How Founders Should Place Their AI Bets in 2026

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (

Josh Schachnow is the CEO and co-founder of Visto.ai, a platform that uses automation and AI to help immigration professionals prepare applications up to 3x faster. He is also a practicing Canadian immigration lawyer at Joshua Schachnow Law with over 9 years of experience, having helped thousands of individuals and companies navigate the immigration process, and chairs the AI Committee at the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association. Josh writes and podcasts about his entrepreneurial journey, sharing lessons from building and running a legal tech company alongside his legal practice.