How Founders Should Place Their AI Bets in 2026
Hosted by Amir Feizpour and Josh Schachnow
Fri, Sep 11, 2026
4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course
Fri, Sep 11, 2026
4:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course
What you'll learn
Read the AI landscape without chasing every model release
Know when to build software vs. sell a service
Set realistic outcomes for an AI-era startup
Spot when your product is "on autopilot" and act
Why this topic matters
You'll learn from
Amir Feizpour
Founder @ Aggregate Intellect
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 (business executives to hands-on developers) through training and educational programs. Amir leads Aggregate Intellect’s R&D via several academic collaborations.
Josh Schachnow
CEO & Co-Founder @ Visto.ai & Joshua Schachnow Law
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.
