The talk will focus on implications for the evolving AI landscape for startups, aspiring founders, and investors on how to leverage AI to create sustainable value and differentiate in the market. It will also touch upon technical aspects like AI infrastructure, specialized hardware, and AI economics.

 

Who is this presentation for?


Startup founders exploring strategic uses of AI to build and scale their companies.

Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to identify and validate AI-driven ideas.

Tech professionals looking to understand the business opportunities within AI.

Investors interested in understanding the next AI investment frontiers.

 

Prerequisite knowledge:

Basic familiarity with AI concepts. Yet it will be insightful to seasoned tech professionals.

 

What attendees will learn or gain:

An understanding of emerging AI opportunities beyond the hype.

Insights into building sustainable, defensible AI-driven businesses.

Where AI investments are heading and which areas hold the most long-term value.

Sudhir Kadam is a Venture Partner at FYDA Growth Partners, and a start-up advisor with six successful startup exits in Telecom CRM, Location-based Apps, Video Streaming, Fraud Analytics, IIoT for Transportation, and Cloud Workload Protection (acquired by McAfee in 2019). He has been on the founding and executive team of startups that have gone from zero to $100M in revenue. 

 

At FYDA Growth Partners his role is to put startups with early adoption on GTM steroids through their network of corporate connections to provide startups with customer and market access, preparing them to scale into thriving businesses and rewarding exits. 

 

FYDA’s portfolio focus is on B2B Frontier Tech startups in AI/NLP, AR/VR, Computer Vision, IIoT, Robotics, Wellness Tech, Tele-operations, Digital Identity, and Payment Tech. However, FYDA welcomes unconventional, path-breaking, startups that don’t fall into any of these categories.

 

Sudhir also conducts workshops on corporate innovation, and helps establish innovation channel for large corporations, through engagements with startups, accelerators, and research labs to license, acquire, or invest in new technology initiatives. He is also an adjunct Prof for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SJSU for professional MBA and EMBA programs.