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Artificial Intelligence & The Singularity Conference

Tech Zulu Event

The conference will discuss, debate and imagine potential scenarios that could develop due to advances in Aritifical Intelligence. Below are the list of speakers: Peter Voss (Keynote Speaker) is an entrepreneur with a background in electronics, computer systems, business and technical software, as well as management.

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Are you still flexible enough to be coached?

Berkonomics

As an early-stage investor, the first test for me is whether “my” entrepreneur is flexible in both the plan and execution of their vision (since from experience almost everything about a business plan changes over time), and whether that person, no matter what age or experience, is coachable. Why should we ask this question?

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Retina is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to figure out customer lifetime value (CLV) for such businesses as Dollar Shave Club. We spoke with Retina's CEO, Michael Greenberg , to learn more. We see you do that through machine learning and artificial intelligence?

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Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In

Xconomy

Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively. That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time.

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Interview With Jamie Montgomery, March Capital Partners On The Firm's New Fund

socalTECH

We did our first close in the summer of 2014, and over the first nine months we raised our fund and started investing. Fund I was really focused on AI, and what we now call big data and machine learning, and we focused on the cloud and Internet infrastructure, plus made a couple of investments in India and in gaming.

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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. I am grateful to Mike Krenn, the venture group’s president, for his help on this project. I widened my net this year.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

I don't know if you've done a career test since leaving school, or thought much about your career, but it's career testing on steroids, using machine intelligence and artificial intelligence. That was in 2014, and that was our pivot moment. I can't help myself in being an entrepreneur.

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