Where AI Visionaries and Industry Leaders Converge
The Exclusive Forum where the World’s Top Founders, Builders, and Fortune 500 Executives Shape the Future of AI.
3rd Edition | May 7 2026 | Civic Hall, New York
~500
Attendees
41%
C-Levels (CIO’s, CDO’s, SVP of AI)
39%
AI Founders / CEOs (Seed to Series C)
20%
VC Investors, AI Labs, Media
The Only AI Summit Built for Real Relationships
Back for its 3rd Edition, the AI Hot 100 Summit is a curated gathering where Fortune 500’s scout solutions and acquisitions, startups connect with customers and top-tier VCs and decision makers shape the future of AI.
See breakthrough showcases, forge strategic partnerships and validate AI strategies alongside true decision makers. No sales people, no expo floors, just real connection.
Past Speakers
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George Robson
Partner
Sequoia
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Denise McCool
Global Chief Operating Officer, Research
Morgan Stanley
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Alexander Bricken
Applied AI
Anthropic
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Andrew Budd
VP of GenAI & Developer Productivity
Walmart
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Suman Giri
Global Head of Commercial Data & AI
Pfizer
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Surojit Chatterjee
Fmr CPO of Coinbase & Current Founder
Ema Unlimited (Raised $50M)
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Petra Ehmann
Group Chief Innovation & AI Officer
Ringier AG
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Lucas Liebenwein
Deep Learning Algorithms
NVIDIA
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Emma Burrows
Fmr CTO of Stripe & Current Founder
Portia AI (Raised $6M)
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Mara Pometti
Director of AI + Data Strategy
Mastercard
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Michael Martin
Founder & CEO
RapidSOS (Raised $356M)
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Aditya Goel
Co-Founder & COO
Sardine (Raised 145M)
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Marc Andrusko
Partner
a16z
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Winnie Wu
Director of AI Products
Adobe
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Brian Distelburger
Founder & CEO
Yext (NYSE: Public) & Windmill
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Ravi Kokku
Co-Founder & CTO
Emergence AI (Raised $100M)
2026 Tracks
Where company defining use cases and partnerships are forged.
Financial Services
Diving into the latest AI breakthroughs and innovations being applied in the financial services space. Including use cases such as agents being applied to investment research, payments infrastructure, compliance, fraud prevention & more.
Healthcare
This track focuses on AI being applied to use cases across healthcare and lifesciences, touching areas like AI in cancer research, healthcare scribes, hospital readmissions, document extraction flows, emotionally intelligent care management & more.
Retail
Here we delve into AI being applied in areas like LLM search and discovery, AI generated fashion models, checkout and e-commerce, returns abuse, supply chain and logistics & more.
Infrastructure & AGI
This track focuses on infrastructure or applications that can be applied horizontally across industries, including emerging technologies like agentic AI, LLMs, quantum computing & robotics.
Sponsored by Oxford Machina
The most talked about, yet under the radar AI event of the year
Why Join The AI Hot 100 Summit?
Connect with AI Decision Makers in an Intimate Environment
Every year, this event helps enterprise leaders cut through the noise to see groundbreaking tech and connect with curated founders changing industries.
See founders showcase their breakthroughs live, and join intimate industry-focused discussions that cut through the hype.
This is the platform where partnerships, deal making and acquisition discussions are ignited. Not to mention AI strategy development, use case refinement, and pilot conversations that drive AI adoption in enterprise.
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From the team behind The AI Furnace, the largest AI founder network in the world
The AI Hot 100 List stems from our community origins building the largest AI founder network in the world, The AI Furnace. We track the best startups in early stage AI and release the annual AI Hot 100 Market Report - the only curated index tracking early stage private AI companies.
We bring these 100 exceptional founders to the summit to showcase breakthroughs and connect to industry in order to hone use cases and partnerships. Bridging the gap between AI innovation at the startup level and implementation at the enterprise level.
The selection process is rigorous. Access past reports and read more about our selection methodology here.
Shaped by Titans
Behind The AI Hot 100 Summit is our Innovation Advisory Board — a powerhouse group of AI Executive Leaders driving innovation, execution, and shaping the future of AI in enterprise.
