Agenda
Schedule
1:00 PM — Lunch + Door opens
*Chef Billy Alabsi · Falafel Land
1:30 PM — Founder Showcase · Centring, AllNutrition
1:50 PM — Comedy Set #1 · Priya Shekar
2:00 PM — Founder Showcase · EliVive
2:10 PM — Comedy Set #2 · Ilana Arbisser
2:20 PM — Founder Showcase · Eddie AI
2:30 PM — Comedy Set #3 · Cassidy McDonnell
3:00 PM — Closing
Jacob Lee | Centring (Vertical AI)
Jacob Lee is the founder of Centring, building Beedy, an AI funding teammate for nonprofits. His background spans CMU and public- and private-sector consulting, primarily working with government procurement teams to navigate complex processes.
Centring • Nonprofits shouldn't have to choose between serving their communities and finding the money to keep going. Beedy finds funding opportunities, gathers the supporting information, and writes the applications so stretched teams can review, press submit, and get back to the people counting on them.
Alireza Faghaninia | AllNutrition (AI • Health)
Alireza holds a PhD in engineering, was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and spent five years as tech lead of Credit Karma's data platform. He built AllNutrition after following the nutrition evidence through his own recovery from an autoimmune kidney disease. Active users now span four academic medical centers.
AllNutrition grades the nutrition literature before anyone searches it. Methodology is scored against each study's design, and funding and author ties are checked across the whole library, so clinicians get answers they can defend.
Martina Marrali | EliVive (Bio / Wearable)
Martina is a scientist and Babson MBA with more than six years in biotechnology across R&D and business development. She is building EliVive to give perimenopausal women longitudinal hormone visibility through a non-invasive wearable. EliVive grew a 350-woman waitlist in about 20 days, before launch.
EliVive is a non-invasive monthly sweat patch and app that tracks estradiol and progesterone trends through perimenopause and connects them to symptoms, so women move from guessing to informed decisions.
Fahad Ahmed | Eddie AI (AI Native / Media)
Fahad taught himself to code at 15 in Dhaka and joined the founding team at Pathao, where as Head of Product he helped scale it to 10M+ users and $500M+ in GMV. He later co-founded a stablecoin remittance app that exited to a U.S. telco, then led product and growth at Muslim Pro. Eddie is backed by Google, Ashton Kutcher, and The Production Board.
Eddie AI is a copilot inside the editor's workflow. It ingests raw footage, understands scenes, speech, and key moments, and hands the editor a structured first cut instead of a blank timeline.
Comics
Presented by Women in STEM Comedy
Priya Shekar is a Bay Area comedian, showrunner, and host of Comedy Oakland. She's a Kiwi-Indian storyteller who jokes about divorce, dating apps, and life in tech. Her comedy is 90% charm, 10% "I need subtitles." She has performed at Punch Line Comedy Club and Cobb's Comedy Club. — [Instagram]
Ilana Arbisser is a musical comedian and former member of the SF based band, Lentil. With a PhD studying theoretical statistics from Stanford, she previously worked on self-driving cars and now works on AI safety at Google. — [Instagram]
Cassidy McDonnell is the founder, host and producer of Women in STEM, a stand up comedy show where all of the comics are women with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and math. After starting her career as a traffic engineer, she switched lanes into the world of software product management. Her comedy has been described (by her) as “dumb jokes for smart people.” — [Instagram | Women in STEM]