Seattle Startup Summit 2025 - AI Dev Tools
If you've ever wanted to get in on the startup ecosystem, this is where it's at. Seattle Startup Summit is the biggest startup event in Seattle. This year's theme is AI Dev Tools.
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Come join for your chance to:
Interact with ~80 companies
Learn from industry leaders
See 50+ demos
Network with other technical leaders, founders, and investors
Be part of the inaugural Seattle Startup Summit
Agenda (Main Ballroom)
8:00 - 9:00: Arrival and exhibit hall opens
9:15 - 9:25: Intro
9:25 - 9:45: Fireside Chat w/ Pasquale DeMaio, VP at AWS: 0 to 100M / The Scale Up, moderated by Yujian Tang, CEO @ OSS4AI
9:50 - 10:10: Fireside Chat w/ Vijaye Raji, CEO at Statsig and Ben Gilbert, Co-Host @ Acquired Podcast
10:15 - 11:00: The AI Stack
Alex Yeh, CEO, GMI Cloud
Rob Williams, CTO, Read AI
Tony Holdstock-Brown, CEO, Inngest
11:05 - 11:50: Enterprise Insights moderated by Mamtha Banerjee, Managing Director @ JPMC
Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
Denny Lee, Principal Dev Advocate, Databricks
Yina Arenas, Vice President, Microsoft Core AI
12:00 - 1:30: Lunch
1:00 - 4:00: Showcase
3 minutes each, 1 minute between, 13 per hour
Start each batch of 12 at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30
4:00 - 4:20: Fireside Chat w/ Jon Turow, Partner at Madrona: AI Agents: Infrastructure, Usage, and Evolution, moderated by Grace Gong, Host @ Smart Venture Podcast
4:20 - 5:00: Networking and leaving
Agenda (Workshops)
12:00 - 1:00: GitHub Copilot
1:00 - 2:00: Lamini
2:00 - 3:00: RAG from Scratch w/ Pinecone
3:00 - 4:00: Orkes
4:00 - 5:00: Boundary
Premier Sponsors
Elite Sponsors
Exhibitors
LiquidMetal AI
Elastic
Inngest
Arize AI
GMI Cloud
Hydra AI/Tambo
Pinecone
CodeIntegrity
SampleApp AI
Galileo
Early (Early AI)
Oumi
Lamini
Countsy
JPMC
Seattle Open Source Ecosystem (PyLadies, PyData, Spark)
B.E.L.L.E
Statsig
GitHub
Clarify AI
VISIBLE
Actual AI
Daytona
Entelligence
DigiFab AI
Boundary
Viata
Flickbloom
NewTech NW
Orkes
AI Tinkerers
Future Builderz
OpenPipe
Datastax
WeCP
MeeBoss
InstilluxAI
Spice AI
Demos
View demo list here. (30 of 39 filled)
Community Partners
Madrona
Anthos
Ascend
PyData Seattle
GDG Bellevue
PyLadies Seattle
AI Tinkerers
Women in Data Science
AICamp
Cerebral Valley
Mozilla AI
B.E.L.L.E
Young Tech Seattle
Social Media
Organizing Team
Volunteers