GPTs Builders Summit @ Stanford University 🤖🚀
aligns.ai invites you to meet the builders behind the world's most popular GPTs. 🔥🌍
Since OpenAI's introduction of GPTs three months ago, over 3 million GPTs have been created. Join us for a first-ever global gathering of top builders whose GPTs stand out among over 3 million and featured by the GPT Store. We're proud to bring them together from the US 🇺🇸, Netherlands 🇳🇱, China 🇨🇳, Singapore 🇸🇬, India 🇮🇳, Japan 🇯🇵 and New Zealand 🇳🇿 to share first-hand insights into GPTs development. The event will also feature a panel discussion with GPTs builders, along with representatives from a major AI chatbot development platform and leading venture capital firms.
If you're eager to explore the future use cases of GPTs, learn how to drive traffic to your GPTs, dive into the burgeoning GPTs developer ecosystem, or discover the next big thing in AI for 2024, this unparalleled event is your source for answers – secure your spot now! 🚨📈
👋 Host: aligns.ai (non-profit AI community in Silicon Valley; Twitter @AlignsAI)
🤝 Cohost: Abotify™ (AI chatbot monetization solution provider - see abotify.com or Twitter @AbotifyAI)
🎉 Opening Remarks by Daniel Levine, Member of Product Team at OpenAI
🎙 Presentations by GPTs Builders Amassing Over 1 Million Chats
Sanket Shah, Abhilash Hande & Ankit Solanki, creators of "Video Maker by InVideo AI (100K+ chats)" (Sanket is the CEO, with Abhilash and Ankit as growth & marketing experts at InVideo, the 20th most used generative AI platform in the world)
Vicente Silveira & Karthik Ramasamy, creators of "Ai PDF (500K+ chats)"
Charly, creator of "Humanizer Pro (200K+ chats)"
Yota Ishikawa, creator of "Prompt Professor (10K+ chats)," "GIF Maker (5K+ chats)," and "GPT Finder (10K+ chats)"
Eric Cheng & Ethan Zheng, creators of "Resume (25K+ chats)"
Erich Hellstrom, creator of "Prompt Perfect (50K+ chats)"
Sherwyn D'souza, creator of "AI Song Maker (10K+ chats)"
Adrian, creator of "Copywriter GPT (25K+ chats)"
Alex Muz, creator of "Math Solver (50K+ chats)"
Sachin Kamath, creator of "Consistent Character GPT (100K+ chats)"
Leone, co-founder of Abotify™ (abotify.com)
Steven Xi, Managing Partner of Eastlink Capital
🎤 Panel Discussion
Ankit Solanki, creator of "Video Maker by InVideo AI"
Ethan Zheng, creator of "Resume"
Vanessa Larco, Partner of NEA (a leading venture capital firm)
Joshua Alphonse, Developer Advocate of Coze (an AI application and chatbot developing platform)
Karthik Ramasamy, creator of "Ai PDF"
We also thank Eastlink Capital and Yudy Deng for supporting this event!
🕒 Agenda
1:20 - 1:50 PM: Registration
1:50 - 2:05 PM: Opening Remarks by Daniel Levine, Member of Product Team at OpenAI
2:06 - 3:10 PM: Presentations by Featured GPTs Builders
3:11 - 3:23 PM: Presentation by Leone, Co-founder of Abotify™
3:25 - 3:30 PM: Break
3:31 - 3:41 PM: Presentation by Steven Xi, Managing Partner of Eastlink Capital
3:42 - 4:42 PM: Panel Discussion
4:43 - 5:17 PM: Presentations by Featured GPTs Builders
5:18 - 5:45 PM: Closing & Networking
(👇 Scroll down to view detailed profiles of the speakers)
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✨Investors & Development Platform✨
Vanessa Larco (NEA)
Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a Partner in 2016 and focuses on enterprise SaaS and consumer investing. She is passionate about well-designed products and services that enable people to be more productive and fulfilled at work and at home. Vanessa has led investments in Assembled, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, Mejuri, EvidentID, Greenlight Card, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Forethought AI, Safebase, Heavy.ai and Willow Pump. She was a board observer at Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) until its IPO in 2021.
Steven Xi (Eastlink Capital)
Steven Xi is a Managing Partner of Eastlink Capital, a Menlo Park based VC with the latest fund focusing on AI Infrastructure. Eastlink seeks mission-driven founders with unique technologies, and has invested in industry leaders including Databricks, TigerGraph, StreamNative, MotherDuck, Modal Labs and many more. Prior to co-founding Eastlink in 2014, Steven was a special advisor and Managing Director at Riverwood Capital, a tech focused global growth capital PE firm with over $3 Billion AUM. Mr. Xi earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, an MA in economics (PhD candidate in econometrics) from the University of Southern California.
Joshua Alphonse (Coze)
Joshua is an award-winning Developer Advocate, speaker, and engineer from New York. He is a Developer Advocate for Coze [https://www.coze.com], an AI bot building platform that empowers anyone to create AI bots without code.
Joshua has spent his time empowering developers to create innovative solutions using cutting-edge open-source technologies. Previously, Joshua worked at Wix, leading Product and R&D engagements for their Developer Relations Team. He successfully created content, tutorials, and curated events for the web and AI development community.
✨GPTs (hyperlinked) & Builders✨
1. Ai PDF (500K+ chats)
Builders:
Vicente Silveira
Vicente Silveira is the CEO and co-founder of AI Drive (myaidrive.com) and the AI PDF GPT - the number#1 GPT for documents with more than 200K registered users. Prior to co-founding AI Drive, Vicente held product and data science management roles at WhatsApp, Uber and LinkedIn. Vicente has shipped privacy features for WhatsApp and risk models for Uber and LinkedIn. Vicente is also on the board of BayBrazil (baybrazil.org), a non-profit organization connecting Brazilian entrepreneurs, investors and professionals.
Karthik Ramasamy
Karthik Ramasamy is the CTO and co-founder of AI Drive (myaidrive.com) and the AI PDF GPT - the number#1 GPT for documents with more than 200K registered users. Prior to this Karthik led ML teams at Google, Uber, and LinkedIn. He led the development of the first on-device computer vision model at Uber and was GCP lead for shipping tensorboard.dev.
Speech: OpenAI Will Not Kill Your Startup
2. Humanizer Pro (200K+ chats)
Builder: Charly
Student and entrepreneur, developed GPTs including Humanizer Pro, Thumbnail Expert and TalentRecruit. Currently leading an agency, CharlyAl, dedicated to developing customized AI chatbots and agents for businesses and individuals looking forward to automating repetitive and mundane tasks.
Speech: The Future of GPTs and Software as a Service
3. Video Maker by InVideo AI (100K+ chats)
Builders:
Abhilash Hande
Abhilash is on the founding team for invideo.io where he leads product marketing. He has developed an in-depth understanding of content marketing, influencer marketing, and SAAS sales over the last decade working across a mix of startups and content agencies, and has played a key role in launching and scaling core GTM channels at Invideo.
Ankit Solanki
Ankit studied finance & investing, and started his career as a tech investor at a venture capital firm in India. Over half a decade, he invested in 30+ tech startups and built a portfolio worth well over $500 million. In 2015, he switched over to the other side. After working at a failed fintech startup, he joined one of his portfolio companies, InVideo, as part of the founding team. Riding the roller coaster of a high potential & high growth startup instead of watching from the stands seemed like an obvious choice. At InVideo, he has developed expertise in taking initiatives from zero to one and scaling them from one to N across Go-To-Market (GTM) channels like Search and the Creator Marketplace.
4. Consistent Character GPT (100K+ chats)
Builder: Sachin Kamath
Sachin is the co-founder of AI Lemon Academy and formerly a senior tech leader at P&G. He helps creative leaders and teams to unlock the full potential of AI in their creative process, from concept to execution, resulting in 10X creative output and increased ROI. He loves drawing and surfing in his free time.
Speech: Creating Consistent Characters Is Now Super Easy
5. Math Solver (50K+ chats)
Builder: Alex Muz
Founder of StudyX.AI and creator of Math Solver GPT.
Speech: AI Revolution: New Tools in Learning & Education
6. Prompt Perfect (50K+ chats)
Builder: Erich Hellstrom
Erich built an early ChatGPT plugin and GPT, Prompt Perfect. His focus is on developing user-friendly, efficient AI solutions that unlock new possibilities in work and life for everyday people.
Speech: Not a Search Engine | Teaching Users to Prompt Properly
7. Resume (25K+ chats)
Builders:
Ethan Zheng
Ethan Zheng holds a Ph.D. in AI and Databases and has an impressive background in technology and leadership. He formerly spearheaded the ads ranking service at Twitter as an engineering lead and later took charge of the local news feed recommendation system at Newsbreak. Currently, he is a co-founder of Jobright.ai.
Eric Cheng
Eric Cheng, as an early startup engineer at Box.com, participated in the company's journey from its inception to becoming a unicorn. Afterwards, Eric returned to China and founded Fangcloud. As the CEO, he drove Fangcloud from zero into a leading enterprise content collaboration SaaS in China, serving 50,000 businesses. The company raised $25 million in funding from top-tier investors like Lightspeed and Matrix, and was acquired in 2020. Currently, Eric is the founder of Jobright.ai, working on creating the next-generation AI native job platform.
Speech: LLM: A New Weapon to Solve the Job Matching Problem
8. Copywriter GPT (25K+ chats)
Builder: Adrian
Adrian is the creator behind 'Copywriter GPT,' a popular GPT model on the OpenAI store, with daily usage of 1-2K. Adrian's journey encompasses both industry and research. He has successfully led AI/ML industry projects with impacts reaching up to a million dollars, and earned notable recognitions such as patent and instrumentation awards. In the realm of AI research, Adrian has also received accolades, including a best paper nomination and conference travel award. Based in Singapore, Adrian's profound passion lies in the unraveling of human psychology and the creation of AI-driven products that deeply resonate with people.
Speech: Copywriter GPT: Personalizing Viral Marketing Strategies with AI
9. Prompt Professor (10K+ chats)
Builder: Yota Ishikawa
Yota Ishikawa is the CEO of tempi, Inc. He runs ChatGPT-related media in Japan with a total of about 80k followers. His creations, "Prompt Professor" and "GPT Finder", have achieved recognition in the GPT Store. Now he operates GPTs Lab, a media outlet dedicated to GPTs information.
Speech: Exploring the Depths of GPTs: My Journey with ChatGPT
10. AI Song Maker (10K+ chats)
Builder: Sherwyn D'souza
"Kia Ora/Hello" from Sherwyn, a New Zealand-based software engineer with a passion for AI, particularly in Large Language Models. His journey in AI started with curiosity and led him to create AI Song Maker on the GPT Store. He's also interested in enhancing LLMs' understanding beyond their training, through methods like knowledge graphs and RAG.
Speech: AI Song Maker and the GPT Store