AI Research & Industry Convergence Salon x Sixty Degree Capital
Sixty Degree Capital is partnering with AWS Startups, RBCx, CDL-Vancouver, Vector Institute, and UBC Sauder School of Business to host this exclusive, invite-only evening salon that brings together cutting-edge AI researchers, early-stage founders, investors, and industry leaders for intellectually stimulating conversation at UBC downtown campus during ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning). This salon is a curated series of lightning talks and panels from investors, founders, and product leaders on how to responsibly and effectively lead in the age of AI.
🕒 Time: 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
📆 Agenda
5:30-6:00 PM – Doors Open
6:00-6:15 PM – Welcome & Opening Remarks
6:15–6:45 PM – Panel 1: From Academia to Industry: Turning AI Research into Real-World Impact
6:45–7:15 PM – Break
7:15–7:45 PM – Panel 2: From Theory to Reality: What Makes ML Investable?
7:45–9:00 PM – Open Networking & Mingling
Sixty Degree Capital is a North American multi-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Toronto with a presence in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and New York, investing across enterprise software and biotech. In enterprise software, Sixty Degree Capital invests across application and digital infrastructure layers, within verticals such as Data & Cloud infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, and Cybersecurity (select portfolio companies include: Cato Network, Cyberhaven, Arctic Wolf, Aqua Security, Paperspace, DataGrail, Navan and Docker).
AWS Startups
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. For over 15 years, AWS has helped more startups launch, build, and succeed than any other cloud provider. Since launching in 2013, AWS Activate has provided $6 billion (USD) in AWS Promotional Credits to startups globally.
RBCx
RBCx’s mission is to help innovators and tech companies scale and make an impact in the world by connecting them to the right people, ideas, and financial solutions that will help bring their bold ideas to life. As the tech and life sciences banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), RBCx leverages the bank’s deep institutional knowledge, scale and capital with its own extensive network of highly specialized tech industry advisers, ecosystem partners and investors to back some of Canada’s boldest and brightest innovators.
Creative Destruction Lab Vancouver
CDL-Vancouver is located in Vancouver, Canada at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. CDL's mission is to enhance the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind. CDL-Vancouver hosts four streams: Compute, Biomedical Engineering, Climate, Minerals. The program provides tailored mentorship to early stage founders building in the space across 9 months through its structured objectives based sprints.
The Vector Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), excelling in machine and deep learning. Vector's vision is to drive excellence and leadership in Canada’s knowledge, creation, and use of AI to foster economic growth and improve the lives of Canadians.
UBC Sauder School of Business
Photography and Recording Notice
Please be advised that this event will be photographed and recorded. Photos and recordings may be used for public relations and promotional purposes, including publication on the co-hosts' website and social media.