Investor Only Future of Deep Tech Summit: AI, Quantum, Aerospace, Robotics, & National Security by FIC & DTI

​The Future of Deep Tech & its convergence will radically change how humans interact with the each other & the world. These exponential technologies can take us off-world, cure diseases, protect us, and automate labor. They have also created a tech arms race against our adversaries.

​Join the Female Investors Club (FIC) & DTI for an investor panel, talks, and networking with a highly-curated audience. Investor Panel featuring Riot Ventures Meghan Moreland, Calibrate Ventures Katie Vasquez, SPLYCAP GP Drew Leahy, DRA Family Office Partner Rose Vitale, and more. Talks will be on Quantum Intelligence by founder and inventor ​Laquelle Mari, National Security Tech by DTI COO & Defense Acquisitions Veteran Drew Busbee, and next-gen space tech by deep tech entrepreneur Kate Lynch.

​"Beyond the Neural Frontier: Quantum-AI-Photonics and the Rise of Deterministic Intelligence" ​Laquelle Mari will introduce an emerging space of Quantum Digital Intelligence, which opens the door to interpretable, scalable AI, with multi-dimensional representation, and purpose-built for edge.

​Drew Busbee will discuss how the future of national security depends on translating emerging tech into next-gen capabilities. Programs like SBIR, STRATFI, and TACFI - led by AFWERX and SpaceWERX - are accelerating this shift and bridging non-dilutive funding with private innovation to unlock deployable space tech and high-impact investment opportunities.

​Planet Earth's future and flourishing is largely dependent upon creating a limitless economy through space.  Kate Lynch presents a look at that abundant future through next generation technologies that create access and infrastructure for off-world resources, industrialization, and colonization.

​Meghan Moreland s a deep-tech investor with Riot Ventures, an LA-based firm investing in hardware and software companies modernizing our most critical industries from pre-seed through pre-IPO. Meghan graduated with honors from the University of Texas and has been supporting founders in the LA ecosystem for the past decade.

​Drew Busbee, is COO of DTI and has spent the last decade supporting early-stage, dual-use startups to navigate the federal funding landscape and have helped portfolio companies secure 500+ million in government contracts and non-dilutive financing. He is a founding member of several government innovation organizations, secured multiple cooperative research and development agreements between venture firms and the DOD, and has spent time as a Defense Ventures Fellow.

​​Laquelle Mari is Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of a stealth Quantum+AI Company, X17 Labs Founder | Co-Founding member of LG Electronic’s LG NOVA Capital Alliance | Co-Inventor, Quantum-Photonic AI System | Market Innovation Strategist  | Frontier IP-to-Market Dual-Use Systems Architect  Laquelle's background spans global-scale full product development cycle for Fortune 500s, executive training under Intel’s former Chief Strategy Officer, and advisory roles to sovereign networks and multibillion-dollar family offices.

​Katie Vasquez is an investor at Calibrate Ventures, an early stage deep tech firm.. She has an Astrophysics B.Sc. With Honors, is DIAP Undergraduate Award Recipient and Smiley Prize for Excellent Contribution to the Astronomy Program at Brown University.

​Drew Leahy currently serves as a GP at SPLYCAP ($120m AUM), a late stage deal-by-deal vehicle in partnership with family offices worldwide. As previous 2x founder, Drew brings over a decade of experience managing venture capital funds, having successfully raised and deployed eight-figure investments from prominent international investors, fueling significant growth in B2B SaaS, AI, deeptech, and media sectors.

​Kate Lynch is a deep tech entrepreneur with a focus on the convergence of deep tech, the future of on-Earth and off-world infrastructure, negotiation, geopolitics, and finance. Her technical focus is in aerospace, AI, blockchain, and novel forms of compute. Kate is also co-creator of the Female Investors Club.

​Rose Vitale, managing partner of the DRA Family Office, is a seasoned entrepreneur-turned-private investor known for defying traditional investment norms in women-owned businesses. She has spearheaded various philanthropic and mentoring initiatives, including launching FundHer World Capital to transform capital flow to female-founded businesses.

​​Jennifer Byrne is Co-Founder of The FIC and is a General Partner at Grit Capital Partners and former executive at American Express and Verizon. She launched the world's first and largest Female Founders in FinTech & InsurTech accelerator -over 500 women-led startups participated, raising over $1.8B.

​Special thanks to the FIC's team: Investor/Founder Jessie Somekh, VC Stephanie Nwokolo, VC Dina Khattab. Contact: info@joinfic.org

​THE BR-DGE is an outreach program for technology transfer and transition (T3). The program is powered by Disruptive Technology Index (DTI), a California nonprofit, in partnership with SpaceWERX, the US Space Force’s innovation arm for technology advancement. We support small businesses as they leverage the Small Business Administration’s SBIR/STTR program and aim to help further commercialize their dual-use technology efforts through programming and ecosystem building. With the sector projected to grow from $630 billion in 2023 to $1.8 trillion by 2035, THE BR-DGE serves as the center of gravity supporting entrepreneurs building space capabilities for the rapidly growing space economy.

​​FIC is here to support, educate and encourage more Female investors on their tech investment journeys which includes sharing insights, learnings and investment opportunities.

​We are tech-oriented investors: Angels, LPs, GPs, Family Offices, Asset Managers, Allocators, Wealth Managers, Funds of Funds, Endowments, Pensions, and women starting their tech investment journey this year.

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