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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit17 min
Wes Cummins, Founder & CEO of Applied Digital: Ellendale’s Purpose Built AI Factory in North Dakota
Applied Digital is expanding its high-power density data center operations by securing a 400-megawatt contract with CoreWeave to construct a North Dakota campus utilizing stranded wind energy and designed for AI workloads. The company transitioned from Bitcoin mining to Tier 3 semiconductor-grade infrastructure after spending $5 billion on this project to ensure "five nines" reliability and extreme cooling standards for hyperscalers. With approximately 3% ownership by NVIDIA, the firm is capitalizing on the shortage of available power sites in the U.S. heartland while planning future phases that will integrate gas assets and explore nuclear options like small modular reactors.
- RAISE Summit17 min
RAISE 2025 : Fireside Chat with Amit Bendov, CEO & Co Founder of Gong
Amit Bendov, Brian Bauman, Amit Bhandav
Founded by Amit Bhandav to solve CRM data gaps, Gong.io leverages autonomous AI to capture sales communication and transform enterprise productivity from manual entry to instant, context-aware insights. Operating on a maturity scale between assisted and near-autonomous levels, the platform currently handles high-volume administrative tasks while preserving human judgment for high-liability decisions. As enterprise leaders demand integrated AI for revenue generation, Gong drives adoption by eliminating briefing bottlenecks for Fortune 500 clients while fostering a unique culture that prioritizes employee personal branding and deep client relationships.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Alex Laubscher, CTO of Windsurf: Engineering at the Speed of Change
Alex Laubscher, Dimitris Bontolos
Windsurf has transitioned from a basic coding tool to an AI agentic IDE, rapidly evolving to enable enterprises to write approximately 90% of their code while tackling complex legacy systems through advanced retrieval and memory capabilities. The platform supports this high-velocity adaptation by integrating design files, reducing project iteration times from months to days as seen with partners like Ferrovial, and targeting a 99% productivity increase in software engineering. To secure global enterprise adoption, the company recently established a Frankfurt data center to guarantee GDPR and FedRAMP compliance, ensuring data sovereignty for clients in sensitive sectors while preparing to scale from 100 to hundreds of large European organizations.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Or Lenchner - CEO of BrightData : The Data Awakening Defining the Future of AI
Bright Data, the world's largest web data collection infrastructure provider, successfully defended its scraping practices in high-profile lawsuits against Meta and X, establishing a legal precedent that defines public data as information freely accessible without login barriers. Serving as the primary data source for major AI labs, the company supplies over 40 billion daily website interactions for training Large Language Models while maintaining strict standards against filtering private or paywalled content. Looking ahead, Bright Data predicts a "dual internet" architecture emerging within six to twelve months that accommodates both human users and autonomous AI agents, eventually evolving into a robotics-focused era where these foundational data models enable complex physical automation.
- Milken Institute16 min
Conversation with Venezuelan Democratic Movement Leader María Corina Machado | Global Conference
María Corina Machado, Sara Eisen
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado frames the Maduro regime as a global criminal hub that threatens hemispheric security while outlining a strategy to restore a trillion-dollar economy through immediate U.S. partnership and debt restructuring. She asserts that her coalition won a historic election by 70 percent and is prepared to assume power to dismantle drug trafficking networks, re-establish financial ties with the IMF, and serve as a protective shield for the Americas. Machado emphasizes that this transition relies on aligning with a law enforcement approach to isolate the regime and leverage Venezuelan natural resources to rebuild the nation within days of taking office.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Eastern European Dynamism: Rayscho Raychev & Delian Asparouhov on Space Tech & AI Innovation
Rayscho Raychev, Delian Asparouhov, Deleon Asparov, Raicho Raichev, Vyacheslav Tykhonovskyi
Deleon Asparov of Founders Fund and Endurosat CEO Raicho Raichev discuss how the Bulgarian space company scaled from bootstrapping to securing rapid venture capital while deploying over 60 satellites. Raichev highlights Endurosat's strategy of using AI to slash data costs and eliminate traditional mission control, contrasting the region's "survivalist" work culture and 10% flat tax against stagnant Western European economies. The panel concludes by predicting that Eastern Europe will lead a defense and technology renaissance driven by geopolitical necessity, aiming to reduce reliance on the United States and prevent the decoupling of critical industrial sectors.
- RAISE Summit16 min
Ori Goshen, Co-founder & Co-CEO of AI21 Labs: AI - All The Work!
AI21 co-founders Ori Goshen, Yoav Shoham, and Amnon Shashua launched Maestro, a model-agnostic platform designed to automate complex enterprise workflows by generating multiple execution plans and preventing compounding errors in multi-step tasks. Internal benchmarks demonstrate that integrating Maestro with existing foundation models significantly boosts accuracy and allows developers to control computational budgets while maintaining full visibility into agent reasoning. The company frames this technology within a "super productivity" strategy where automating routine tasks empowers humans to execute faster and solve underserved market problems rather than simply reducing headcount.
- RAISE Summit13 min
Alison Wagonfeld @ Google Cloud: Marketing in the AI Era
Google Cloud marketing is pivoting from theoretical planning to active AI execution, targeting key challenges like staffing shortages and budget constraints through tools such as generative asset creation and the VO3 video model. This shift has redirected 75% of team focus toward strategic work while replacing expensive traditional production with self-service agents and real-time personalization features like location-aware digital billboards. As the industry enters a predicted "golden age of marketing," leaders are urged to embrace these transformative capabilities beyond simple workflow digitization to redefine customer interaction within the next two years.
- Sequoia Capital15 min
The $10 Trillion AI Revolution: Why It’s Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
Sequoia Capital frames the current AI landscape as a "cognitive revolution" poised to expand the $10 trillion U.S. services market by applying the "specialization imperative" to transform general-purpose infrastructure into specific high-value applications. The firm targets startups like Harvey, Factory, and Nominal that deliver tangible leverage in professional roles, while anticipating a shift in investment metrics toward real-world performance, reinforcement learning, and compute efficiency per knowledge worker. Looking 12 to 18 months ahead, Sequoia prioritizes breakthroughs in persistent memory, autonomous agent communication protocols, AI voice interfaces, and comprehensive security layers to accelerate the creation of large-scale public service companies.
- All-In Podcast12 min
Every Investor Needs To Understand This Concept - David Friedberg
David Friedberg, Chamath, Jason, Nick, Zach
Venture capital returns are driven by power-law distributions where a small fraction of outliers generate the vast majority of value, a reality illustrated by companies like Palantir and Facebook that added trillions in market cap years after going public. While top-tier funds can achieve 30% internal rates of return compared to 10% for median performers, successful investing requires identifying these specific winners rather than indexing the market, as broader exposure often leads to negative returns. The industry is simultaneously shifting toward hybrid private-equity models with continuation funds and strip sales to manage liquidity, yet maintaining consistent alpha remains exceptionally difficult as successful firms transition into fee-gathering asset aggregators.
- All-In Podcast10 min
The Hidden Crisis Modern Men Are Facing - Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason, Friedberg, Nick
This event analyzes the convergence of social, economic, and psychological factors driving a historic decline in marriage and homeownership among young Americans, highlighting causes such as social skill erosion, parasocial dependencies, and housing policy failures. Experts discuss how wage stagnation, student debt traps, and the institutionalization of real estate markets have created a "university trap" that leaves a generation financially vulnerable compared to high-earning tradespeople. The discussion concludes by projecting these systemic issues as central themes for the upcoming election cycle, advocating for policy shifts toward vocational training and market deregulation to address rising mental health crises and social isolation.
- RAISE Summit19 min
Cloudflare CSO, Stephanie Cohen: The Future of Content & Fair Compensation in the Age of AI
Stephanie Cohen, Matthew Prince
Cloudflare Chief Strategy Officer Stephanie Cohen announces the implementation of "Content Independence Day," a permission-based policy that allows website owners to block or charge AI crawlers for access via new default settings. This initiative seeks to rebalance the relationship between content creators and technology platforms by establishing a market where data-rich sectors, particularly financial services, can monetize their intellectual property directly. While facing industry pushback from competitors who argue against restricting bot access, Cohen contends that shifting to a controlled ecosystem is essential to incentivize high-value content creation and secure a sustainable future for the internet.
- RAISE Summit15 min
Conversation with Daniel Dines, Founder & CEO of UiPath
UiPath is transitioning its 10,000 enterprise clients from traditional RPA to agentic AI by introducing orchestration engines that manage both specialized workflow agents and dynamic master agents within a secure governance framework. CEO Daniel Deneis advises the European market to avoid isolation by verticalizing AI solutions and leveraging defense-industry partnerships to compete against US and Chinese dominance, while urging governments to prioritize aggressive adoption over premature regulation. Supporting this global vision, the company is acquiring vertical startups like Peak to solve distribution challenges and encouraging founders to execute rapidly to dominate specific market spaces.
- Goldman Sachs7 min
Still Bullish on Big Tech
Peter Callahan, Mike Washington
In the second quarter, major technology companies surpassed market expectations by accelerating growth in e-commerce, cloud, and digital advertising, driven primarily by widespread artificial intelligence adoption. This momentum has coincided with rising capital expenditures on AI infrastructure, while analysts project a multi-year expansion cycle that remains resilient despite macroeconomic uncertainties regarding interest rates and tariffs. Although the current market rally is heavily concentrated in large-cap stocks, investors anticipate a potential catch-up trade in smaller-cap tech firms later in the year as inflation data and the Jackson Hole symposium provide new catalysts.
- RAISE Summit17 min
Snyk CEO, Peter McKay: Building Securely in the AI Era
Snyk has pivoted from its roots as a developer security pioneer to an AI-first organization that launched an AI Trust Platform to secure the exponential growth of code generation vulnerabilities. By integrating guardrails into tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, the company leverages its decade of DevSecOps experience to automate vulnerability remediation and protect agentic systems for its 4,500 global customers. Backed by $400 million in cash reserves for strategic acquisitions, Snyk is aggressively executing an "AI SecOps" strategy to shift enterprise security from a reactive model to one where protection is built-in by default for a rapidly expanding universe of non-technical developers.