Private Dinners
Intimate Conversations with AI Leaders
Exclusive gatherings bringing together Miami's top AI innovators, executives, and thought leaders for meaningful dialogue over exceptional dining experiences.
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About the Private Dinner Series
MAIC Private Dinner Series are a platform to have open and cross-industry conversations between leaders and visionaries around AI and its impact.
Private Dinner Series are professionally recorded and will be used as a documentary to show the future generations how our generation envisioned creating a being more intelligent than ourselves.
Inaugural Dinner
With the Miami Tech Week and Emerge, Miami AI Club launched its Private Dinner Series with a selected group of influential executives, AI founders and investors at the very night of Emerge.
Distinguished Speakers
- Dr. Seth Dobrin: Former Chief AI Officer of IBM, Dr. Dobrin shared his expertise on the transformative impact of AI.
- Adam Fletcher: As Chief Security Officer of Blackstone, Adam delved into the intersection of AI and security.
- Nima Schei: A neuroscientist, AI innovator, and CEO of Hummingbirds AI and Miami AI Club.
The dinner, hosted by Nima Schei and Sara Zargaran, was made possible with support from Vultr and Holland & Knight. This exclusive gathering set the stage for collaboration, networking, and groundbreaking ideas in the AI landscape.
AI & Cybersecurity Investment
At the MAIC Private Dinner Series No. 2, we welcomed Patrick Heim, a methodological and multidimensional explorer at the intersection of two gigantic global megatrends: AI and Cybersecurity.
Featured Guest: Patrick Heim
From Tony Jimenez of Medina Ventures, a driving force behind the momentum of Miami's tech ecosystem, to Patrick Dyer who is behind many successful cyber initiatives in Miami and beyond, we all welcomed Patrick and listened to how he envisioned the future which made him a great investor.
Patrick has a German methodology, a solid investment portfolio, and he's winning. As a very reputable CISO, he knows the pain points, he knows everyone, and he has great energy.
When he was at the top of his CISO career, being the CISO of four major companies, including Kaiser Permanente, Dropbox, and Salesforce, he changed course and moved to an unknown new space: venture capital. And he won.
Thank you, Kevin Cochrane/Vultr for supporting the first and the second episode of the MAIC Private Dinner Series, and thanks to Maksym Petruk/WeSoftYou Inc. for joining our esteemed sponsors.
AI Ethics & Healthcare Innovation
MAIC's third Private Dinner was a very special evening with a diverse group of leaders, founders, and investors from South Florida and beyond. It was a celebration of human spirit and ingenuity in the face of life's greatest challenges. Miami is becoming the epicenter of cross-industry, thought-provoking conversations around AI, with some guests flying in from three other states for this very special night.
Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Kenneth Goodman: A philosopher, AI ethicist and the Founder and Director of the Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, who has spent 35 years on ethics, shared his important insights on the AI ethics landscape.
- Alejandro Dabdoub: An investor, AI researcher, and the writer of Beyond Algorithms book encouraged us to look beyond AI and shared the fundamentals of creating a positive impact through AI in corporations.
Discussion Topics
The dinner featured open conversations around various topics:
- AI and cybersecurity/risk with Merritt Baer and Ofer Klein (Reco AI)
- Deepfakes and cyber risk with Courtney Adante and Sparky Zivin (Teneo)
- AI in boardrooms with Paula Tolliver
- AI in precision medicine and healthcare
Special Presentation
After dinner, Raymond Rodriguez-Torres, the founder of the LiveLikeBella Foundation, whose talk last month was the highest-viewed TED Talk touching over a million hearts, shared his captivating story and the efforts to solve childhood cancer through AI.
He highlighted the collaborative research effort using AI to improve pediatric cancer treatment, including their recent AI collaboration with Florida International University and Nicklaus Children's Hospital Foundation.
And at the very end, we had a book signing session with Alejandro and his book, Beyond Algorithms.
Thanks to Ofer Klein, co-founder and CEO and Merritt Baer CISO of Reco AI and Sparky Zivin, Global Head of Teneo Research and Co-Lead of AI Working Group and Courtney Adante, President of Teneo Risk Advisory and Teneo for sponsoring the third private dinner.