EDUCATION SESSION #1117
GLOBAL WEBINAR
Investing In Artificial Intelligence: Insights from Venture Capital
Hosted by the 100WF
North California Education Committee
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to attract attention from venture capitalists seeking an edge. Gain insights into this fast-evolving area and explore key AI-related considerations including:
- How fund managers are allocating capital to AI, Machine Learning and Big Data
- How stakeholders (LPs, boards, investment committees) view the role of AI in investments
- The opportunities and risks that may lie ahead and how VCs are thinking about them.
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TIME
12:30 PM N. America West Coast
2:30 PM Cayman
3:30 PM N. America East Coast
8:30 PM London
6:30 AM Sydney (June 25th)
The program will begin promptly at 12:30 PM West Coast time. Latecomers may not be able to enter.
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PARTICIPANTS
Gwen Cheni
Fusion Fund
James Cham
Bloomberg Beta
Elaine Zelby
SignalFire
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Gwen Cheni
Venture Partner, Fusion Fund
Gwen Cheni is a Venture Partner at Fusion Fund, an early stage venture fund in Palo Alto, and an Entrepreneur in Residence at Singularity University Ventures. Before venture, Gwen was the Assistant Portfolio Manager at a technology focused hedge fund in San Francisco. Gwen spent eighteen years as a public equities analyst and portfolio manager, and started her career as an Analyst at Goldman Sachs and an Associate at JPMorgan. She has been angel investing since 2012, and a frequent speaker and judge at startup pitch contests. Gwen received her B.A. from Yale University with a major in Economics and minor-equivalent in Computer Science Electrical Engineering, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.B.A. in four concentrations from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with Honors. She is a CFA charterholder.
James Cham
Capital Investor, Bloomberg Beta
James Cham is a venture capital investor with Bloomberg Beta, a firm focused on investing in the future of work. James invests in companies working on applying machine intelligence to businesses and society. A few companies he's currently invested in: Orbital Insight uses satellite imaging to understand global trends, Primer helps finance and intelligence analysts read and recall reports in multiple languages, Domino Data Labs helps data science teams create and track the models that power AI, AppZen uses AI to read through expense reports to find mistakes and abuse. James speaks and writes on the implications of AI for companies (for example
here
, and
here
). In the past, he's been involved in investments with companies like LifeLock, LinkedIn, Twilio, DropCam (now Nest), and Skybox Imaging. James was a software developer and management consultant before he started investing. James lives in Palo Alto and was raised in Montebello, California. He went to Harvard and MIT.
Elaine Zelby
Early Stage Investor, SignalFire
Elaine Zelby is an early stage investor at SignalFire, a $500M VC fund, where she invests in seed stage companies and also leads the Growth and GTM programs for the portfolio. Prior to joining SignalFire, Elaine built and led the Product Marketing team of nine at ConsenSys working across the portfolio of 50+ incubated companies. Before Consensys, Elaine led Enterprise Product Marketing at Slack and prior she spent 5 years at Capriza (a16z and CRV portfolio company). She joined as one of the first employees and helped build a variety of functions including marketing, inside sales, lead and demand generation, and product marketing. She is also a co-founder of Product Marketing Masters, a group focused on communication, education and advisory for top Product Marketing professionals. Elaine holds a B.S. and M.S in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. While not at work, Elaine can be found doing various outdoor activities such as trail running, backpacking, and rock climbing, listening to podcasts, or making things out of wood or metal.
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