AI, Media & Conscious Leadership: Upleveling Humanity Together - Light Dao & #LATechWeek (LA)
🔥 Light Up LA Tech Week with Light DAO! 🔥
Step into the future of AI, media and conscious leadership with Light DAO at LA Tech Week, presented by A16Z.
We’re calling all visionaries—entrepreneurs, investors, and tech pioneers—who are driven by a desire to lead with purpose and heart, make a difference, and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
Join us for an afternoon that’s not just about networking, but about inspiring transformation. Our 5-minute spotlights will introduce you to Light Dao members' innovative minds in AI, each one blazing a trail toward a more conscious and connected world.
Highlights of the Event:
Five game-changing speakers from within our Light DAO network:
Investors who are backing the next wave of AI breakthroughs
Founders who are reimagining what tech can do for society
Experts who are shaping the future with cutting-edge AI models
Light Dao Member Owner speakers:
Sanjeev Rao
Sanjeev Rao is an AI expert turned founder CEO turned investor. Since the mid-1990s, he has led numerous AI initiatives and has spoken about AI. He has been an operator for over 25 years with expertise in technology, GTM, and strategy across several industries. He has been an angel investor for about 10 years and has extensive experience with PE, VC, private credit, family offices, strategic, and institutional investors. He assembles collaborative family office investors on small and large unique investment opportunities. He serves on the board of several for-profit and nonprofit organizations. He is a generalist who offers broad optionality in investment risk/reward and liquidity.
Bastiaan den Braber
Bastiaan is the founder of ZAMBEZI ZERØ, established to put super intelligence in the hands of people on the frontline of biosphere sustainability and security. Bastiaan’s purpose and vision originates from a 20+ year journey to combat African wildlife poaching, and the insight to do things radically different by using the best of the world’s technologies, through entrepreneurship and investment. He first began doing safaris in Africa in 2003 and became a FGASA Level 1 trained Field Guide in 2009. He is devoted to re-establishing harmony between humanity and our planet through ZAMBEZI ZERØ, a commercial and infinitely scalable technology solution for a $900B market need by 2030.
Rohan Hall
Rohan Hall is the author of Stop Working and co-host of the Explainable AI podcast, which reaches over 2 million AI professionals. He is the CEO and founder of Code Genie AI, where he develops cutting-edge AI technologies and teaches businesses how to use AI for efficiency and productivity gains. He also founded the Ninja CEO Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to educating underprivileged Black and Brown youth in AI and emerging technologies. Rohan has worked with major companies like Oracle, HP, Honda, Capital Group, Corning, Avery Dennison, and the American Red Cross, has traveled to over 50 countries, and resides in Orange County, California.
Thoryn Stephens
Thoryn Stephens is a leading expert in neurotechnology, longevity, and analytics, specializing in data architecture, consumer insights, behavioral analytics, and systems optimization. He is the founder of BRAIN.ONE, a pioneering brain fitness platform featuring the world’s most extensive collection of brain health microhabits and protocols. With over two decades of leadership experience, Thoryn has played a critical role in driving data-driven growth and innovation across significant organizations, including Amgen, Unilever Prestige, and Fox Networks, where his proficiency in complex data analysis has consistently generated actionable outcomes.
Jay Levin
Jay Levin has led or started six media companies and launched six nonprofits - all primarily focused on providing positive change. He is best known as Founder of the LA Weekly which won many journalism awards and grew to be the largest urban weekly publication in the country.
He is trained in human development matters and concluded that raising the emotional intelligence and life skills of children is the most positive and needed education reform of our time, a very real and serious game-changer for kids, schools, families, employers and communities when comprehensively applied. Consciousness Training and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) offer an historic opportunity to change the cause of eons of human suffering and conflict, personal and collective - the cause being lack of learnable skills to deal with ourselves and others in healthy and co-caring and creative ways.
Beyond the inspiring talks, you’ll have ample opportunity to be introduced to more innovative Light Dao founders and investors and to mix and connect with fellow changemakers. If you’re looking to meet other conscious leaders, this is your chance to connect like-minded individuals who share your passion for AI and social impact.
The atmosphere will be relaxed and welcoming, fostering meaningful conversations and potential collaborations.
And of course, healthy snacks and beverages will be available to keep you refreshed and energized throughout the event.
Who We Are:
Light DAO is more than a network—it’s a movement. With chapters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Dubai, Puerto Rico, Taipei, Sydney, with more to come.
About a year old, we have a global community of over 2,000 members, including 500 investors, all united by a commitment to creating positive impact through conscious leadership, entrepreneurship and personal growth.
In Los Angeles, our exclusive monthly salons have become a cornerstone of the community, bringing together 50 curated guests of experienced founders and investors, for deep conversations and powerful insights from fireside chats with industry luminaries like:
Christopher Lindstrom, Board Director of the David Rockefeller Fund
Peter Pham, co-founder of Science Inc, Investor in Liquid Death
Ashley Bell, leading a $500M fund focused on underserved communities
Dan Mapes, founder of Verses AI, creator of the spacial web
Whether you’re looking to spark new ideas, find your next collaborator, or simply soak in the energy of like-minded innovators, this is a LA TechWeek gathering you won’t want to miss.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.