Agents and the Future w Eugene Lee & Julianna Vitolo from OMERS Ventures

​An intimate dinner with the top AI Agent founders in the Bay Area and special guests from OMERS Ventures: Eugene Lee, Partner and Julianna Vitolo, Investor

​Topics discussed at previous AI Agent dinners:

​1. How do we increase iteration times for building Agentic workflows and making them completely reliable?
2. How do we redesign interfaces when users are interacting with agents?
3. With models improving so fast, what’s the benefit of fine-tuning? Do the models continue to improve as fast, or have they reached a plateau?
4. What moats do Agent startups have vs the bigger foundational models?

​OMERS Ventures invests in early-stage technology founders with an average first check size between $5-25M. As the venture investing arm of OMERS, we are backed by a well-respected, global player with net assets of $127B, and a commitment to generate strong returns that impact more than half a million municipal workers.

​Eugene Bio:

​Eugene is a partner at OMERS Ventures focused on investing in B2B SaaS companies. His investments include Fonoa, Mosaic, Postal, WorkRamp, Crunchbase and Klue. He has 15+ years of start-up operating experience across multiple functions and stages of companies. Prior to OMERS Ventures, Eugene was an executive Copper, Pinterest, Pixate (acquired by Google), and High Gear Media (acquired by Internet Brands). He began his operating career at Yahoo!. He has also been a banker with ThinkEquity Partners and Deutsche Bank. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS in Psychology from Vanderbilt University.

​Julianna Bio:

​Julianna focuses on enterprise SaaS and AI early-stage startups. While she began her career in the world of traditional finance at Citigroup, she’s a self-proclaimed “reformed investment banker” who loves learning about new technology. Before OMERS, she cut her teeth as an investor at Initialized Capital. Julianna also spent time as a fractional operator, working in-house at a few of her previous portfolio companies including Partiful, Pano AI, and AstroForge. She holds a BA in Economics & Russian from Boston College.

​This event is ticketed as there is limited capacity. Proceeds will cover food and drink at the restaurant. The restaurant's name will be released post-approval and closer to the date