Enterprise AI Adoption Summit: From Infra to Impact
Explore how AI moves from research to real-world enterprise adoption — and what it takes to build, fund, and scale AI-powered innovation.
Join us for an exclusive afternoon for the Enterprise AI Adoption Summit with Startup Expo during #SeattleTechWeek hosted by Foothill Ventures, Nebius, FutureBuilders — an afternoon of insights and real talk on what it takes to build, fund, and scale AI in the enterprise. This event brings together top minds from venture capital, frontier research, and corporate innovation to explore how cutting-edge AI moves from academic labs to startup roadmaps — and ultimately into real-world products that drive business value.
Whether you’re an investor, builder, or operator, this is your front-row seat to where AI is headed — and how to be part of it.
Event Agenda:
3:00 PM: Check-in and Networking
4:00 PM: Opening and Cohost Intros
4:30 PM: Panel #1: From Academia to Application: How AI Research Fuels Startups and Industry
To be announced
5:30 PM: Panel #2: From Model to Market: The Real Path to Enterprise AI Adoption
To be announced
6:30 PM: Startup Demos
6 PNW's startup demo keynote
If you're building something for Enterprise AI innovation, apply to get participate in this session here. We'd love to hear from you!
7:30 PM: Networking & Happy Hour
8:00 PM: Event End (venue closes)
Who Should Attend
Startup founders and technical builders exploring AI innovation
Corporate product and innovation leaders integrating AI into existing systems
VCs focused on AI, infrastructure, and enterprise SaaS
Researchers and engineers interested in commercialization and real-world impact
Anyone curious about the business of turning AI models into market-ready products
Event Host:
Foothill Ventures: Foothill Ventures is a $300M fund that bets on highly technical, very early-stage companies in frontier tech. We are based in Los Altos, California. We are investing in seed and series A startups in North America. Learn more at https://www.foothill.ventures/.
FutureBuilders: Future Builders is a non-profit builder community, with our mission to empower underrepresented founders and help them unlock their startup potential. Through mentorship programs, hackathons, pitch competitions, and meetups, we guide builders toward becoming successful startup entrepreneurs. We cultivate founding teams and pave the way for entry into incubators and initial funding rounds. Learn more at https://futurebuilders.dev/.
Nebius: The Nebius AI Cloud brings powerful full-stack infrastructure for AI developers and practitioners across startups, enterprises and science institutes to build and deploy generative AI applications and rapidly deliver scientific breakthroughs by training and running ML models within a secure, high-performance, and cost-optimized cloud environment. Learn more at https://nebius.com/.
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