Mon, Oct 14th: "AI Entrepreneurship: CEO Insights” 6:00 PM, CU Boulder

The Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG) will host an in-person meeting on Mon, Oct 14th, at 6:00 PM MDT in Boulder on "AI Entrepreneurship: CEO Insights.”

The world of AI entrepreneurship is booming, and this meeting will dive into the key challenges and opportunities of running AI companies. We'll explore how CEOs craft strategies, foster innovation, and scale AI solutions across sectors. You will gain practical insights on integrating AI, scaling operations, and avoiding common pitfalls—valuable takeaways for entrepreneurs and business leaders aiming to unlock AI's transformative potential.

"AI Entrepreneurship: CEO Insights”
CU Boulder: In-person
ATLAS building (Room 100)
1125 18th St, Boulder, CO 80309
Mon, Oct 14th
6:00 - 8:00 PM MDT
5:30 PM - free pizza (Thanks to our sponsor, Emerge Haus!)

Our first speaker, Jon Nordmark, is the co-founder and CEO of Iterate.ai, launched in 2013. He will talk about how Iterate's strategy has evolved over time and the CEO's role in that evolution. Iterate.ai is a leader in AI inference and practical AI applications. One of Iterate's language models, the RAG application, will run locally and privately on AI PCs (about 100 million will ship in 2025), which has led to partnerships with Intel and Qualcomm. Iterate.ai was named Colorado Company of the Year by the Colorado Technology Association in 2024.

Next up is Mike Conover, who is the CEO and co-founder of Brightwave, the AI research assistant that generates insightful, trustworthy financial analysis on any subject. Mike will share insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with building agentic AI workflows in production environments for sophisticated enterprise markets, from orchestration and evaluation to go to market and user research in totally new product categories.

A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, Mike established and led open-source LLM engineering at Databricks where he created Dolly, the language model that showed the world how easy it is to build LLMs that can talk and reason. He holds a PhD in complexity science from Indiana University.

Finally, we will hear from AI Engineer & Entrepreneur Andy Walters who will speak on, "How I Built a 7 Figure Gen AI Consultancy in Less Than 10 Months"

Andy shares how he achieved explosive growth by helping CEOs drive real ROI through innovative AI solutions. You'll learn the four clusters of ROI-rich AI use cases that every business leader should know, how to systematically create an AI Transformation roadmap, and how to avoid common AI pitfalls. Whether you're looking to build an AI consultancy or integrate AI into your business, you'll walk away with actionable insights to kickstart your journey.

Thanks to our pizza sponsor, Emerge Haus, which is a Gen AI consultancy & dev shop that shepherds clients to tailored, high value AI implementations that accelerate their business. With over 5M LLM inferences per month powered by software we wrote for clients, we're skilled at building production ready, scalable Gen AI. Learn more at [emerge.haus](https://mailtrack.io/l/273337df6269fc335b9731a4ff17872892535fee?url=https%3A%2F%2FEmerge.Haus&u=10721625&signature=d92cf1829af0cf12).

Thanks to Jacob Korniak and Josh Zapin for their help organizing this meeting!