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AI Business and Investing Trends

June 13, 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm +04

About the Event: 

Artificial intelligence has fast become the theme of the decade, influencing things as different as how one selects an employee and how banks fight fraud to how investors evaluate startups. New, socially transformative applications launch daily. Leading angel investor Ron Weissman provides his expertise on how the technology community should think about starting, working with and investing in AI and machine learning companies. Dr. Weissman will discuss the evolution of AI, how AI is being applied to different industry sectors and how investors think about AI.

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Ronald Weissman is Chairman of the Software Group of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley’s oldest angel organization. He has been a Band member since 2007. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Angel Capital Association, the umbrella organization for angel groups and angel investing activity in North America. He has more than twenty years of experience in venture and angel capital investing.

Ron regularly advises corporate venture funds and innovation programs at G2000 companies. Ron invests in enterprise IoT, Fintech, analytics and AI vertical market solutions and in Health IT. Between his twelve years as an active angel and his VC career, Ron has led or co-lead 30+ investments, has advised 75+ companies and has served on 30+ Boards of Directors.

Ron advises companies on AI, capital strategies, angel and venture finance and regional startup ecosystems, and private company board governance. He has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, UC Berkeley and at the University of Santa Clara’s schools of Law and Business, The American University of Armenia and universities in Europe. He has also lectured US White House staff and key regional development teams on the links between private capital investing, next generation networks and regional economic development.

Prior to joining the Silicon Valley technology community in 1990, Ron served (1976-1988) as associate professor of history and then director of academic computing and finally, assistant to the president for planning at the University of Maryland, College Park (and convinced the national archives to build Archives II on campus), and (1989) assistant VP of academic computing at Brown University where he also served on the history faculty. He also served on advisory boards for Apple, Sun, IBM, NeXT and Microsoft.

Language: English

 

Details

Date:
June 13, 2019
Time:
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm +04
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Organizer

Akian College of Science and Engineering (CSE)
Phone
+374 60 69 40 40; +374 60 61 26 38
Email
info@aua.am, cse@aua.am
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Venue

308E, PAB
Baghramyan 40
Yerevan, Armenia
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