The last day of San Diego Startup Week took place at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall. This day was focused on startups in the growth stage and beyond. We had demos and talks on AI, innovation ecosystems, and ended the night with the Founders Fight Club Pitch Competition, awarding $10,000 to the first-place winner.
Thank you to our speakers and panelists for the day:
- Carmen True, Vice President of Channel Marketing, Sales Enablement and Ecosystem Development at Qualcomm
- Sharon Zhang, CTO at Personal.AI
- Lena Skliarova-Mordvinova, Co-founder at Good Face Project
- Ashley Van Zeeland, PhD, MBA, VP of Corporate and Business Development at Illumina
- Chad Lohrli, Founder at SDx
- William Fulton, Visiting Policy Designer at UC San Diego Design Lab
- Paul Roben, Associate Vice Chancellor, Innovation & Commercialization at UC San Diego
- Albert Wang, Senior Investment Director at Qualcomm Ventures
- Ali Arsanjani, Director, AI/ML, PArtner Engineering at Google
- Nelli Garton, Co-founder & CEO at Tablecloth.io
- Lance Onken, Co-founder & CTO at Measurabl
- Andrea Yoder Clark, Global Data & AI Solutions Lead at Accenture
- Jim Cathey, Chief Commercial Officer of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
- Tiffany Norwood, Founder and CEO of Tribetan
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San Diego Startup Week Founders Fight Club
Eight startups went head-to-head in the toughest pitch competition. Congratulations to Maria Marino, Founder of Panic Panties, for taking first place!
Competitors:
- Lotus Sustainables – Farzan Dehmoubed
- Panic Panties – Maria Marino
- Wheel Biosciences – Ravi Chawla
- SixAI – Mike Ma
- ReFocus AI – Colby Tunick
- Need2Say – Oscar R Garcia
- MeCo Diagnostics – Adam Watson
- Mosqitter – Anastasiia Romanova
Judges:
- Alfonso Arana, Co-Founder of SocialTrader AI
- Neal Bloom, Managing Partner of Interlock Capital
- Adam Harris, CEO & Co-Founder of Cloudbeds
- Kate Nowlan, Founder of Face Your Grace, Inc.
- Stan Synko, CEO of Aleph One
“SDSW’s AI Growth Day at Qualcomm tapped insights from global leaders on a local scale. Executive sponsors from Qualcomm, Personal.ai , Keshif Ventures, and UCSD, to name a few, brought not only their time, but their talent and treasure. In programming the event, serious consideration was given to the incredible opportunity at the feet of entrepreneurs in this Era of AI and it was palpable in the presentations, demos, and conversations from Google, Accenture, Illumina, GoodFace Project and Tablecloth.io. Tiffany Norwood & Qualcomm’s Jim Cathey & unpacked alternate angles on how AI-enabled businesses will move forward and on the edge. Founders Fight Club Pitch Competition ended the evening with San Diego’s finest startups & judges. Congratulations to Panic Panties founder Maria-Nicole Marino.
