Agents and the Future w Warren Packard & Andy Ku, Partners at Andrew Ng's AI Fund

​An intimate dinner with the top AI Agent founders in the Bay Area and special guests Warren Packard and Andy Ku, Partners at Andrew Ng's AI Fund

​Topics discussed at previous Agents and the Future dinners:

​- Reliability: Agentic workflows vs combining traditional ML models with LLMs and vast pre-training data
- GTM motions: enterprise vs SME and closing deals
- Fundraising & differentiation: tackling investors' "what's your moat?" question in today's dynamic landscape
- The next wave of UI/UX: moving beyond chat for richer user-Agent interactions
- Client understanding: using behavioral insights to refine Agentic actions over time

​Launched by Andrew Ng, AI Fund is a venture studio that works with entrepreneurs to build AI-first companies rapidly and increase the odds of success.

​More about Warren:

​A founder himself, Warren earned his entrepreneurial stripes, first in the mid-90s’ when he founded Angara Database Systems and then again in 2010 when he co-founded Thuuz Sports. Both companies were acquired, by Personify and Stats Perform, respectively. 

​In between building these companies, Warren spent 13 years as a Managing Director at DFJ. He and his partners were the principal investors in a variety of household names, including Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, Baidu, and Hotmail. He spearheaded more than two dozen investments at DFJ, realizing 21 exits. 

​Warren enjoys putting his engineering skills to work designing practical AI systems. He holds 18 patents, including several around AI generative video. Warren is currently working on a number of software projects, including the end-to-end automation of AI Fund's term sheet, cap table, and legal document generation process, as well as building a messaging/calendar/task/notes unification platform that is able to assign priorities, urgency, deadlines, and task completion times to all of his work.

​More about Andy:

​Andy has worked at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and government, bridging Silicon Valley and Washington DC. Jobs and unemployment have been a significant focus for Andy, initially founding a startup to help people find jobs they love, then focussing on jobseekers at LinkedIn, and most recently investing in Future of Work, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Systems at IQT. Andy joined AIFund in 2024

​This event is ticketed as there is limited capacity. Proceeds will cover food and drink at the restaurant. The restaurant's name will be released post-approval and closer to the date