Inaugural LDV Vision Summit
Other Previous LDV Events
Annual General Meetings: The Visual Tech & AI Experts Building The Future
We are thrilled to share a glimpse of our exclusive, invite-only events for LDV Capital LPs, portfolio companies, experts, and special guests.
Happy Hour Events: LDV Community is Helping Each Other Succeed
Evan Nisselson and Alexandre Winter
Andrew Bloom, Jennifer Iannolo, Rob Spectre and Kelly Hoey
Evan Nisselson and Mark Schneider
Evan Nisselson, Owen Davis, Murat Aktihanoglu, Esther Dyson and Kelly Hoey
Evan Nisselson and Donald Buckley
Kat Kolambet-Lopez and Rick Smolan
Evan Nisselson and Jonathan Zobel
Hilary Mason
Evan Nisselson and Esther Dyson
Insights events
Visual Tech Radically Transforming Fashion
December 2021
The global fashion industry is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2030. After two decades of e-commerce-driven upheavals, the next decade promises even more revolution. Every aspect, from R&D and new textiles to personalized design and digital-only clothing, will undergo massive transitions. It’s an exciting time for visual technologies in fashion.
We began exploring fashion and product customization with Zalando’s Senior Data Scientist, Nour Karessli. This time, we hosted three brilliant keynote speakers on fashion tech.
Visual Tech is Fueling the Creator Economy
September 2021
Massive shifts are underway in content creation and tools for the creation, monetization, and moderation of that content. By 2027, the amount of visual content online will increase 100-fold, leading to a major evolution of our digital identities and exponential business opportunities.
We gave a sneak peek at the findings we published in our 2021 LDV Capital Insights report, “Content & the Metaverse are Powered by Visual Tech”, and explored the next frontier in human existence with some of the top visionaries in this space.
Can Meta-Learning Unlock the Magic of AI?
March 2021
Check out our event recap and learn how and where Jane X. Wang, Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, sees meta-learning generating opportunities for business & society.
Visual Tech Revolutionizing Food + Agriculture
July 2020
We previewed our 2020 LDV Capital Insights report and featured several keynote speakers who are true pioneers in the food & agriculture space.