12th Annual LDV Vision Summit

March 11, 2026, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
Virtual Event

Since its inception in 2014, our Annual LDV Vision Summit has been the premier global gathering in visual tech and AI. Each year, we bring together an impressive array of speakers – from tech giants to under-the-radar startups, esteemed research labs and leading venture capital firms.

Please RSVP to join over one thousand people from around the world to learn how cutting-edge computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions will improve the world we live in!

Speakers

More speakers will be announced soon!

Topics

We will discuss computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and AI relating to the following sectors:
- Invisible Imaging
- Physical AI/Robotics
- Supply chain
- Energy
- Nanotech
- Healthcare

About Speakers

Dr. Jan Erik Solem is a pioneer in computer vision. He is the CEO and co-founder of Stær, which develops physical AI for autonomous mobile robot fleets and an Expert in Residence at LDV Capital.

Most recently, Dr. Solem was Director of Engineering for Maps at Meta following the company’s 2020 acquisition of his startup Mapillary, a platform that scales and automates mapping through street-level images and map data. We were honored to be Mapillary’s first investor and co-invested with Sequoia, Atomico, BMWi and others. Before that, he was a Computer Vision Researcher at Apple after his prior startup Polar Rose was acquired by Apple in 2010.

Jan Erik spoke at our inaugural LDV Vision Summit in 2014, and we are thrilled to welcome him back to discuss with Evan Nisselson the integration of AI with physical systems like robotics and autonomous vehicles, a major trending topic driven by its rapidly expanding applications in manufacturing, logistics and other industries.

Dick Costolo is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 01 Advisors, a venture capital firm that invests $10-20 million post-product-market fit (Series A and B). 

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, the web feed management company he co-founded in 2004. He also co-founded SpyOnIt, a web page monitoring service sold in 2000, and Burning Door Networked Media, a web design and development firm acquired in 1996. He began his career at Andersen Consulting in Chicago, where he spent eight years as a senior manager in product and technology groups.

In a fireside chat with Evan Nisselson, Dick will share roller-coaster stories from founding a company, getting it off the ground, selling it (and doing it three times a row!), becoming the CEO of a tech giant and taking it public – and now investing in outliers and helping them turn breakthrough products into world-class companies.

Julia Hawkins is a General Partner at LocalGlobe & Latitude with a focus on health and deep tech. Her investments include Accurx, Apian, CoMind, Cusp, Oxford Nanopore, Robeaute, Spore, and Yulife. 

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.

Julia will participate in the panel discussion titled “Where Are the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities that are powered by Visual Technologies & AI?”.

Cem Sertoglu is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Bek Ventures, formerly Earlybird Digital East. The firm backs founders from what Cem calls “Dynamic Europe” – Central and Eastern Europe – and has invested in global successes such as UiPath, Payhawk, and Peak, the first unicorns in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Cem and Bek Ventures co-invested with us in VitVio, an AI-driven computer vision platform designed to enhance the safety and efficiency of hospital operating theaters. Bek Ventures has been recognized by HEC as the world’s best-performing venture firm since 2010. 

Cem will participate in the panel discussion titled “Where Are the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities That are Powered by Visual Technologies & AI?”.

Professor Dame Molly Stevens FREng FRS is the John Black Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery. An international leader in biosensing, regenerative medicine and advanced therapeutics, she has published over 400 papers and is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field Research. She is a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in translating research into impact, holding numerous patents and founding four spin-out companies. A Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, she has received more than 40 major awards, including the 2023 Novo Nordisk Award.

Steve Sullivan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcturus, a SAAS platform that takes broadcast viewers onto the field where no physical camera could go and enables entirely new immersive 3D experiences on mobile, desktop and VR devices. 

Previously, he led Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Capture Studios, delivering holographic performances for VR, AR, TV and film, experienced by hundreds of millions worldwide. Earlier, as Senior Technology Officer at ILM/Lucasfilm, he contributed to more than 70 films including Star Wars, Avatar and Pirates of the Caribbean, earning three Academy Awards for Technology in bringing computer vision to film production. 

Steve’s PhD research in the 1990s on multi-camera reconstruction laid the groundwork for the human holograms in Minority Report – a direct ancestor of today’s volumetric video. 

John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare. Mayo Clinic Platform tools and solutions are on track to reach 55 million people in 2025. 

Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has been developing and implementing healthcare information strategy and policy for more than 40 years. Prior to his appointment at Mayo Clinic, he was chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he served governments, academia and industry throughout the world. As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, the Obama administration and governments worldwide plan their healthcare information strategies.

Marina Temkin is a venture capital and startups reporter at TechCrunch. Prior to joining TechCrunch, she wrote about VC for PitchBook and Venture Capital Journal. Earlier in her career, Marina was a financial analyst and earned a CFA charterholder designation.

Marina will moderate the panel discussion titled “Where Are the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities That are Powered by Visual Technologies & AI?”.

Praveen Akkiraju joined Insight Partners in 2020 as a managing director. Prior to Insight Partners, he was managing partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, focusing on enterprise software and SaaS investments. Before that, as CEO of Viptela, he grew the company to a $100 million run rate and led its acquisition by Cisco, and he served as CEO of VCE, a $2.1 billion cloud infrastructure company acquired by EMC. He began his career at Cisco, where he spent over 14 years in roles from senior director of product management to senior vice president and general manager of enterprise networking and cloud infrastructure, working on some of the foundational protocols and platforms underlying the largest distributed system ever built – the Internet. Praveen turned around a $2.8 billion enterprise routing business with a net 10% growth swing.

We are co-investors with Praveen/Insight Partners in Glass Imaging. Insight Partners and LDV co-invested in Uizard, the world’s first AI-powered UI design tool, acquired by Miro.

He will participate in the panel discussion titled “Where Are the Next Billion-Dollar Business Opportunities That are Powered by Visual Technologies & AI?”

Dr. Catie Cuan is an entrepreneur, engineer and artist pioneering the emerging field of choreorobotics. She works at the intersection of AI, human-robot interaction and performance, and is currently building a new robotics company. 

Catie is the founder and CEO of Zenie, a journal that writes back to you. She holds a PhD and MS in robotics and AI from Stanford, where she is also a Postdoctoral scholar leading art-and-robotics initiatives at the Stanford Robotics Center. Her research – funded by NIH, Google and Stanford – explores how supervised learning can generate compelling robotic behavior. A prolific, award-winning robot choreographer, she has created works with nearly a dozen robotic platforms and held residencies at the Smithsonian, Jacob’s Pillow, the Exploratorium, TED and more. Catie is also an International Strategy Forum fellow at Schmidt Futures.

Evan Nisselson founded LDV Capital in 2012. LDV Capital’s thesis: a majority of the data our brains analyze is visual. Therefore, the majority of the data AI will analyze will also be visual, spanning the light and electromagnetic spectrums across all sectors. This thesis was considered cute, niche and science fiction in 2012, but over a decade later, it is validated and will continue to be extremely valuable for many more decades. LDV Capital continues to be the only fund that invests with this thesis – investing in people building businesses powered by visual technologies and AI.

LDV Capital I & II funds have been returned and we continue to have significant upside potential across each of our funds thanks to our brilliant entrepreneurs, experts, team and LP partners. We led the Seed financing of Synthesia who recently announced surpassing $100M in revenue and raised $180M at $2.1B led by NEA. We invested early in Ezra which was acquired by Function Health, and we have many more early-stage deep tech investments. We are now investing out of LDV Capital IV.

Prior to investing, he built four businesses powered by visual technologies as a serial entrepreneur for 18 years from Silicon Valley, New York and Europe. He was a professional photographer and digital media expert in the early 1990s. 

In his opening keynote, he will share insights into the trends shaping the investment landscape for the next decade, with a spotlight on visual technologies and AI.

Check out a few articles that relate to our 12th Summit:

• Physical AI Can’t Exist Without Eyes: Why Visual Tech Is the Real Engine Behind the Machines

• Your Bathroom Will See You Now

• Beyond Human Vision: Unlocking the Invisible with Visual Technology & AI

• Visual Data is the Crux of AI & Automation for the Future of All Industries

• Structuring a Sustainable Future: Visual Technology is Advancing the Discovery & Development of New Materials

• Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

Who should attend?

» Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence experts, researchers, professors, students and professionals
» Media and brand executives interested in enhancing revenue through innovative imaging technologies & AI-powered products
» Investors looking for investment opportunities across all sectors
» Technology executives assessing companies for potential partnerships and acquisitions
» Journalists, reporters, editors: to get an update on all things visual tech and AI

Attendees & Speakers About Previous LDV Vision Summits

Stay tuned for a detailed agenda!