In case you missed it, AWS did it again! An exhilarating showcase of AI and Data brilliance engulfed the Latestsale.com Founder at the AWS GenAI Data Day Extravaganza held close to London’s financial district on 15th October 2024. The Business Track stage inaugurated with Keynote speakers David Elliott, Director, UKI SA, Amazon Web Services, Frances Pye, Strategic Partnerships, Anthropic, Mark Briers, Director of Data Science & AI of BT Group and Rahul Pathak, VP of GenAI & AI/ML, Amazon Web Services. DAVID ELLIOT KEYNOTE David Elliot’s opinion piece highlighted the projected digital economic growth of £520bn that is expected to be added to the UK economy by the end of 2030. Elliot attests to a breakthrough year throughout 2023 for Gen AI use…
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Highlights: AWS GenAI Loft 2024 London Closes with Sequoia
LatestSale.com Founder & Tech #Founders with strong affiliations to Amazon Web Services dropped everything on 22/10/2024 and headed to the finale of the AWS GenAI Loft London meet up covering the AWS GenAI and Bedrock Showcase. In attendance to this spectacular forum: Sequoia Capital represented by the #VC firm’s veteran Growth Partner Matt Miller, alongside unicorn Synthesia CEO and Co-Founder Victor Riparbelli and GTM Director and European Lead Hugo Rayne of Elevenlabs. VC Accessibility for startups Frances Pye, Head of European Partnerships at Anthropic followed on to highlight the “Frontier AI Systems Your Team Can Trust,” theme highlighting Anthropic’s consistent achievements including building the best LLM twice in 2024, whilst Tricia Troth Amazon Web Services General Manager, Startups UK & Ireland introduced the #Magic…
Highlights: AWS GenAI Loft 2024 London Opens with Lightspeed
Highlights: Monday 30th September 2024 saw the official start of the AWS GenAI Loft opening event and launch party in London with pivotal speakers at the helm. Before meeting the panel of speakers, attendees networked with refreshments from the start, comparing notes on best practice AI implementation. After a stellar welcome from Tricia Troth, AWS General Manager of UK & Ireland start ups, Troth introduced the session by highlighting the importance of VC accessibility. It all kicked off with Venture Capitalist Antoine Moyroud a Lightspeed Partner. His synopsis on the current fundraising landscape for emerging tech enterprises was speckled with a touch of magic. Moyroud detailed the importance attributed to the status of AI capital deployment and explained how best to navigate opportunities and challenges…
Rare Founders London’s Largest Demo Day 14102024 Highlights
The second instalment of London’s Largest Demo Day Investor and Founder’s Conference 2024, dubbed Series 1: Episode 2, got off to a great start in the heart of Mayfair, London on 14th October 2024, with a greatly enthused Rare Founders Founder Vasily Alekseenko at the helm alongside some new team members including Events Manager Fraya Brinkman and some truly spectacular volunteers. Held at the home of The Royal Society of Medicine, this charming venue whose team’s hospitality and setting never ceases to amaze, ensured attendees were spoilt for choice with a welcome selection of pastries at the start of the day and refreshing beverages during the evening session thanks to an array of sponsors. 100 founders pitched on two stages as follows: DEMO DAY…
European Quantum Industry Consortium Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing
27th September 2024, the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) hosted its first ever webinar, under the Q WAVE banner, with the topic the Quantum industry is most concerned with as we all work towards rolling out our quantum enabled tools. “The journey towards fault-tolerant quantum computing in Europe” much anticipated webinar began with guest speakers on board who were able to explain what efforts they were making in advancing quantum error correction. ALICE & BOB + RIVERLANE Attendees were in great company with Earl Campbell, VP of Quantum Science at Riverlane and Jérémie Guillaud, Chief of Theory at Alice & Bob at the helm. The webinar was moderated by David Morcuende, the QuIC Network Manager. Earl Campbell tailored his session on QEC software…
Annual Start up Grind Summit 2024 ENDS: Fundraising in the Era of AI
PART 5/5 The Thursday 26th September 2024 San Francisco annual Startup Grind Summit: AI & Fundraising featured countless pivotal sessions, too many to name. We close off this five part blog post series and highlight one such session; Fundraising in the Era of AI, led by Gaurav Misra Co-Founder and CEO of Captions, a video-editing and AI research company headquartered in New York City, and Damir Becirovic, a Partner at Index Ventures, who has a self-proclaimed passion for the intersection of technology and humanity and solutions likely to improve the lives of millions around the world. IS IT JUST TALK? Captions Co-Founder and CEO Gaurav Misra, a former machine learning engineer at Snapchat who identifies with fast growth strategies, enjoys a background in…
AI & Fundraising Startup Grind Summit 2024: Gradient Seed to Series A
PART 4/5 Andrew Brackin, Partner at Gradient, Google’s AI seed fund also known for co-founding Vial, a tech-enabled clinical trial platform that raised over $100M in VC funding from top tier firms, led the enlightening workshop “Seed to Series A Fundraising” at the AI & Fundraising Startup Grind Summit 2024. The Andrew Brackin list of PRE SEED must haves: At pre seed, Founders should have a great team, and a good idea with the beginnings of an MVP and be under a $10-12M market cap. Pre seed fundraising may also be under $1M, with accelerators fitting into this model. Brackin highlighted various pre seed programmes on offer such as the Sequoia Arc programme. The Andrew Brackin list of SEED ROUND must haves:…
AI & Fundraising Q3 2024 Startup Grind Summit: Snowflake KPIs in AI
PART 3/5 Attendees to the Annual AI & Fundraising Q3 2024 Startup Grind Summit explored alongside Snowflake Ventures, that invests in companies that are committed to mobilizing data and expanding opportunities in the Data Cloud, “KPIs in AI: Product Development, Go-to-Market Strategies, and Operations.” The traits that make startups successful from a VC perspective were pinpointed. The Snowflake team examined effective fundraising strategies and explored the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into businesses. In attendance, Snowflake Ventures Director Harsha Kapre and Phoebe He, Product Marketing Lead, Apps at Snowflake. Snowflake Inc. is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, and “operates a platform that provides data storage via cloud computing and allows for data analysis and simultaneous access of data sets with minimal latency. It…
Annual AI & Fundraising Q3 2024 Startup Grind Summit: AI Top Tips
PART 2/5 AI SESSIONS The Thursday 26th September 2024 annual Startup Grind Summit entitled AI & Fundraising incorporated other notable AI sessions such as “Building the Future with AI” featuring a fireside chat between Sachin Dev Duggal, Founder & CEO of Builder.ai and Startup Grind’s thought-provoking CEO and Founder Derek Andersen. Sachin focused on the need to build apps quickly and more affordably and characterized the AI hype cycle, predicting the AI evolution of tech stack would experience a rebirthing within 18 months. Anderson claims there are still great fears around AI from large corporations in particular, hindering its adoption rate if go to market strategies are not executed properly. Duggal himself estimates that 90% of GEN AI adoption has failed with a…
Annual AI & Fundraising Start up Grind Summit hits the mark, Q3 2024
PART 1/5 Riveting, cutting edge, forward thinking are the words Latestsale.com would use to describe the incredibly sophisticated Thursday 26th September 2024 annual Startup Grind Summit entitled AI & Fundraising. It was wonderful to join Derek Andersen Founder & CEO of Startup Grind as he led brilliantly the half day virtual event from San Francisco, full of insights and strategies to help start ups navigate fundraising and accelerate traction. How can we all get educated and help each other? “Give more than you can take,” so says Anderson. From the first chapter hosting small events fifteen years ago, Andersen was pleased to reveal that Startup Grind is now hosted in over 100 countries. He asserts, Start Up Grind is one of the key avenues to…