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ProjectsAug 28, 2026 · 4 min read

AI LAX Summit returns with an enterprise buyer track

The next edition adds a dedicated track pairing AI companies with enterprise buyers who arrive with a live problem and a procurement path.

The summit was always built around composition rather than capacity. This edition formalises that with a buyer track: a limited number of enterprise teams arrive with a named problem, and companies are matched to them before the doors open.

Follow-through is part of the format. Every match has a scheduled second conversation in the two weeks after the summit, and the programming team stays in the loop until it happens.

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The network is the factory.

Los Angeles · Bay Area · Toronto

Partnerships

Inside the MaRS JOLT cohort: what founders asked for

Working inside a national innovation institution surfaced a consistent request from founders: fewer introductions, better sequencing.

Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read

Network

Opening the Toronto corridor

Los Angeles, the Bay Area and Toronto now operate as one connected corridor, with institutional and cross-border pathways in place.

Jul 30, 2026 · 3 min read

Partnerships

Founder Fridays: a recurring room with a platform partner

A standing founder program with Google for Startups shows what happens when a room repeats often enough to become infrastructure.

Jul 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Network

Why we say the network is the factory

Inputs, connection, convening, build, activation. A short explanation of the model behind everything we run.

Jun 18, 2026 · 6 min read

Projects

Goodfin and the case for fintech-adjacent AI distribution

Collaboration notes on reaching a financially sophisticated audience through a platform rather than paid channels.

May 27, 2026 · 4 min read

Podcast

The Network Is The Factory

Every other week

Conversations with the people moving AI from capability to market.

Every other week we sit down with a founder, investor, platform lead or institutional operator and work through one commercial question in public — how a market opened, how a partnership was structured, what actually moved adoption.

Episode feeds for Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube are being connected. Want to be a guest or a sponsor? Reach us through the contact page.

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    Structuring a platform partnership that survives a reorg

    Emi Wayner — Founder, Airship · ex-Google, TikTok

    What changes when your champion leaves, and how to write the partnership so the relationship outlives the org chart.

    Aug 26, 2026 · 42 min

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    Selling AI into an enterprise that has already been burned

    Vince Lynch — CEO, IV.AI · Advisor to AI LA

    Procurement scar tissue is real. How to sequence proof so a skeptical buyer can say yes to something small.

    Aug 12, 2026 · 48 min

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    Reading a balance sheet like an operator, not a founder

    Ricky Chandnani — CFO, Fashion Nova

    Where AI spend shows up in the numbers, and which claims a finance team will actually underwrite.

    Jul 29, 2026 · 39 min

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    Ecosystems as architecture

    Sarah Katyal — Founder, AI Factory

    Participant mix, incentives, cadence and pathways — the four decisions that determine whether an ecosystem compounds.

    Jul 15, 2026 · 35 min

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