9th Annual LDV Vision Summit

March 28, 2023, 11:00 - 3:00 PM ET
Virtual Event

Our 9th annual premier global gathering in visual tech goes online to bring to you a mini-Summit that showcases the cutting-edge in computer vision, machine learning and AI solutions to improve the world we live in. Join us for this free event from the comfort of your couch!

28 expert speakers, 3 fireside chats, 12 lightning keynotes & 2 panels.

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A few articles that relate to our 9th Summit:

• Why 7 Top-Tier Venture Capitalists Are Investing in Visual Technology-Powered AI Businesses

• Why These 11 Brilliant Professors & Researchers Are Focusing on AI

• 14 Past and Future LDV Vision Summit Speakers Share Their Views On What’s The Next Big Thing in Visual Tech

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

• Generative AI As A Utility Will Empower SaaS Businesses

Speakers

Schedule

11:00AM ET
Keynote: LDV Capital Has Invested in People building businesses powered by Artificial Intelligence for Over a Decade: Where are the investment opportunities in The Next 10 Years?

LDV Capital Thesis: a majority of data humans analyze is visual so the majority of data AI will analyze will have to be visual to succeed. The latest trend – Generative AI – may sound like something new but we’ve been investing in AI for over 10 years to date, and have made 8 investments in teams building businesses leveraging Generative AI since 2018: Synthesia, Uizard, Memorable AI, Headroom, Aquifer Motion and others in stealth.
– Evan Nisselson, General Partner at LDV Capital

11:20AM ET
Keynote: Generative AI Video Platform With No Need for Cameras, Actors, Studios or Microphones

 Synthesia is the #1 rated AI video creation platform, with +30,000 companies creating videos in +120 languages at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional production. Synthetic content or AI-generated media is already transforming how companies are approaching learning, onboarding, sales pitches, and content marketing. While AI-generated video is still in its early stages, Synthesia is on a long term mission to disrupt traditional video production by providing a more cost-effective and efficient way to produce content. Steffen (Co-Founder, COO and CFO) teamed up with CEO Victor Riparbelli and leading researchers in synthetic media – Dr. Matthias Niessner and Dr. Lourdes Agapito.
– Steffen Tjerrild, Co-Founder & CFO at Synthesia

11:25AM ET
Fireside Chat: The Rollercoaster Life of a Resilient Entrepreneur: How to Get Past $100M ARR, What Mistakes to Avoid & How to Keep Sane Through the 11-Year-Long Journey?

Mariano Battan is a tech entrepreneur, Co-founder & Executive Chairman of Mural, the leading collaborative intelligence company. Mariano led Mural through 11 years of ups and downs: early concepts, early customers, failures, slow growth, hypergrowth… ultimately to take the user base to millions around the world and has seen the company exceed $100M in ARR. Previously, he co-founded “Three Melons”, an video game studio that was acquired in 2010 by Playdom, then Disney, where Mariano served as Creative Director. Mariano and his co-founders started Mural because of a game they were designing remotely at the time. Mariano is an angel investor and a startup advisor.
– Mariano Battan, Co-Founder & Exec. Chairman at Mural

11:55AM ET
Keynote: Empowering IVF Clinics To Increase Workflow & Maximize Pregnancy Success Rates With AI

The IVF sector is in dire need of AI-powered tools to optimize its workflow and to bring transparency to some key decisions made in the IVF journey which can be opaque for patients. Dr. Alexandra Boussommier is a biomedical engineer trained in Switzerland, the UK and the US. She has authored or co-authored more than 10 publications in peer-reviewed journals and obtained prestigious fellowships. Alexandra founded ImVitro to build a SaaS platform that reduces IVF workflow inefficiencies. The company started pilots with a dozen clinics in Europe.
– Dr. Alexandra Boussommier, Founder & CEO at ImVitro

12:00PM ET
Keynote: Visual Technologies Analyze Microfluidic Droplets To Better Understand Immune Interactions In Cancer

New developments in microfluidics (the science which studies the behavior of fluids through micro-channels) and imaging allow scientists to join together molecular information with dynamic functional interactions in cells. Such information would allow for a deeper understanding of cancer biology, the metastatic process, and biological interactions that help develop the next generation of therapeutics. Dr. Shannon Stott is a mechanical engineer working at the intersection of imaging technology and medicine. Her background is in optics, microfluidics and tissue engineering with a specific focus on how they are applied to clinical medicine. The Stott Laboratory at Mass General Cancer Center and Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery has focused on developing microfluidic devices to isolate rare circulating cancer biomarkers from the blood of cancer patients. She has expanded this effort to include viremia assays to help predict outcomes in COVID patients. She will share a new direction for her lab, focusing on better understanding immune interactions in cancer at a single-cell level.
– 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. She is also an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

12:05PM ET
Keynote: AI-powered Infant Monitoring to Enable Early Detection of Autism & Other Developmental Disorders

Most cases of developmental disorders, such as autism, are not diagnosed until around 4 years of age. This leaves caregivers little time to learn and prepare for the challenges they and their children will face. New efforts to assist with earlier diagnosis of developmental disorders are being developed at Northeastern University by Professor Ostadabbas and her team. Ostadabbas is currently working with video data collected using an off-the-shelf baby monitor from infants aged 5-10 months. Machine learning algorithms can detect signs of future developmental disorders in infants by processing their motor functions captured in everyday videos. The preliminary work around this topic is based on a collaboration among Ostadabbas’ lab and multidisciplinary researchers at Northeastern and the University of Maine.
– 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.

12:15PM ET
Panel: How and When Will Deep Tech Increase the Longevity of Humans? 

Who wants to live healthier and longer lives? Recent advancements in visual technologies, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will increase human longevity. Solutions ranging from analyzing health records, blood results, physiological test scores, body scans, biotechnologies, and even genetic tests will be a game-changer in longevity healthcare. Whether you are looking to “optimize your performance” – be that physical or cognitive performance – or interested to learn about longevity medicine able to push the limits of the human lifespan – this panel will cover that and more!

Panelists:
– Michael Geer, Co-Founder & CSO of Humanity
– Daniel Kraft, Founder of NextMed Health and Digital.Health
– Kristen Fortney, CEO & co-founder at BioAge

Moderator: Dr. Jack Kreindler, Co-Founder of Certific. Jack is a physician entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in extreme challenges, human performance science and extending health span through physiological super-adaptation.

12:45PM ET
Keynote: Using Large Language Models like ChatGPT for Protein Design

Deep-learning language models have shown promise in various biotechnological applications, including protein design and engineering. Nikhil and his colleagues have recently published a paper on using large language models like ChatGPT for protein design in “Nature Biotech”. ProGen – the language model described in the paper – can generate protein sequences with a predictable function across large protein families, akin to generating grammatically and semantically correct natural language sentences on diverse topics. Basically, you can tell a language model which type of protein to design, and it can generate one from scratch! Nikhil will share how their research can have a positive impact on business and society.
– Nikhil Naik, Director of AI Research at Salesforce

12:50PM ET
Keynote: The Next Generation of Large Language Model Chatbot with Human-Like Empathy

Back in 2018, Ryan Benmalek won the Entrepreneurial Computer Vision Challenge at our 5th Annual LDV Vision Summit. A brilliant Ph.D. student studying Computer Science at Cornell University’s Computer Vision Lab under Serge Belongie at the time, he presented the “Neural Painter” – a novel method to design & prototype anything you can imagine by simply describing it long before the overheated trend of Generative AI. 

In 2022, Ryan co-founded Daimon Labs, a deep tech startup building generative AI and large language models that power their flagship product – a chatbot with human-like empathy and the ability to tailor conversations. Daimon Labs recently started a closed beta for their companionship bot Brooklyn on the web, Discord, and over SMS. Their average member exchanges about 80 messages with the bot a day. Ryan will share Daimon Labs’ vision to deliver empathetic artificial intelligence that remembers you, evolves along with you, and can help you develop new skills.
– Ryan Benmalek, Co-Founder & CEO of Daimon Labs

12:55PM ET
Fireside Chat: Lessons from Commercializing AI Research, Starting Deep Tech Businesses & Building Artificial Intelligence Products At Fortune 100 Companies

Brilliant technical people often ask how they can positively impact the world with artificial intelligence and build value. Everyone’s view of impact and value can be different. Clement will share 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. Clement received his Ph.D. from University Paris-Est while a visiting researcher at NYU. He was co-founder & CTO of MADBITS which was sold to Twitter, where he then co-founded and led Twitter Cortex for almost 3 years. Most recently, Clément was VP of AI & AV Infrastructure at NVIDIA, where he was orchestrating AI training for autonomous vehicles.
– Clément Farabet, VP of Research at DeepMind; former VP of AI & AV Infrastructure at NVIDIA

1:30PM ET
Keynote: Visual Technologies Will Help Deliver Quantum Computing

Quantum computers are now under active development around the world, and will revolutionize many forms of information processing by opening up a larger computational subspace than the digital bit can offer. However, such quantum processor chips will require the constant and ultra-fast analysis of visual and other data to correct errors and beat classical limits of computing. A long term goal is to change how science is performed by reducing the role of the human scientist's intuition in the visualization and analysis of large volumes of scientific data. Physicist Anasua Chatterjee of the Niels Bohr Institute, will share her insights on effective utilization of AI and machine learning tools to analyze visual data to accelerate the development of large-scale, usable quantum hardware.
– Dr. Anasua Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

1:35PM ET
Keynote: Generative AI & Cognitive Science to Make Ads Memorable

While advertising creative is the top 1 contributor to sales lift, marketers and brand managers don't have a tool to analyze media content and ads before they publish. Memorable’s AI-powered co-pilot enables advertisers to instantly generate ads from text and see how they would perform for specific audiences. Camilo Fosco (Co-founder & CTO at Memorable) is one of the leading researchers in the cognitive impact space and is a member of the leading lab in this space at MIT Computer Science and AI Lab.
– Camilo Fosco, Co-Founder and CTO at Memorable

1:40PM ET
Panel: Investing Trends in Businesses Powered by Visual Technologies

Zoom, Roblox, UiPath, and Pinterest are examples of IPOs that are powered by visual technologies. These successes are just the tip of the iceberg. Our panel will explore trends in visual technologies across all business sectors and society. Where are the next visual technology investment opportunities?

We are deep into another exciting phase of technological advancements in artificial intelligence and especially Generative AI – tools ranging from automatically creating content for virtual worlds, creating/editing images and videos, designing websites in minutes, and more, become widely used. ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot, has reached 100 million users just two months after launching, and it’s the beginning of a new wave of AI-powered chatbots or virtual companions. 

As the demand for workflow automation processes exponentially spikes, investing in computer vision, machine learning and AI will be the key enabler for how healthcare & precision medicine, manufacturing & construction, agriculture & sustainability, and many more industries innovate and evolve.

Moderator:
– Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes

Panelists:
– Reshma Sohoni, Partner at Seedcamp
– Nikhil Sachdev, Managing Director at Insight Partners
– Sarah Guo, Conviction, Founder
– Nathan Benaich, General Partner at Air Street Capital

2:15PM ET
Keynote: The First Generative AI Design Platform To Auto-Generate End-To-End Design Via Text

Design work used to be reserved for a select few who had the necessary training and expertise. However, with AI, Uizard empowers those with little design and technical experience to contribute to the design process to enable companies to ship better products faster. AI-powered design tools are the future! Henrik will inspire how anyone will be able to leverage Uizard’s AI to create end-to-end designs from only a couple of words and how their generative AI technologies will allow iteration and exploration like never seen before. He will share how Uizard believes that AI will shape the future of software design.
– Henrik Haugbølle, Co-Founder and CTO at Uizard

2:20PM ET
Keynote: The Next Generation of Visual Technologies On The Edge Will Enable Consumer Electronics To See

Pete Warden is a serial entrepreneur. Google acquired his company called Jetpac. At Google, he was leading the TensorFlow Mobile team. Most recently, Warden co-founded Useful Sensors – a startup developing AI-enabled sensor modules for consumer electronics and home appliances. Pete will speak about the challenges and opportunities of adding visual and AI interfaces to everyday objects. This will impact the future of consumer electronics and enable “The Internet of Eyes” which LDV Capital's General Partner Evan Nisselson first predicted in 2016.
– Pete Warden, Co-Founder & CEO at Useful Sensors

2:25PM ET
Keynote: Tackling the Climate Crisis by Detecting, Verifying & Classifying Wildfires in Real-Time With the Help of AI 

The climate crisis is resulting in an increased frequency and intensity of natural disasters, and society needs new tools to be able to cope and adapt. Sonia Kastner is the CEO & founder of Pano AI, the leader in wildfire early detection and intelligence. Pano combines advanced hardware, AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real-time. Sonia has a BA in physics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She has spent over a decade building and leading supply chain and manufacturing organizations across multiple solar and IoT companies including working on the early AI-powered Nest Cam. Sonia will share how visual technologies are at the crux of disaster mitigation solutions to help tackle the climate crisis.
– Sonia Kastner, Founder and CEO of Pano AI

2:35PM ET
Fireside Chat: The Future Is Clear Or Blurry Depending How You Visually Communicate: Insights from Ty Ahmad-Taylor’s 32 years working at NYTimes, @Home Network, Samsung, Meta, and Now Snap

Ty is VP of Monetization at Snap. He also sits on GoPro’s board of directors. He had been VP of product marketing at Meta since 2017, leading an 800-person organization across product/engineering and sales, which is similar to his previous role at Snap. Before that, he ran George Lucas-founded audio & video firm THX as CEO. Ty’s background: 32 years in information design, 26 years in consumer-facing software and product development leadership, and 25 years in interactive television services development. He has worked at four startups (one went public, and the other three were acquired), and at large social, media, and consumer electronic companies (Samsung, Viacom, and Comcast). He will share his views on the future of visual technologies’ impact on business and society over the next 50 years.
– Ty Ahmad-Taylor, VP of Monetization at Snap

3:00PM ET
Thank you and closing remarks

Topics

We will discuss computer vision, computational imaging, machine learning and visual technology relating to the following sectors:
- Healthcare, Fertility, Longevity & Biotech
- Advanced microscopy, chemistry and biology
- Internet of Eyes = Miniaturization of sensors & edge computing
- Generative AI
- Mobility
- Climate & Sustainability
and more!

Who should attend?

» Computer Vision, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence experts and professionals
» Media and brand executives interested in boosting revenue by leveraging new imaging and video products and technologies
» Investors: Visual technologies & businesses deliver tremendous upside - don't miss the next Instagram, Youtube, Oculus, Snapchat... 
» Technology executives evaluating companies for partnerships & acquisitions
» Creatives: Photographers, Videographers and anyone creating content

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