North America Edition

Where Fortune 500 executives meet the AI founders and breakthroughs that matter.

June 26, 2025 | New York City

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The AI Hot 100 Summit - Where Fortune 500 executives meet the AI founders and breakthroughs that matter

An invite only, application only summit bringing together 100 of the hottest AI startups from across the US, alongside Fortune 500 executives, policy innovators, and investors.

Get an exclusive look into the groundbreaking tech coming out of early stage AI, where every showcase will make you say "holy shit" and every conversation could lead to your next breakthrough.

This is your window into the future - 100 carefully curated early-stage AI companies building market-ready innovations that will revolutionise your industry within the next 24 months.

The next wave of AI transformation is here - be the first to catch it.

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Speakers & Attendees

  • George Robson

    Partner

    Sequoia

  • Charles Birnbaum

    Partner

    Bessemer Venture Partners

  • Satya Nitta

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Emergence AI (Raised $200M)

  • Mara Pometti

    Director of AI + Data Strategy

    Mastercard

  • Alexander Bricken

    Applied AI

    Anthropic

  • Lucas Liebenwein

    Deep Learning Algorithms

    NVIDIA

  • Dr.Suman Giri

    Global Head of Commercial Data Science & AI

    Pfizer

  • Dan Kurdys

    Global Head of Gen AI

    Bayer

  • Winnie Wu

    Director of AI Products

    Adobe

  • Surojit Chatterjee

    Former CPO of Coinbase & Current Founder

    Ema Unlimited (Raised $50M)

  • Katie Winterbottom

    Head of AI & ML Engineering

    Nordstrom

  • Brian Distelburger

    Founder & CEO

    Yext (NYSE: Public) & Windmill

  • Kirk McKeown

    Founder

    Carbon Arc (Raised $56M)

  • Emma Burrows

    Co-Founder at Portia AI (Raised $5.8M)

    Former CTO at Stripe

  • Kumar Subramanyan

    Senior Director, Innovation & Data Analytics

    Unilever

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Why Join The AI Hot 100 Summit?

Real innovation happens when extraordinary people collide

  • We curate and bring 100 of the most exceptional AI founders building on the frontiers, carefully selected for the AI Hot 100 Market Map from thousands of applications.

  • See founders showcase their breakthroughs live, and join intimate industry-focused discussions that cut through the hype. Each and every session is designed for real insight and practical understanding.

  • Curated discussions and networking with top executives, government officials, and investors.

Who You’re Going to Meet

Senior Executives (CIO’s, CDO’s, AI Strategy, Digital Transformation)

AI Founders / CEOs (Handpicked from thousands of applications)

VC Investors, Government, Media

Some of the Hot 100 Include

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What to expect

Learn from the People Building the Future

Rethinking Organizations: From Digital Transformation to AI First

The Future of Knowledge Work: Will UI Based Agents Change the Game?

The Commoditization of Intelligence & What This Means for Innovation

The Succession & Training Problem: Human Development in an AI World

Train, Tune, or Turnkey?

The Era of the AI Worker: Training and Managing Agents

How to Train Your Robot: The Era of Physical Intelligence

Investing at the Frontier: The Hidden Value in AI

See Groundbreaking Technology

Workshop: Training and Managing AI Agents

Interview with a Humanoid Robot

Product Deepdives from the most innovative AI startups in the world

The AI Hot 100 Showdown: Best of the “Hot 100”

AI Fashion Show

AI Art Installations

Apply to discover the next frontier in AI.