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San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation recently shared the importance and need for and how plays a key role in it, which featured thoughts on job creation from our Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Navid Alipour, JD/MBA.

Some of Navid's thoughts included:
>> AI will continue to spur job creation long into the future.
>> AI will drive growth in areas we haven’t even imagined yet, like guiding the ethics behind self-driving cars and other machines that make decisions.
>> AI shifts employees from mundane tasks to higher-value work.

is always a hot topic at Analytics Ventures, and we're happy to see that it's as hot of a topic in our hometown of .

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Securing the Future: AI and San Diego's Cyber Cluster Harness the power of maps to tell stories that matter. ArcGIS StoryMaps has everything you need to create remarkable stories that give your maps meaning.

Dynam.AI just shared a great article from G2 that explains what is and how it works.

The article gives some use case examples of how computer vision can be incorporated. Here are a few ways that it calls out:

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According to the article, computer vision will have an estimated worth of $48.6 billion by 2022 (that's next year) which is great news for all of the companies making waves in this industry, including Dynam.AI.

We are big fans in here at Analytics Ventures and we're thrilled to see helpful articles like these that help break down its value. If this article pique's your interest, we're sure our Dynam.AI team would be happy to schedule a chat with you.

Computer Vision: How Machines Interpret the Visual World Computer vision is a branch of artificial intelligence that focuses on developing methods to enable computers to comprehend the content of images.

Congratulations to our team at Dynam.AI on their recent win in the 2021 Excellence Awards presented by The Business Intelligence Group.

Dynam.AI was honored for their computer vision expertise in solving the world’s most complex and critical business challenges with their suite of solutions.

This honor is a true testament to all the hard work of our leading AI scientists, physicists, and engineers in creating Vizlab, their workbench of industry-standard and proprietary and tools to empower customers at the highest levels of precision and accuracy for their applications.

We are all thrilled about this award and cannot wait for all the great things to come.

Click below to read the full press release.

Dynam.AI and Empyrean Medical Systems, Inc. to Disrupt Cancer Treatment | dynam.AI A combination of expertise in cancer treatment, AI, and computer vision aims to improve diagnosis, tumor targeting, multi-modal treatment, and long-term patient outcomes. San Diego, CA–April 28, 2021 – Empyrean Medical Systems, Inc., the leading company in revolutionizing how cancer treatment is...

AlphaTrAI just released another insightful episode of AlphaBytes featuring Homa Karimabadi and Karyn Williams.

They continue an important discussion about and unpredictable and extreme events.

Amongst the topics discussed are:
- Why Risk is a Key Driver in Achieving Financial Goals
- Impact of Damaging and Less Frequent Severe Drawdowns
- Proper Time to Begin Thinking About Tail Risk

Click below to watch and learn more about why it's important to prepare for these unpredictable events.

Risk: Unpredictable and Extreme Events Will Happen. Be Prepared. AlphaTrAI is modernizing classic approaches to asset management and demonstrating how asset management can evolve to be more dynamic, responsive, and precise...

We're happy to announce that ETF industry and iShares trailblazer Bruce Lavine, MBA, CFA joins the AlphaTrAI team as President, Asset Management.

Mr. Lavine's experience includes a pioneering role in developing the industry beginning in the late 1990s. He was part of the original senior management team of the business, now owned by Blackrock, acting as CFO and Head of Product Development. He then ran the European iShares business when it launched in 2003. He joined WisdomTree as President & COO in 2006 and remains a Board member there today. He has also acted as both the CEO and a senior advisor to startup RIAs.

We're thrilled to have him on the team overseeing AlphTrAI's distribution, product design, strategy development, and talent recruitment as they continue to grow and modernize the space.

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Did you know that extreme value theory is rooted in meteorology and the climate sciences to estimate the size of one-in-100-year floods and to detect systematic changes in the occurrence rates of extreme weather events due to climate change?

Extreme value theory is fascinating and also a topic that was examined in AlphaTrAI's recent blog post.

Hudson Cooper, Director of Risk and Algorithmic Research, recently shared an insightful piece that breaks down related to and .

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Extreme Value Theory in Your Portfolio - Explained - AlphaTrAI AlphaTrAI is modernizing classic approaches to asset management, demonstrating how it can evolve to be more dynamic, responsive and precise, while rising above the emotionally driven bias and behaviors that can seriously impair investor outcomes.

Congratulations to our team at Dynam.AI on their recent win in the 2021 Excellence Awards presented by The Business Intelligence Group.

Dynam.AI was honored for their computer vision expertise in solving the world’s most complex and critical business challenges with their suite of solutions.

This honor is a true testament to all the hard work of our leading AI scientists, physicists, and engineers in creating Vizlab, their workbench of industry-standard and proprietary and tools to empower customers at the highest levels of precision and accuracy for their applications.

We are all thrilled about this award and cannot wait for all the great things to come. Click below to get the details!

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Dynam.AI Named Winner in 2021 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards | dynam.AI CVML company honored for achievements in applying machine learning models and tools to client computer vision programs. Philadelphia, PA–March 29, 2021–The Business Intelligence Group today announced that Dynam.AI was named a winner in its Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Honor...

Welcome to the Dynam.AI team, Diana Shapiro!

Diana Shapiro has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), bringing over 25 years of executive leadership experience for novel CleanTech, FinTech, and MedTech companies. She will lead the Dynam.AI business development, strategic partnerships, and marketing efforts to expand market presence for their workbench-enabled Computer Vision Machine Learning (CVML) solutions.

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Congratulations to Kazuhm on their partnership with OpenDrives!

Kazuhm is the first OpenDrives partner to deliver capabilities as an integrated feature of the Atlas platforms, providing high-performance, low-cost storage and .

Here's what OpenDrive's Chief Product and Strategy Officer Sean Lee had to say "At OpenDrives, we’ve taken a storage-first approach to compute by bringing and automation directly into the storage infrastructure. The introduction of ‘pods’ and ‘recipes’ simplifies deployment and management of these containerized applications, thus reducing complexity and increasing performance. By partnering with best-in-class distributed compute technology leaders like Kazuhm, Inc. , who share our same values in ensuring ultra-low latency and cost, enterprise-scale organizations can run multiple workloads in isolated virtual environments as close as possible to the data to optimize performance."

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OpenDrives Partners with Kazuhm to Power High-Performance, Low-Cost Storage and Compute OpenDrives and Kazuhm Partner to drive high-performance, low-cost storage and compute integrated on OpenDrives storage devices.

AlphaTrAI is on a mission to help the embrace cutting-edge tech and algorithmic approaches and to do so, they recently launched an educational video series, AlphaBytes.

This first episode features Karyn Williams, Homa Karimabadi, and Hudson Cooper. The topics discussed include:

- Problems with the traditional approach to
- Impact of larger risks on a 60/40 portofolio
-Declining vs. rising

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AlphaBytes: Risk Management in a World of Rising Yields AlphaTrAI is modernizing classic approaches to asset management and demonstrating how asset management can evolve to be more dynamic, responsive, and precise...

Andreas Roell, a Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures and CEO at AlphaTrAI, was recently featured in Forbes discussing successful algorithmic-based .

Click below to unlock key items that make for a successful model.

Council Post: Keys To Successful Algorithmic-Based Asset Management Algorithms built on large volumes of stationary data are prone to disappoint, often leading to greater risk and volatility.

Join CureMatch, Inc.'s co-founder and head of UCSD’s Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy at the Moores Cancer Center, Dr. Razelle Kurzrock, for an interactive session with the Rancho Santa Fe Post.

Click below to register for a time the best suits your schedule so that you can learn more about CureMatch from Dr. Razelle Kurzrock.

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Join CureMatch, Inc.'s co-founder and head of UCSD’s Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy at the Moores Cancer Center, Dr. Razelle Kurzrock, tomorrow for an interactive session with the Rancho Santa Fe Post.

Click below to register for a time the best suits your schedule so that you can learn more about CureMatch from Dr. Razelle Kurzrock.

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"The opportunities for aligning with traditional wealth management firms aside, experts generally agree that successfully building an AI asset manager will require access to a deep bench of seasoned data scientists, algorithms that capture the fundamentally dynamic nature of the markets and do so on a scalable basis.

One start-up with a considerable leg up in this regard is San Diego-based AlphaTrAI, an AI-driven that is one of the portfolio companies of Analytics Ventures, a venture capital firm which boasts an ecosystem of 50 artificial intelligence experts."

Andreas Roell, Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures and CEO at AlphaTrAI, and a veteran in spearheading the use of AI to transform traditional ways of doing business across multiple industries.

Find out what Andreas had to say about the recent meme stocks-related market disruption by clicking the article below.

Recent Market Disruption Escalates Interest in AI-Driven Asset Management | Dwealth.news With the ongoing surge of self-directed online trading expected to further fuel market volatility, wealth management firms and technology entrepreneurs alike are seeking asset management solutions that can supersede or sidestep human emotions and bias to create better outcomes.

Did you know that eye 👀 contact makes us feel good? It connects us.

Prolonged eye contact has been thought to release chemicals associated with feelings of attraction and love. And let us tell you, we don't know if it's the love in the air for the upcoming holiday or the new look, but we're definitely feeling the love for Dynam.AI.

We can't take our eyes 😍 off Dynam.AI. There's a notable difference in their swagger that you have to see for yourself.

Follow them to find out what's changed, and stay on top of all the fantastic things they're accomplishing with and .

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/dynam-ai
Twitter: twitter.com/Dynam_AI

Across the U.S. and in other places around the world, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.

Every February 14th, we celebrate love for one another. In honor of the upcoming , we will be highlighting some of our ventures to show them love and invite our fans and followers also to show them some love.

Stepping to the stage for our first highlight is AlphaTrAI. AlphaTrAI is an AI-based equity that enjoys World Cup soccer, mountain-biking and talks about . You can learn more about AlphaTrAI by giving it a follow on Twitter.

Twitter: twitter.com/AlphaTrAI_Inc

Andreas Roell, Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures and CEO at AlphaTrAI, wrote an insightful article about how technology shapes new products recently featured in InvestmentNews.

The article touches on how conventional active management approaches are reaching the limit of their ability to generate alpha and how 🔬 and 🦾 are helping with that.

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How technology is shaping new asset management products Investment news and analysis for financial advisers. Extensive coverage and expert comment on important topics in the financial advisory industry.

AlphaTrai's chief advisor Karyn Williams wrote a timely and insightful piece on how and are transforming . In her post, she provides her perspective on the transformative nature of and and how they improve risk measurement and management.

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Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Will Transform the Asset Management Industry - AlphaTrAI By Karyn Williams   Most of us take for granted that asset managers deliver services to investors through investment products. Whether actively managed to pursue alpha or passively managed to track broad indexes, asset managers sell, and investors (advisors) buy them for portfolios. There are over ...

Navid Alipour, JD/MBA, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures and CEO of CureMetrix, recently participated in an Open House with Edison Group up that brought leading , market experts, and thought leaders together to discuss the most significant advances for 2021.

In Navid's segment, he explains how CureMetrix has helped around the world. He goes on to talk about how has alleviated major problems that include:

- Prioritizing and flagging urgent cases that need immediate attention.

- Helping countries that have a shortage of radiologists.

- How CureMetrix trains algorithms with clean heterogeneous datasets that include different ethnicities and populations.

Watch the full clip: http://bit.ly/3t4jM08

Are you familiar with the ancient board game, Go? It's a game that was invented over 2,500 years ago and is famously complex.

This game is one that Google's DeepMind mastered, beating the Go world champion in 2017, and it's also a successful approach that use as an example. And while many use this comparison to the , CEO of AlphaTrAI, Andreas Roell, explains why that may not be wise and possibly oversimplistic and superficial.

In AlphaTrAI's latest blog, we get insights on:
- Key components for building successful models.
- How breaking news affects markets.
- Why comparing it to the AlphaGo algorithm is not ideal.
- More info on this ancient game of Go and the accompanying story behind their win ;)

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The ever changing dynamics of financial markets By Andreas Roell   When Google’s DeepMind beat the Go world champion in 2017, the AI world celebrated this accomplishment as a major milestone in the technical advancements of the industry. Rightfully so, because defeating the number one Go player at the time was considered beyond the reach of ev...

We are thrilled to announce CureMatch leadership expansion with Ally Perlina as Chief Science Officer (CSO). In this role, she will innovate and advance the CureMatch decision support system and expand its development of additional products for precision medicine and .

Click below to learn more about Ally and the role she'll play at CureMatch.

CureMatch Appoints Visionary Leader, Ally Perlina, as Chief Science Officer Leader brings two decades of industry experience in precision medicine, pharmaceutical and translational science to focus on personalized cancer treatments

At Analytics Ventures, we are all here for the and technologies that are swiftly becoming more commonplace with the increase in - with the help of tech like Kazuhm, Inc. - and speed. (*cough* Alphatrai *cough*), customer experience bots, and AI assistants, like Siri and Alexa, have become commonplace tools used by people at home and at work.

This recent article from the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation places the boosts of global productivity growth from AI and ML somewhere between 0.8 to 1.4 percentage points annually, which translates to 45 to 90 trillion dollars over the next 30 years.

Read the full article to learn more about these technologies in our daily lives, how they're transforming businesses worldwide, and their current reach in our hometown of .

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Measuring the Future: AI and San Diego's Economy Harness the power of maps to tell stories that matter. ArcGIS StoryMaps has everything you need to create remarkable stories that give your maps meaning.

We're thrilled to announce the expansion of AlphaTrAI's advisory council with the addition of Dan Kreuter of The Gladstone Group and Erik Rannala of Mucker Capital. In addition to their advisory council expansion, they also named Bill Dwyer the Advisory Council Chairman.

Great things are happening at AlphaTrAI, click below to get the details.

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Read Alphatrai's latest blog where Andreas Roell, CEO at Alphatrai and managing partner at Analytics Ventures, offers some perspective on J.P. Morgan's - $300b of capital in equity markets are at the risk of outflow.

Andreas touches on critical areas that include:

The traditional 60/40 approach of mutual that serves as the root of this headline capturing forecast.

The emotional bias related to the analysis of the market and how Alphatrai helps alleviate it.

How algorithmic-focused ties into it all.

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Looking beyond the $300b risk of capital outflow prediction by Andreas Roell   By now, most of us have likely become aware of JP Morgan’s prediction that approximately $300b of capital in equity markets are at the risk of outflow. As a quick reminder, this forecast is based on the traditional 60/40 approach of mutual funds, which are in need to rebalance ...

Congratulations to our CureMetrix team on their recent partnership with Ikonopedia to enhance its next-generation suite of structured breast reporting.

Ikonopedia will now provide clients with highly intelligent triage and detection software as part of its and tracking system. And with CureMetrix being the first FDA-cleared -based triage solution for in the U.S., it will enable radiologists to triage, sort, and prioritize their mammography worklist based on cases that may need immediate attention.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/363snqq

At Analytics Ventures, we believe in new companies and stay at the forefront of innovation by investing early. Our venture studio model is designed specifically to invest in new AI companies, providing them with independent AI lab scientists to validate new technologies.

Find out what Founder and Managing partner Navid Alipour, JD/MBA had to say in this article that covers Post- trends and new .

Read on: https://bit.ly/3pS7F4E

Join Navid Alipour, JD/MBA, CEO and Co-founder, and Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures for the highly anticipated webinar on how will impact society.

Navid will be a part of a panel that also includes notable experts: Scott Tait, Eliot Peper, Arun Kumar, Trisha Williams, Julia Trippe, Erik Viirre, and Benjamin H. Bratton.

This panel will tackle questions about AI and the role that it's projected to play in our daily lives, from to , and what areas will see the biggest impact as well as the ethical hurdles we'll face in its advancement.

Reserve your seat here: https://bit.ly/2JDm588

Co-founder and CEO at CureMetrix, Navid Alipour, JD/MBA, was recently interviewed by The Silicon Review. He shared CureMetrix's mission to improve cancer survival rates by improving the accuracy of detection and classification of anomalies in mammography with .

It's a well-known fact that images are the largest data source in and the most difficult source to analyze.

Clinicians have depended on analysis, work that is often performed by overworked . Still, this setting is now changing with pioneers in the field applying to image analysis to support radiologists.

"Globally, there are various AI-based imaging solutions, but one that stands out from the rest is CureMetrix."

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An innovator in the field of medical technology, on a mission to globally improve cancer survival rates: CureMetrix An innovator in the field of medical technology, on a mission to globally improve cancer survival rates: CureMetrix

We're excited to share that Digital Wealth News interviewed Andreas Roell, Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures and CEO of AlphaTrAI in their Luminaries series.

Andreas Roell enthusiastically explained how AlphaTrAI launched its first external fund through harmonizing multiple algorithms that collect a range of signals from the market relevant to fund risk and performance.

He goes on to state that AlphaTrAI's success is grounded on the team's expertise comprised of "highly competent data scientists, working in tandem with highly experienced asset and leaders," and their ability to harness it to create a platform that modernizes that rises above emotionally-driven bias, making it more dynamic, responsive, and precise.

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Fintech Luminaries - Meet Andreas Roell of AlphaTrAI | Dwealth.news AlphaTrAI is modernizing classic approaches to asset management to make it more dynamic, responsive and precise, while rising above the emotionally-driven bias and behaviors that influence even highly experienced, professional money managers, with potential impairment to investor outcomes.

We are happy to announce that AlphaTrAI has launched its first external fund and leadership expansion!

Our team at AlphaTrAI has focused on combining cutting-edge technology with deep financial services expertise to deliver -enabled to high investors and family offices.

We look forward to great shared success and join Andreas Roell, Homa Karimabadi, Bill Dwyer, and the AlphaTrAI team in welcoming: Karyn Williams, Todd Spillane, A. Andre Hatibi, and Katherine Paulson.

Click the link below to read the full announcement:
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This has presented many challenges in 2020, one of which is implementing the right to ensure that students and educators remain connected as they embark on full-time remote learning.

Find out how colleges and universities are using IT infrastructure to keep everyone connected.

Read here: https://bit.ly/30eKwhA

And if you're looking for help on implementing a hybrid model, Kazuhm would be more than happy to help www.kazuhm.com/

Why a Multi-cloud Strategy is More Vital Than Ever in Higher Education Look beyond choice of technology to skills and culture

is about to take off in a major way!

The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.2% and is anticipated to reach around 2160 Million Units by 2026, with North America holding the largest market share in 2018.

Edge is where the data exist and is collected. It enables real-time connections with customers anywhere. Edge AI is referred to as that are processed on hardware devices locally.

For instance, the iPhone has the facility to recognize and register the user's face to unlock the phone in a fraction of time. Also, offers better solutions to prevalent problems such as latency. The real-time insights and low latency enable in developing better customer experiences.

The increasing demand for real-time processing (like the one described above) and low latency on edge devices, along with the availability of power-efficient chipsets, is what's driving global edge AI.



Read on: https://bit.ly/32IzXVB

The rise of has increased the load on cloud infrastructure, which, in turn, has driven the growth of the global market presenting a HUGE opportunity for investors.

According to the report published by Portland-based research firm Allied Market Research, the global generated $1.73 billion in 2017 and is expected to attain $16.55 billion by 2025.

Read on: https://bit.ly/2GOR9jT

Edge Computing Market Expected to Reach $16.55 billion by 2025: A Huge Opportunity For Investors Surge in the number of intelligent applications and the need for assistance in real-time applications propel the growth of the global edge computing market.

Thank you Octane OC for a great panel discussion today!

Check out this virtual event September 9 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am put on by San Diego Super Computer Center Industry Partners Program about how to enable on-demand compute and storage for and educational purposes, in support of:

– Edge/decentralized compute environments
– Data preparation or analytics that do not require a full HPC solution

Josh Jacobson, VP of Technology at Kazuhm, and Dan Kepner, Director of Solutions Engineering, explore how technology has transformed hardware asset utilization within university research programs, in conjunction with pre-existing environments.

Event details:

Date: September 9 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Format: Zoom presentation

Register at the link below:
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Kazuhm: Expanding an HPC compute ecosystem by activating and unifying “secondary use” compute and storage from campus IT assets – SDSC Industry Partners Program We demonstrate a simple technology that enables on-demand compute and storage for research and educational purposes, in support of:

Larry Smarr: The Future of Distributed Computing Is Here

Datanami interviews Kazuhm's newest team member around his decades-long work with infrastructure and high-performance computing

Dr. Smarr highlights this unique moment in history when software, hardware, and application design innovations are now ushering in a revolution in compute technology.

The world is about to change.

“When these things come–and they come on in exponentials–people begin to hear the words, but they don’t get there’s going to be major transformation,” Smarr says.

Portfolio company Kazuhm, Inc. sits at the intersection of distributed , , and / , offering a new way for companies to leverage their existing hardware to power workloads.

"The future is already here - it's just unevenly distributed." - William Gibson

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Larry Smarr: The Future of Distributed Computing Is Here Larry Smarr may have stepped back from full-time work in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, but

World-Renowned Expert on Distributed Computing Joins Portfolio Company Kazuhm's Team as Technology Evangelist

The founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), former chair of NASA's IT Infrastructure Committee brings a wealth of technical and strategic expertise to one of our most promising portfolio companies.

Dr. Smarr's role will be that of a missionary - instilling belief in the power of distributed computing to unlock a powerful new paradigm for modern computing.

The modern corporation battles ever-growing data volumes while simultaneously leaving the majority of their compute unused each day.

, hitherto applied mostly to scientific research, is finally available to the average company as a tremendously powerful tool to maximize and unify underused hardware to process data faster and cheaper than ever before.

“We are thrilled to have Dr. Smarr with his unmatched knowledge and experience contributing to the Kazuhm team’s foundational expertise and outreach,” said Andreas Roell, Managing Partner of Analytics Ventures.

Welcome, Dr. Larry Smarr!

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Distributed Computing Pioneer Dr. Larry Smarr, Technology Evangelist UCSD Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dr. Larry Smarr, Brings Decades of Experience and Technical Expertise to the Kazuhm team.

We'd like to invite you to join Navid Alipour, Managing Partner of Analytics Ventures, as he speaks at Tech Innovation Forum on September 8th-11th, 2020.

The event will be a fully digital experience centered on Data, AI, Cybersecurity, and FinTech, now with a renewed focus on startups.

Tech Innovation Forum includes:

Livestream & On-Demand Access:
- You’ll be able to access leading content though the livestream or at your convenience through the event's content library.

Community Virtual Connect
- They're expanding the capability of the event app to allow you to connect and network with other attendees whether you’re at the conference or attending virtually!

Breakfast with Experts
- Each session will have its own virtual meeting room where attendees and experts can meet in a small group format.

Sign up below:

Tech Innovation Forum • Octane OC
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Tech Innovation Forum • Octane Tech Innovation Forum (TIF) will feature startups, pitching, learning and networking and focus on data, analytics and cybersecurity