Speakers
Ash Kumra
Head of Community · The GenAI Collective
An award-winning speaker, event producer, and radio show host, Ash has been honored by the White House with the EMPACT 100 for his contributions to entrepreneurship. Currently, he serves as the Head of Events and Community for The AI Collective, the world’s largest AI movement boasting 70,000+ members across 25+ global chapters.
Scott Stanford
ACME Capital · ACME Capital
Scott Stanford is a co-founder and managing partner at ACME Capital, where he focuses on investing in deep tech ventures and guiding portfolio companies in areas like AI and emerging technologies. With over 25 years of experience in the technology sector, he previously co-founded Sherpa Capital and Silicon Foundry, and spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs co-leading Global Internet Investment Banking. There, he advised on more than $80 billion in transactions and collaborated with major firms such as Facebook, Google, Uber, LinkedIn, and Palantir. His expertise includes venture capital, technology advisory, and fostering innovation in high-growth tech ecosystems.
Xuhui Shao
Managing Partner of Foothill Ventures · Foothill Ventures
Dr. Xuhui Shao is a founding partner of Foothill Ventures, an early stage deep-tech venture fund based in silicon valley. Before that he has been Yahoo's VP-II Engineering in charge of Yahoo’s global display ads platforms; Founding technologist of Ad Tech pioneer company Turn ($310M exit) and AI risk management company ID Analytics ($170M exit). Xuhui is an early investor of Plus.AI, Weride.AI and Certik - all subsequent unicorn companies.