How to Build an AI Startup

You have years of experience in your industry and a problem you keep noticing, but you have never built a company. What usually stops people is the order: what to do first, what can wait, and what to skip.

This session has two parts: Kais Neffati, a graduate of our Austria-France Fall 2025 cohort, shares what he learned building Hyvop: how he picked the problem, what he tested first, and how he found his first users. Kasia Sadowska shows the AI tools founders use for early-stage validation, so you can test your idea before you build anything. Register now and leave with your next three steps.

❯ What You'll Learn:

• How a founder turned years of industry experience into a startup
• Which AI tools to use to test an idea before building
• How to check whether a problem is worth solving
• How to find and talk to your first users
• How to fit all of this around a full-time job

❯ Featured Speakers:

• Kais Neffati - Founder @ Hyvop: Software and cloud architect, previously at JCDecaux, VINCI Autoroutes and Ingenico. He is building Hyvop, an AI agent in Slack and Microsoft Teams that finds the owners of unused cloud resources, gets their approval and applies the fix.
• Kasia Sadowska - Director @ Founder Institute Austria: AI product developer with over 10 years of experience building and leading tech startups across Europe. Mechanical engineer by background, she has co-founded ventures in mobility, compliance, edtech and sustainability. She helps founders build and validate products with AI and no-code tools.

❯ Who Should Attend:

• Professionals with years of industry experience who have never built a company
• Employees with an idea they have not acted on yet
• Aspiring founders without a technical background
• Anyone who wants a clear sequence for starting an AI startup

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❯❯ This is a live, interactive online event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406101/meetup to receive the Zoom URL to join us live!