Healthtech 4 the Greater Good in SoCal
What are the most investible Healthtech opportunities right now?
What health problem would you solve with tech if you could? Is there a new model needed for funding healthtech innovators? When is the collection of health data exploitive rather than helpful?
These are just a few of the topics of conversation at our recent gathering of Healthtech founders, funders, and strategic partners hosted by the Columbia Venture Community (CVC), Columbia’s Global Health and Wellness Network, and Columbia’s Southern California Alumni Association.
Pulling Back the Curtain on Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Gen AI at LA’s MOCA
Machines imitating life and life imitating machines.
The Columbia Alumni Club of Southern California gathered a couple of weeks ago at MOCA | The Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Angels.
We welcomed Columbia Business School Professor Daniel Guetta who gave a lively presentation of the inner workings of Deep Learning, Neural Networks, and Gen AI models. A docent-led tour of MOCA’s impressive exhibit of human artists simulating machine produced images followed.
Sparking Innovation at LA Tech Week
Mingle, Play, and Work. LA Tech Week instigated an ecclectic collection of thoughtful and fun gatherings for builders and enablers. I was pleased to see my NYC and SF friends and colleagues in attendance.
Executing Change
Great panel promoting women founders and capital allocators in the Batgirl Cave 🦇🏍💥 at Google in San Francisco!
I was joined on the panel by Laura Lucas, GP of L'ATTITUDE VENTURES, Joy Mbanugo, J.D., MAcc., CFO of CXAI (NASDAQ CXAI), Julie Castro Abrams, Managing Partner of How Women Invest/CEO How Women Lead, and Azin Radsan van Alebeek, Co-Founder and GP of Emmeline Ventures. Giselle Valdez Jackson, Executive Director in the Wells Fargo Tech Banking group was a terrific moderator as usual.
Topics discussed ranged from personal journeys as founders, operators, and investors to advice for everyone on the role they can play in facilitating and benefiting from a more inclusive economy.
CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
For sure.
LatinX MBAs = Excellence
Our community sizzles! Last November, I attended the incredibly well-organized, inaugural LatinX MBA alumni leadership summit hosted at Amazon Studios in Los Angeles and sponsored by TPG, Fidelity Investments, Google, Capital Group, Morrison Foerster Foundation, and ServiceNow.