Wow! In 2024, we celebrated our 10th LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit Anniversary! Folks from over 30 nations have been a part of our premier world gathering in visible tech & AI.
Ten years in the past, along with Dr. Serge Belongie, a professor of Pc Science at Cornell College and Cornell Tech on the time (now a professor on the College of Copenhagen and the pinnacle of the Danish Pioneer Centre for Synthetic Intelligence, in addition to LDV Capital Skilled in Residence), we hosted the inaugural summit. This started an important custom for prime technologists, buyers, and entrepreneurs in New York and from world wide to fulfill and talk about cutting-edge pc imaginative and prescient, machine studying, and AI options to enhance the world we reside in. In 2014, visible tech & AI have been nonetheless thought of “cute, area of interest and science fiction,” however not anymore. “The distinction is – now the entire world is being attentive to AI,” stated Prof. Serge Belongie in our most up-to-date interview.
We have been thrilled to welcome audio system from Sequoia Capital, Wellville, Generate:Biomedicines, DCVC Bio, Princeton College, Stanford College, College of California, Nobias Therapeutics, Snap, Future Ventures, Meta, Axios, Breakout Ventures, SandboxAQ, and VitVio. Two of our LDV Capital portfolio firms offered as effectively: Synthesia and Sonus Microsystems.
On this fireplace chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, Roelof Botha, Managing Companion and Steward of Sequoia Capital, mentioned developments and early-stage funding alternatives in companies leveraging visible applied sciences and AI.
We hope our three fireplace chats, 7 lightning keynotes & 2 panels acquired you impressed by the unbelievable alternatives for visible tech to enhance enterprise and society. You may at all times re/watch choose classes on our LDV YouTube channel.
A particular thanks goes to all of our audio system and all of you attendees, as our summit wouldn’t exist with out your collaboration!
An all-women panel moderated by Kia Kokalitcheva, Senior Reporter at Axios: The place Are the Subsequent Billion-Greenback Visible Know-how and AI Funding Alternatives?
Panelists: Maryanna Saenko, Co-Founder and Companion at Future Ventures, Lindy Fishburne, Managing Companion of Breakout Ventures, and Dr. Kiersten Stead, Managing Companion at DCVC Bio.
We love getting perspective from our group so we’ve got gathered photographs and quotes about our 10th Annual LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit.
“It was enjoyable to talk on the LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit and to dream in regards to the future with Evan. I’m at all times impressed by founders harnessing AI to create the following breakthrough in visible applied sciences.” – Roelof Botha, Managing Companion and Steward of Sequoia Capital
“The explosion of AI coupled with visible expertise and the power to coach fashions on multimodal knowledge is a big unlock for the life sciences. It was a privilege to average a panel of specialists pushing the boundaries of overcoming complicated genetic illnesses, enhancing healthspan, and creating actionable insights into environmental impacts on well being.” – Laura Smoliar, Government Director, Taiwan Science & Know-how Hub @ Stanford College
“LDV has been a giant a part of our journey at Synthesia from zero to Unicorn. It was nice to hitch the LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit with such a variety of revolutionary applied sciences all primarily based across the frequent theme – the influence of visible applied sciences and AI. I hope Synthesia provides a small half to the massive image, it’s an honor to be a part of the group.” – Dr. Jon Starck, CTO at Synthesia
On this fireplace chat with LDV’s Evan Nisselson, Esther Dyson, Founding father of Wellville, Investor & Writer, mentioned curler coaster tales on investing & shared recommendation for folks constructing companies powered by AI – from proactive healthcare and human capital to aerospace and extra.
“Thanks for the invitation to hitch this yr’s LDV Imaginative and prescient summit! I had a good time discussing how the development of AI and integration with the lab are remodeling science broadly – from biology to generate important medicines to inorganic supplies fixing crucial challenges in local weather change. I’m most excited by the potential to marry AI, visible applied sciences, and robotics to remodel the mixing of AI with the bodily world of science.” – Dr. Molly Gibson, co-founder and chief technique and innovation officer at Generate Biomedicines, Origination Companion at Flagship Pioneering
“The LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit offers an interesting glimpse into the varied and far-reaching functions of AI throughout industries. From healthcare and life sciences to local weather change options, I used to be impressed by the visionary work showcased, demonstrating the facility of AI to remodel our world.” – Anuroop Sriram, Analysis Engineering Lead (FAIR) at Meta
“The LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit was like peering into the long run, emphasizing the function of AI and pc imaginative and prescient in driving ahead not simply enterprise innovation, however societal progress! The discussions have been a testomony to the sensible minds working on the intersection of expertise and entrepreneurship. LDV and Evan are considerably advancing the business in a really constructive course.” – Thomas Knox, Founder & CEO at VitVio
“Actually loved taking a pause from our day-to-day actuality to consider the long run that we wish to reside in and guarantee we’re constructing for that.” – Lindy Fishburne, Managing Companion of Breakout Ventures
A panel moderated by Laura Smoliar, Government Director, Taiwan Science & Know-how Hub at Stanford College, and our LDV Capital Skilled: Visible Tech Developments in Life Sciences & Biotech Paving the Method for Longer and More healthy Lives.
Panelists: Dr. Elizabeth Neumann, an Assistant Professor on the College of California, Davis, Neil Inala, CEO at Nobias Therapeutics, and Dr. Olga Troyanskaya, Director at Princeton Precision Well being, Professor at Princeton College and Deputy Director for Genomics on the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Basis.
“The 2024 LDV summit was an outstanding alternative to study enterprise developments in imaginative and prescient expertise. I’m now much more satisfied and impressed by the pivotal function of imaginative and prescient science in innovation. This system was an ideal combination of tech and entrepreneurship. Thanks, Evan for together with me on this wonderful panel of scientists, founders and buyers. It was a privilege to current to such an incredible viewers.” – Dr. Sid Kouider, Director of Engineering & Analysis at Snap
“It was an absolute pleasure to average a dialogue with three buyers on the following billion-dollar alternatives. Their experience and insights not solely made for a full of life and academic dialog for the viewers but additionally taught me a lot about innovative applied sciences and the way they’re navigating them as enterprise capitalists.” – Kia Kokalitcheva, Senior Reporter at Axios
“Attending the LDV Tech Summit was an enlightening expertise, as at all times, immersed in a sequence of talks, panels, and fireplace chats spanning throughout scientists, buyers, and entrepreneurs. It was a singular convergence of deep visible and AI applied sciences shaping the way forward for life sciences, and I eagerly anticipate returning subsequent yr to witness the continued advances in these dynamic areas” – David Rabuka, co-founder, CEO and President at Acrigen Biosciences and our LDV Capital Skilled
“This was my first Annual LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit and I hope I am invited again! It was an unbelievable alternative to listen to from leaders within the discipline from a wide range of backgrounds. Spatial biology is vastly vital and I am excited to see what the long run holds.” – Dr. Elizabeth Neumann, an Assistant Professor on the College of California, Davis
“The LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit pulled collectively a powerful group of entrepreneurs and buyers who supplied very attention-grabbing views on the imaginative and prescient tech sector. The shows and group discussions have been very informative, and the significance and relevance of this sector are already very massive and are solely going to develop considerably extra. Attending the Summit was time very effectively spent.” – Michael Moretti, who, after retiring from Silicon Valley Financial institution, is now an lively member of Westchester Angels and serves as a mentor at Ingredient 46 Accelerator
Dr. Molly Gibson, Co-Founder and Chief Technique and Innovation Officer at Generate Biomedicines, Origination Companion at Flagship Pioneering, and LDV Capital’s Evan Nisselson mentioned how AI and machine studying empower and disrupt the scientific course of throughout life sciences, biotech, superior supplies and extra. This may have an amazing influence on enterprise and society.
Visible applied sciences will proceed to be the crux of developments in supplies science, throughout nanomaterials and metamaterials, ensuing within the transformation of assorted industrial, medical and client functions. Embedded AI will allow supplies to reconfigure themselves autonomously in response to their atmosphere. As sensing skills and algorithms enhance, the complete potential of navigating the compositional and configurational prospects of supplies will catalyze widespread transformation for optics, biomarker diagnostics, robotics, 3D printing and extra.
“It was an honor to current on the 2024 LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit for the primary time. For us, it’s fantastic to have a shared imaginative and prescient with LDV Capital to make use of visible applied sciences to make medical diagnostics and monitoring globally accessible and reasonably priced. This yr’s Summit was an important alternative to listen to from wonderful entrepreneurs and buyers on how they’re planning to form the long run by using AI & ML together with deep-tech innovation.” – Dr. Hani Eskandari, CEO at Sonus Microsystems
“What a delight to be a part of the wonderful group of startups, buyers and scientists on the 2024 LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit. In a deep (and meta) method, it shone a light-weight on among the most attention-grabbing startups and science that showcase the potential of visible applied sciences and AI to enhance life for folks world wide for years to return. Very inspiring!” – Esther Dyson, an investor, writer, commentator, philanthropist and full-time founding father of Wellville
“Evan and the LDV group at all times placed on an important occasion. The ninth Annual Imaginative and prescient Summit was no exception! I particularly loved the interview with Roelof Botha” – Jeff Stewart, Co-Founder & Managing Director at International Public Providing Fund
“The LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit was not simply insightful however extremely inspiring. Evan and Sequoia’s Roelof’s candid dialog was particularly related to me as a startup founder. Thanks for validating being “loopy” and dreaming massive.” – Shana Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of PathCision Drugs
“Throughout expertise improvement and constructing firms – it takes a various set of views and other people to make the entire thing profitable. The summit has been an exquisite venue to encourage cross-thinking and camaraderie inside the group” – Dr. Kiersten Stead, Managing Companion at DCVC Bio
Dr. Hani Eskandari, CEO at Sonus Microsystems, spoke about revolutionizing healthcare prognosis with high-performance, customizable and versatile ultrasound.
Dr. Sid Kouider, Director of Engineering & Analysis at Snap (he based NextMind & offered it to Snap) shared insights on brain-computer interfaces & augmented actuality.
Dr. Stefan Leichenauer, VP of Engineering & Lead Scientist at SandboxAQ, mentioned AI + quantum tech for computationally intensive industries.
Dr. Jon Starck, CTO at Synthesia, mentioned new frontiers in Generative AI & the opportunity of bringing human-level efficiency to artificial video.
“I actually loved being on the LDV Imaginative and prescient panel discussing how AI and visible tech can advance the life sciences and biotech – these sorts of cross-disciplinary discussions create fertile alternatives for brand new methods of occupied with convolutional and spatial processes. The opposite keynotes have been compelling as effectively, and I used to be struck by the wide-ranging ideas coated in all of the completely different panels. Due to the Summit group for placing collectively such attention-grabbing teams!” – Neil Inala, CEO at Nobias Therapeutics
“The summit enabled us to debate crucial facets of AI improvement and influence within the precision well being house. I’m particularly excited in regards to the promise of purpose-built AI fashions for biomedical house that may join heterogeneous genomic and molecular knowledge with scientific outcomes, enabling exact prognosis, therapy, and accelerating next-generation drug improvement.” – Dr. Olga Troyanskaya, Director at Princeton Precision Well being, Professor at Princeton College and Deputy Director for Genomics on the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Basis
“The LDV 2024 Imaginative and prescient Summit was a improbable likelihood to listen to from wonderful people throughout industries on cutting-edge applied sciences and breakthrough functions. I used to be very proud to have the ability to be among the many presenters and got here away with a lot of insights from others. Due to LDV for making such an occasion doable!” – Dr. Stefan Leichenauer, the Vice President of Engineering and Lead Scientist at SandboxAQ
“It was an honor to hitch an LDV Imaginative and prescient Summit panel and have interaction in a well-curated dialog protecting the huge array of the way through which the way forward for imaginative and prescient applied sciences will form all facets of our world.” – Maryanna Saenko, Co-Founder and Companion at Future Ventures
LDV Capital invests in folks constructing companies powered by visible applied sciences and AI. We thrive on collaborating with deep tech groups leveraging pc imaginative and prescient, machine studying, and synthetic intelligence to investigate visible knowledge. We’re the one enterprise capital agency with this thesis. Earlier in 2024, we introduced our fourth fund.
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