Robotics, AI, and Machine Learning: Tech Trends and Investing

science of making intelligent machines, is now a popular area for investing and technical development.   We explore new trends for  machine-learning technologies and big data. Understand the challenges in designing computers to understand and interpret natural language in the  same way as human brain power.  

Understand how to attract investors and develop business strategies to become successful, and tap into emerging markets for AI and Robotics.
Identify the new trends and how can your company take advantage of business opportunities.
Discover the critical factors to assess valuations for startups in this market
Learn how Fortune 500 companies should form partnerships with startups and investors to identify new areas for R and D in these markets
Hear investment trends for data and machine intelligence and hear top startups pitch
Evaluate strategies to attract funding for a robotics or AI ventures
Consider challenges facing enterprise users for adoption and use of robots

Learn how cutting-edge companies use AI technologies to solve complex problems for industry, enterprise, government, and national security in these markets:

communications
cyber and national security
enterprise
infrastructure
healthcare
manufacturing

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4:30-5:15 Workshop: How to Raise Funding for AI and Robotics StartupsJayanthi Rangarajan, CEO, SuccessInc.5:15-6:15 Networking, Demo Showcase tables, drinks and food6:15-7:30  AI and Robotics TrendsPanel of angels, investors, VCs, and experts discuss market opportunities. Speakers will be followed by startups pitching.

Kartik Gada, Executive Director, Woodside Capital

Michael Novikov, Investor

7:30-8:30 Networking and Demo Showcase Tables
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INVESTORS OR TECH EXECS SPEAK ON PANEL AND JUDGE STARTUPSWe invite speakers for panel and experts or give a short talk. Send email to speak@angellaunch.com with link to bio and areas of expertise. Qualified investors include angels, VCs, corporate, strategic.
WHO SHOULD ATTENDStartups, tech, engineers, investors, consumer electronics, enterprise, web development, chip design,venture capitalists, angels, small business owners, media and entertainment professionals, retail owners, entrepreneurs, mobile, Internet, digital media, startups, service providers, legal, financial services. 

STARTUPS  PITCH (THESE SPOTS SELL OUT QUICKLY)For this event, startups must be relevant to the AI, Robotics or Machine Learning, either software or hardware.  If you are not sure, send us an email. Demo@Angellaunch.com. Startups can register to pitch. You get 1 minute after your pitch for questions.  HOST A DEMO EXHIBITOR TABLE  Host a demo table during our networking session in our room to meet investors; customers, and partners. Includes Wifi and outlet. Does not include Exhibit hall reception, just in our room.. Refund Policy: We do not issue refunds, but tickets may be used by others or used as credit for the amount you paid to a future event.
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Speakers

Kartik Gada
Executive Director
Woodside Capital
Kartik Gada has 20 years of experience across investment banking, hedge funds, and technology business unit management. At Woodside Capital, his focus is on Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, and other advanced, high-impact technologies.
He was previously a Managing Director at Reliance Capital. Before that, he founded 3D Strategies Management, a commodities futures hedge fund that was among the highest returning small funds during that period, with portfolio returns of 70%/year from 2009-13. Earlier, he was a Director at Netgear, responsible for the full P&L of the $250M consumer products division, launching 14 of Netgear’s 20 biggest products at the time.
Kartik is the author of a widely read book on the new economics of technology, The ATOM (http://atom.singularity2050.com/), that has been featured in a Google Talk, multiple television programs, and numerous keynotes, including at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. He teaches a popular finance class at Stanford University, and is scheduled to add an additional class about the economics of disruptive technologies.
Kartik has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and is the entrepreneurship co-chair for the UMichBay Area Alumni Board. He additionally studied engineering at Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University.
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Michael Novikov, Angel Investor

Knowledge investor. He's been a founder & CEO, ADMIN Ltd. (www.adminltd.com) since 1998, a St. Petersburg, then San Francisco based consultancy focused on mobile content & Internet industry development, e-commerce, high-tech VC investments, an organizer of Russian E-Commerce Conference (1998-2001), Internet & Investments Forum (2000, 2002), Mobile VAS Conference (2004-2012). He's a founder of MobileMonday St. Petersburg, an investor in high-tech companies (in RU, UK, US), a mentor at Momentum Accelerator (a mobile startup incubator, San Francisco).Previously he was a marketing manager at Arcadia Inc, a scientist at Zoological Institute RAS. In 1995 he worked for Finnish Academy of Sciences and University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, and in 1994 for the US Government in Hawaii.He was a jury member of Interactive Publishing TOP Award (Zurich), Russia editor at EuropeMedia (London), organizer of First Tuesday St. Petersburg. He attended Esther Dyson's High-Tech Forums, 2nd EU/CEEC Forum on Information Society (European ministerial telecom conference, Prague, 1996). He was invited to 8th Regulatory Colloquium of ITU/WorldBank (a meeting of telecom regulators aimed to address policies & regulatory issues surrounding electronic commerce; Geneva, 1998). He's a frequent event speaker: German-Russian Forum (Berlin, 2000), Russian Internet Forum (Moscow, 2002), RBCC St. Petersburg International Investment Forum (2006), MobileMonday Global Summit (Helsinki, 2006), Nordic Mobile Media (Riga, 2006), Optimizing OSS & Service Provisioning (Prague, 2008), Digital Marketing Forum (Moscow, 2009), MDays (Frankfurt, 2012), Horasis Global Russia Business Meeting (Luxembourg, 2012), New Materials for Aerospace (San Francisco, 2015), Investments in Aerospace (Menlo Park, 2016).He studied biology at St. Petersburg State University & at a PhD program, Zoological Institute RAS; economics & management at LETI-Lovanium International School of Management (St. Petersburg).