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My friend and former partner at Altimeter Group Jeremiah Owyang is now a VC at Blitzscaling Ventures along with my friend Chris Yeh. Owyang is also the host of Llama Lounge, one of the largest AI events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In February 2024, Owyang hosted Llama Lounge 8 at GENLAB in San Francisco with 300 attendees that included AI founders, venture capitalists, media, and influencers. The event also had hundreds of prospects on the waiting list.
The event featured was themed around AI agents and featured 10 startups, including:
–Agent Lunar: Digital workers built for small businesses
–AgentOps: Agent benchmarking, testing, compliance
– Claros: AI personal shopper Agents
– Commit: AI talent agents for software developers
– Evabot: Your AI research assistant in sales
– Floode: Personalized AI EA for daily comms
– Infinityy: Sales Agent for property leasing
– Instalily: Autonomous AI Agents; human level productivity
– Lutra: Coding Agents integrated with your apps
– MultiOn: Your personal AI agent
Get a tour of Llama Lounge with @jowyang pic.twitter.com/ZpLVRBGuVV
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) March 1, 2024
Robert Scoble aka Scobleizer demonstrates how Apple’s Vision Pro also serves as an epic life cam!
A New AI Networking Event Arises
Following Llama Lounge, my event partner and longtime BFF Vanessa Camones and I hosted a new networking event to connect VCs, founders, press, thought leaders, and executives. We call it renAIssance, and it served as the official after party to Llama Lounge.
The first ever renAIssance event was hosted at the Four Seasons on Market Street. It’s a place with deep roots in my early Web 2.0 and startup days. It seemed like the perfect venue for our inaugural event.
renAIssance will continue to serve as the after party for Llama Lounge and will also tour Los Angeles, New York, Austin, among other important cities and alongside key conferences. Please reach out to me if you’re interested in hosting/sponsoring an upcoming event!
Shiv Singh, CMO and co-host of AI Trailblazers, and Zoom’s Ross Mayfield
Brian Solis and Shiv Singh
Ozlem Pesky Bishop and Jeremiah Owyang
Writer and Editorial Curator Ken Yeung, Vanessa Camones, Brian Solis
Vanessa Camones, Brian Solis, Robert Scoble (Scobleizer)
GenLab’s Brady Forrest, Brian Solis
Ken Yeung, Brian Solis, Ben Metcalfe, ServiceNow Ventures’ Shuchi Rana
Charlene Li, Brian Solis
Brian Solis, Jeremiah Owyang. GenLab’s Daniel Riedel and Brady Forrest
We look forward to seeing you at the next renAIssance!
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Brian Solis | Author, Keynote Speaker, Futurist
Brian Solis is world-renowned digital analyst, anthropologist and futurist. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker and an 8x best-selling author. In his new book, Lifescale: How to live a more creative, productive and happy life, Brian tackles the struggles of living in a world rife with constant digital distractions. His previous books, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design and What’s the Future of Business explore the future of customer and user experience design and modernizing customer engagement in the four moments of truth.
Invite him to speak at your next event or bring him in to your organization to inspire colleagues, executives and boards of directors.
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