Introduction
To ensure you are not Late for the GenAI Train, please join Capria Managing Partner Will Poole and GenAI dev team leads for a hands-on, as-technical-as-you-want workshop
As the leading VC investor for applied GenAI in the Global South, we’ve built a dedicated GenAI and user-experience development team to assist our founders accelerate their GenAI journey. In this workshop we will show you demos of what we’ve done around the world, discuss the fundamentals of how to get your GenAI project going quickly and efficiently.
Agenda
1. 5 minutes – Introductions and survey results – who is on the train, who’s at the station, and who’s feeling a bit late?
2. 10 minutes – Putting GenAI into historical context of 50 years of tech disruptions, and pondering about the next 10…
3. 15 minutes – Demos of 2 internal-use genai solutions and 2 that have been put into production with customer-facing services
4. 15 minutes – Introduction of ways to think about and discuss GenAI strategies in your company – forming a red team to drive speed
5. 10 minutes – Overview of cloud credits and benefits offered by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and NVIDIA, and how to get them
6. 10 minutes – Talent – do you need an LLM engineer? Someone with deep learning model design experience? Less? More?
7. 15 minutes – Five GenAI tools you should be deploying internally now
8. 20 minutes – How to get a rapid prototype going quickly; lessons learned from 8 such efforts
9. 20 minutes – Around the room – discuss how you will ensure you get your GenAI-enhanced products to market ahead of the competion
Workshop Leader: Will Poole, Managing Partner, Capria Ventures
Will Poole is a serial entrepreneur and three-decade participant in the global VC ecosystem. He and his partners added applied GenAI as a core element of their investing thesis about a week after OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT to the world in 2022.
He is currently the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Capria Ventures. He has been directly investing in startups since 1997 and developed wisdom beyond his years as he navigated the downturns of 2000 and 2008. His first institutional venture fund was raised in 2012. He and his partners together manage USD 218M in AUM in companies spanning the Global South, from São Paulo to Cairo to Bangalore to Jakarta, and soon in the GCC. A common reaction from investors and founders who learn of Capria’s captive GenAI development team accelerating their portfolio’s work is “…this is amazing — we’ve not seen any other VCs doing this anywhere.”
In his big tech career, Will was a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading several business lines, including the $13 billion Windows desktop business, representing ⅔ of the company profits at the time. After that role, he led the company’s efforts to tailor products to the needs of mass-market customers in emerging markets.
Will’s career started by founding two startups at the dawn of the PC era, growing a USD 200M business line in the early days at Sun Microsystems, and pioneering e-commerce at eShop, which he co-founded in 1991 and was acquired by Microsoft in 1996.
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