​**Invitation Only**
**Zero Bond will check-in guests at the door**

​Fusion Fund and Brix invite you to "Sip & Supper," our NY Tech Week dinner bringing together AI researchers and investors for a night of cocktails, culinary delights, and engaging conversation at Zero Bond.

​This is an opportunity to hear from some of the brightest minds in AI. Our featured experts include:

​Dr. Neville Sanjana, co-founder of OverT Bio and a professor at NYU. He is a nationally recognized scientist with recent awards including the DARPA Young Faculty Award and the NIH’s New Innovator Award. His research focuses on cell therapy for solid tumor cancer, and he will share his insights on the opportunities of AI in healthcare and life sciences.

​Dr. Yu Zhou , Associate Professor at Columbia University. Recognized on Forbes 30 under 30 in Science and a winner of the 2018 Amazon Alexa Socialbot Competition, she has made significant contributions to Conversational and Generative AI. Her research in multimodal sensing, speech processing, and human-computer interaction shapes the future of AI innovation.

​Ben Colman, cofounder of Reality Defender, the leading provider of deepfake detection. Over the past 15 years, Ben has scaled multiple companies at the intersection of privacy, AI, and cyber security. Prior to this, Ben led cyber commercialization at Goldman Sachs, and was a graduate intern at Google. He will share his insights on AI and cybersecurity.

​About Us:

​Fusion Fund

​Fusion Fund is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley that targets Seed and Pre-Seed companies in healthcare, enterprise AI, and industry automation. Since 2015, with investments in over 80 companies across North America, the Fusion Fund team has been dedicated to supporting early-stage entrepreneurs who build disruptive technology that drives systemic changes. Founder and Managing Partner Lu Zhang is a serial entrepreneur and Stanford technologist with extensive experience bringing a broad range of technologies to commercialization. Shane Wall, Partner and President of the Fusion Fund CXO Network, is the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard and a member of the White House Science & Technology Council. The Fusion Fund team comprises technologists, former entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.

​Fusion Fund explores all aspects of digital transformation, leveraging AI, cloud infrastructure, edge solutions, and other emerging technologies. The Fusion Fund team continues to actively deploy capital to invest in the best founders in the early-stage market.

​Brix

​Brix is an AI-driven recruitment solution that assists companies in hiring and managing global tech talent. Powered by an AI agent, Brix offers a one-stop solution for sourcing, vetting, and onboarding global tech talents. This system enables companies to operate without a traditional HR department, offering a 10x faster hiring experience at 40% of the original HR costs. In three years, Brix grew its monthly transactions from 6,000 to 1 million, serving over 500 companies and 100,000 engineers.

​This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.