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Silicon Valley's Largest Pitch Event

NOV 15 - 16, 2025

Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025

10,000+ ATTENDEEs | 1,000+ STARTUPs | 1,000+ VCs

About Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025

The Bay Area Founders Club is excited to host the "2nd Global AI Pitch Summit Silicon Valley 2025" on Nov 15–16, 2025, at Santa Clara Convention Center.

We’re collaborating with Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge to spotlight the next generation of potential unicorns.

This global gathering is expected to bring together over 10,000 attendees, 1,000+ startups, and 1,000+ leading VCs from around the world.

Whether you're an emerging founder, a seasoned investor, or a curious technologist, the summit offers two days of high-impact networking, world-class pitches, and thought-provoking conversations that will shape the global AI landscape.

Global AI Pitch: Silicon Valley's premier event for AI innovation, networking, and growth

10,000+ 
Attendees

1,000+ 
VCs

1,000+ 
Startups

Speakers

They've Spoken

Steve Adler

Steve Adler

Former Mayor of Austin in Texas

James da Costa

James da Costa

Partner at a16z

Khalil Fuller

Khalil Fuller

Partner at Pear VC

Ameya Jadhav

Ameya Jadhav

Investor at General Catalyst

Miko Matsumura

Miko Matsumura

Managing Partner gCC Venture Capital

Andy Zhu

Andy Zhu

2015 Warren Buffett Charity Lunch Winner

David Hefter

David Hefter

AI Champion for Investments at BlackRock

Anna Piñol

Anna Piñol

Partner at NFX

Collin Wallace

Collin Wallace

General Partner at Lobby Capital

David Gerster

David Gerster

Investment Partner at Fusion Fund

Ilya Strebulaev

Ilya Strebulaev

Stanford GSB Professor
Bestselling Author

Alex Dang

Alex Dang

Senior Advisor at McKinsey
Bestselling Author

Brandon Farwell

Brandon Farwell

General Partner at Xfund
Harvard Business School

Peter Walker

Peter Walker

Head of Insights at Carta

Niamh O'Donnell

Niamh O'Donnell

Director of Programs at Unusual Ventures

Meet Our Organizers

Paul Fang

Paul Fang

President at Bay Area Founders Club

Joseph Pigato

Joseph Pigato

President at Stanford Entrepreneurs

Ryan JB Taylor

Ryan JB Taylor

Early Stage Investor @ Fusion Fund | AI & Deep Tech

Sophie Ren

Sophie Ren

Board Member of Stanford Entrepreneurs, Chatslide.AI Co-founder

Stephen D. Torres

Stephen D. Torres

Entrepreneur | Educator | Venture Catalyst

Meet Our Hosts

Bay Area Founders Club
Stanford Entrepreneurs
Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs TC
Stanford Alumni Women’s Impact Network
Startups

They came as small startups

Investors

They came as Investors

a16z
Unusual Ventures
LifeX Ventures
Softbank
NFX
J17 Ventures
BlackRock
Fusion Fund
Tess Ventures
General Catalyst
gCC Venture Capital
Y+ Ventures
Pear VC
DCM Ventures
Leonis Capital
500 Global
Xfund
Embedding VC
Partners

Gold Sponsors

LiberNovo

World's First Dynamic Ergonomic Chair

They've Sponsored

AWS

AWS offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.

Fetch AI

Build, deploy and monetize AI apps and services.

Pale Blue Dot

The Marketplace of AI Cloud.

Andy Zhu

2015 Warren Buffett Charity Lunch Winner

AEHL

Next Generation Infrastructure to Power AI

Agenda

Previous Agenda

New agenda coming soon.

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GAP Highlight

DAY 1

1. The Future We Lead:
Harnessing AI for a Better World

Steve Adler

3. The investment Horizon: Emerging Trends in AI

James Da Costa & Komal Vij

5. Bots with Wallets

Miko Matsumura

7. Fastest Way to eye-catching video Promptlessly on Mobile

Terry Roston

9. AI for Good: Startup innovation 

Nabila Elsassar & Ahmad Rushdi

2. Leading the change:
Next FANG

Paul Fang, Alec Walker, Sophie Ren

4. The Future of AI and Machine Learning: What's the Next Big Investment Opportunity

Niamh O'Donnell, Ronald Ratcliffe,
Gloria Zhang

6. Fueling Language Intelligence:
Why Data is the Engine of LLM training

Steven Feng

8. DBC AI Public Chain:
The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure for Decentralized AI

Ella Zhang

DAY 2

1. Agent Infrastructure:
Empowering the next Generation of Autonomy and Innovation

Sana Wajid

3. The challenge of Adopting AI in Enterprise

David Hefter

5. From Sparks to Limits: The evolution of ChatGPT and the Bottleneck of LLMs

Jenny Xiao

7. Traits of international startup ecosystems and AI adoption

Rutvik Deepak

9. How to Get Involved in the Silicon Valley Startup Ecosystem

Asor Arabjanov, Patricia Liu,
Joseph Pigato, Sophie Ren,
Mariane Bekker, Aishwarya Srinivasan

11. VC Mindest: Funding Strategies for future AI titans

Ilya Strebulaev & Alex Dang

2. Why AI taking over web2 and web3

Tess Hay & Micheal Terpin

4. Demystifying AI Startup Fundraising: Valuation Trends Funding Insights and Founders Ownership

Peter Walker

6. Identifying and Investing in AI- Native Startups

John Whaley

8. AI + Education:
Prepare Our kids for an AI world

Jun Liu

10. The State of Venture Capital 2025: Venture Capital Investment in AI startups

Lindsey S. Migano

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