Events

The State of Industrial AI

· San Francisco

The Missing Link to Large-Scale Adoption

Dave Anderson

Eragon

Chief Operating Officer

Founding Partner, Beat Ventures

Samantha Huang

BMW i Ventures

Principal

Holly Wu

Mercedes-Benz

Director of Mergers and Acquisitions, Venture and Partnerships

Marco Marinucci

Essentia Ventures

Founding General Partner

Moderator

The four panel participants at Eragon's San Francisco office, with the event title displayed behind them.
Hosted at Eragon, San Francisco.

When does distribution become an advantage?

Winning enterprise customers takes time, trust and relationships, often built in person.

The questions behind this session: what makes customers commit beyond the product itself? And as technology becomes easier to reproduce, when can an established customer base become a lasting competitive advantage?

Organized by Essentia Ventures. Moderated by Marco Marinucci, founder of The State of Industrial AI.

Audience members seated around the panel at Eragon's office.
The audience at Eragon.
Host & venue
Eragon · 575 Market Street, San Francisco
Format
4:00–6:00 PM Pacific · Panel, audience questions and networking
Original event listing (opens in a new tab)
SF Tech Week

Part of SF Tech Week.

The State of Industrial AI · SF Tech Week

· San Francisco

Robotics & AI Tackling Labor Shortages

Nikhil Naikal

Kinetic Automation

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Digital repair hubs, vehicle calibration and the economics of getting cars repaired and back on the road. Marco's recap looks at how robotics and AI address the bottlenecks in that work.

6:00–8:30 PM Pacific
Westwood · 2036 Lombard Street, San Francisco

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Fireside conversation at the 2025 SF Tech Week event at Westwood in San Francisco.
From Marco Marinucci's event recap on LinkedIn (opens in a new tab)