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What are wegoing to doabout AI?

You already run it. The hard part is knowing whether it's working, and where the bottleneck moved when it did. 100 investors, Series A+ founders and operators. One panel, five hard questions, real numbers. No hype, no pitches.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

11:00 AM — 2:00 PM

Creator Space LA, Santa Monica

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Limited to 100 seats

No pitches. A real room.See why this room mattersISSUE 001 / LIVEThe future is not a spectator sport.Come add your voice

AI is in production.Proof of impact isn’t.

Enterprise adoption is moving faster than the systems used to measure whether it works.

74%

of large enterprises surveyed already run AI in production

Half

of them can’t tell you whether it’s working.

The technology isn’t the problem. The way we deploy it is.
Source: Plug and Play 2026 Enterprise AI Strategy Pulse Survey

The idea we'll put to the test

Reversebottlenecking

Constraint first / work backward

AI makes the fast part of the work faster, so the bottleneck simply moves. Code ships faster and piles up at review. Leads multiply and stall at sales.

Reverse bottlenecking starts from the constraint that caps the outcome and works backward, instead of automating whatever is easiest.

The sequence

  1. Automate01

    Code, leads, drafts

  2. Queue moves02

    Review, sales, approvals

  3. Fix here first03

    The real constraint

The panel • 50 minutes

Five questions. Every answer needs a number.

  1. 01

    The diagnosis

    What’s actually broken, the technology or the way we deploy it? And the one metric a board should demand before the next AI budget.

  2. 02

    Where did the bottleneck move?

    What happened after AI sped up the front of the process, and who owns the new constraint.

  3. 03

    Product-market fit when the ground moves

    One model release can turn a product into a feature. What investors really underwrite now: the model, the workflow, the data or distribution?

  4. 04

    Show us the solution

    One real problem solved with AI. The number before, the number now, and what they’d never do again.

  5. 05

    So what are we going to do about AI?

    Lightning round. The one decision each panelist would make in the next 90 days, and what they’re betting against.

In the panel

Capital, strategy, and the people who build it

Three perspectives, one live conversation. The panel brings together people working inside the systems, around their edges, and with communities already feeling their impact.

  • Portrait of Dan Perera01 / 03

    Dan Perera

    HOST · FOUNDER & CEO, JX TECH · AUTHOR, THE ART OF UX IN AI

  • Portrait of Lou Tillman02 / 03

    Lou Tillman

    CO-HOST · FOUNDER, IV CONSULTING

  • Portrait of Valerie Rivas03 / 03

    Valerie Rivas

    MODERATOR · FOUNDER & CEO, Evia

MODERATED BY VALERIE RIVAS, FOUNDER & CEO OF Evia.

Open Q&A at 12:40 PM

Three hours, well spent

All times local · Subject to useful change

  1. Doors and check-in

  2. Arrival networking, bar and passed bites

  3. Welcome from Louis Tillman

  4. Panel: five questions

  5. Audience Q&A

  6. Closing talk: Dan Perera

    Ten minutes on what the panel just told us, and the one decision to make next.

  7. Hosted lunch and structured networking

  8. Close

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  • Lunch and drinks included
  • Panel discussion and open Q&A
  • Small group working sessions
  • Three hours of curated networking

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Presented by

  • Dan Perera

    Co-presenter

  • Louis Tillman

    Co-presenter

Sponsored by

  • JX
  • IV Consulting
  • dawsondan

Creator Space LA, 1533 26th St, Santa Monica

Place matters

A roomdesigned forconversation.

In person in Los Angeles. Intimate seating, good sound, coffee within reach, and enough unstructured time to meet the person you did not know you needed to meet.

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  • Investors, Series A+ founders and senior operators. The room is the product, and keeping it to them is what makes the conversations worth your afternoon.

The fine print

Event terms

  1. 1.Seats are confirmed and charged at booking, and all ticket sales are final.
  2. 2.Attendees may not photograph, film or record product demonstrations, or record any part of the program.
  3. 3.All presentations, demonstrations and materials shown at the event remain the intellectual property of their presenters, and may not be reproduced, distributed or used commercially without written permission.
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  5. 5.Nothing presented at the event is an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy securities.
  6. 6.Accredited investor status is self-attested. The organizers do not collect or verify financial information.

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